Wang Chen
Wang Chen’s work incorporates digital video, performance, 3D game design, sculpture, drawing, costume fabrication and sound design. By layering these different mediums, WANG constructs immersive alternate realities that probe the intersections of myth, imagination, and identity across both physical and virtual landscapes, crafting dreamscapes that envelop the viewer.
Wang Chen (b.1991) received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (2014) and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (2018). Wang Chen has exhibited nationally and
internationally, including at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, Roswell Museum, New Mexico, Lauren Powell Project, Los Angeles, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, NYC, Alfred University, and Crosstown Art Center in Memphis.
Wang Chen’s fellowships, awards, and residencies include New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow (Interdisciplinary), MacDowell Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Artist Foundation in Brooklyn, and Roswell Artist in Residency.
Artworks
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Wang Chen
Fractured Delights
2023
HD video with sound
05:30 min
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Wang Chen
Moving Sculpture from Fractured Delights
2023
Wood, acrylic paint and motor
58 x 38 x 25 cm
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Wang Chen
Moving Painting from Fractured Delights
2023
Wood, acrylic paint, TV monitor, looped video with sound
172 x 86 x 15 cm
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Wang Chen
In the Woods
2021
Looped HD video with sound
06:00 min
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Wang Chen
Sculpture 02 from In the Woods
2021
Clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood
50 x 50 x 23 cm
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Wang Chen
Sculpture 10 from In the Woods
2021
Clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood
29 x 11 x 11 cm
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Wang Chen
Sculpture 09 from In the Woods
2021
Clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood
33 x 38 x 12 cm each
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Wang Chen
Sculpture 07 from In the Woods
2021
Clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood
33 x 38 x 10 cm
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Wang Chen
Sculpture 08 from In the Woods
2021
Clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood
43 x 35 x 10 cm
