Alice Wang

Alice Wang fuses scientific, technological, and mythical viewpoints in her work, using sculptures, films, and photographs to delve into the realms of nature on both cosmic and subatomic scales, where reality and imagination converge.

Biography of Alice Wang

Alice Wang was born in Xi'an, China, in 1983. She received her BSc in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto in 2003. Later, she embarked on her art studies. As a result, she obtained a BFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts in 2010 and an MFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2012. 

Since 2018, she has worked as an Assistant Professor of Arts at New York University Shanghai in China. 

Wang also held a fellowship at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, served as a Villa Aurora fellow in Berlin, and received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Her recent solo exhibitions were presented at OCAT Xi'an (2021), Capsule Shanghai (2021), Garden Gallery (2020), Visitor Welcome Center (2019), LACE (2016), and many more venues.

Alice Wang has also showcased her art in various group exhibitions, including "The Belonging of Plants" at Juanzong Cabinet in Xiamen (2022), "Liquid Ground" at Para Site in Hong Kong (2021), "Down the Rabbit Hole" at Capsule Shanghai in Shanghai (2020), "Tracking the Mushroom at the End of the World" at Taikang Space in Beijing (2019), and many more.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Los Angeles and Shanghai.

Alice Wang's Art Style 

By exploring diverse geological, technological, and archaeological locations, Alice Wang delves into the eerie aspects of the natural world. She employs transformative elements like fossils, meteorites, moss, and heat to blend scientific, technological, and mythical viewpoints, seeking to reveal how natural materials can embody existential qualities. Her work with byproducts of the universe's metabolic processes results in protean forms in sculpture, photography, and film, traversing various timeframes; the tangible boundaries of her creations extend beyond their visible expressions.

In her sculptural creations, Alice Wang employs natural materials to redefine our understanding of nature beyond conventional perceptions of reality. Nature extends far beyond the geocentric Newtonian world, encompassing celestial and quantum entities such as planets, black holes, electrons, and protons.

While her research previously delved into matter on vast scales, it has now shifted towards exploring the infinitesimally small, focusing on quantum machines. These machines utilize subatomic particles, operating at nature's most fundamental level to encode information and perform calculations. Much like Wang's sculptural pieces, the quantum computer occupies a unique space between the tangible and the imaginary, bridging our classical world with the subatomic realm.