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ZIYANG WU
BORN 1990 IN JIANGSU, CHINA
LIVES AND WORKS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS
This document was updated on 13 December 2022 and is for reference only.
EDUCATION
2016
MFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007
BFA Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Florence
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London — UK [forthcoming]
2021
Where Did Macy Go?, Hatch Art Project, Tiong Bahru — SG
2020
A Woman with the Technology, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London — UK
2018
Carnival 2020, Unnamed Gallery, New York — US
2016
Ziyang Wu, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York — US Falling Extra Credit Gallery, Los Angeles Providence — US
2013
Ongoing, CO2 Gallery, Florence — IT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Super Fusion chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu — CN
Who’s Dat Panda?, Latitude Gallery, New York — US ccCloud, Raiden INST, West Bund Art Fair, Shainghai — CN Technological Co-Respondents, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu — CN Exuberance is Beauty, Song Art Museum, Beijing — CN I Recognized the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)Yinchuan, Yinchuan — CN Edition Box #5 – Digital Art Collection, EIGENHEIM Gallery, Berlin — DE Do Not Black Out, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai — CN Asia Digital Art Exhibition 2021, Times Art Museum, Beijing — CN NFS NSFW NFT, New Art City — [Online] AI Portraiture: Us and Them, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London — UK The Moving Utopia, Hong Museum, Chengdu — CN Further Experiments in Art and Technology, Rhizome and New Museum, New York — US [Online] From Checkers to the Complex System, Times Art Museum, Chengdu — CN Wonderland, Epoch Gallery — [Online]
2020
Alienation?, Eli Klein Gallery, New York — US This side, or the other…, Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance Inc, New York — US In Between, Times Art Museum, Beijing — CN Windows To The World, Contemporary and Digittal Art [online] Well Now WTF, Silicon Valet [online] A Ripple In The {Data} Flow, SVA Curatorial Practice [online]
2019
Video Open Call, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia — US Made In Illusion, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen — CN Andy’s Joke: SHOOT@SHOOT, AC Gallery, Beijing — CN Meeting the Future, SxV Museum of Modern Art, Qingdao — CN Undefined Future, United Art Museum, Wuhan — CN Made in Illusion, Times Art Museum, Beijing — CN Boundary of Time and Space, Epoch Art Museum, Zhejiang — CN Where We Met?, Art Beijing 2019, National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing — CN Where Are We Going, School of Visual Arts, New York — US New Waveland, HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai — CN Waves from the Horizon, AC Gallery, Beijing — CN
2018
Meme Town, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis — US Illimitation, China Academy of Art, Zhejiang — CN The Model of the World, Zhangzhou Museum, Fujian — CN WAVELENGTH: Rhapsody In Lines, Times Art Museum, Beijing — CN Amassing Force, Today Art Museum, Beijing — CN Dead Air, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, Providence — US Andy Warhol: Minnesota Goes Pop, Rochester Art Center, Rochester — US WAVELENGTH II, The Hole Gallery, New York — US
2016
Circling Justice, Perpich Center for the Arts, Minnesota — US Art Jiangxi International Fair, Nanchang International Exhibition Center, Jiangxi — CN Ancestors are so yesterday, 2016 MCAD Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Minnesota — US RISD 2016 MFA Painting Thesis, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York — US RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2016, RI Convention Center, Providence — US The City’s Ephemeral Gestures, Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art, Providence — US Prisoners Cinema, Gelman Gallery, Providence — US
2015 The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar, Academy Art Museum, Maryland — US Studio Languages, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence — US Half Master, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn — US
2014 Model 13 (Pegleg), Memorial Hall Painting Gallery, Providence — US Pale Firework, Gelman Gallery, Providence — US UFO Hunters, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence — US
2013 Chinese Italian Young Artists Exhibition, Medici Palace, Florence — IT START Point, Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Florence — IT It’s Just The Beginning, Milan Design Week, Spazio Annunciate Gallery, Milan — IT WELLS UP, GADARTE Gallery, Florence — IT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (ARTICLES & REVIEWS)
2022 Deb, Sukanya. “Discovering the use of Instagram filters in the artworks of Ziyang Wu,” StirWorld, (19 January 2022), [online]
2021 Droitcour, Brian “From Blockchain to Browser: Exhibiting NETs, Part One” Art in America (12 August 2021) [ill.] [print]
Shen, Danni, “Wonderland: Surviving Horror and Monstrosity“ Heichi Magazine, (8 July 2021)
Kang, Yuhui. “Ziyang Wu: Cutting Through The Noise”, Frontrunner, (2 April 2021) Morgan, Robert C. “Alienation”, The Brooklyn Rail, (21 January 2021)
Lambert, Audra. “21 Artists to Watch in 2021: Part I of 2021’s Movers and Shakers” ANTE Magazine (11 January 2021)
2020 “Alienation?“ Wall Street International (2 December 2020) [ill.] [print]Ehni, Alicia; Lopez, Kyle “Conversations | Jiaoyang Li and Ziyang Wu On Video Game Art“ New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) (October 2020) [ill.] [print] Liao, Karie. “Well Now WTF?” Vie Des Arts Magazine Issue260 (Fall 2020): 47-49 [ill.] [print] Prienz. “Five young Chinese multimedia artists with Oriental philosophy” Hypebeast (July 2020) [ill.] [online] “A Woman with the Technology, Unpredictable Machine Creation”, Neural Magazine no. 25, (Winter 2020): 41 [ill.] [print] Angelos, Ayla. “Through Post-Internet Projects, Artist Ziyang Wu Paints An Important (And Scary) Picture of The Future”, It’s Nice That, (May 2020) [ill.] [online] “Cover Art: A Woman With the Technology”, MacDowell Colony, Vol 48, No 2, (Winter-Spring 2020, March 2020) [ill.] [print]
2019 “Ziyang Wu”, Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), (October 2019) Dean, Aria. “Introducing: Experiments in Art and Technology 2019-2020”, Rhizome, (September 2019) [ill.] [print] Davies, Julia. “Four Must-See Art Exhibitions In Philadelphia this Summer”, 34th Street Magazine, (June 2019) [ill.] “MacDowell Awards More Than $1 Million in Fellowships to Ninety-three Artists”, ArtForum, (May 2019) [ill.] [print] Li, Qiong. “Immersive digital experience explores modern life’s spiritual side”, China Global TV Network (CGTN), (March 2019) [ill.]
2018 Mao, Judan. “Ziyang Wu — Carnival Freedom Debate,’ ArtNow, Issue 8, (November 2018), 24-27 [ill.] [print]
Jiang, Bing. “Ziyang Wu Won the Jerome Art Foundation Fellowship,” 99 Art News, (November 2018) [ill.]
Chen, Yaojie. “Rochester Art Center — Jerome Foundation Award Winning Artist Exhibition,” Artron, (November 2018) [ill.] Krusemark, Holden. Interview, “Artists converge in Rochester to display their years long work”, KTTC Television, (October 2018) [ill.] Weber, Tom. “Art Center on the ‘Verge’ of major opening event,’ Post-Bulletin, (October 2018) [ill.] Halliwell, Anne. “Art & Tech Meet at RAC”, Rochester Magazine, (October 2018) [ill.] Pu, Li. “Carnivalesque Game vs. Serious Theme,” Artron, (July 2018) [ill.] Bing, Jiang. “Ziyang Wu – A City Conquered by Art?”, Yahoo, (July 2018) [ill.]
2017 Hong, Yan.“The Last Subway,” Oriental Art, Issue 15, (August 2017): 116-117 [ill.] [print]Pu, Li. “Rhapsody In Lines — Ziyang Wu’s Smarter City, Artron, (August 2017) [ill.] Yanli, Zou. “Ziyang Wu: Art Bullshit,” Artron, (May 2017) [ill.] Ying, Duan. “Artist Ziyang Wu — Farraginous Power Landscape,” China News, (May 2017) [ill.] Yi, Sun. “Ziyang Wu — The Noisy Last Subway,” 99 Art News, (May 2017) [ill.] Szucs, Suzanne. “Minnesota Goes Pop,” Mn Artists, (April 2017) [ill.] Bell, Alice. “Wavelength, A Critique of Pop Culture,” 1Granary, (February 2017) [ill.] Cascone, Sarah. “9 Art Shows to See During NY Fashion Week,” Artnet, (February 2017) [ill.] [online]
2016 Yi, Sun. “Noisy Cultural Farce — Ziyang Wu’ New York Exhibition,” 99 Art News, (November 2016) [ill.] Pingren, Wu. “Ziyang Wu in conversation with David Cohen,” Sina Collection, (November 2016) [ill.] Xianglong, Li. “Ziyang Wu’s New York Exhibition,” Modern Express, (November 2016) [ill.] Thomas, Dylan. “Chasing Ghosts: New work from MCAD faculty members in the school’s 2016 Biennial,” Southwest Journal, (September 2016) [ill.] Hagel, Caia. “Mapping the Invisible at Rhode Island School of Design,” Aesthetica Magazine, (June 2016) [ill.] Gray, Channing. “Art Review: RISD students show their mind-blowing work in sprawling show,” Providence Journal, (June 2016) [ill.]
2015 Stone, Jane. Interview, Sinovision English Channel, New York, NY, US (September 2015) [ill.]
2013 “Ziyang Wu Oil Painting Works,” Arts Sea Magazine, (August 2013): 225 [ill.] [print] “Ziyang Wu Art Works,” Beauty & Times Magazine, (July, 2013) 94 [ill.] [print] Pardini, Paolo. Interview, Toscana TV, Florence, Italy, (March 30) [ill.]
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2021 “Computer as Creative Method”, Power Station of Art “Algorithm Control and Digital Environment Simulation – Cyber Creation”, ByteDance IES+ Series [Online] “Art and Simulation”, Game Study Workshop
The Song of Life, panelist, UCCA Visiting Artist, CUNY Hunter College Visiting Artist, University of Texas at Austin
2020 Artist Talk, School of Visual Arts, BFA Fine Arts Department Artist Talk, Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design “A Woman With the Technology: Film Screening with Ziyang Wu,” screening and artist talk, Silicon Valet “Art and Humor,” panelist, Transborder Art “Jerry Gogosian in conversation with Ziyang Wu,” Jerry Gogosian IG Live Series [online] “Voyages Extraordinaires,” panelist, Time Arts and Artsy “Ziyang Wu: A Woman with the Technology,” artist talk, Residency Unlimited “Coping Through Precarious Work,” panelist, NEW INC and Data & Society
2019 Artist Talk, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, New York — US “Xin Wang in Conversation with Ziyang Wu,” School of Visual Arts, New York, New York — US
2018 Artist Talk, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York — US Artist Talk & Teaching Skill Sharing, AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Conference, Detroit, Michigan — US
2017 “Reflecting Diversity & Creative Inclusion: the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, panelist,” Arts Schools Network Conference, Minneapolis — US “Meme Town Hall,” Meme Town, panelist, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis — US “Rap of China,” MECHADEMIA, Conference On Asian Popular Cultures, Sponsored by Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Anime Detour, Minneapolis — US Artist Talk, Award Ceremony of Amassing Force, 2017 Wang Shikuo Award: Today Art Museum Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing — CN Dead Air: Panel Discussion, panelist, Brown University, Rhode Island — US Artist Talk: Dylan Redford and Ziyang Wu, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota — US Artist Talk & Teaching Skill Sharing, AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Conference, Detroit, Michigan — US
2016 Artist Talk and Q&A with Art Critic David Cohen, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York — US
2013 Artist Talk, CO2 Gallery, Florence — IT
TEACHING & SEMINARS
2021
Lecturer, School of Design and Innovation, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou — CN Adjunct Faculty, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Shanghai campus, Shanghai — CN
2018 Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Arts, New York — US
2016 — 18 Full-time Visiting Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis — US
2014 — 16 Teaching Assistant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence — US
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2020 Art & Code Track Member, New Inc, New Museum, New York — US Residency, Residency Unlimited, New York — US NYSCA/NYFA Artists Fellowship, Digital/Electronic Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York — US
2019 Experiments in Art and Technology Track Member, New Inc, New Museum, New York — US Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), Alfred University, New York — US MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New Hampshire, New York — US
2018 Van Derlip Award, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis — US Fine Arts Department Merit Award 2018, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis — US Yale Norfolk Summer Program, MCAD Nomination, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis — US
2017 Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship, Jerome Foundation & Northern Lights, Minneapolis — US Finalist Award, Amassing Force, 2017 Wang Shikuo Award: Today Art Museum, Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artists, Beijing — CN Fine Arts Department Merit Award 2017, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis — US
2016 AICAD Teaching Fellowship, Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, Providence — US
2015 Finalist Award, The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar. Academy Art Museum, Maryland — US
2014 RISD Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence — US
2013 Award of Excellence, “Phoenix” Cup National Art and Art Design Competition, Committee of the Sixth National Art and Design Competition, Beijing — CN Best Creative Award, Milan Design Week — Oriental Design Week, Milan — IT New Art Award, Associazione Degli Artisti Cinesi in Italia, Florence — IT
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Association of Chinese Artists in Italy, Florence — IT Alfred University, School of Art & Design, Alfred, NY — US Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minneapolis — US Today Art Museum, Beijing — CN Wang Shikuo Art Foundation, Bejing — CN