Zhiqian Wang (b. 1999, China) is an artist who works with Gongbi paintings, installation, video, and film. Working with materials drawn from daily life and media imbued with its own history, her practice is an inquiry into our relationship with material reality. She explores both the limitations and potentials of the apparatus through which we acquire knowledge, from language to logic, questioning how we arrive at where we are and the conditions that preceded us. She utilizes narrative tools such as storytelling and fiction, along with rhetorical devices like analogy and montage, not only to reflect, but also to create distance from actuality—to estrange perception and, in turn, critique the role of rationality.
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 (CAC), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Lenfest Center for the Arts, ACT at MIT, and Harvard Medical School. Her AI films were shown internationally, including OSCARS®-Qualifying film festival. 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 currently lives and works in New York City.