Pei-Hsuan Wang’s practice is rooted in ways of engaging with her identity, much of which is shaped by the artist and her family's diasporic migration from Taiwan to the US. Folklore, family history, bio(mytho)graphical narratives and geopolitical musings are interwoven in her work, which primarily takes the form of sculpture, installation, drawing, and video.
The artist’s recent projects are tributes and prayers to her kinship. Her niece Iris, a first-generation Taiwanese American, has inspired a body of work that imagines racial and cultural hybridity alongside various archetypes in nature and in myths. Animal presences become a kind of guardian and portal, giving form to the inner experience.
Wang has exhibited work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, and the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Eat Mud at Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (2022), I've Left My Body to Occupy Others at Good Weather, Chicago (2020), For Iris at Gallery 456, New York (2020), and You Are My Sunshine at Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2019).
The artist’s recent projects are tributes and prayers to her kinship. Her niece Iris, a first-generation Taiwanese American, has inspired a body of work that imagines racial and cultural hybridity alongside various archetypes in nature and in myths. Animal presences become a kind of guardian and portal, giving form to the inner experience.
Wang has exhibited work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, and the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Eat Mud at Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (2022), I've Left My Body to Occupy Others at Good Weather, Chicago (2020), For Iris at Gallery 456, New York (2020), and You Are My Sunshine at Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2019).
Pei-Hsuan Wang
(Lives and works in Ghent, BE)
Education
- 2012 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art—Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
- 2010 BA, Macalester College—St. Paul, MN, USA
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023 Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel (upcoming), Ballon Rouge—Brussels, Belgium
- 2022 Ghost Eat Mud, Kunsthal Gent—Ghent, Belgium
- 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
- 2023 Publiek Park, curated by Jef Declercq, Anna Laganovska, Koi Persyn & Adriënne van der Werf, Publiek Park—Antwerp, Belgium
- 2023 Discoveries, vcrb gallery—Antwerp, Belgium
- 2022 A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards, curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, HISK Gosset—Brussels, Belgium
- 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
- 2023 Musea Brugge—Brugge, Belgium
- 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
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
Bibliography
- An-Katrien Callebaut, Een wirwar aan souvenirs van Oost/West, toen/nu – Pei-Hsuan Wang in Kunsthal Gent (Dutch), Metropolis M, October 30, 2022
- Ghost Eat Mud by Pei-Hsuan Wang, YYYYMMDD, October 12, 2022
- Senne Vanderschelden, You can see crises as end times as well as new beginnings, Subbacultcha, July, 2021
- October Review, Contemporary Art Daily, August 8, 2020
- Po-Wei Wang, Ambush of the Beast: Intimacy in Pei-Hsuan Wang’s When Mountlake Terrace Dreams (Chinese), The Affairs, May 10, 2020
- Pei-Hsuan Wang at Good Weather, Contemporary Art Daily, April 18, 2020
- I’ve Left My Body to Occupy Others, Journal, May, 2020
- Shih-yu Hsu, Critic’s Picks (Chinese), Art Forum China, May 2020
- Nobuo Takamori, ////// (Chinese), Taishin ARTalks, May 13, 2020
- Chieh-Hsiang Wu, From Mythology to the Measured World: The Intervention and Collection of Nature (Chinese), Taishin ARTalks, May 30, 2020
- Yves Chunta Chiu, Nature Through the Lens (Chinese), Art Archive Center, Independent Researcher Review, Taiwan, May, 2020
- Zhang Chen, A Fantastical World Imagined, World Journal, January 11, 2020
- Yang Cheng Yu, For Iris at Gallery 456, The China Press, January 11, 2020
- Lotte van Geijn, Cat and Bird (Dutch), KLEI Keramiek Magazine, July, 2019
- Female Avatar’s Futurist Statement, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), June, 2019
- ektor garcia and Pei-Hsuan Wang at Chicken Coop Contemporary organized by Good Weather, earth sciences, Aug 12, 2018
- where we meet,O Fluxo, July 2018
- where we meet, Journal, July 2018
- where we meet, Terremoto, July 12, 2018
- 'where we meet' by ektor garcia and Pei-Hsuan Wang, Tzvetnik, July 2018
- Emerging Creativity in Asia, APPortfolio Vol. 4, APPortfolio, February 28, 2014