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Albert ChongÌýis a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation. He has received many other awards and fellowships for his work in the visual arts, including artist fellowship grants from the states of New York, California, and ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥. As an artist of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese descent, his works have explored cultural, ethnic, and spiritual/mystical identities that reanimate his family history through visual narratives that employ vintage family photographs as the basis for multilayered still-life photographs. While his work is primarily based on photographic art practice, he also creates installation art, sculpture, video, and mixed media works.

His work is in corporate, private, and museum collections, and has been included in some of the most important contemporary art exhibitions from the 1980s to the present. HisÌýwork is included in many books on art and photography including books on the history of photography, the history of Jamaican Art, the history of Asian-American Art, Black Art, and the history of American Photography. He resides in St. Catherine, Jamaica & Boulder, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ where he teaches photography in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder.