Frank WANG Yefeng

2011   Master of Fine Arts, Art and Technology Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2007   Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Now lives and works in New York.

 

Frank WANG Yefeng(b.1984) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and digital nomad situated in-between New York City and Shanghai. Initially trained as a sculptor, Yefeng’s interdisciplinary practice spans a wide range of media, including video installation, experimental 3D animation, painting, drawing, and writing. His art explores the experience of “in-betweenness” that arises from a nomadic transnational existence. Interweaving physical and digital realms, his projects critically examine fixed identity formations, the genealogies of racialized others, and the alienation of people and objects in dominant cultural and technological narratives. Yefeng’s storytelling features whimsical animated characters to challenge cultural norms. They confront and mock their historical stereotypes with playful language. Through uncanny inhumanism, they seek strategies for reimagining the diasporic self while scrutinizing the historical consumption of an othered representation.

 

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2024 “Avatopology”, NARS Foundation, New York, USA
    2023 “The House of the Solitary”, Smack Mellon, New York, USA
    2022  “The Levitating Perils”, Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
    2022  “Slow Spectre”, Seager Gallery, London, UK  
    2021  “On Hold”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Terraza Cervantes – Frank WANG Yefeng & José Ruiz”, The 13th Shanghai Biennale Special
    program, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes，Shanghai, China
    2020  “The Groundless Protag”, GlogauAIR Public Showcase, Berlin, Germany
    2020  “The Expelled New”, Multispace NYC,  New York, USA
    2019   Arthub Asia, The Table and Online Artist Screening Series, Shanghai, China
    2018  “Dyspepsia – Mattia Casalegno x Frank Wang Yefeng”, Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
    2017  “Penthaus”, Between Art Lab, Beijing, China
    2017  “Parallel Reality – Wang Yefeng / Shamus Clisset”, Amelie A. Wallace Wallace Gallery, SUNY, Long Island, USA
    2016  “The Drifting Stages”, Arthub Asia Artists Screening Program, Shanghai, China
    2015  “New Games”, V Art Center, Shanghai, China
    2014  “I – Generation, Solo Exhibition of Yefeng Wang, Art Projects Gallery”, Central, Hong Kong
    2013  “Impersonal”, HEREArts Center, New York, USA

  • Group Exhibitions 

    2024 “A HISTORY OF THE HANDS”, Museu de Mataró, Barcelona, Spain
    2024 “The World We Live In”, Galería MPA, Madrid, Spain
    2024 “I la paraula es va fer carn”, Palmadotze Galería de Arte, Santa Margarida i Monjos, Spain
    2024 “The Citrus Project”, Galleria Continua,  San Gimignano, Italy
    2024 “Cinema Galleggiante – Acque Sconosciute”, Cinema Galleggiante, Venice, Italy
    2024 “LBMA VIDEO: Shared Realities; A Cable Access Series”, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, USA
    2024 “Babel heureuse?”, Lëtzebuerg City Museum, Lëtzebuerg
    2024 “In Conversation: The Museum and the Collection”, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    2024 “On Television”, carries trade, New York, USA
    2024 “Vanguard Onwards”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2024 “XXIII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira”, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
    2024 “loft nota bene: 35 años de creación”, Galeria Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Spain
    2024 “Porte Aperte/Open Doors”, Galleria Duemila, Manila, Philippines
    2023 “Picasso: Untitled”, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
    2023 “Il Lanternista”, Spaziomensa, Milan, Italy
    2023 “Sistema Tempo”, Centro de Nuevas Culturas de Brescia, Brescia, Italy
    2023 “Història de les mans”, Museu de Mataró, Mataró, Spain
    2023 “Altrove/Elsewhere”, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy
    2023 “Història de les mans”, Muxart Espai d’Art i Creació Contemporanis, Martorell, Spain
    2023 “Ficciones reales”, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    2023 “Ultralocal. El arte en La Ribera, Sant Pere y Santa Caterina desde los 70 hasta el nuevo siglo”, Mater, Barcelona, Spain
    2023 “Inelcom Collection”, INELCOM, Madrid, Spain.
    2023 “Història de les mans”, Museu de l’Art de la Pell, Vic, Spain
    2023 “Histories of a Collection”,  Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisboa, Portugal
    2023 “‘Poesie of Illusions’ —Exhibition of Video Art Masters”, Beijing International Film Festival, UCCA Lab, Beijing, China
    2023 “FRESH FOR SUMMER”, 3 Punts Galeriac, Barcelona, Spain
    2023 “Schema: World as Diagram”, Marlborough New York, New York, USA
    2022 “The Citrus Project”, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
    2022 “Història de les mans”, Centre Cultural el Casino, Manresa, Spain
    2022 “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”, New York, USA
    2022 “Los nuevos 90”, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián, Spain
    2022 “Apparition Room – Abstract Means of Production”, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
    2022 “Història de les mans”, Ajuntament de Vilafranca del Penedès, Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain
    2022 “Aprire la storia”, Fondazione Baruchello, Roma, Italy
    2022 “Història de les mans”, Centre d’Art Contemporani la Sala de Vilanova, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
    2022 “10 × 10: OCAT Shanghai in pictures”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    2022 “Flores y Frutos”, Colección del Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
    2022 “Història de les mans”, Abelló Museum, Mollet del Vallès, Spain
    2022 “La catifa màgica. Per a Joan de Muga / La alfombra mágica”, Para Joan de Muga, Barcelona, Spain
    2022 “una voz / una imagen”, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, Madrid, Spain
    2022 “And Now the Good News. Works from the Nobel Collection”, Pera Museum, Estambul, Turkey
    2022 “(in)visible fields. space as energy”, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy
    2022 “Història de les mans”, d’Arts Visuals de la Diputació de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    2022 “¡RATAS! ¡RATAS! ¡RATAS! LA GRAMÁTICA POÉTICA DEL HACK”, INFORMACIÓN DEL CENTRO, Barcelona, Spain
    2022 “Jusque-là”, The Le Fresnoy National Contemporary Art Centre, Tourcoing, France
    2022 “Conceptual Reflections & Site Specific Works”, Meno parkas & Brigitte March I C A, Barcelona, Spain
    2022 “Le Pouvoir du Langage – Le Langage du Pouvoir”, Meno parkas, Paris, France
    2022  “Warehouse Story VIII — On Your Mark!”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2021  “Durational, Vanguard Gallery”, Shanghai, China
    2021  “The 13th Shanghai Biennale – Bodies of Water”, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum(PSA), Shanghai, China
    2020  “Arte y Arquitectura: Un Diálogo”, Centro Botнn, Santander, Spain
    2020  “Exposures #02”, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
    2019  “Photoespaña: ¡Volar! 100 años en el cielo”, CBA, Madrid, Spain
    2019  “Un siglo breve”, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
    2018  “Mpa On Paper”, Galerнa Moisйs Pйrez de Albйniz, Madrid, Spain
    2018  “Liberxina, Pop i nous comportaments artнstics, 1966-1971”, Museu Nacional d’art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
    2018  “Turbulències”, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
    2018  “Doc Fortnight 2017: International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media”, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
    2017  “Perdidos en la ciudad”, La vida urbana en las colecciones del IVAM, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
    2017  “The Silk Road and Celestial Clothes: Joint Presentation by Artists from China and the West”, Art Gallery of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China
    2017  “Lección de Arte”, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
    2015  “Prophetia”, Fundaciу Joan Mirу, Barcelona, Spain
    2015  “Arquitecturas y Espacios en la Colección Rac”, CentroCentro Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
    2012  “La Triennale, Intense Proximité. Muntadas La Construction de la Peur”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
    2011  “Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965-1975”, Fundaciуn PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    2010  “Colección II”, CA2M, Mуstoles, Madrid, Spain
    2006  “Eye on Europe. Prints, books & multiples / 1960 to now”, MoMA, New York, USA
    2006  “Video: An Art, A History, 1965-2005. Selected works from Centre Pompidou New Media Collection”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    1997  “Documenta X”, Kassel, Germany
    1997  “Rooms with a View”, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, States
    1996  “Señales de vídeo”, MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofнa, Madrid, Spain
    1991  “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
    1982  “Reading Video”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
    1980  “New Images from Spain”, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
    1979  “Journées interdisciplinaires sur l’art corporel et performances”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    1977  “Documenta VI”, Kassel, Germany

  • Residency / Fellowship

    2024   International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Artist in Residency for Alumni, New York, USA

    2024   K11 Art Foundation x ArtReview Magazine Artist-in-Residence

    2023   Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) Fellowship, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

    2023   Macdowell Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA

    2022   Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency

    2022   Asia Art Archive in America Inaugural Zine Residency New York, USA

    2021   International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Artist in Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    2020   GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany

    2013   New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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