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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 artist’s book I forgot something before I recalled it has been consigned and shown at Printed Matter, New York (2023), Floor Gallery, Seoul (2023), and the Taipei Art Book Fair (2022). She exhibited in the two-person show After/Images at Black Brick Project (2025), featuring collaborative performances that have since evolved into a collective work, later presented at Ontopo (2025). She also completed her performance series Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely (2024–2025) within a two-person installation for the group exhibition at ModA Curations.
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
After/Images, curated by Milly Cai, Black Brick Project, New York, NY, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
(Upcoming) Love, ModA Curations, New York, NY, US
Between Shores: Reimagining Formosa, One Art Space, New York, NY, US
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
Collaborative Projects
2025
Nothing Written on Water, participatory performance, Ontopo, curated and organized by Jon Santos, Sofia Thiệu D’Amico, and Danni Shen, Baklimsa, Summitville, NY, US
Nothing Written on Water, performance with Lu Gao, After/Images, two-person exhibition, Black Brick Project, New York, NY, US
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’s Books
I forgot something before I recalled it, self-published, Printed Matter, New York, NY, US
Awards
Winner, Three-Line Poetry Contest, United Daily News
Honorable Mention, Fine Art Book, International Photography Awards
Collections
Paper Matter, artists’ books atelier, Taipei, Taiwan
Artist Talks
On the Ripples of Identity Politics (Chinese original / English translation)
Searching for a Vessel, online
A Catalogue of Tears, online
Becoming the Same Fossil After a Long, Long Time, Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Press
Memory, Shadow, and the Ephemeral, A Review of After/Images by Lu Gao and Ching-Wei Wang (Way), by Hannah Scharmer
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
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