Ziyang Wu

Ziyang Wu

Ziyang Wu (b.1990) is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou, currently teaching at the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, visiting professor of Expanded Media Department at Alfred University, and is a former member of NEW INC at the New Museum. His recent practices examine how current technologies, in a cross-cultural context, affect politics, society, and the explicit and implicit relationships between things at both macro and micro levels.

With an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his video, AR, AI simulation, video game and interactive video installation have exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at How Art Museum, Shanghai; Annka Kultys Gallery, London; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York; Hatch Art Project, Singapore, and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum, Walker Art Center, Rochester Art Center, SXSW, Art Dubai, Hek Basel, ifa Berlin- Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Medici Palace, Milan Design Week, M+ Museum, K11, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Long March Space, Today Art Museum, By Art Matters Museum, Song Art Museum, Times Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum and Ming Contemporary Art Museum.

His recent fellowships and residencies include the shortlist of “Future Generation

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Art Prize” (2023-2024); “The Randall Chair” award at Alfred University (2022-2023); “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio residency, Media Art Lab, Times Museum (2021); AACYF Top 30 under 30 (2021); Residency Unlimited (2020); MacDowell Fellowship (2019); Artist-in-residence at Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) (2019); Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn and Jerome Foundation (2018); Finalist of Amassing Force 2017 Wangshikuo Award, Today Art Museum (2017); AICAD Teaching Fellowship (2016); Winner of The ROCI Road to Peace by Robert Rauschenberg Art Foundation (2015). His work has been reviewed and featured by ArtForum, Artnet, Art Review, Art Newspaper, e-flux, Brooklyn Rail, It’s Nice That, LEAP, Vogue Singapore, Hypebeast, Wall Street International, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), BIE, Heichi Magazine, Numero Art Magazine, Neural Magazine, Vie Des Arts Magazine, ANTE Magazine, Frontrunner Magazine, Stir World Magazine and more.

His works are collected in museums and institutions worldwide include APENFT Foundation, Association of Chinese Artists in Italy (Florence, Italy), Alfred University (New York, USA), HOW Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Rochester Art Center (Rochester, USA), The Soil Collection, Today Art Museum (Beijing, China) and Wang Shikuo Art Foundation (Beijing, China).

Artworks

Ziyang Wu

Two Walls : An AI Simulation on How to Evade Drone Attacks in Contemporary Warfare
2025
Real-time AI Simulation and Lecture Performance

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Ziyang Wu + Simon Meng

One and Three Objects, and An Attempt at Exhausting the Object
2024
Live generated interactive AI system
Ed 1 + 1 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Agartha
2024
Color digital video with sound
15’02’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Agartha
2024
Video game (windows)
Ed 3 + 1 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Agartha - Genealogical Painting
2024
Lightbox, genealogical painting
1 meter diameter
Ed 1 + 1 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Agartha - Character List
2024
Lightbox, genealogical painting
1.5 meter diameter
Ed 1 + 1 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Pigeon Legend - Stories 100 Years After Agartha
2024
AI-generated color digital video with sound
5’19’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu + Mark Ramos

Event Modeling - #dump
2023
Live simulation and online environment
Infinite duration
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Event Modeling - AI Fossil
2023
Interactive digital environment
Infinite duration
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Event Modeling - AI Fossil (VR Version)
2023
Interactive digital environment
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Future_Forecast
2022 - ongoing
Live simulation + Collective world building online game
Ed 3 + 1 AP

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Ziyang Wu

Pasig River 2030 - 6 Plus
2022
Digital video, color, sound
8’30’’
5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

24 Panda (I)
2021
Video (MP4, 24’) + Video Game (Mac/Windows)
Ed 1

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Ziyang Wu

Where Did Macy Go?
2020
Color digital video with sound
8’53’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

A Woman with the Technology
2019
Animated video based on AI-generated script
9’54’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

The Last Subway
2017
Color digital video with sound
9’23’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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Ziyang Wu

The Story of the Pig
2016
Color digital video with sound
8’42’’
Ed 5 + 2 AP

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