Ziping Wang

Overview

Portrait of Ziping Wang. Photo: Federico Savini

I am fascinated by the modifications of images: how things are being designed, edited, filtered and spread out into the world. I try to capture the overwhelming moments when every fragment is being changed.

— Ziping Wang

Ziping Wang was born in 1995, in Shenyang, China. She holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute, New York, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. In January 2022, Wang presents her first solo exhibition with Galerie Marguo.

Drawing on the visual languages of advertising and illustration, Ziping Wang creates paintings and drawings inspired by the overwhelming experience of living within an attention economy in the digital era, in which we are relentlessly bombarded by pop-ups, banners, notifications, and endlessly refreshing feeds.

Visually seductive packaging found while strolling the supermarket aisles often serves as the starting point for Wang’s saturated, colorful configurations that combine a wide array of pictorial references and styles, ranging from cartoonish renderings of food, traditional Chinese and Japanese decorative motifs, Old Master still lifes, geometrically patterned forms, and amorphous blobs of varying opacity.

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Biography

Ziping Wang, River Flows Between Us, 2021, 60 x 60 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Marguo, Paris

Born in Shenyang, China in 1995

Education

2020	MFA, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2017	BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2021	Galerie Marguo, ‘Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin’, Paris, France
	WT Foundation, Solo exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
	Galerie Marguo, ‘Ziping Wang 3x3’ (online), Paris, France
	Unit London, ‘The Other Landscape’, London, UK
2020	Unit London, ‘Sentimental Touch’, London, UK
2019	Gessoisland Artspace, ‘Artificial Delicacy’, Shenyang, China
	J.yuan associates LLC, ‘Daydreaming’, New York, USA
2018	Space Feng @ Luv Tea, ‘Unsettling Garden’, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions

2022	Galerie Marguo, ‘ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair’, Shanghai, China
	Galerie Marguo, ‘The Hearing Trumpet part 2’, Paris, France
	Le Consortium, Drawing exhibition, Dijon, France
	Phillips, ‘Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies’, Online presentation curated by Joan Tucker, Hong Kong
2021	Peres Project, ‘Utopia’, Berlin, Germany
2020	Winston Wachter Fine Arts, ‘Platform 2020’, New York, USA
	Archway Gallery, ‘12th Annual Juried Exhibition’, Houston, USA
	Gallery LVS, ‘ASYAAF’, Seoul, Korea
	Antraniq Gallery, ‘100 Days’, New York, USA
	Collective 131, ‘Personal Space’, New York, USA
	Inna Art Space, ‘Holiday Project 1 Group Show’, New York, USA
2019	The Wall MINI Project Space, ‘The Garden of Forking Path’, Beijing, China
	Dekalb Gallery, ‘Welcome Back Show’, New York, USA
	The Cool Hunter, ‘37.2’, Beijing, China
	‘Graduate Art Fair’, Shanghai, China
	President Office Gallery, ‘1st year MFA group exhibition’, New York, USA
	Greenpoint Gallery, ‘People's Choice Salon Show’, New York, USA
2018	Fou Gallery, ‘Art book fair’, New York, USA
	Trestle Gallery, ‘Small Works Exhibition’, Brooklyn, New York, USA
	Gallery of Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, ‘Illustration West 57’, Los Angeles, USA
2017	Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, ‘Art Book in China’, Shanghai, China
	ISB Gallery, ‘Dirty Dozen’, Providence, RI
	Woods Gerry Gallery, ‘Illustration department senior exhibition’, Providence, RI
2015	Jolie Gallery, ‘Art Factory’, Shenyang, China