Chong orchestrates Rehearsing with Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer, a collaborative relationship dedicated to framing otherness and narrating indigeneity. They are also a core organizer with Red Canary Song. Together with the collective, Chong has brought together communities inside massage parlors, on sidewalks, and in parks across New York City and beyond. Their work has activated institutional spaces including Storefront for Art and Architecture, Abrons Arts Center, Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU.
Chong’s work has been supported by various institutions and organizations. In 2024, they are a MacDowell fellow, and a Bandung resident co-organized by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA). Occasionally a writer, Chong has published texts on MIT Thresholds, Yale Paprika! amongst others. They have been invited to speak at Asian American Culture Center at Yale, Princeton NOMAS, Simmons Center at Brown University, and Bard College. Their work has been featured on frieze, Urban Omnibus, CURBED, Hyperallergic, BuzzFeed, Retrospecta, etc.
Chong currently teaches at Bard College and Syracuse University. Previously, They have held design positions at both local and international practices including Yale Urban Design Workshop, SHoP Architects, Neri&Hu, and Bone/Levine Architects. Chong received an M.Arch from Yale University, where they were the recipient of the James Gamble Rogers Memorial Fellowship and the Tina E. Yeh Community Service Fellowship, and a two-time nominee of the Feldman Prize. They graduated with a B.Arch from The Cooper Union, where they received the Diane Lewis Travel Fellowship and the Abraham E. Kazan Award.
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