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 STUK Leuven, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story at rhizome_, Kortrijk (2024), Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel at Ballon Rouge, Brussels (2023), 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 STUK Leuven, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story at rhizome_, Kortrijk (2024), Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel at Ballon Rouge, Brussels (2023), 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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, rhizome_ x Triennale Kortrijk—Kortrijk, Belgium
- 2023 Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel, Ballon Rouge—Brussels, Belgium
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2023 Statues
of Asking, Solo Presentation, Ballon Rouge, Art Brussels—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
Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2018 where we meet, with ektor garcia and Good Weather at Chicken Coop Contemporary—Portland, OR, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024 Beaufort 24: Triennial by the Sea, curated by Els Wuyts, along the Belgiam Coastline—De Haan, Belgium
- 2024 At
the still point of the turning world,
curated by Karen Verschooren and Zeynep Kubat, Artefact 24, STUK Leuven—Leuven, Belgium
- 2024 Knights of the Golden Fleece: A brilliant myth unraveled, curated by Magali Elali, Museum Hof van Busleyden—Mechelen, Belgium
- 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
Selected Residency
- 2023 EKWC—Oisterwijk, Netherlands
- 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
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 + Symposiums
- 2023 Collective Energy: Commissioned Artwork and Public Space, Halle Aux Sucres—Dunkirk, France
- 2023 GLEAN Talk x Publiek Park, organized by GLEAN Magazine—Antwerp, Belgium
- 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
Selected Awards
- 2019 Special Jury Prize, Huayu Youth Award—China
- 2016 Juror’s Choice Award, Taipei Arts Award—Taiwan
Selected Publications
- Piero Biscello, Studio Visit, GLEAN, Summer 2024
- Ines Minten, Geert Van der Speeten, Fred Debrock, Van brutalisme, over mythes tot een doldwaze speeltuin: zeven blikvangers uit het nieuwe kunstparcours aan de kust (Dutch), De Standaard, March, 2024
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Àngels Miralda,
Collecteurs Selects: 5 Exhibitions to
See in Brussels this Fall,
Collecteurs, September, 2023
- Ines Minten,
Ik vertel de verhalen van rolmodellen dicht bij mij (Dutch), De Standaard, April, 2023
- 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