Information — Zhongyao Wang

Zhongyao Wang, born in Harbin in 1996, lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and has served as the lead designer and project manager at Xu Bing’s studio since 2019. Zhongyao’s works guide the audience into a complex structure that intertwines narrative and audiovisual elements, simulating reality. She employs 3D animation, digital imagery, and various translucent materials combined with written text to create an artistic style that is somewhere between a novel and a fable, more poetic and lyrical in form. Her works explore where traditional aesthetic experiences break down and transform into negative emotions, and how new aesthetic experiences are born from these emotions. Through this series of transformations, familiar objects become strange, and tactile perception and imagination transcend the rigid boundaries set by society, traditional norms, patriarchy, and misogyny, giving people the right to re-read and understand the material medium. Her works have been exhibited at various venues including the the Venetian Arsenal, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Qingdao Yellow Box Art Museum, the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, and CAFA Art Museum.

Education
2015-2019, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
Graduated in animation

Solo Exhibitions
2021
“8.84m³”, PLATESPACE, Beijing, China
“Aleph Behind The Door”, BCA Museum, Cryptovoxels

Group Exhibitions
2025
“Gnostic Induction, Coupling Interosmosis”, ACID, Shenzhen, China, 2025

2024
“The 2nd Shanghai Museum/Gallery Staff Biennale”, SNAP, Shanghai, China, 2024
“Underground And Contemporary Shelters”, Park Art Space, Beijing, China, 2024

2023
“Re-inscription”, Xiangshan Space, Foshan, China
“Refraction”, NEXT PARK Communication Center, Shenzhen, China
“/imagine: The Epoch of Photography and Artificial Intelligence”, FUJI FILM X-SPACE, Shanghai, China

2022
“Shanghai Design Week- Fuben Design Life Festival- All Realms Civilization”, Now Space, Shanghai, China
“Exploring the world of lucid dreaming”, Huten Gallery, Shanghai, China
“More than water”, MAS Art Space, Foshan, China
“London Design Festival”, 55A Dean st, London, UK
“2022 National Youth Art Invitation Exhibition”, Shanghai Style Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“The 1st Annual METAVERSE Art @VENICE”, Venice Arsenale, Venice, Italy
“Apple Of The Eye”, Master Curated Space, Oncyber

2021
“The Future Has Come”, PREMIUM ART CENTER, Shanghai, China
“Now or Next Six Hours”, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Contemporary Foot Washing City-Video Arts Exhibition”, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“EVOLUTION-The Future of the Public”, CAFA Art Museum-Langfang, Hebei, China
“Yellow Box Open Exhibition”, Yellow Box Art Museum, Qingdao, China
“Dream Sold Out”, The Mix Place, Shanghai, CHN, China
“After she fell asleep”, SCREENROOM, Beijing, online
“Video Arts Screening”, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
“2021 Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Biennial, the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art”, New York, USA
“TOO PSYCHIC. TOO POETIC.”, Hypersensium, London, UK
“the little stories we tell ourselves”, The Gallery by MUI, Washington, USA

2020
“Junk Mail”, Inspare Space, Zhengzhou, China
“Calendar Mortal”, Museum of Medical Sciences, Xinxiang, China

2019
Seeking Excellence Weaving Our Dream, Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China

王钟垚，1996年出生于哈尔滨，生活和工作在北京，毕业于天津美术学院，于2019年至今在艺术家徐冰工作室担任主创设计和项目负责人。王钟垚的作品引导观众进入一个由叙事、影音交相呼应，以模拟现实的复杂结构。她利用三维动画、电子图像，结合各种半透明材料与书写文本，创造出一种介于小说、寓言且形式更加诗意和抒情的艺术风格。她的作品探索了传统审美经验在何处崩解并转化为负面情绪，以及新的审美体验如何从这些负面情绪中孕育新生。通过这一系列变换，熟悉的事物变得陌生，触觉和想象力超越了社会、传统规训、父权制和厌女症设定的严格边界，给了人们重新阅读并理解材料媒介的权利。她的作品曾展出于威尼斯军械库、油罐艺术中心、上海喜马拉雅美术馆、青岛黄盒子美术馆、the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art、中央美术学院美术馆廊坊馆等地。

教育
2015-2019，动画专业，天津美术学院，天津，中国

个展
2021
“8.84m³”，PLATESPACE盘子艺术空间，北京，中国
“门后的阿莱夫”，BCA区块链艺术中心，Cryptovoxels

群展
2025
“ 灵知感应，耦合互渗 ”，ACID，深圳，中国

2024
“第二届上海美术馆/画廊职工双年展”，SNAP，上海，中国
“地下与当代庇护所”，公园艺术空间，北京，中国

2023
“重新铭文 Re-inscription”，响山空间，佛山，中国
“折射，反射-青年数字艺术展”，NEXTPARK交流中心，深圳，中国
“/imagine /咒语：摄影与人工智能的创造纪元”，XSPACE富士影像共享空间，上海，中国

2022
“上海设计周-副本设计生活节主题展览：万静·矿洞”，现所，上海，中国
“清醒梦”，何顿画廊，上海，中国
“不只是水”，火柴盒艺术空间，佛山，中国
“伦敦设计周”，55A Dean st，伦敦，英国
“第一届元宇宙艺术年度展@威尼斯”，军械库艺术区，威尼斯，意大利
“珍爱之物 | Apple Of The Eye”，Master Curated Space，Oncyber

2021
“未来已来-数字艺术作品展”，艺葭文化中心，上海，中国
“现在或下六小时”，油罐艺术中心，上海，中国
“当代洗脚城·足道影像展”，油罐艺术中心，上海，中国
“演化-公共的未来”，中央美术学院美术馆廊坊馆，河北，中国
“黄盒子开放展”，青岛黄盒子美术馆，青岛，中国
“梦境终章”，衡山·和集，上海，中国
“她睡着后，怎样”，屏幕间，线上
“艺呼百影”，上海喜马拉雅美术馆，上海，中国
“野性与新奇艺术博物馆双年展”，the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art，纽约，美国
“TOO PSYCHIC. TOO POETIC.”, Hypersensium，伦敦，英国
“the little stories we tell ourselves”, The Gallery by MUI，华盛顿，美国

2020
“Junk Mail垃圾电邮”，柏尔空间，郑州，中国
“平凡人的日历”，中国医学博物馆，新乡，中国

2019
“卓越筑梦”，天津美术学院美术馆，天津，中国