Ziping Wang China, b. 1995

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 will present 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. 

Recent solo and group exhibitions include ‘Sentimental Touch’ at Unit London (London, 2020), ‘Platform 2020’ at Winston Wachter Fine Arts (New York, 2020), ‘ASYAAF’ at Gallery LVS (Seoul, 2020), ‘Holiday project 1 Group Show’ at Inna Art Space (New York, 2020), ‘The Garden of Forking Path’ at The Wall MINI Project Space (Beijing, 2019), ‘Daydreaming’ at J.Yuan Associates LLC (New York, 2019), ‘Artificial Delicacy’ at Gessoisland Artspace (Shenyang, 2019) and ‘37.2’ at 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).