ALICE WANG

1983, Xi'an, China, lives and works in New York

 

EDUCATION                                                             

2012     

MFA, Studio Art, New York University

2010     

BFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts

2005     

BSc, Computer Science and International Relations, University of Toronto

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Earth is Plummeting Towards the Sun While Just Missing It, Jimei Art Centre, Xiamen, China (curated by Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen)

We Are Extraterrestrial, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, USA 

2023

The Touching Touched, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China (curated by Neil Zhang)

2021

Echoes from a Distant Time, OCAT Xi'an, Xi'an, China

Alice Wang Solo Exhibition, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2020 

Garden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 

2019

Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, USA

The Zone, Practice, New York, USA [2-person]

2017

Alice Wang Solo Exhibition, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China

ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA

2016

The Earth is Plummeting Towards the Sun While Just Missing it, LACE, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Kelman Duran)

Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Luke Fischbeck)

2015

18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA

2014

Autobiography of Red, UCSB Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA

2013

Slippery Contours, Galleri Detroit, Stockholm, Sweden

The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada

The Secret Blackness of Milk, Torstraße 111, Berlin, Germany

Entre Chien et Loup, Concord, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Arjuna Neuman)

2012

In Gallery 8, 80WSE, New York, USA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (*SCREENING/PERFORMANCE) 

2024

Three-Body Art Project·Prologue: First Contact, Suhe Haus, Shanghai, China (curated by Iris Long)

When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)

2023

Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (curated by Anton Vidokle)

2022

The Belonging of Plants, Juanzong Cabinet, Xiamen, China (co-curated by Juanzong Cabinet & Capsule Shanghai)

Liquid Ground, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, China (curated by Alvin Li and Junyuan Feng) 

*The Wildest thing, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Program, Hong Kong

2021

The Culture China · The 4th Overseas Artists Invitational Exhibition: "In Working: Women in Art Practise", He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China 

Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong, China (curated by Alvin Li and Junyuan Feng) 

In the Midst of It All, G Museum, Nanjing, China (curated by Li Jia) 

2020

The New Sur(Realism), Open Circle Moscow, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Down the Rabbit Hole, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2019

Fun Palace, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China (curated by Bruce Ding)

*Omniaudience, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Triple Canopy)

*Art and Ecology Month, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Garden)

The Zone, Practice NY, New York, USA 

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)

and I'll have a pepper-shaker in my cave, so laugh., ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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, China (curated by Venus Lau)

Dream Video 100, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China

*Oracle, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Program, Hong Kong, China (curated by Li Zhenhua)

*BUILT-IN Chapter 2, Navel, Los Angeles, USA (organized by Nicolas Grenier)

A Curious Herbal, Garden, Los Angeles, USA

Infinite Rehearsal, MoCube Gallery, Beijing, China

2017

Extended Ground, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

All the Small Things, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA

Apocalyptic Summer, ltd los angeles, 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, US

2016

Forward, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA

When We Become Us, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA (organized 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 (curated by C.C. Marsh and Ariel Evans)

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

12th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

 

ART FAIR SOLO PROJECTS

2023

Quantum Dream Machine, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES 

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

 

LECTURES / EVENTS  

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

Screening & Talk, Navel, Los Angeles, April 25 (organized by Nicolas Grenier)

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, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, October 19

Book Launch, Modern Art Base, Shanghai, October 15

Artist Talk and Screening, Shanghai Project, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, July 31 

2016

Nonsensical Issue #3 Launch, ARTBOOK @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, November 17

出神入化--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

 

CURATORIAL: THE MAGIC HOUR

Twentynine Palms, California, USA (co-organized with Ben Tong)

2020

No. 6 - Antonia Kuo, Rachelle Rojany, Tanya Brodsky

2019

No. 5 - Performance Day (MPA, Lucky Dragons, Micah Wood and Félicia Atkinson, Chiara Giovando, Ian James, Tyler Matthew Oyer); and Drive-in Screening, curated by Anna Milone (upcoming)

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

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

September 2018 - 2023

Assistant Professor of Arts, New York University, Shanghai, China

Spring 2018

Lecturer, UC Irvine, CA, USA

2016 - 2018

Lecturer, UC Riverside, CA, USA

2016 - 2018

Lecturer, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA

Fall 2016

Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Winter 2016

Lecturer, UCLA, CA, USA

2013 - 2015

Lecturer, UCSB, CA, USA

2010 - 2012

Adjunct Professor, NYU, New York, NY, USA