Art Basel Qatar
MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to join the first edition of Art Basel Qatar with a solo booth dedicated to the late self-taught Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong. Within the fair’s curated context, the presentation at booth M318 brings together a focused group of works from Wong’s final year, spanning oil on canvas and works on paper.
Paintings such as Letter to Soutine, The Hermit’s Path, and The Long Goodbye reveal Wong’s deep engagement with modern painting—from Vincent van Gogh and Chaim Soutine to Édouard Vuillard and Frank Auerbach—resulting in landscapes that feel familiar yet untethered from any fixed place. Set within imagined terrains, the works evoke spaces of retreat, marked by longing and quiet intensity.
Images: Courtesy of Matthew Wong Foundation, MASSIMODECARLO and Bueno & Co, New York. © 2026, Matthew Wong Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
The Artist
Matthew Wong (1984, Toronto, Canada; 2019, Edmonton, Canada) was a self-taught Canadian artist whose vibrant landscapes evoke the spirit of Post-Impressionist painters like Vincent van Gogh and Paul Sérusier. With his signature style, Wong synthesised forms, bold colours, and mystical themes, creating rich, evocative scenes that often convey a melancholic yearning. Wong’s artworks are visual poems that speak to the subjectivity of colour and the power of universal archetypes. In his landscapes, nature is the chief protagonist, animated with a vitality that transcends time and space. Through bold strokes of colour and the sparest of details, Wong creates scenes that resonate with melancholic tenderness and humour, conveying the ineffable states of being that inhabit the human experience.
Wong’s work is held in notable public collections across the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Esteé Lauder Collection, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario.