Invited for a one-month residency at Riverpal Gokasegawa in Nobeoka (Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu) Japan, Kong created a participatory event and temporary outdoor installation for the fall festival events 絵子町東海さるく in November 2010.
Selected for the exhibition Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, recent work was on view from October 1, 2010 - January 2, 2011 at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, WY.
As part of the popular Summer Series, Kong was a Visiting Artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA in August. For her residency she created elements for a forthcoming site-specific installation Inner Light, a project which is fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts.
Her artwork was included in Art Scouts, on view at Arlington Arts Center June 18-August 21, 2010.
A full fellowship recipient, she spent June 2010 at Can Serrat International Arts Center, El Bruc, Spain.
One of five artists selected for the Creative Artist Exchange Program, an initiative sponsored by the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, Kong visited and conducted research on Japanese shrines, gardens and architecture in addition to other traditional arts. At the same time, she was invited as Artist-in-Residence at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, where she lived and worked from October 2009 through spring of 2010.
