Ziyang Wu
b. 1990, China
Ziyang Wu’s practice is centred on how the virtual world micro-alienates individuals in our ‘post-digital’ and highly atomised society with a focus on notions of trade wars, 5G networks, Black Mirror reality technology and algorithm bias, translating his ideas into art through video, augmented reality, social practice, AI simulation and interactive video installations. The artist describes his work as “post-internet micro-alienation,” for its ability to deep-dive into “contemporary technology, digital power structures and the dynamics between identity and community, as well as the alienation of an individual’s spirit and body.”
Ziyang Wu was born in 1990 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China and lives and works in New York. In 2014, he gained his BA in painting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, in Florence, Italy, before moving to the United States. In 2016 he received an MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. Wu currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and is a member of the Experiment on Art and Technology Track at NEW INC, New Museum in New York City.
A select exhibition history of the artist includes museum shows at: Times Art Museum, Beijing, China (upcoming); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2019); Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China (2018); and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (2017).
Wu has received numerous fellowships and has participated in many residencies including the Residency Unlimited (RU), the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Artist-in-residence at Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University, Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn and Jerome Foundation, the AICAD Teaching Fellowship by Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design and the Winner of The ROCI Road to Peace exhibition by Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation and Artsy.