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WangShui

WangShui is an American contemporary artist. They work across a range of media including film, installation, painting, and sculpture. They are based in New York City.

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WangShui (born 1986)1 is an American contemporary artist. They work across a range of media including film, installation, painting, and sculpture.234 They are based in New York City.1

Notable exhibitions

In 2018, WangShui participated in In Practice: Another Echo at SculptureCenter in Queens.5 That same year they presented a film project at Triple Canopy titled, From Its Mouth Came a River of High-end Residential Appliances that eventually went on to screen at New York Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.67

In 2019, WangShui presented their first solo exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin.389

In 2021, WangShui participated in No Humans Involved at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and also presented their first series of aluminum paintings at Frieze New York.1011

In 2022, WangShui participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Quiet as It's Kept" where they presented videos and paintings co-authored with AI.1213 Their work was also included in the Biennale De Lyon that same year.14

In 2023, WangShui opened their first solo museum exhibitions in China at the Rockbund Art Museum 15 and in Europe at Haus Der Kunst.16

In 2024, WangShui's work was included in the 60th La Biennale di Venezia, "Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere" curated by Adriano Pedrosa.17

References

References

  1. "WangShui". kunstaspekte.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-27. WangShui (born 1986, USA) based in New York, deals with queer spaces and world designs and uses art, film and architecture.
  2. Thomas, Skye Arundhati (2019-12-02). "'Deities Are Transgendered Corpses': the Transformative Power of WangShui". Frieze. No. 208. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  3. "Ulterior Space: WangShui at Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. October 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  4. "Everything, All at Once, Through the Eyes of WangShui". Interview Magazine. 15 December 2020.
  5. "In Practice: Another Echo".
  6. "From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances".
  7. "From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances | IFFR".
  8. "WangShui at JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION | Berlin". www.artforum.com. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  9. Wank, Luise; Brown, Kate (2019-09-10). "Here Are 11 Must-See Shows and Events During Berlin Art Week, From Ryan Trecartin's New Dystopia to a Mobile Art Planetarium". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  10. Liou, Caroline Ellen (2021-11-29). "A More Expansive Understanding of What It Means to Be Human". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  11. "Frame: Solo Presentations by Emerging Artists from Around the World". 17 March 2021.
  12. "'They Are About Capturing the Process of Merging': How Artist WangShui Collaborated with A.I. To Make Paintings for the Whitney Biennial". 12 May 2022.
  13. Mitter, Siddhartha (2022-01-25). "Whitney Biennial Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  14. "Biennale de Lyon Names Artists for 'Fragility'-Focused 2022 Edition". 26 January 2022.
  15. "WangShui: How to Dematerialise Identity".
  16. "WangShui: Window of Tolerance - Announcements - e-flux".
  17. https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/nucleo-contemporaneo/wangshui