DECEMBER
Owen's work appears on the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Australian Studies (issue 32.4). Co-edited by Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo, this special issue of JAS is titled Asia@Home: New Directions in Asian Australian Studies. Featuring essays by Adam Aitken, Michelle Antoinette, Jen Tsen Kwok, Francis Maravillas, and Hsu-Ming Teo the journal is available for download online.


NOVEMBER
Owen's work has been included in Leading Lights, an exhibition celebrating the achievements of some of the most successful graduates from the College of Fine Arts.

Artists include: Brook Andrew, Del Kathryn Barton, Trent Jansen, Adam Cullen, Dinosaur Designs, Shaun Gladwell, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, The Kingpins, Lindy Lee, Owen Leong, Clinton Nain, Vanila Netto, and Bronwyn Oliver.

OCTOBER
Owen's video work Milk Ring will be exhibited at the Bridge Art Fair Berlin, 30 October - 2 November. Owen was selected by New-Zealand based curator Young Sun Han, as part of the City Art Rooms presentation at the fair.


SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
Owen will be completing a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, from
3 September - 27 October. He was awarded the Moya Dyring Studio through the Art Gallery of NSW. Please direct all postal mail and telephone contact to:

AUGUST
Owen has been awarded an Australia Council New Work Grant to produce video work for his first solo exhibition with Über Gallery, Melbourne.

JULY
An interview with Owen appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Incubate magazine. Incubate explores a range of creative ideas and practices and showcases the work of staff and students from the College of Fine Arts UNSW.

"The human body is a vessel through which artists have communicated for centuries," writes Naomi Gall, "Owen Leong takes this practice to a new level with his visceral and evocative work that presents the face and skin as surfaces through which we engage and connect with each other.”

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JUNE
Owen has been awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust seeks to encourage the diversity and excellence of emerging artists in Australia. This grant will allow him to undertake a two-month artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

FEBRUARY
Opening the sweaty season at City Art Rooms, a group of New Zealand and overseas artists explore the sensations of flesh, veneers, and skin using a variety of materials. The skin of these works articulate ideas and identities through personal, cultural, political, and formal perspectives. An emphasis in visual and textural layers implies that meanings and intents are carefully hidden beneath a seductive surface.

Featuring: Cat Auburn, Clare Barone, Assaf Ezra, Gill Gatfield, Young Sun Han, Imogen Kerr, Owen Leong, Jason Lingard, Maryann Pennington, Clinton Phillips.

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JANUARY
A review of Owen Leong's solo exhibition at Ryan Renshaw appears in the Summer 2007 issue of Art & Australia magazine.

Dr Uros Cvoro writes, "The artists's quest for identity operates beyond the usual multicultural pluralism of identity, yet also refuses the essential position of difference. Bleed, 2007, and Hole, 2006, echo Nigerian-raised Yinka Shonibare's interventions into the mythology of the Victorian dandy, and Autofiction, 2005, fllirts with the defiant yet impotent masculinity of Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull. Collectively, they locate the gulf between Australian tradition and globalism as a productive space for identity politics."