Zhiqian Wang (b.1999, China) is an artist and filmmaker. Taking premises from theoretical physics and philosophy, her work constructs experimental systems that test the boundaries of meanings through linguistic and emprical interaction. Her installations stage situations in which meaning is unstable or shifting, allowing the viewer to engage with materials and symbols whose significance is neither fixed nor entirely open. In her films, she investigates how meaning is constructed, deferred, or destabilized through the interplay between image and sign, while engaging with the material processes of analog media.
She recently had solo shows: “Twins, Twilight, and Apple Tree”, “Moonlight of the Twins”, “Red or White Roses” and “Earth and Jerry”, and a two-person show: "Capital Investigation." Her works have also been shown at The Jewish Museum, Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), Lenfest Center for the Arts, Harvard Medical School, Hudson River Museum, among others. Her AI film Home is premiered at the Academy Awards®-accredited Tehran International Short Film Festival. She had participated in performances at MoMA Ps1, Performa Biennial, and Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT. She was invited as a guest lecturer in the theoretical computer science department at Harvard University and has collaborated with scholars and researchers in different fields of science. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives and works in New York City. She is currenly an artist in residency at Art Explora x Vila 31, Tirana, Albania, and will be joing the Art Explora x cité internationale des arts, Paris, France next.