Ching-Wei Wang
wwangstudio@gmail.com
@micro_way
Ching-Wei Wang (Way) is an artist working between New York and Taipei. Way began as a language experiment with her own name, reflecting an ongoing inquiry into translation and displacement. Her practice explores the poetics and embedded politics of Taiwan’s unresolved post-war statehood, with attention to the layered identities shaped by colonial histories, geopolitical tension, and ideological systems. This condition of cultural ambiguity informs her engagement with collective memory, image governance, and linguistic construction.
Drawing from a background in writing and dance, her work incorporates forms of inferred language—such as poetry, found text, and translation—alongside archival images, performance, movement, artist’s books, and paper. Her artist’s book I forgot something before I recalled it has been exhibited and distributed by Printed Matter, New York (2023), Floor Gallery, Seoul (2023), and the Taipei Art Book Fair (2022). She presented Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, a series of live performances, at the Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition (2024). Most recently, she showed work in the two-person exhibition After/Images at Black Brick Project (2025), including collaborative performances with Lu Gao that are evolving into a collective work.
Way holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University (2021) and an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design (2024). She lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Education
2022–2024
Master of Fine Arts, Photography, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY, US
2016–2021
Bachelor of Arts, Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Awards & Scholarships
2022–2024
Merit Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY, US
2021
Honorable Mention, Fine Art Book, International Photography Awards, Los Angelas, CA, US
Two-Person Exhibitions
2025
After/Images, curated by Milly Cai, Black Brick Project, New York, NY, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Her Pages: Histories and Contemporary Practices in Photobooks by Women, curated by Yin-Chin Tsai, Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan
Book as an Object – Contemporary Photography Presentation, curated by Photosynthesis and Paper Matter, SKM PHOTO, Taipei, Taiwan
2024
Anything Can Be a Hammer, Parsons MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY, US
Transcending Perspectives, 13th Annual Photoville Festival, New York, NY, US
2023
A Quality of Light, 12th Annual Photoville Festival, New York, NY, US
The Hidden Library #1: Scar, Floor Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Into the Darkness, Floor Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022
FACE, Taipei Art Book Fair, curated by For Storyteller, photo school and gallery, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
Undulation, curated by National Taiwan University Photo Club, Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
The Rest of Midsummer, Main Library, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Retell the Blank, Onfoto Studio, photo school and gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Yi Yi (Significance), organized by Art Practice and Presentation course, served as artist and curator, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Artist’s Books
2022–2024
I forgot something before I recalled it, self-published, Printed Matter, New York, NY, US
Collaborative Projects
2025
Nothing Written on Water, live performances in collaboration with Lu Gao, presented at Black Brick Project, New York, NY
2021
Collaborative artist, Ching Tung (Stirring), photo zine, published by Transient State, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected artist, Difference, poetry zine, published by Opacity Poem, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Performer, Wu Yen (Silent Utterance), Justin Dance Theater, Taipei, Taiwan
Artist Talks
2025
On the Ripples of Identity Politics, Photosynthesis, online
2023
Searching for a Vessel, National Taiwan University Photo Club, online
2022
A Catalogue of Tears, Department of Drama and Theatre, National Taiwan University, online
Becoming the Same Fossil After a Long, Long Time, Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Press
The News Lens, After/Images: Images of Erasure and Fractured History – The Artist’s Gaze and Act of Intervention, by Hâu pè
BIOS monthly, History Doesn’t Disappear, It Just Fades a Shade – Interview with Ching-Wei Wang on Erasing a 228 Photograph, by Tzu-Hsuan Wang
Impulse Magazine, On Working Around Photography: Interview with Ching-Wei Wang, by Annette An-Jen Liu
Collections
Paper Matter, artists’ books atelier, Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching Experience
2024
Teaching Assistant, Studio Lighting, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2023
Teaching Assistant, Black and White Darkroom, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2022
Photo Instructor, Zhonglun High School, Taipei, Taiwan