WANG Tuo
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Born and raised in Changchun, China, Wang Tuo currently lives and works in Beijing. Wang Tuo employs various mediums and a process that combined interview, reality show and the theatre of absurd to construct a maze of melodrama. Through his performative manipulation on individuals’ lived experiences and intervention in intellectual legacies such as literature, film, theatre and art history, Wang’s practice attempts to examine the unreliable relationship between the contemporary human status, myth and cultural archive. In the self-referential environments that he constructs, dramatic, often humorous as well as absurd aspects of the concept of society are exposed. Wang’s practice also seeks to develop a discourse on how present ideology is derived from its historical context continues to adapt to changing condition.
Wang has recent solo shows at UCCA, Beijing; Present Company, New York; Salt Project, Beijing; Taikang Space, Beijing, and recent group shows at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden; Queens Museum, New York; Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok; PSA, Shanghai; OCAT, Shenzhen & Shanghai; How Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Museum, Guangzhou; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Wang Tuo was an Artist in Residence at the Queens Museum, New York from 2015 to 2017. He won the China Top Shorts Award and the Outstanding Art Exploration Award for Chinese Short Films in Beijing International Short Film Festival 2018. Wang Tuo is the winner of the Three Shadows Photography Award 2018 and the Youth Contemporary Art Wuzhen Award 2019. He was awarded a research residency at KADIST San Francisco as part of the OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Residency Program 2020.
SELECTED WORKS
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WANG TUO: The Second Interrogation
Blindspot Gallery
2023.3.18 – 5.6

ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress
He Art Museum
2022.2.4 – 4.17

Unknown Games
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
2021.8.15 – 10.17

Wang Tuo: Empty-handed into History
UCCA Beijing
2021.6.6 – 9.5

The Circular Impact: Video Art 21
OCAT Shanghai
2021.4.28 – 7.11

Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art
2021.4.17 – 7.25

Étude
Aranya Art Center
2020.5.23 – 8.23

2020 MMCA Asia Project: Looking for Another Family
MMCA Seoul
2020.5.22 – 8.23

UN/CONVENTIONAL – OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition 2020
OCAT Shanghai
2020.5.16 – 8.16
Standing At The Crossroads
WHITE SPACE
2020.4.30

The Deficit Faction
Long March Space
2019.11.2 – 2020.1.1

Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time
Guangdong Times Museum
2019.9.14 – 11.17

What Is It that Makes Today’s Life So Different?: Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the year of 2018-2019
Beijing Exhibition Centre
2019.5.30 – 6.2

Now Is the Time: 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition
Wuzhen
2019.3.31 – 6.30

Remapping Reality: Selected Video Collection from Wang Bing
OCAT Shanghai
2019.3.23 – 6.16

hic sunt leones
Gallery Weekend Beijing Up&Coming Sector
2019.3.22 – 4.18

HOW NOW · The Life APP
How Museum
2019.1.19 – 4.19

8102: On Reality
OCAT Shanghai
2018.12.29 – 2019.3.10

New Metallurgists
Julia Stoschek Foundation
2018.10.2 – 2019.4.28

Assembling
chi K11 Art Space
2018.5.27 – 8.25
The Lexicon of Amnesia An Interview with Wang Tuo
YISHU
2017.7.11

Dream-atic
Christian Louboutin Sanlitun Gallery
2017.6.19 – 9.30
Wang Tuo: Myths We Don’t Outgrow
Leap
2017.6.10
Wang Tuo
Frieze
2017.5.27
The Symbolic World and the De-Subjectivized Portraits
Art World
2017.5.20
“从未走出的神话”:观念意识的生成与流变
IART
2017.4.20
Wang Tuo
Art Asia Pacific
2017.4.12
王拓谈“失忆事典”
Artforum
2016.11.27
展评 | 王拓:失忆事典
Flash Art
2016.11.21
Nadim Abbas and Tuo Wang: Only the Lonely
LEAP
2016.10.6
Tuo Wang’s ‘multi-narrative spectacles’ on display at Riverviews Artspace
The News and Advance
2016.4.3
Alessandro Facente, curatore embedded
La Voce di New York
2016.4.3
Interview
Art Reveal Magazine
2015.7.8
Tuo Wang “A Study for Human Opera: Prelude”
LEAP
2015.4.8
Performing the Teacher
William Cobett
2015.4.7
An Interview with Tuo Wang
video focus
2015.3.7
Six degrees of innovation
The Boston Globe
2014.4.24
BIG RED AND SHINY
Brian Christopher Glaser
2014.4.23
STRONG WOULD-BE MASTERS
The Boston Globe
2013.8.6