Taiwanese new media artist Poyen Wang (王博彥) was selected as the winner of the artist-in-residency program co-organized by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York and the Triangle Arts Association (TAA).
Wang's works were often exhibited around the world, including in Squeaky Wheel's 19th Animation Fest at Burchfield Penney Art Center in 2022, "Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial" at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2021, and the solo exhibition "The Black Sun" at Taipei Digital Art Center in 2020. This year, Wang will be joining the VIDEONALE.19, a German biennale for video and time-based arts at Bonn Museum of Modern Art, and holding a solo exhibition called "Endearing Insanity" at Essex Flowers Gallery in New York.
Recently, Wang has been utilizing 3D computer graphics as an artistic medium to create still and moving images to examine one's socially constructed identity. During his residency, he will develop new work related to the theme of "abjection" in psychoanalysis. He wants to explore shame, desire, and repressed emotions in our daily lives.
After graduating from the Institute of New Media Art of Taipei National University of the Arts, Wang furthered his studies in New York in 2017 and received his MFA in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts. Wang has won the Gold Medal Award in the New Media Art category at the National Art Exhibition, the Excellence Award in Moving Images at Japan’s Asia Digital Art Award, and received the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
According to TAA, Wang's creations are compelling, and the topics he focuses on are of uniqueness and originality. TAA is eagerly anticipating Wang's growth during the stay.
TAA is a visual arts residency in New York founded in 1982, providing artists with opportunities to meet with representatives of arts and cultural institutions and curators in the New York area, and hoping to stimulate artists' thoughts and imagination through conversations and new information to reflect on their works.