Meet the Artist
Caresse
Hong
Drawing & Painting
“My work investigates how identity is shaped through everyday experiences within the home, understood as a kind of “third space” where cultural, personal, and familial influences intersect. I am particularly interested in how diasporic identity is formed through routine, memory, and shared environments, where these influences blur and coexist, shaping how we come to understand ourselves and our sense of belonging.Through painting, I depict intimate domestic scenes and familiar subjects drawn from my own life. Repetition, particularly through recurring elements such as tables, functions as a structural and symbolic element that emphasizes continuity, ritual, and the emotional weight of ordinary moments. These spaces are not fixed, but continuously negotiated through daily actions and interactions.”

Caresse Hong is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, ceramics, metal casting and fabrication, mould-making, woodworking, plastics, and mixed media. Her practice explores personal connection and materiality, often through intimate scenes drawn from her own life. Centred on domestic space, her work reflects on relationships, routine, and the significance of everyday experience.
Realist Painting Fabrication Sculpture/Installation
2026, GradEx 111
OCAD University, Toronto
2025, Salon Des Rejects
Ada Slaight Gallery
2025, Tempered Bonds: grain and grits
OCAD University, Toronto
2025, Springboard
OCAD University, Toronto
2023, First Self Portrait: Cultural Appropriation
OCAD University, Toronto
2022, Build a Drawing Machine
Ada Slaight, Toronto

