Loraine Wong (Wong Lok-Wan)

Loraine Wong (Wong Lok-Wan) is a Hong Kong-based curator, designer, and letterpress printmaker who serves as curator at Hong Kong Open Printshop (HKOP). She holds a BA (Hons) in Design from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, University of London, and works within the movable-type letterpress tradition — an analog craft now practised by only a small number of artists in Hong Kong but preserved at HKOP through its archive and workshops.

Wong's practice emphasises traditional craftsmanship alongside contemporary visual sensibilities. She values letterpress's tactile qualities — the ink that sits on the paper, the texture of cotton stock, and the impression left by metal type — as an alternative to digital printing. Coming from a background in communication design, she has built expertise across graphic, exhibition, and digital design.

In her curatorial role at HKOP she has spent more than eight years working in art and culture within non-profit organisations, her trajectory evolving from project management to curatorship. Her programming spans exhibition design, digital experience design, education, and the management of HKOP's print-art-heritage projects; she was among the curatorial team for the 'Between the Lines — The Legends of Hong Kong Printing' exhibition. Hong Kong Open Printshop, founded in 2000, is the city's first non-profit open printshop, run by artists, and offers printmaking tutorials, demonstrations, and an extensive archive of printmaking resources.

Wong appears on the Hong Kong Print Art Contemporary artist roster (listed as Wong Lok Wan, Loraine), though as of 2026 her individual collection page on the Print Art Contemporary storefront shows no products available — typical of letterpress practitioners whose output is small-edition and event-tied rather than continuously inventoried. Her letterpress work is mainly visible through HKOP's exhibition documentation and programming. She is best understood as a print-curatorial-craft hybrid practitioner, where letterpress is her principal personal medium and curation her principal public-facing role.