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︎  pei.wang122@gmail.com

︎  peihsuan_wang
︎  Good Weather





Utilizing media spanning video, sculpture, drawing, and installation, Pei-Hsuan Wang’s practice inquires into personal insecurities navigating between the East and the West, two cultural and geographical delineations that have shaped her upbringing. Drawing from trauma, memory, family history and aspirations, Wang’s work mines the vulnerabilities, contradictions, and beauty that reside in identity formation as an Asian woman in diaspora.

The artist’s 12-year-old niece Iris, a White and East Asian mixed-heritage, first-generation Taiwanese American, has inspired a body of work that imagines racial and cultural hybridity alongside various archetypes in nature and in myths. Zoomorphic beings become a kind of guardian and portal, giving form to the inner experience and opening up narratives that empower from the visceral as well as the imaginative.





CV          /         Pei-Hsuan Wang




Education
  • 2012  MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Merit Scholarship—Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
  • 2010  BA, Macalester College, Honorable Mention, Kofi Annan Scholarship—St. Paul, MN, USA



Awards
  • 2019  Special Jury Prize, Huayu Youth Award—China
  • 2019  International Travel Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation—Taiwan
  • 2018  International Residency Grant, Ministry of Culture —Taiwan
  • 2016  Juror’s Choice Award, Taipei Arts Award—Taiwan
  • 2016  Solo Exhibition Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation—Taiwan
  • 2013  Dorchester Fellowship, Theaster Gates Studio and Rebuild Foundation—Chicago, IL, USA



Solo Exhibitions
  • 2020  I’ve Left My Body to Occupy Others, Good Weather—Chicago, IL, USA
  • 2020  For Iris, Gallery 456—New York, NY, USA
  • 2019  You Are My Sunshine, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC)—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2018  Momentary Grace, Haiton Art—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2016  The Uncontainable Tale of a Paradise, Waley Art—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2014  Mobile Scapehood, FreeS Art Space—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2014  Formation No.1: On Levitation, Bamboo Curtain Studio—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2013  Closer to Home, North Gallery, Tainan National University of Arts—Tainan, Taiwan



Two-Person Exhibitions
  • 2018 where we meet, with ektor garcia and Good Weather at Chicken Coop Contemporary—Portland, OR, USA



Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 2021 Either Too Quiet or Too Loud, curated by Bo Chun Hsiao, Hong-gah Museum—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2021 The HISK Affair, curated by Pieter Vermeulen and Sam Steverlynck, HISK Gosset—Brussels, Belgium
  • 2020  ////// , Solid Art, curated by Hung-Fei Wu and Cheng-Tao Chen—Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • 2019  Passage of Sinthome, Sanya Art Museum, curated by Liu Tian—Sanya, China
  • 2019  IRL {In Real Life}, ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair, curated by X Zhu-Nowell and Frankie Su—Paris, France
  • 2019  Proyector Festival de Videoarte, curated by Zoe Yeh—Madrid, Spain
  • 2018  Asian Art Biennale, National Gallery—Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 2018  Rootless Orchid, Asian Art and Culture Center, Towson University, curated by Fang Yu Lee—Baltimore, MD, USA
  • 2016 Negative Horizon: Taiwan International Video Art Biennale, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu and Pei-Yi Lu, Hong-gah Museum—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2016 Ways of Clay: Jakarta Ceramics Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia—Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 2016  Who’s Who, Audio Visual Pavilion—Seoul, South Korea
  • 2016  Traveling within Everyday Life, Taipei Artist Village—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2015  The Way of Regime, Howl Space + Absolute Space, curated by Yves Chiu and Chia-Hsuan Yang—Tainan, Taiwan



Residency
  • 2021   CERCCO, HEAD Genève—Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2021- Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK)—Ghent, Belgium
  • 2019  Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (guest resident)—Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2018  Asia Culture Center—Gwangju, South Korea
  • 2018  International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)—New York, NY, USA
  • 2016  Jatiwangi Art Factory—West Java, Indonesia
  • 2015  Sundaymorning@ekwc—Oisterwijk, Netherlands
  • 2015  1a Space—Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • 2014  Bamboo Curtain Studio—Taipei, Taiwan



Curatorial + Exhibition-Making 
  • 2020  like a luminous animal, Solid Art—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2013  Soul Manufacturing Corporation with Theaster Gates, Locust Prjects and the Fabric Workshop and Museum—Miami, FL and Philadelphia, PA, USA



Selected Lectures
  • 2022  LUCA School of Arts—Gent, Belgium
  • 2022  University of Oregon—Eugene, OR, USA
  • 2020  National Taiwan University of Arts—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2019  Lightbox Photo Library—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2019  ET@T Forum, Digital Art Center TW—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2019  Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC)—Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2018  International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)—New York, NY, USA
  • 2017  Asia Culture Center—Gwangju, South Korea
  • 2016  Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art—Nantou, Taiwan
  • 2016  Jatiwangi Art Factory—West Java, Indonesia
  • 2016  Pon Ding—Taipei, Taiwan 
  • 2016  Tainan National University of the Arts—Tainan, Taiwan
  • 2015  Hong Kong University—Hong Kong



Bibliography