Owen Leong is a multidisciplinary 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 explore power, control, and care, to reframe and reimagine identities and intimacies. His work centres queer 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.
AntiVenom is an exhibition and public program celebrating the queering of Lunar New Year through art and performance at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. AntiVenom aims to uplift marginalised voices, particularly queer, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD), migrant, disabled, and Indigenous artists.
Owen has been invited to present new and recent work for AntiVenom, which will take the form of installation artworks examining LNY through a queer and LGBTQIA+ lens. This project will honour queer communities within the vibrant cultural precinct of Chinatown Sydney. Through Owen’s work, audiences will engage with themes of identity, self-determination, and liberation, inspired by the snake zodiac symbol.
