RESUME

Poyen Wang is an artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Taiwan and currently based in New York City. His recent work uses 3D computer graphics to create a cinematic space that is tactile and immersive, offering resistance and tenderness, and grappling with issues of identity, sexuality, and masculinity. He approaches image-making as a theatrical endeavor, staging scenes of psychological tension to explore themes of intimacy, power dynamics, and the relationship between the body and the world it inhabits.

Wang has had solo exhibitions at Essex Flowers, New York; Taipei Digital Art Center, Taiwan; 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles; Flux Factory, New York; and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. His recent works have been included in the VIDEONALE.19 - Festival for Video and Time-based Art at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the 40th Kassel Dokfest in Germany, and the Fifth AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, among others. He teaches full-time at the Hunter College Department of Film and Media Studies.

Website: poyenwang.com

POYEN WANG 

Born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan. Lives and works in New York, NY
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023   Endearing Insanity, Gallery 456, New York, NY

           Endearing Insanity, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2020   The Black Sun, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taiwan

2018   Atlas Portal (with Kio Griffith), Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles, CA

           An Obscure Silhouette, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

SOLO PROJECTS

2022   A Recital, Canyon Flats Video Wall, Reno, NV

2018   Reprise, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

           Made in Taiwan - Young Artist Discovery: Poyen Wang, Art Taipei, Taiwan

2016   Saudade, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2024   Means of Production, 74-12 88th St, Glendale, NY 

           9th Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2023   Monitoring: This Image Will Become Important Later, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany

           40th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Film-Shop, Kassel, Germany

           Revolutions per Minute festival, UMass-Boston, Boston, MA

           Here is where we meet, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan 

           Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

           VIDEONALE.19, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany  

2022   Light Up, Taoyuan Children's Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan  

           Squeaky Wheel’s 19th Animation Fest, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY 

           A Fresh Look—The Artist's Window, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan

2021   Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY

2020   Journal of Visited Light, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

2019   Elsewheres, Tributary Projects, Canberra, Australia
           Expanded Experimental Animation Festival IV, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2018   WE THE ARTISTS: 18th Street’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Santa Monica, CA, United States

2017   Open (C)all: Truth, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY

           12th Taipei Digital Art Festival, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
           No Simple Highways, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY

           Light Year 24: Passenger Moment, Video art projected onto the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, NY

           National Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
           Fluid Horizons, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

2016   Brokedown Palace, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

2015   Screengrab International Media Arts Award, Pinnacles Gallery, Queensland, Australia

           National Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
           Your Closed Eyes My Extinction, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2014   Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale: Vision and Beyond, Shenzhen, China

           Asia Digital Art Award Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
           New Media Romance, MOCA Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

           Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

2023   Triangle Arts Association Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY

           Creative Engagement Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2021   Artist Scholarship, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY

2019   Bamboo Curtain Studio Artist in Residence, Taipei, Taiwan 

2018   18th Street Arts Center Artist in Residence, Santa Monica, CA

           Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

           Flux Factory Artist in Residence, Queens, NY

2017   Gold Medal Award in New Media Art, National Art Exhibition, Taiwan

           Paula Rhodes Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2015   Computer Art Award Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

           Fellowship of Government Sponsorship for Overseas Study, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

2014   Excellence Award in Moving Images, Asia Digital Art Award, Japan

SELECTED REVIEWS, PRESS, INTERVIEWS
 

2023   ‘Poyen Wang, Endearing Insanity’ by Marlene Denningmann, 40th Kassel Dokfest Catalogue

           ‘Poyen Wang, Endearing Insanity’ by Amirali Ghasemi, VIDEONALE.19 Exhibition Catalogue

           ‘Poyen Wang’s Endearing Insanity’ by Kevin Wu, ArtReview Asia

           ‘Must See: Endearing Insanity at Essex Flowers,’ Artforum

           ‘Poyen Wang at Essex Flowers,’ Contemporary Art Library

           ‘POYEN WANG: Endearing Insanity,’ Asia Art Archive in America

           ‘Featured Events: Poyen Wang, Endearing Insanity,’ XIBT Magazine

           ‘Poyen Wang on Filmmaking, World-Building, and Endearing Insanity’ by Annette An-Jen Liu,

           Testudo Editorial

2021   ‘In the Bronx Museum’s biennial, artists grapple with constraints on creativity during Covid-19,’    

            by Kendra Walker, The Art Newspaper 

           Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

2020   蔡佩桂, ‘宇宙觀光記：房間與人的尺度,’ 台新銀行文化藝術基金會 (Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts

           and Culture)

           姜盈謙, ‘異質空間的疊合與錯位 王博彥「黑太陽」,’ 亞洲藝術新聞 (Cans Asia Art News)

           嚴瀟瀟, ‘多重投射的異世界 王博彥個展「黑太陽」,’ 典藏今藝術 & 投資 (Artco Monthly &

           Investment)

           王振愷, ‘專訪藝術家王博彥：即使「黑太陽」並非光明白亮，仍有照耀不安的能力,’ 關鍵評論網

           (The News Lens)

2019   ‘Poyen Wang: License to Desire’ by Kio Griffith, 18th Street Arts Center Exhibition Catalogue

           ‘Taiwan Academy: Poyen Wang, Kio Griffith’ by Lucy Birmingham,  Artillery Magazine

2018   ‘Dis-Orientation Via Video’ by Peter Frank, Atlas Portal Exhibition Catalogue

           ‘Atlas Portal at the Taiwan Academy: Two Artists In Between Worlds’ by Shana Nys Dambrot, LA

           Weekly

           ‘Atlas Portal: Poyen Wang and Kio Griffith at the Taiwan Academy’ by Lorraine Heitzman, Art and     

           Cake

EDUCATION

2017   MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2015   MFA New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan