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Born 1985, San Francisco. Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Christine Tien Wang (b. 1985 Washington D.C) received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA in painting from UCLA. Wang completed residencies at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, VCUQatar, Chashama North, and Skowhegan. Wang's solo exhibition Coronavirus Memes was on view at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne. Selected group exhibition venues include Frans Hals Museum, Rachel Uffner, Magenta Plains, and The Prince Street Gallery. Wang is in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Groeninghe Art Collection in Belgium. Wang is represented by Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco, Night Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne and Berlin. Wang is currently Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at California College of Art and lives and works in San Francisco.
EDUCATION
2013
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
2008
B.F.A., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, New York, NY
2006
The Central Academy of Fine Art, Mural Painting Department, Beijing, China
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
"Fake Stupid, Queen of Cringe", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
2021
Screen Time, two-person exhibition with Luke Murphy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Coronavirus memes, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
2019
Climate Change is Real. Stop Procrastinating!, two-person exhibition with Mark Dion, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Munich, Germany
#cryptomemes: Women and Leo DiCaprio, Ever Gold [Projects], Oakland, CA
2018
Crypto-Rich, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
“Twilight,” Magenta Plains, New York, NY
RELOCATION TAROT, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2017
Actions speak louder than fonts, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
2016
Devotional Art for Your Home, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
LA:FURN, Reisebürogalerie, Cologne, Germany
2014
I Want That Bag, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Repetition Compulsion, with Abigail DeVille, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Just Painted, with Thompson Harris, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2007
Paintings That I Made In China But That Are Not About China, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming)
2021
Friends and Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL
Add Space, Billboard Exhibition, guest curated by Lindsey White, Tulsa, OK
Alphabetic Image, Arsenal, New York, NY
Ladyfinger and Fig Mcflurry, 56 Henry, New York, NY
Wonderland, Epoch Gallery, Online
2020
Image Power (from the exhibition trilogy The Art of Critique), Frans-Hals-Museum, Haarlem,
Netherlands
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood Babylon, BADD House, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Gold Standard / 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Ever Gold [Projects], Oakland, CA
2018
tears then holes, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Silhouette, curated by Kevin Krueger and Aaron Harbour, Et Al., San Francisco, CA
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
The History Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2016
Arresting Patterns: Perspectives on Race, Criminal Justice, Artistic Expression, and Community,
African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
Global Terror, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
Pipe Dream, organized by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner, 170 Suffolk St, New York, NY
White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
Fruit, Produce Model, Chicago, IL
Walk Artisanal, curated by Peter Harkawik and Miles Huston, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Awkward Threesome, with Kim Ye and Raphael Noz, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2014
The Cat Show, 356 Mission Rd., Los Angeles, CA
The Last Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Good Intentions: Re-Imagining Rockwell’s Boy Scouts, Subliminal Projects, curated by Andrew
Pogany and Ben Lee Ritchie Handler
Privilege Show, curated by William Kaminski and Evelena Ruther, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
More Young Americans, curated by Susanne Van Hagen, L’Enclos de Bernardins, Paris, France
2012
Invagination, Curator Cara Benedetto, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
MFA 2013 Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Pushing Painting Paradigms, curated by LaToya Ruby Fraizer, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ
Invagination: Hunger is Real, curated by Cara Benedetto, H.E.N.S. Gallery/Nail Salon/Solidarity Center, Brooklyn, NY
2011
A Blithedale Romance, Chashama, New York, NY
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca: An Alumni Exhibition, curated by David Goodman, Wes Miller, Kate Werble, 92YTribeca, New York, NY
Year Zero: Review of artists works participating in 2010 Studio LLC, curated by Louise Barry, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
BOOM: Southern California MFA Invitational Group Exhibition, curated by Ali Subotnick, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Third National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Susanna Coffey, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
Shock and Awe: Where the Abject and the Sublime Converge, Gatov Galleries, California State University Long Beach, CA
A Failed Entertainment, Curated by Sam Ekwurtzel, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2008
Goodbye Utopia, organized by Sara Reisman, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Lao Wais Make Art Too, curated by Joseph Ellis, The Central Academy ofFine Art, Beijing, China
2004
748, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCE COLLABORATIONS
2014
Les Fuckables Acte Deux, with Sally Spitz and Trenton Szewczyk, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
S and C present G line, with Gustavo Herrera and Sally Spitz, KChung Shipwrecked at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
How to Have a Wet Dream, with Sally Spitz, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
2012
I Hate My Racist Self, with Gustavo Herrera and Sally Spitz, INVAGINATION, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
E Pubis Unim with Gustavo Herrera and Sally Spitz Eternal Telethon at BESHT, Pomona Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Brutal Set by Math Bass, MADE IN LA Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Waiting for L.dot with Michael Decker and Gustavo Herrera, curated by John Burtle, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Sunday Scag with Michael Decker and Gustavo Herrera, curated by Action Bureau at The Black Box with Liz Glynn
2011
Swap Meet at High Desert Test sites with Sally Spitz
2009
Work featured in Futurist Life Redux, A Performa Commission with SFMoMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects (segment: Love Affair of the Painter Balla and a Chair; dir. Trisha Baga)
Plan B with OurGoods, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Krista Saunders
CURATORIAL WORK
2014
Dreaming Wildly, Fighting To Win, with Hans Kuzmich, Critical Resistance Los Angeles Fundraiser, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Group show with Mathiew Greenfield, Wand Art Space, Berlin, Germany
2012
Big Dick$ $uck Money at Sax, Etc. Los Angeles, CA
2011
Circulate, Exchange, Nugget and Gravy with Mathiew Greenfield, Southern California MFA invitational New Wight gallery, UCLA
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019
Nomination for SFMoMA’s SECA Award
2017
Nomination for Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
2013
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles
2012
Edna and Yu-Shan Han Award, University of California Los Angeles
2010
Van Lier Fellowship, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Studio LLC, Queens, NY
2008
The Sara Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art, The Cooper Union, New York
2007
Alex Katz Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
“Galerie Nagel Draxler at FIAC,” FIAC, March 2
Lauren Fournier, “Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism,” Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, February 23
2020
Larissa Kikol, "Politische Malerei – Redner, Statements und Gesichter", in: KUNSTFORUM
International Bd. 268 "Gegenwartsbefreiung der Malerei", S. 74-89.
Elīna Ije, "What artists are doing now. The American artist Christine Wang in San Francisco”,
Arterritory, April 21
Martha Schwendener, “The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time,” The New
York Times, March 6
Keith Estiler: “‘Platform’: Satirical Installations & Paintings Disrupt The Armory Show 2020,”
Hypebeast, March 4
Michael Slenske, “The Hollywood of Kenneth Anger’s Imagination Is Coming to Life in the Old
Spago Space,” LA Magazine, February 10
Lukas Hermsmeier, “Kunst der Provokation Christine Wang spielt mit Leonardo DiCaprios Öko
Image und dessen luxuriöser Doppelmoral,” January
2019
Michael Anthony Farley, "Cruising at Art Basel Miami Beach", Bmore Art, December 6.
Kate Brown, "The Art Industry Is Grappling With How to Shrink Its Carbon
Footprint. But Will Collectors Do Their Part?", artnet news, December 4.
Daniel Völzke, "Kunst und Ökologie", monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben, page 40,
November.
Evelyn Vogel, "Kunst im Laden", Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 22.
"Galerie Nagel Draxler eröffnet Standort in München", monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben,
online, September 19.
Stefan Bock, "Berlin Art Week", Der Freitag, September 14
Paul Carey-Kent, “Social Media In Painting”, FAD magazine, April 17
2018
Margaret Carrigan, “Art Fair Survival Guide: How to See Everything Without Hating Your Life,”
Observer, March 6
Sam Whiting, “Ever Gold’s Andrew McClintock back in school and shopping at Fog Design+Art,”
San Francisco Chronicle, January 4
2017
Mitch Speed, “Words // ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Fonts’ : Christine Wang at Galerie Nagel
Draxler”, Berlin Art Link, February 20
Astrid Mania, “Critic’s Pick: Christine Wang at Galerie Nagel Draxler”, Artforum, February 11
2016
Editors of Cultured, “30 under 35”, Cultured, December
Sabine Heinlein, “Artists Grapple with America’s Prison System”, The New York Times, March 11
2015
Alicia Eler, “Christine Wang: Lust, Longing, and Politics”, Crave, Dec 17
2014
David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, June 17
2013
Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, “Downtown Exhibit Looks at Money in the Art World, From
Kickstarter to Michael Ovitz”, June 27; “Norman Rockwell’s Boy Scouts, Updated”, July 4
2012
Jean Ezrha Black, Artillery Magazine, “Abigail DeVille/Christine Wang”, Vol 7 Issue 2, Nov / Dec
Megan Hoetger, X-TRA, “Re-performance: History as an Experience to Be Had”, Fall, Volume 15,
Number 1
Catherine Wagley, …might be good, “Long Read: Growing Pains: A new biennial brings the L.A. art
world frighteningly close to being ‘established’”, Issue # 193, June 29