Michael Wang (artist)
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Michael Benjamin Wang (born May 12, 1981 in Olney, Maryland) is an American artist based in New York City. Wang’s work uses systems that operate at a global scale, such as species distribution, climate change, resource allocation and the global economy, as media for art. He has exhibited in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, Basel, Milan, Berlin, and South Korea. His works include “Invasives,” the controlled release of invasive species, “Carbon Copies,” an exhibition linking the production of artworks to the release of greenhouse gases, "Rivals," a series that connects the sale of artworks to corporate financial structures, and "Terroir," monochrome paintings made from the ground bedrock of world cities.
Education
Wang received his BA in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 2003, an MA in Performance Studies from New York University in 2004, and an M.Arch from Princeton University in 2008.
Work
Wang has been represented by Foxy Production in New York City since 2012 where he has shown several key works, including Carbon Copies (2012), Global Tone (2013)[1], and Terroir (2015). He has shown at several other commercial galleries including Andrea Rosen Gallery 2 where in 2014-15 he presented the series Rivals (2014).[2] Wang has been included in museum and gallery exhibitions including 99 Cents or Less, curated by Jens Hoffmann, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Monument to Cold War Victory, curated by Stamatina Gregory and Yevgeniy Fiks at the Cooper Union in New York, As We Were Saying: Art and Identity in the Age of ‘Post,’ curated by Claire Barliant, at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, and Spaces for Drawing at the HITE Collection in Seoul. In 2017, Wang presented Extinct in the Wild (2014-) at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.[3]
Writing
Wang has written extensively on art, architecture, technology and the environment.
His writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Texte zur Kunst, and Mousse Magazine. He published an essay on the “back breeding” of the extinct aurochs in Cabinet Magazine, and an essay on the work of artist Ryan Trecartin in the reader Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century.
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References
- ^ Barliant, Claire (October 8, 2013). "Michael Wang". Art in America. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ Bailey, Stephanie (January 12, 2015). "Michael Wang: Rivals". Leap. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ Palumbo, Maria Luisa (April 6, 2017). "Extinct in the Wild" at the Prada Foundation". EastWest. Retrieved 29 June 2017.