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.
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 |
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Galerie Marguo, ‘Ziping Wang 3x3’ (online), Paris, France |
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Unit London, ‘The Other Landscape’, London, UK |
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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 |
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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 |
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Antraniq Gallery, ‘100 Days’, New York, USA |
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Collective 131, ‘Personal Space’, New York, USA |
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Inna Art Space, ‘Holiday Project 1 Group Show’, New York, USA |
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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 |
Collection
ICA Miami, USA
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Ziping WangBorrowing a bit of romance, 2022Oil on canvas80 x 60 cm (31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
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Ziping WangButterflies in your eyes, 2022Oil on canvas80 x 60 cm
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Ziping WangMountains in the Air, 2021100 x 80 cm
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Ziping WangRiver Flows between Us, 2021Oil on canvas60 x 60 cm
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Ziping WangMy Body Melts into A Puddle When I Miss You, 2021Oil on canvas60 x 60 cm
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Ziping WangPainting for the Unsing Bird, 2020101.6 x 76.2 cm
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Ziping WangWhen You Walk in the Dark, Don't Mind the Moon, 2021Oil on canvas60 x 60 cm
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Ziping WangFear of Dreamless Night, 202040 x 30 cm
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Ziping WangSentimental Touch, 202020 x 16 cm
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Ziping WangSkiing on the Train of Thoughts, 202030 x 24 cm
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Ziping WangMoist Grassland, 2019Oil painting on canvas54 x 54 cm
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Ziping WangUnclaimed Light, 2019Oil painting on canvas30 x 24 cm
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Ziping WangDistance Between Us, 2019Oil pianting on panel19 x 16 cm
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Ziping WangDancing Sketchpad, 201830 x 24 cm
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Ziping Wang: Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin
Paris Exhibition Full film 12 Jan 2022Galerie Marguo is pleased to present Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin , Ziping Wang’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from 15 January to 19 February 2022. Comprising painting, drawing, and collage, Wang’s practice is shaped by the overload of visual information that characterizes the attention economy in the digital sphere, as well as the artist’s enduring interest in the gulfs and slippages between representation and meaning. Step into Ziping Wang’s studio in Shenyang, China, in this short video.Read more -
Ziping Wang: Obsession, Indifference and Onion Skin
Paris Exhibition Teaser 4 Jan 2022 -
Galerie Marguo @ ART021 Shanghai 2021
Art Fair 10 Nov 2021Galerie Marguo is pleased to be participating in ART021, with a presentation of nine contemporary international artists working in painting and photography. Spanning a variety of approaches from abstraction to figuration, each offer nuanced ways of looking, interpreting, and representing the world through highly subjective formal and political lenses, cultivated from all corners of the earth. The works gathered here are each in their own way concerned with representing the often invisible yet palpable forces that shape our lives, as well as that which is often hidden in plain sight....Read more -
Ziping Wang 3x3
Online Presentation Video 4 May 2021
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#MarguoSummer and Looking Ahead to the Fall
Gallery Closed for Summer Holiday until 15 August 2022 27 Jul 2022Galerie Marguo is temporarily closed for the summer holiday till 15 August. Come back to the gallery starting on 16 August to catch the last...Read more -
Marguo Artists Included in The Drawing Centre Show at Le Consortium, Dijon
2 Jul 2022Galerie Marguo is delighted to announce that three artists from its program, A’Driane Nieves , Ziping Wang , Semine Yang , are included in...Read more -
#MarguoSummer is coming!
Gallery Closed for Summer Holiday until 16 August 2021 29 Jul 2021Galerie Marguo is temporarily closed for summer holiday until 16 August. Meanwhile we are launching a speical program on Instagram #MarguoSummer, taking you on a...Read more
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INTERVIEWPainted fragments of food packaging, classical art, internet icons visualize today's information overload
Park Han-sol, The Korea Times, 10 Jan 2023 -
The New York Times Style Magazine | Paris, Europe’s Former Art Capital, Is Back on Top
Noor Brara, The New York Times Style Magazine, 5 May 2022 -
Bazaar | Bazaar People: 22 domande a Ziping Wang
MATILDE FERRI, BAZAAR, 27 Nov 2020 -
Elephant | Ziping Wang Is Playing Tricks on You
Emily Gosling, Elephant, 23 Nov 2020 -
Artnet | “Daydreaming: Wang Ziping New Paintings” at J. Yuan & Associates LLC
Sarah Cascone, artnet, 19 Feb 2019