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RESUME
Alice Wang
b. 1983, Xi’an, China
+1-323-448-6462
EDUCATION
2010-2012 MFA, Studio Art, New York University
2008-2010 BFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts
2000-2005 BSc, Computer Science and International Relations, University of Toronto
EXHIBITIONS
Solo:
2024
Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2023
UCCA Dune Art Museum, Beidaihe, China
Kling and Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland
Discoveries, Capsule Shanghai, Art Basel Hong Kong
2021
OCAT Museum, Xi’an, China (curated by Karen Smith)
Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2020
Garden, Los Angeles, USA
2019
Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2016
the earth is plummeting towards the sun while just missing it, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Project Space, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Kelman Duran)
Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Luke Fischbeck)
2015
18th Street Arts Center, Atrium Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (curated by Anuradha Vikram)
2014
Autobiography of Red, UCSB Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA [2-person with Taro Masushio]
2013
Slippery Contours, Galleri Detroit, Stockholm, Sweden
The fallacy of misplaced concreteness, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada (curated by Erik Martinson)
The secret blackness of milk, Torstraße 111, Berlin, Germany (organized by Villa Aurora)
Entre chien et loup, Concord, Los Angeles, USA [2-person]
2012
In gallery 8, 80WSE Gallery, New York, USA
Group: (*screenings)
2023
Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, (curated by Anton Vidokle)
*Premonitions, Place Ville Marie Tower, Montreal, Canada (curated by Caroline Douville and Roxanne Arsenault)
2022
*The Wildest Thing, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Program, Hong Kong
Liquid Ground, UCCA Dune Museum of Art, Beidaihe, China (curated by Alvin Li and Feng Junyuan)
Chengdu International Photo Festival, Chengdu, China (curated by Wang Qingsong)
2021
Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong (curated by Alvin Li and Junyuan Feng)
In the Midst of It All, G Museum, Nanjing, China (curated by Li Jia)
4th Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2020
Drive-By-Art, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Warren Neidich)
The New Sur(Realism), Open Circle Moscow, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Down the Rabbit Hole, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2019
Fun Palace, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal LOFT, Shenzhen, China (curated by Bruce Ding)
Omniaudience, (listening session), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Triple Canopy)
*Art and Ecology Month, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Garden)
Tracking the Mushroom at the End of the World, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (curated by Chelsea Liu)
Glow Like That, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (curated by Venus Lau)
*Le Deuxième Sexe, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Program, Hong Kong (curated by Li Zhenhua)
2018
InnerScapes, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (curated by Manuela Lietti)
The Angel’s Share, FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Anna Milone)
Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (curated by Venus Lau)
*Oracle, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Program, Hong Kong (curated by Li Zhenhua)
A Curious Herbal, Garden, Los Angeles, USA
*BUILT-IN Chapter 2, Navel, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Nicolas Grenier)
Infinite Rehearsal, MoCube Gallery, Beijing, China
Dream Video 100, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2017
Extended Ground, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
All the Small Things, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA
The Modern Look (Part I), Modern Art Base, Shanghai, China
You Catch More Flies With Arsenic Than Honey, Club Pro, Los Angeles, USA
2016
When We Become Us, Capsule, Shanghai, China
Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Sohrab Mohebbi and Miljohn Ruperto)
Thus Spake the Fungus, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, USA
From my warm and wet kidneys, Practice, New York, USA
The First Horizons of Juno, Mass Gallery, Austin, USA
2015
One After Another, In Succession, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Bad Data, WOLFART Projectspaces, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013
International Video Art Festival, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Il est amusant de prendre le train pour les petites villes, Immanence, Paris, France
*Moving Image Arts, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
2012
Licht Mehr Licht, Deutsches Haus, New York, USA
12th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Curatorial: The Magic Hour (co-organized with Ben Tong)
2022
No. 7 – solo project with Shirley Tse
2019
No. 6 – Antonia Kuo, Rachelle Rojany, Tanya Brodsky
No. 5 – Performance Day (Micah Wood and Félicia Atkinson, Ian James, Tyler Matthew Oyer, Objects for Others); and Drive-in Screening, curated by Anna Milone
No. 4 – solo project with Charles Long
2018
No. 3 – Julia Tcharfas and Tim Ivison
No. 2 – Mariah Garnett, Stephen Neidich, Michael Parker, Isabel Yellin, Joe Zorrilla
No. 1 – Gracie Devito, Patricia Fernández, Anne Guro Larsmon, Shana Lutker, Sarah Rara
PRESS
Mankun Liu, “Confronting land politics at Art Basel Hong Kong,” Art Basel Stories, February 24, 2023
Travis Jeppesen, Review, Artforum, Summer, 2021
"The Shortlist Is in for the 2021 Edition of the BMW Art Journey,” Artnet, May 21, 2021
Fiona He, China: Six Must-See Exhibition, Art Basel, March, 2021
Liu Huatong, Artforum, Critic’s Picks, March, 2021
Carolina A. Miranda, Datebook, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2020
Hannah Spears, “Plummeting towards the sun but missing it: planetary physics, ancient ruins & astronaut memoirs in the work of Alice Wang,” AQNB, May 20, 2019.
Maxwell Williams, “Houston, we have a problem,” The Art Newspaper, February 15, 2019.
Matt Stromberg, “A New Outdoor Art Space Springs from the High Desert East of Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic, March 14, 2018.
Jessica Simmons, “A Curious Herbal at Garden,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, February 14, 2018.
Venus Lau, Best of 2017, Artforum, December, 2017
Violet Wang, Modern Icon Profile, Modern Weekly, December, 2017
Nirmala Devi, “Previewed,” ArtReview Asia, Autumn, 2017
Todd Meyers, “Alice Wang, Capsule, Shanghai,” esse, October, 2017
Manuela Lietti, “Alice Wang: untitled,” Art World艺术世界, Issue #323, October, 2017
Suchao Li, “Alice Wang 王凝慧,” Artco China 典藏, October, 2017
Akira Pontormo, “Ocula Conversation: Alice Wang王凝慧,” Ocula 艺术之眼, October 18, 2017
Ellie Zhang, “Variable Meaning Within an Unchanging Cycle,” 凤凰艺术, October 10, 2017
Rui Xiao, “王凝慧Interview,” 798艺术, October 10, 2017
Misha Maruma, “Real Rock Art at Capsule Shanghai,” City Weekend Shanghai, Sep 18, 2017
David Bell, “Untitled with Alice Wang,” Notes On Looking, April 24, 2017
Lauren MacKenzie Noice, “Proceed with caution: finding hope in the perils of You Catch More Flies with Arsenic Than Honey,” AQNB, February 20, 2017
Qianfan Gu, “When We Become Us at Capsule Gallery, Shanghai,” Flash Art, November 24, 2016
Maxwell Williams, “The Agenda,” Art In America, January 23, 2015
Charles Donelan, “Review: The Autobiography of Red at UCSB,” Santa Barbara Independent, August 13, 2014
A. J. Samuels, “Slippery Contours,” Artfetch, December 16, 2013
Catherine Wagley, “Five Artsy Things to Do,” LA Weekly, February 14-20, 2013
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Billy Tang, “A Kinetic Sculptural Cosmology,” catalog essay published in Alice Wang, Capsule Shanghai, March 20 - May 8, 2021, Atelier Éditions.
Christina Catherine Martinez, “Not Naming the Thing Frees It,” catalog essay published in Alice Wang, Capsule Shanghai, March 20 - May 8, 2021, Atelier Éditions.
Karen Smith, “Echoes from a Distant Time,” catalog essay published in Alice Wang, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT Museum), December 11, 2021 - March 27, 2022, OCAT. (forthcoming)
Anna Milone, “Prendre la mesure du monde — Sizing up the world,” artist book essay written for Alice Wang, Visitor Welcome Center, March 16 – April 20, 2019, published by Sming Sming Books.
Btr, “Geometric Sadness (or Notes on Biosphere3),” translated by Mike Fu, artist book essay written for Alice Wang, Capsule Shanghai, September 2 – October 18, 2017, published by Sming Sming Books and Capsule Shanghai.
Travis Diehl, “Eyelid Movies,” Catalog essay written for Slippery Contours, Galleri Detroit, Stockholm, Sweden, 30 November – 13 December, 2013.
Erik Martinson, “The fallacy of misplaced concreteness,” Catalog essay written for The fallacy of misplaced concreteness, Art Gallery of Mississauga, July 18 – September 7, 2013.
Between Image and Personality, Catalog published on the occasion of the International Video Art Festival Now & After, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, April 22-May 5, 2013.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023
International Program, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2022
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
SÍM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2021
Shortlist, BMW Art Journey, Art Basel, Hong Kong
2019
Offshore Residency, Salt Projects, Sabah, Malaysia
2018
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2017
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai, Cultural Grant, China
2016
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, USA
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant to Visual Artists
University of California, Riverside, Professional Development Grant, USA
2015
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, USA
UCSB Summer Sessions Cultural and Enrichment Grant, USA
2014
UCSB Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant, USA
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, USA
UCSB Summer Sessions Cultural and Enrichment Grant, USA
2013
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Canada
Villa Aurora Berlin Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
2012
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Art Fellowship, Paris, France
Toronto Arts Council, Media Artists Grant, Canada
2011
Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY, USA
PUBLISHED TEXTS
Boris Groys and Alice Wang, “Leaving the Earth,” e-flux Journal, May 2023.
Conversation with Shirley Tse, “Precarious Play,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Fall 2023.
Alice Wang and Carol Bove, “The Space of Free Play,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, 2017.
Interview with Bruce Hainley, Nonsensical #3, 2016.
LECTURES/EVENTS
2023
Panel Discussion: “New Bodies, New Natures: Figure and Land as Site and Situation,” Conversations,
Art Basel Hong Kong, March 22
Visiting Artist, External Examiner, Fine Art Department, Iceland University of the Arts, May 22-24
2022
Artist Lecture, Center for Integrated Media speaker series, “Research and Practice Seminar,” CalArts, March 7
2021
Nonsensical #5 Launch, Keep It Quiet, Shanghai, June 9
2020
Artist Lecture, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, Shanghai Jiaotong University, November 6
2019
Book Launch, The Magic Hour annual, published by Golden Spike Press, The Geffen Contemporary MOCA, Los Angeles, May 23
Book Launch, An Atlas of Outer Space, published by Sming Sming Books, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary MOCA, Los Angeles, April 12
Conversation with Anna Milone, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, April 14
2018
Nonsensical #4 Launch, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, February 4
Artist Lecture and Graduate Studio Visits, Department of Art, UC Irvine, March 9
2017
Conversation with Yang Zi and Li Gang, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, October 19
Book Launch, artist book published by Sming Sming Books & Capsule Shanghai, Modern Art Base, Shanghai, October 15
Conversation with btr and Film Screening, Shanghai Project, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, July 31
2016
Nonsensical #3 Launch, ARTBOOK @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, November 17
A Conversation on Consciousness, with Feng Chen and Bruce Ding, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, November 6
Conversation with Luke Fischbeck, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, June 22
2015
Conversation with Michael Ned Holte, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, January 23
2013
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 14
Lecture and Studio Visits, MFA Art and Technology Program, CalArts, Valencia, CA, February 19
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture and Studio Visits, MA Studio Art, NYU Venice, Italy, August 4