Awards

2024 - Masterful Mind Award

"Beginner's Mind" painting won a special award "Masterful Mind Award" for the "CFA Artist of the Year competition" hosted by the Circle Foundation of the Arts.

On page 124 here: https://wwab.us/masterful-minds-1/

2023 - Finalist Certificate Award

"Universal Consciousness" painting for the ArtIDEAL Magazine Cover Contest

2021 - Federation of Canadian Artists Active Membership Award

2021 - Favourite Visual Artist Platinum Award

The Wilmot Post (Ontario, Canada)

2018 - Best in Show Award
"Past-Present-Future" painting for the Etobicoke Art Gallery as the COAA Annual

Art Exhibition (Ontario, Canada)

2018 - Heather's Choice Award
"A Portrait of Equality" painting for the Button Factory Arts in Kitchener,

as part of COAA (Ontario, Canada)

2010 - Trillium Garden Award
City of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)

1980 - Alan Fleming Award
Oakville (Ontario, Canada)

Publications

March 30, 2025 - "Elex & Muji Going To Mars" is published by Amazon, It is a hard cover book. Each chapter is a poem accompanied by an illustration. All poems, illustrations and design are done by Ida Tong. Available on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F32Q8D9K?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

Dec. 15, 2024 - An article about "Soul Painting Workshop" at the Bohemian Bloom in Baden, Ontario is published in the Baden Outlook Magazine, Volume 25, Issue 5, page 23.

Nov. 2, 2024 - "Love In The New Age Of A.I." is published by Amazon. It is a hard cover book with full colours and 222 pages. All poems, art and design are done by Ida Tong. Available on Amazon.com or go directly to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM43L6RF?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

Sept. 26, 2024 - "The Poet You See In Me" is published by Amazon. It is a book that has 34 poems with art and design done by Ida Tong. Available on Amazon.com.

Oct. 20, 2023 - "We're Not Alone" painting is chosen to be published in the Spotlight Magazine, issue 35, (part of the Circle Foundation of Art), both online and in prints on October 20th.

https://circle-arts.com/spotlight-35/

Sept. 1, 2022 - An article by Matt Mckenna from the Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publication talks about my "Futuristic Art" in the art exhibition "Relationship and Emotion" at the UpTown Gallery.
https://thecord.ca/relationship-and-emotion-exhibition-open-at-uptown-gallery-in-waterloo/

March 11, 2021 - A quarter-page article of The Wilmot Post featuring its 1st annual Willi Wellie Community Choice Awards for Ida Tong's winning of the Platinum Award as the "Favourite Visual Artist" in the Wilmot Township.
wilmotpost.ca/news/article.php?Your-Willie-Wellie-Award-winners-2021-513

October 8, 2019 - A one-page article of The Record, Waterloo Region newspaper, in the Arts & Life section; a headline “Ida Tong’s Imagination runs wild” to feature Ida’s latest paintings with a theme “Human Evolution to Artificial Intelligence” by Terry Pender.
https://www.therecord.com/entertainment/2019/10/07/artists-among-us-ida-tong-s-imagination-runs-wild.html

March 2018 - A two-page article in the Baden Outlook Monthly Newsletter, volume 18, issue 8, page 10 and 11, featuring Ida Tong’s latest paintings and her art journey.

https://www.badenoutlook.com/PDFs/Archives/March18.pdf

2014 - A one-page with a short artist statement and two colour photos of Ida Tong’s latest paintings, published in an art book called International Contemporary Artists, volume IX, page 288, ICA Publishing, with editor and curator, Olga Antoniadou.
https://www.idatong.org/discover.html