1984    
Urban Landscapes, Semaphore East, New York, NY
East Infection, curated by Carlo McCormick, Zero One, Los Angeles, CA
Small Works, NOW Gallery, New York, NY
New Narrative Painting, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Bacchanalia, New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY
New York Now, curated by Manuela Filiaci & Carlo McCormick, Nello Studio di Corrado Levi, Milan, Italy
The Acid Test, Sensory Evolution Gallery, New York, NY
Aspects of the City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Neo York, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
Street Politics, Real Art Waves, Hartford, CT
Chill Out New York, curated by Steve L. Kaplan, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
Conspiracies, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
Carnival, Kamikaze, New York, NY
10th St.& Avenue B/East Village Art Today, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Extravaganza, Dramatic Personae Gallery, New York, NY
Psychology, New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY
In My End is My Beginning, Semaphore, New York, NY
The New Portrait, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Limbo, curated by Walter Robinson and Carlo McCormick, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Climbing: The East Village, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Situation, curated by Steven L. Kaplan, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Dr. Mueller's Theotherapy, curated by Cookie Mueller, Kamikaze, New York, NY
East Side Story, curated by Rick Prol, Cat Club, New York, NY
Martin Wong & Sharp, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
Urban Artists, Kamikaze, New York, NY

1983    
Gracie Mansion Presents, Kamikaze, New York, NY
A. More Store, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Science Fair, Danceteria, New York, NY
Science and Prophecy, curated by Steve Whitesell and Joel Handorff, White Columns, New York, NY
Underdog, curated by Rick Prol, East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY
Lower East Side Polygon-Part II, Danceteria, New York, NY
Contemporary Prints, Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
Wish You'd Been Here, curated by Carlo McCormick, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Resurrection, St. Mark's Intercollegiate Church, New York, NY

1982    
Group Show, 301 Houston Street Gallery, New York, NY
Crime Show, curated by John Spencer, ABC No Rio, New York, NY

Select Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
California State Building in San Francisco, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
de Young Museum - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
The Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University, NY
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA     
School, IS90M, Washington Heights, New York, NY
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Select Bibliography

2024
Gemma Rolls-Bentley. Queer Art, From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between. Frances Lincoln, London, UK. 2024, pp. 70.

2023
Chaffee, Cathleen. “Pushing Boundaries 1960-2020.” American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery, edited by Stacey A Wujcik, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2023, pp. 248, 266-267.

2022
Haden-Guest, Anthony. Tom Warren: The 1980s Art Scene in New York, edited by Nico Zeifang et al., Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, 2022, pp. 57-58, 84, 243, 312, 313.
Smalls, Shante Paradigm. “Wild Stylin’: Martin Wong’s Queer Visuality in New York City Graffiti.” Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City, NYU Press, New York, NY, 2022, pp. 25–52. 

2021    
Ho, Christopher K. and Daisy Nam. “Best!: Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,” Paper Monument, 2021.

2019
Weinberg, Jonathan, editor. Art After Stonewall 1969-1989, Rizzoli Electa, New York, NY, 2019, p. 256.

2018
Kwon, Junghyun, et al., editors. “Martin Wong.” East Village NY: Vulnerable and Extreme, translated by Jiwon Yu, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2018, pp. 218–221. 

2017
Phillips, Lisa, editor. “Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong.” 40 Years New, New Museum/Phaidon Press, New York, NY, 2017, pp. 114–116.
Martin, Susan, Maynard Monrow, Bill Stelling, eds. “Love Among the Ruins: 56 Bleeker Gallery and Late 80’s New York,” Howl! Archive Publishing. Vol. 1, No. 19 (2017). Pg. 64, 106. Illus.: Two Skeletons (1973) and Mary-Ann (1988).

2016    
Dudek, Ingrid, “I am You, You Are Too,” ArtAsiaPacific. May/June 2016. pg. 70-79. Illus.: Mikey and Little Angel (1984), I really Like the Way Firemen Smell (1988), City as a Canvas (2014), Tell My Troubles to the Eight Ball (Eureka) (1978-81), Voices (1981), My Secret World (1978-81), Brainwashing Cult Cons Top TV Star (1981), Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Pinero) (1982-84), Sharp & Dottie (1984), Sweet ‘Enuff (1987), The Annunciation According to Mikey Pinero (Cupcake and Paco) (1984), Top Cat (1990), Penitentiary Fox (1988), Reckless (1991).
Harris, Susan, and Mary Anne Staniszewski, editors. Unfinished Memories/30 Years of Exit Art, 1st ed., Steidl, 2016, p. 4, 24, 33, 42, 51, 53, 71, 92, 109, 120, 179, 190-1, 225, 256, 290, 373, 396.

2013    
Catalog. Martin Wong’s Collection,” Published by Galerie Buchholz & Koenig Books.
Boucher, Brian. “Danh Vo Channels Martin Wong at the Guggenheim,” Art in America, March 15, 2013.
Bushman, M. “Danh Vo: ‘IMUUR2’ at the Guggenheim Museum through May 27th,” Artobserved.com, May 14, 2013.
Russeth, Andrew. “The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo ‘IMUUR2’ at the Guggenheim Museum,” Gallerist, March 19, 2013.
Smith, Roberta. “Awash in a Cultural Deluge,” New York Times, March 14, 2013.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Danh Vo’ Guggenheim Show Is a Collaboration with Deceased Artist Martin Wong,” artinfo.com, March 22, 2013.
Wong, Ryan. “Charming Stuff: Danh Vo and Martin Wong,” Hyperallergic, March 27, 2013.

2012    
Catalog. “Silence,” The Menil Collection, Houston, TX.
Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters, Artron.net, April 19.
Catalog, “Art in the Streets,” essay in “A Fable” by Carlo McCormick, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.

2010    
Rosenberg, Karen. “Martin Wong: Art in Review”, The New York Times, January 22, 2010.
Laster, Paul. “Martin Wong: Art Review” Time Out New York, Issue 747. January 21, 2010.
Schwendener, Martha. “Gritty, Mostly Male and White: Art Review”, The New York Times. January 14, 2010.
Monforton, Mary-Ann. “Out & About: On Bended Knee,” BOMB. January 13, 2010.
“Martin Wong: Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, January 13, 2010.
Kley, Elisabeth. “Gotham Art and Theater,” Artnet.com, January 5, 2010.
Pollack, Barbara. “Martin Wong,” ARTnews. March 2010. Volume 109, No. 3. p. 110.
Stillman, Nick. “Martin Wong,” Artforum International, XLVIII, No. 8. April 2010. p.193.

2009    
Catalog. “Everything Must Go,” from essay “Romancing the Brick,” by Carlo McCormick, P·P·O·W Gallery, NY.

2008    
Catalog. “Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents 1900-1970, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (reproduction) p. 151.
Cotter, Holland. “Finding Art in the Asphalt,” The New York Times. September 12, 2008 (reproduction).
Cotter, Holland. “Side X Side,” The New York Times, July 25, 2008.    
Catalog. “Idle Youth,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY. (reproduction) p.39.

2007    
Cotter, Holland. “The Price of Nothing: Luxury after The Real Estate Show,” The New York Times, October 26, 2007.

2006    
Frank 151. Book 22. cover reproduction.
Catalog. “The Downtown Book,” The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, p. 88, 183 (reproduction). Edited by Marvin J. Taylor.

2005    
McCormick, Carlo. “East Village USA,” Juxtapoz, May/June. p. 58, 59 (reproduction).

2004   
Catalog. “East Village USA”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. (reproduction, p.31 and p.144).
Smith, Roberta. “Looking Back at the Flurry on the Far Side,” The New York Times, December 2. E35 & E37.
Williams, J. “Whitewash of mural stains school morale,” Daily News, Aug. 11.
Petry, Michael. “Hidden Histories: 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in The Visual Arts,” Art Media Press, 2004. Published in Great Britain.

2002    
Banai, Nuit. “In the Groove,” Review of One Planet Under a Groove Exhibition. www.artnet.com
“One Planet under a groove,” Art Juxtapoz, May/June. (reproduction).
Lopez, Luciana. “Hip Hop Planet,” URB91, March. p.48 (reproduction).
Smith, Roberta. “Out of the Vociferous Planet and in the Orbit of Funk and Hip-Hop,” New York Times, January16. (reproduction).
Joo, Eungie. “Bring That Beat Back,” FYI NYFA, Spring. (reproduction).
Caramanica, Jon. “Hip-Hop Don’t Stop,” Village Voice, January 15.
McCaffery, Damien. “Under the Influence,” VIBE, January. (reproduction).

2001
Antoniou, Antonis, and Steven Heller. Decoding Manhattan, Abrams, New York, NY, 2001, p. 199, 222.
Cotter, Holland. “Retrieving Magic from the Vault” New York Times, January 5.
Hill, Joe. Review, Art in America, September. (reproduction)
Spiegel, Olga. “Cinco pintores cuestionan en la Pedrera con rabia y humor la sociedad de EE. UU,” La Vanguardia, January 30.
Molina, Angela. “La Pedrera muestra el humor y la rabia de 5 pintores norteamericanos,” ABC Cataluna, January 30.

2000    
Paolini, Elaine. “Shifting Geography Captured in Cityscapes,” New York Resident, July 26 (reproduction).
Catalog, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism. Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY. June 4, 2000 – January 14, 2001.
Bruce, Jeffrey.  “Red Brick and Chain Link,” The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 37 – 41 (reproduction).
McCormick, Carlo. “Village Voice,” Artforum, March. pp. 22, 25.

1999    
“Martin Wong,” Milestones, POZ, November. p.44 (reproduction).
Cottini, Carrie. Review, “Martin Wong at First Street,” Artweek, November.
“Portrait of the Artist: Martin Wong’s Days on North Coast Revealed in Exhibit,” Times Standard, September 17. p. C1.
Doran, Bob. “Wong: The Eureka Years,” North Coast Journal, September 2.
Zamora, Jim Herron. Obituary, San Francisco Examiner, August 22.
Anderson, David. Obituary, “Artist Wong, ‘Human Instamatic,’ Dead at 53,” Times Standard, August 19. front page.
Smith, Roberta. Obituary, “A Painter of Poetic Realism,” The New York Times, August 18.
Wong, Martin. “Martin Wong Meets Martin Wong,” Giant Robot, Summer. pp. 48-50.
The American Art Book, Phaidon, 1999. p. 496.       

1998    
Kuspit, Donald. “Martin Wong at the New Museum of Contemporary Art,” Art New England, December/January. p. 13.
Maniaci, Cara. NY Arts, July/August 1. p. 16.
Frankel, David. “Martin Wong,” Artforum, October. p. 117.
Schwabsky, Barry. “A City of Bricks and Ciphers,” Art in America, September. pp.100-105.
Cotter, Holland. “The Streets of a Crumbling El Dorado, Paved with Poetry and Desire,”              
The New York Times, Friday, June 5. p. E35.
Featured in Simon Says, Summer. Vol. 2, Issue 10.
Porges, Tim. Dialogue, May/June. pp. 14-15.
Trebay, Guy. “The Bricklayer’s Art,” The Village Voice, May 26. p.30.
Artforum, “Preview,” May. p. 46.

1997    
Cotter, Holland. “Art and AIDS the Stuff Life is Made of,” Art in America, April 1997, pp. 50 & 56 (reproductions).

1996    
Zipangu, February (cover reproduction).

1991    
Harrison, Helen A. "Hidden Reserves of the Handicapped," The New York Times.
Hirsh, David. "Urban Realist Paints `Where I Live,'" Bay Area Reporter, February 14.
Hess, Elizabeth. "The Persian Gulf School," Village Voice, February 12.

1990   
Hirsh, David. "From the Lower East Side," New York Native, October15.
Hagen, Charles. "All That Jazz," ARTnews, February.

1989    
Raven, Arlene. "Fo(u)r Freedoms," Village Voice, October 10.
Hedegaard, Erik. "Tenements to the Stars," Mother Jones, July/August.
Hirsh, David. "The Center Show," New York Native, June 26.
McCormick, Carlo. Artforum, March.
Sturman, John. "Martin Wong," ARTnews, March.
Zinsser, John. "Martin Wong at EXIT ART and Frank Bernaducci," Art in America, March.
Mahoney, Robert. Arts, February.
Atkins, Robert. “International Art Arena,” February.

1988    
Atkins, Robert. “7 Days,” December 7.
Hess, Elizabeth. "Working the Street," Village Voice, November 29.
Urquhart, Ross. "Art Reviews," The New Common Good, February.

1987   
Talking Heads. What the Songs Look Like. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987. pg. 40-41. Illus.: My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)

1986    
Levin, Kim. “Semaphore,” The Village Voice, October 21.
Brenson, Michael. “Semaphore,” The New York Times, Friday, October 3.
Martin, Richard. "What is Absent in Objects: The New Painting of Martin Wong," Arts, October.
Lewis, Joe. "The Vanishing Neighborhood," East Village Eye, April.
Cameron, Dan. "Image and Authority: The Recent Painting of Martin Wong," Arts, January.
O'Brien Glenn. “Semaphore East,” Artforum, January.

1985    
Rosenblatt, Roger. “A Christmas Story,” TIME Magazine. Illustrated by Martin Wong. December 30, 1985. pg. 18-30.
Haggerty, Gerald. “Semaphore East,” The New York Times, Friday, October 25.
Raynor, Vivien. “Semaphore East,” The New York Times, Friday, October 25.
Deitch, Jeffrey and Kuspit, Donald. "Critics’ Picks," Avenue, May.
Mittelmark, Howard. "Loony at the Top," Art & Antiques, January.
Urquhart, Ross. "Resisting the Insular Art World," The New Common Good, January.

1984    
Tajima, Marsha. "Poet of Decay," Bridge, Vol. 9, No. 3/4.
O'Brien, Glenn. “Semaphore East,” Artforum, December.
Hoffman, Randi. "Big Painting Disappears Without a Trace," The Uptown Dispatch, November 22.
Wolff, Theodore F. "Views of the City that Inspire and Graffiti that Do Not," Christian Science Monitor, November 27.
Henry, Gerrit. “Semaphore,” Art in America, November.
Ramirez-Harwood, Yasmin. "Writing in the Sky: An Interview with Martin Wong," East Village Eye, October.
Indiana, Gary. "The ‘Private’ Collector: An Interview with Norman Dubrow," Village Voice, October 23.
Mucahy, Susan. "Deep in the Art of the East Village," New York Post, October 22.
Olstrom, Mary Ann. "'Priceless' Art Irks Dealer," New York Magazine, October 15.
Somaini, Luisa. "Le pezzie de ‘post’ arrivano sui Navigli-Ecco l'arte del `East Village,'" La Repubblica, October 6.
Cotter, Holland. "Martin Wong," Arts, September.
Robinson, Walter and McCormick, Carlo. "Slouching Toward Avenue D," Art in America, Summer.
Kuspit, Donald. "Climbing," Artforum, April.
Mueller, Cookie. "Small Works," Details, Match.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Nueva Pintura Narrative: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 1984.

1983    
Raynor, Vivien. "Climbing: The East Village," The New York Times, January 27.

Select Books & Catalogs

2023
Madey, Candice, et al. Luxe, Calme, Volupté. SJ Weiler Press; Candice Madey New York, 2023. Illus. pp 73, 86, 91.
Ferguson, Russell. "Bohemia: History of an Idea 1950-2000," Kunsthalle Praha. Prague, Czech Republic, 2023. Illus. pp. 115.

2022
Gruijthuijsen, Krist and Agustin Pérez Rubio, editors. "Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief," Verlag der Buchhandlung, 2022. 

2021
“City as Studio,” Hong Kong, K11 Art Foundation, 2021.

2020    
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “A Time of Crisis,” New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. Illus. pp. 12-13. 

2019    
Columbus Museum of Art. “Art After Stonewall,” New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2019. Illus. pp. 265. 

2017    
The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art’s, Innovative Approaches Honored Traditions. Clinton, NY: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, 2017. Pg. 240-241Illus.: Untitled (Time) (1983).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. “Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBT Issues and Art Now,” Taipei, TW: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2017). Illus. pp. 100 -103.

2015    
The Bronx Museum of Art. “The Human Instamatic,” London, UK: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2015.
Burkhart, Caitlin and Julian Myers-Szupinska, eds. “My Trip to America by Martin Wong,” Oakland, CA: California College of the Arts, 2015.
Para Site. “Taiping Tianguo: A History of Impossible Encounters,” Berlin, GE: Sternberg Press, 2015.

2013    
Wong, Martin. “I.M.U.U.R. 2.,” Edited by Julie Ault. Photos by Danh Vo and Heinz Peter Knes. Berlin, GE: Konig, 2013.
Museum of the City of New York. “City as a Canvas: New York City Graffiti: The Martin Wong Collection,” New York, NY: Skira Rizzoli Publication, 2013.

2012    
The Menil Collection. “Silence,” Catalogue. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection, 2012.
Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. “Eye on a Century,” Catalogue. New Haven, CT: Charles B. Benenson Collection, 2012.

2009    
McCormick, Carlo. “Everything Must Go,” Catalog. New York, NY: PPOW. 2009.

2008   
Chang, Gordon H., et al. “Asian American Art: A History,” 1850-1970. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. P. 260, 261, 543-455.

2006    
Taylor, Marvin J. ed. “The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

2004    
Johnson, Mark Dean. “Martin Wong’s Utopia: A Peaceful Life and Heavenly Place,” San Francisco, CA: Chinese Historical Society of America, 2004.
Ault, Julie and Dan Cameron. “East Village USA,” New York, NY: New Museum Publications, 2004.

2003    
Kim, Elaine H. “Fresh Talk/Daring Gaze: Conversations on Asian American Art,” Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Arnason, H.H. “History of Modern Art,” 5th ed. London, UK: Pearson Publishing, 2003. Pg. 712-713.

2001    
Fundacio Caixa Catalunya. “L’Humor I La Rabia: Humor and Rage, Five Contemporary Painters from the United States,” Barcelona, ES: Fundacio Caxia Catalunya, 2001.
Dixon, Jenny. “One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art,” Bronx, NY: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2001.
Anderson, Maxwell L. “Whitney: American Visionaries – Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001.

2000    
Georgia, Olivia, Lilly Wei, Alexi Worth, and John Yau. “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,” Staten Island, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 2000.

1998    
Scholder, Amy, ed. “Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong,” New York, NY: Rizzoli Press, 1998.
Abrams, Harry N. “The Art of the State of California,” 1998.

1995    
Yau, John. “Murder,” Los Angeles, CA: Smart Art Press, 1995.

1993    
N.Y City Council President Andrew Stein and the Chinese American Art Council, An All-Salute to Chinese American Cultural Pioneers, New York, New York: N.Y City Council and Chinese American Art Council, 1993.

1990    
Lippard, Lucy R. “Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America,” New York, NY: The New Press, 1990.
Conwill, Kinshasha, Nilda Peraza, and Marcia Tucker, “The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s,” New York, NY: New Museum of Contemporary Art/Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990.

1988    
EXIT Art, “Martin Wong.” Catalogue. Essay by John Yau. New York, NY: Exit Art, 1988.

1986    
MacGuire, William J. “Art Aid.” Catalogue. New York, 1986.
Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, “Eight Urban Artists,” Stony Brook, NY: SUNY Stony Brook Press, 1986.

1985    
El Bohio Contemporary Art Auction Benefit. El Bohio, New York. 1985.
Styron, Tommy. “Innocence and Experience: Exhibition and Catalogue,” Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1985.

1984    
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva Pintura Narrative: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.
Blinderman, Barry. “Thomas Lawson, and Susan Morgan, Contemporary Perspectives, Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1984.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.

1977    
Ross, John. “Eureka,” Illustrated by Martin Wong. 1977.