Awards
2021 - Federation of Canadian Artists Active Membership Award
2021 - Favourite Visual Artist Platinum Award
The Wilmot Post (Ontario, Canada)
2018 - Best in Show Award
For "Past-Present-Future" painting at the Etobicoke Art Gallery as the COAA Annual
Art Exhibition (Ontario, Canada)
2018 - Heather's Choice Award
For "A Portrait of Equality" painting at 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
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