Lloyd Wong
Acting
Biography
Lloyd Wong was a queer Chinese-Canadian visual artist and videomaker who grew up in Saint Catherines, Ontario. He was a vibrant part of the downtown Toronto arts milieu and queer scene. He appears in numerous videos including those made by Richard Fung and John Greyson. Wong was commissioned to make a tape entitled "An Other Country" for the 1990-91 community cable television program Toronto Living With AIDS. Unfortunately, the tape was never completed and he died from an AIDS-related illness in the mid-1990s. Tape fragments he made close to the time of his death have been remixed in an homage to Wong in Lesley Loksi Chan's 2022 short entitled "Untitled".
Known For
In the 1990s, Chinese-Canadian artist Lloyd Wong began a video work about his living with HIV. It remained unfinished. Thirty years after his death, filmmaker Lesley Loksi Chan discovers and edits the material.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Mirror Mirror depicts an intimate friendship between two gay Chinese-Canadian men in Toronto, Lloyd Wong and Paul Cheung. Over food and intimate conversations they discuss family, identity, culture, friendship, and dating.
Mirror Mirror
An intimate portrait of the film maker's family home located in an apartment above his parent's Chinese restaurant in Saint Catherines, Ontario.
My Room
A rumination on the Toronto-based artist and video maker Lloyd Wong whose unfinished tapes from the early '90s Chan collages together.