EXHIBITIONS
Old Stone House
Albums of Inclusion: Jamaica, Ecuador, China.
BROKEN CHINA (Tao Leigh Goffe × Cecile Chong)
Curated by Katherine Gressel
May 8 - Jume 14, 2026
Through archival methods and layered visual language, Broken China traces the material lives and afterlives of blue-and white porcelain. Their artwork forms a commentary on how the currency of “china” has been coveted, traded, collected, and counterfeited for centuries. The pair explores intergenerational memory to connect across diasporas of the overseas Chinese, and especially their family origins in Jamaica (Tao Leigh Goffe) and Ecuador (Cecile Chong). They do not seek to repair or excavate what is broken or what has been lost to history. Rather their art investigates aesthetic forms of collage, ceramic traditions, and music that have been reinvented and remixed in global port cities. Against notions of racial purity and ethnonationalism, Goffe and Chong challenge orientalist narratives, fetishes, and stereotypes of “the exotic” by invoking the memory of historical subjects such as Afong Moy and Sara Baartman, whose consent was stolen, to imagine new futures of liberation.
Photos: Etienne Frossard
Q Galería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Rumor de la Tierra: Ecuador | Jamaica | China
BROKEN CHINA / PORCELANA TROZADA (Tao Leigh Goffe × Cecile Chong)
Curated by Sara Reisman
January 21 – February 12, 2026
Quito, Ecuador
Rumor de la Tierra: Ecuador | Jamaica | China was the first exhibition dedicated to Broken China / Porcelana Trozada, a collaborative project formed by Cecile Chong and Tao Leigh Goffe. Bringing together installation, ceramics, video, photography, archival materials, sound, and found objects, the exhibition explored fragmentation, resilience, migration, kinship, and the myth of cultural purity across Ecuadorian, Jamaican, and Chinese histories.
https://qgaleria.com/rumor-de-la-tierra/
KODA House on Governors Island
Cecile Chong: Blue and White Tides
October 4 - November 2, 2025
Blue and White Tides explores maritime trade, porcelain circulation, and ecological memory through immersive installations combining ceramic fragments, light, and video.
Photos by Argenis Apolinario
PRISMA
Curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen
With the works of Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York members - Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Cecile Chong, Dominic Terlizzi, Ethan Greenbaum, Fred Blauth, Mike Olin, Mónica Palma, Rachael Gorchov, Sun You, Vincent Como, and William Kim
Wailing Cacti, 2025
Ceramic and volcanic ash on blue wall
9’ x 4’ 8”
A wall installation of ceramic cactus pads dispersed across a deep blue field. Inspired by visiting the cactus-covered landscapes of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos, the forms appear to fall like tears or rain. The work reflects the paradox of desert plants that store and protect water, symbols of resilience within fragile ecosystems, suspended between endurance and mourning.
Photos by Pratya Jankong
Kates-Ferri Projects
SPHERE NOT
The Global Immersive Sensory Experience (solo exhibition)
Curated by Tessa Ferreyros
June 19 - July 16, 2025
Photos by Argenis Apolinario
island Gallery
leftovers
Kerri Ammirata | Cecile Chong | Saba Farhoudnia | Sihan Guo | Erick Hernandez | Anna-Ting Moller | Tin Nguyen | Pacifico Silano | Motohiro Takeda | Thiang Uk
Feb 22 - March 23, 2024
Hewitt Gallery - Marymount Manhattan College
Making Visible
Curated by Hallie Cohen, Alex Alvarez & Kallie Cassidy
April 3 - May 2, 2023
SPRING / BREAK Art Show NYC 2022 - NAKED LUNCH, Booth #1153
Dandelion Fork curated by Olivia Swider.
Featuring Artists Delphine Hennelly + Cecile Chong + Nicholas Cueva
September 7 - 12, 2022
Image courtesy of Selenas Mountain
Rockefeller Capital Management
In a Different Light
November 2021 - September 2022
Image courtesy of NYFA
Kates-Ferri Projects
LORE: Cecile Chong (solo exhibition)
April 4 - May 7, 2022
Image courtesy of Kates-Ferri Projects
Chautauqua Institution, Strohl Art Center
Coexistence
June 27 - July 21, 2021
Selenas Mountain
Breath of Blue (solo exhibition)
December 13, 2020 - January 17, 2021
Image courtesy of Selenas Mountain
ICFAC International Chinese Fine Arts Council at PINTA MIAMI
Cecile Chong, curated by Inez Suen
Materials for the Arts
Contemporary Excavation, 2020
Kenise Barnes Fine Art Project Space
Cecile Chong - New Encaustic Paintings (solo exhibition)
January 25 - February 23, 2019
Pelham Arts Center
Waxing Poetic, 2018
Old Stone House - Multilocational, 2017
Two-person exhibition with Natalia Nakazawa
Curated by Katherine Gressel
Image Courtesy of Old Stone House. Photo: Etienne Frossard
Selena Gallery - Lemon Tongues, 2017 (solo exhibition)
Image courtesy of Selena Gallery
Honey Ramka
Locus, 2014
Voces y Visiones - Highlight from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York (group exhibition)
Tell Me About the War, 2008
Encaustic and mixed media on wood
36 x 62 inches - diptych
Wave Hill - Bronx Calling, 2011 (group exhibition)
Play Cycle, 2011
Encaustic and mixed media on wood
62 x 60 inches (10 panels)
El Museo del Barrio - The (S) Files 007 (group exhibition)
Place To Be, 2007
Encaustic and mixed media on wood
24 x 62 in (4 panels)