Wu Ziyang
Two Walls: Ordinary War Rehearsal, 2025, Real-time AI Simulation and Lecture Performance
Wu Ziyang
Wu Ziyang (b.1990) is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou, currently teaching at the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, visiting professor of Expanded Media Department at Alfred University, and is a former member of NEW INC at the New Museum. His recent practices examine how current technologies, in a cross-cultural context, affect politics, society, and the explicit and implicit relationships between things at both macro and micro levels.
Wu Ziyang’s video, AR, AI simulation, video game and interactive video installation have exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at How Art Museum, Shanghai; Annka Kultys Gallery, London; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York; Hatch Art Project, Singapore, and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum, Walker Art Center, Rochester Art Center, SXSW, Art Dubai, Hek Basel, ifa Berlin- Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Medici Palace, Milan Design Week, M+ Museum, K11, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Long March Space, Today Art Museum, By Art Matters Museum, Song Art Museum, Times Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum and Ming Contemporary Art Museum.
His recent fellowships and residencies include the shortlist of “Future Generation Art Prize” (2023-2024); “The Randall Chair” award at Alfred University (2022-2023); “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio residency, Media Art Lab, Times Museum (2021); AACYF Top 30 under 30 (2021); Residency Unlimited (2020); MacDowell Fellowship (2019); Artist-in-residence at Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) (2019); Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn and Jerome Foundation (2018); Finalist of Amassing Force 2017 Wangshikuo Award, Today Art Museum (2017); AICAD Teaching Fellowship (2016); Winner of The ROCI Road to Peace by Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation (2015). His work has been reviewed and featured by ArtForum, Artnet, Art Review, Art Newspaper, e-flux, Brooklyn Rail, It’s Nice That, LEAP, Vogue Singapore, Hypebeast, Wall Street International, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), BIE, Heichi Magazine, Numero Art Magazine, Neural Magazine, Vie Des Arts Magazine, ANTE Magazine, Frontrunner Magazine, Stir World Magazine and more.
