Alice Wang
Biography

1983 

Alice Wang is a Chinese-born American artist based in New York. She received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto, a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and an MFA from New York University.  She makes sculptures and experimental films that interrogate medium-specificity as both a conceptual schema and in the exploration of forms. Taking a phenomenological approach where the body is the site of knowledge production situated within a non-geocentric universe, Wang ventures to the Arctic, Biosphere 2, the Mayan Pyramids, and other geological, technological, and archaeological sites to investigate the uncanny dimensions of the natural world. Using metamorphic substances such as fossils, meteorites, electrons, plants, and heat, Wang engages the medium of sculpture as a critical framework to examine metaphysical questions about the nature of reality. Wang employs a post-minimalist process for object-making, combining geometric abstraction with material, form, scale, color, and texture, striking a balance between mathematical thinking and sensual physicality.