Ziping Wang

I am fascinated by the modifications of images: how things are 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, where she currently lives and works. She holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute, New York, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Drawing on the visual languages of advertising and illustration, Ziping Wang’s paintings are inspired by the overwhelming experience of living within an attention economy in the digital era. Visually seductive food packaging often serves as the starting point for Wang’s colorful configurations that combine a wide array of 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. Wang’s paintings offer the mirage of a narrative, of a space in which dissociative fragments cohere, yet resist any further extraction of meaning. Paintings as decoys, that talk about something without talking about it, or by talking about something else. The subtext of Wang’s compositions, however, remain as unknowable to the viewer as the black box of the algorithmic machine.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir Faire and Contemporary, K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong, 2024, upcoming), Traces of Love and Timeless Adventure, Galerie Marguo at K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong, 2023) The Loudest Silence, Peres Project (Seoul, 2022); Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin, Galerie Marguo (Paris, 2021); The Other Landscape, Unit London (London, 2021); Sentimental Touch, Unit London (London, 2020); Platform 2020, Winston Wachter Fine Arts (New York, 2020); ASYAAF, Gallery LVS, (Seoul, 2020); Holiday project 1 Group Show, Inna Art Space (New York, 2020); The Garden of Forking Path, The Wall MINI Project space (Beijing, 2019); Daydreaming, J.Yuan Associates LLC (New York, 2019); Artificial Delicacy, Gessoisland Artspace (Shenyang, 2019); and 37.2, The Cool Hunter (Beijing, 2019). Wang was the recipient of the First Place prize of the 12th Annual Juried Exhibition at Archway Gallery (Houston, 2020). She recently created ‘Sweet tooth’ handbag, one of the five artistic collaborations in the 5th edition of the Artycapucines Collection by Louis Vuitton.

Her works are in the collections of the ICA Miami, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, X Museum, Beijing, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong and Le Consortium, Dijon, France.

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Born 1995 in Shenyang, China. Lives and works in Shenyang.

Education

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023	Galerie Marguo, Time of Love and Endless Adventure, K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong
2022	Peres Project, The Loudest Silence, Seoul, Korea
2021	Galerie Marguo, Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin, Paris, France
	WT Foundation, Solo exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
	Unit London,The Other Landscape, London, UK
2020	Unit London, Sentimental Touch (online), London, UK
2019	Gessoisland Artspace, Artificial Delicacy, Shenyang, China
	J.yuan associates LLC, Daydreaming, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024	Le Consortium, New artworks for Consortium Museum Collection, Dijon, France
	Unit London, small talk, London, UK
	K11 MUSEA, Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir Faire and Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2023	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	Galerie Marguo, Home Run, Casa Marguo Inaugural Exhibition, Menorca, Spain
	Unit London, Dreamscape estuary curated by Laura Shao, London, UK
	Miguel de Cervantes Library, Yes We Can: City, Art and Nature, Shanghai, China
2022	Peres Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, Miami, FL
	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	Galerie Marguo, The Hearing Trumpet part 2, Paris, France
	Le Consortium, The Drawing Centre Show, 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, Hggoliday 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, USA
	Woods Gerry Gallery, Illustration department senior exhibition, Providence, USA
2015	Jolie Gallery, Art Factory, Shenyang, China