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Flo Oy Wong American artist, curator and educator dead at age 87

Flo Oy Wong

Flo Oy Wong, an American artist, curator and educator, died on April 11, 2026, at age 87.

Born in Oakland, California, on October 28, 1938, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and qualified as a teacher at California State University, Hayward the following year. She later turned to art, studying at DeAnza College and Foothill College from 1978 to 1982.

In 1989, Wong co-founded the Asian American Women Artists Association in San Francisco with Betty Nobue Kano, Moira Roth and Bernice Bing. In 1990, she and Jan Rindfleisch curated the exhibition Families: Rebuilding, Recreating, Reinventing at the Euphrat Museum of Art.

Flo Oy Wong, 87, American artist, curator and educator.

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