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Solo shows:
Yellow Earth, Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York 2024
Lake Tai, Prada Rong Zhai, Supported by Fondazione Prada, Shanghai 2022
Extinct in New York, LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, Organized by Swiss Institute, New York 2019
World Trade, Foxy Production, New York 2017
Extinct in the Wild, Fondazione Prada, Milan 2017
Terroir, Foxy Production, New York 2015
RIVALS, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York 2014-15
Global Tone, Foxy Production, New York 2013
Differentiation Series, Primetime Gallery, Brooklyn 2012
Carbon Copies, Foxy Production, New York 2012
Selected group shows:
Planetary Peasants (Planetarische Bauern), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), Germany 2025.
Meta City Biennale, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Venus Lau, Shanghai 2023.
Elevation 1049, 'Interstices,' Concept by Olympia Scarry and Neville Wakefield, produced by LUMA Foundation, Gstaad 2023
Solastalgia, Curated by Sara Hemmingsson and Anneli Berglund, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden 2023.
The Planetarian, Curated by Anouchka van Driel and Anne Zhou, 751 International Design Festival, Beijing 2022
Vulnerable Critters, Curated by Andrea Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2022
Biocenosis21, Organized by Art of Change 21, IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseille 2021
Collaborative Survival, Curated by Danni Shen, 601Artspace, New York 2021
The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Curated by Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, You Mi, and Filipa Ramos, Shanghai, China 2021
Von Pflanzen und Menschen, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Curated by Kathrin Meyer, Dresden, Germany 2019
Mediums of Exchange, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Curated by Lisa Panzera and Bartholomew F. Bland, New York 2019
SI ONSITE, Swiss Institute, New York 2018-
Manifesta 12: The Planetary Garden, Cultivating Coexistence, Curated by Bregtje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, and Mirjam Varadinis, Palermo, Italy 2018
Diálogos Impostergables, XX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Parque Cultural, Valparaíso, Chile 2017
99 Cents or Less, Curated by Jens Hoffmann, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit 2017
Parcours, Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Art Basel, Basel 2016
Monument to Cold War Victory, Curated by Stamatina Gregory and Yevgeniy Fiks, The Cooper Union, New York 2014
As We Were Saying: Art and Identity in the Age of 'Post', Curated by Claire Barliant, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York 2014
New Hells, Curated by Isaac Lyles, Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2014
Liquid Autist, Curated by Daniel Keller, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2013
Spaces for Drawing, The HITE Collection, Seoul 2013
Differentiation Series, Curated by D.N. Rodowick, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge 2012
Selected press:
Louis Bury, "The Avant-Garde Is Over. Should Artists Embrace Being Fashionably Late?," Art in America, October 21, 2025.
Walker Mimms, “Eco-Art Is ‘In.’ Must It Always Speak Loudly?,” New York Times, August 22.
Xintian Wang, “Michael Wang: Yellow Earth,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August.
Adnan Qiblawi, "Artist Michael Wang’s Atomic Ode to the Earth," Artnet, June 25, 2024
Wang Kaimei, “The Boomerang of Deep Time: On Wang Jianwei’s exhibition ‘Treading in Sludge’ and Michael Wang’s ‘Lake Tai,’” LEAP, July 14, 2023.
Sukanya Deb, "Michael Wang’s debut ‘Lake Tai’ explores the hybridity of natural and artificial ecosystems," STIRworld, January 2023.
Gwendoline Cho-ning Kam, "Michael Wang: Lake Tai," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2022.
Catherine K. Kalinoski, "Surviving Installations: Examining the Natural in the Museum Space," Theater Journal, September 2022.
Venus Lau, "Shanghai Swamp: Artist Michael Wang’s Apparitions of Vanished Ecologies," ArtReview Asia, May 12, 2022.
Lukas Brasiskis, "13th Shanghai Biennale, 'Bodies of Water,'" Art Agenda, June 16, 2021.
Ivan Munuera, "Michael Wang explores the multiverse in The World Around," The Architect's Newspaper, March 16, 2020.
David Everitt Howe, "Critics' Picks: Michael Wang, LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island," Artforum.com, October 24, 2019.
Evan Nicole Brown, "These plants went extinct in NYC. Now, an artist is reintroducing them," Fast Company, October 24, 2019.
Louis Bury, "A Greenhouse for Extinct Flora: Michael Wang's installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants," Hyperallergic, October 19, 2019.
Tavia Nyong'o, "Little Monsters: Unsettling the Sovereign Wild," Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, NYU Press, 2018.
Thom van Dooren, “Natur kuratieren zu den Bildern von Michael Wang,” Kulturstiftung des Bundes Nr. 31, Winter 2018.
Sandra Danicke, Kunst darf auch ein Vorwand sein, das Leben zu betrachten, Frankfurter Rundschau, July 23, 2018.
Patrick Rogers, Culture Clash: Nature and Civilization Face Off in the Art of Michael Wang, NRDC.org, July 17, 2018.
Hettie Judah, Manifesta 12 Conjures Up a Natural Order in Extremis, From Erotic Plant Parties to Civilian Bombings, Artnet, June 19, 2018.
Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Extinct in the Wild" at the Prada Foundation, Eastwest, April 6, 2017.
Cristiana Campanini, Specie estinte rinascono in vetrina da Prada l'arte incontra la scienza, La Repubblica, February 9, 2017
Michael Wilson, Michael Wang: Andrea Rosen Gallery, Artforum, March 2015
Stephanie Bailey, Michael Wang: Rivals, LEAP, January 2015
Claire Barliant, Michael Wang, Art in America, September 2013
Media Farzin, Michael Wang's 'Carbon Copies', Art Agenda, January 2012
Kevin McGarry, Michael Wang's 'Carbon Copies', NYTimes.com, January 2012
Andrew Price, Beautiful Sculptures Offset the Impact of the Contemporary Art that Inspired Them, Fast Company, January 2012
Selected writing and interviews:
Soup and Sunflowers, Art in America, Winter 2023
In the Studio: Michael Wang considers the complexities of conservation, Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Art21, May 2023
Looking to the Future: Michael Wang interviewed by Louis Bury, BOMB Magazine, August 22, 2022
Wet Togetherness 5--Melting: Cao Minghao with Chen Jianjun and Michael Wang presented by Shanghai Biennale, e-flux podcast, June 15, 2021
Achatinella fulgens, The Living Archive: Extinction Stories from Oceania, August 25, 2020.
Systems of Care: An Interview with Michael Wang, Berlin Art Link, April 10, 2020
Visualizing Climate Change: Artist Michael Wang in Conversation with Scientist Nick Lutsko, Art in America, March 2020
Extinct in the Wild, Quaderno #10, Fondazione Prada, 2017 (excerpt)
Extinct in the Wild, Modern Weekly, March 2017
Interview: Michael Wang, Generazione Critica: Teorie e pratiche nell'arte del Duemila, March 2017
Information Infrastructures: Keller Easterling & Michael Wang in Conversation, White Zinfandel VI, F/W 2015
Made of the Same Stuff, Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, New Museum and MIT Press, 2015
Dreaming in Trends, Texte zur Kunst 99, September 2015
Systems Prosthetics, Mousse Magazine 47, February 2015
Digital Effects, Art in America, September 2013
Heavy Breeding, Cabinet 45, Spring 2012
Into Thin Air: the Merging of Architecture and Environment, Artforum, May 2011
Selected video interviews:
10000 Li, 100 Billion Kilowatt-Hours, MoMA R&D, 2025
Mirror Moon at Elevation 1049, 2023
Lake Tai at Prada Rong Zhai, 2022
Extinct in New York at The World Around, 2020
Extinct in the Wild at Fondazione Prada, 2017
Grants and Awards:
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2017
Curate Award, Fondazione Prada and Qatar Museums Authority, 2014
Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Contact:
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