Originally trained in research psychology, Wong received his Master of Arts from Stanford University. He began making and exhibiting work in San Francisco while concurrently conducting research in developmental linguistics. He continued his postgraduate studies at Yale University, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. Relying heavily on a research based method, his installations, videos, and sculptures draw from varied subjects and explore the intricacies of his relationship to his environment (experientially, historically, culturally, and through the filter of fantastical or fictionalized narratives). He has taught coursework in sculpture at the University of California Los Angeles and Virginia Commonwealth University.