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Ching-Wei Wang (Way) is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. 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 frameworks. This condition of cultural ambiguity informs her engagement with collective memory, image governance, and the construction of language. With a background in writing and dance, her work draws on inferred language and embodied movement. She works with poetry, translation, performance, installation, archival images, and artist’s books.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including two-person exhibitions After/Images at Black Brick Project (2025), Feels Like an Idiom at ModA Curations (2025), and Even the wind is cautious at Climate Control. Her artist’s book–related exhibitions, fairs, and consignments include Taipei Art Book Fair (2022), Floor Gallery (2023), Printed Matter (2023), and SKM Photo (2025). Her ongoing performance series Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely (2024) has been staged across New York galleries. She has also performed at Ontopo and Arts Letters & Numbers (2025). She is the recipient of the 2025 Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Her work has been featured in Impulse Magazine, Paper Magazine, Cultbytes, and BIOS monthly, among others.
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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Two-Person Exhibitions
2025
Even the wind is cautious, Climate Control, San Francisco, CA, USA
After/Images, Black Brick Project, New York, NY, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Contingent Beings, three-person exhibition, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY, USA
Warehouse Market, SHISANWU, New York, NY, USA
Leaving as a Way of Living, Accent Sisters, New York, NY, USA
Feels Like An Idiom, ModA, New York, NY, USA
Between Shores: Reimagining Formosa, One Art Space, New York, NY, USA
Sensory Cultivation, Ontopo, Baklimsa, Summitville, NY, USA
Her Pages: Histories and Contemporary Practices in Photobooks by Women, Good Underground Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan
Book as an Object – Contemporary Photography Presentation, SKM PHOTO, Taipei, Taiwan
2024
Anything Can Be a Hammer, 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, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, 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
Performances
2027
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA (upcoming)
2025
Grass Bed, TT Nail Spa Waxing and Sensi Luxury Nails & Spa, San Francisco, CA, USA
Contingent Beings, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY, USA
Nothing Written on Water, participatory performance, Ontopo, Baklimsa, Summitville, NY, USA
Nothing Written on Water, Black Brick Project, New York, NY, USA
2024
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, One Art Space, and ModA, New York, NY, USA
Artist’s Books & Zines
2022–2024
I forgot something before I recalled it, self-published artist’s book, Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA
2021
Ching Tung (Stirring), photo zine, published by Transient State, Taipei, Taiwan
Difference, poetry zine, published by Opacity Poem, Taipei, Taiwan
Awards & Scholarships
2025
First Place, Snider Prize, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Winner, Film Three-Line Poetry Contest, United Daily News, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Honorable Mention, Fine Art Book, International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Education
2024
Master of Fine Arts, Photography, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY, US
2021
Bachelor of Arts, Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Artist Talks
2025
On the Ripples of Identity Politics, Photosynthesis
2023
Searching for a Vessel, National Taiwan University Photo Club
2022
A Catalogue of Tears, National Taiwan University
Becoming the same fossil after a long, long time, Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Collections
Museum of Contemporary, Chicago, IL, USA (upcoming)
Paper Matter, Taipei, Taiwan
Press
Annette An-Jen Liu, “On Working Around Photography: Interview with Ching-Wei Wang,” Impulse Magazine
Tzu-Hsuan Wang, “History Doesn’t Disappear, It Just Fades a Shade – Interview with Ching-Wei Wang on Erasing a 228 Photograph,” BIOS monthly
Hannah Scharmer, “Memory, Shadow, and the Ephemeral: A Review of After/Images,” Sina News
Hâu pè, “After/Images: Erasure and Fractured History – The Artist’s Gaze and Act of Intervention,” The News Lens
Lily Kwak, “Is This Thing Sacred? A Day of Art at Bak Lim Sa,” Cultbytes
“Modern Anthropology’s Meaning of Love in NYC,” Paper Magazine
“LA-Based ModA Curations Opens New Space in NYC With A Contemporary Art Exhibition Called Love,” L.A. Weekly