Owen Leong

Owen Leong is a visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, and video. His work explores counternarratives of queer world-making, using personal mythologies and kink aesthetics to examine power, control, and care, to reframe and reimagine identities and intimacies. His work centres QTBIPOC pleasure as an act of political agency and healing. At the heart of Leong’s practice is a belief in the power of art to transform the way we see ourselves and others.

Leong was an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, USA, in 2025. He received The Chey Fellowship in 2024 to present a major solo exhibition at IAC Western Sydney University. Previously, Leong was a finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize, Australia's premiere prize for young contemporary artists, and received the MAMA National Photography Prize and Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.

Leong has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally including Singapore Art Museum, Today Art Museum Beijing, Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen, and the National Museum