BO WANG | 王 博


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    Bo Wang, born 1982 in Chongqing, China, is an artist, filmmaker and researcher currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

    Education
    2024 PhD Candidate, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
    2011 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York
    2007 MS Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    2004 BS Physics and Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing

    Solo Exhibitions
    2022 The Revolution Will Not Be Air-conditioned, LUX, London
    2019 Song for the Dreamless, Yell Space, Shanghai
    2011 Heteroscapes, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Guangdong, China
    2010 Heteroscapes, Gallery 456, New York

    Festivals and Screenings
    2024 FICCI - Cartagena Film Festival, Cartagena
    2024 Brive Film Festival, Brive
    2024 Courtisane Festival, Ghent
    2024 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Thessaloniki
    2024 Eye on Art: Shapeshifts, Sonic Acts x Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
    2024 Festival Allers-Retours Cinéma d'auteur Chinois, France
    2024 e-flux Film Award Screening, e-flux, New York
    2024 Beirut Art Center, Beirut
    2023 Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
    2023 Cinémathèque Française, Paris
    2023 Forum Film Dokumenter, Yogyakart
    2023 Torino Film Festival, Torino
    2023 International Competition, Entrevues Belfort Film Festival, Belfort
    2023 Sine Screen Chinese & ESEA Disapora Film Season, London
    2023 Indie Chinese Cinema Week, Sinematranstopia, Berlin
    2023 Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide
    2023 International Competition, DOK Leipzig, Leipzig
    2023 Mirage Film Festival, Oslo
    2023 Cosmos Competition, Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela
    2023 New Horizons Shorts Competition, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City
    2023 East Asian Experimental Competition, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
    2023 Int'l Competition, Arkipel, Jakarta
    2023 Vilnius documentary film festival, Lithuania
    2023 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
    2023 Jumping Frames Movement-Image Festival, Hong Kong
    2023 Open City Documentary Festival, London
    2023 Ghost Dance, DIFFUSION 2023, Toronto
    2023 Invisible Maps: Give Space, CEF x By Art Matters, Hangzhou
    2023 Inventory of the Week, the National Center for Dance, Bucharest
    2023 Markers program, Hot Docs, Toronto
    2023 New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
    2022 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
    2022 Images Festival, Toronto
    2021 Int'l Competition, Arkipel, Jakarta
    2021 Festival International du Film d'Architecture, Bègles/Bordeaux
    2021 The Body and the City, Hong Kong Arts Centre
    2021 Stories from the South, Critical Conditions, bi'bak, Berlin
    2021 Darak, DMZ Docs Online, South Korea
    2021 Taiwan Int'l Documentary Festival, Taipei
    2021 Elemental Relations, NYU Shanghai
    2021 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
    2020 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing
    2020 Reframe: The (In)Hospitable World, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
    2020 SALT, Istanbul
    2020 New Narratives Film Festival, Taipei
    2020 Korean Film Archive, Seoul
    2020 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
    2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
    2020 Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
    2020 State of Motion, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
    2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    2019 Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
    2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong
    2019 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
    2019 DOKUARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin, Germany
    2019 Asiatica Film Festival, Rome, Italy
    2019 fARAD Documentary Film Festival, Arad, Romania
    2019 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
    2019 Open City Documentary Festival, London
    2019 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen
    2019 Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
    2019 Burning Lights Competition, Visions du Réel, Nyon
    2019 Essay Film Festival, ICA, London
    2019 Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision, Tokyo
    2019 Cinema Fund Premier, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
    2018 BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
    2018 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
    2017 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
    2017 Dong Film Fest, Turin, Italy
    2017 Chinese Ghosts, Message To Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
    2017 Reload_HK, Hong Kong
    2017 The East Space, Milan, Italy
    2017 Autonomous Cinema, Hong Kong
    2017 Tales of Our Time, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
    2016 Filmpodium, Zurich, Switzerland
    2016 DOKU.ARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin
    2016 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
    2016 Arkipel - Jakarta Int'l Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Indonesia
    2015 Hazy Sunday, Connecting Space, Hong Kong
    2014 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
    2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
    2013 Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden
    2013 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
    2013 Times Culture Complex Art Center, Guangzhou, China
    2013 Four Seasons Fairy Cafe, Wuxi, China
    2013 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, USA
    2013 Chinese Independent Film Series, Atlanta, GA, USA
    2013 Documentary Fortnight, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    2013 Asia Council Faculty Workshop, Georgia Perimeter College, GA, USA
    2012 Asia Art Archive, New York
    2012 China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China
    2012 Beijing Independent Film Festival, Songzhuang, Beijing
    2012 Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Exhibitions and Biennales
    2024 Follow the Feeling, Times Museum, Guangzhou
    2024 Cocoa's Journeys to Asia, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City
    2024 Deathpower, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Mni Sota Makoce
    2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
    2023 Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo
    2023 Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul
    2023 Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta
    2022 Fellows, SNAP, Shanghai
    2022 Lonely Vectors, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
    2022 Spinning East Asia II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT, Hong Kong
    2022 Lustrous Like Plastic, CCS Bard, New York
    2022 Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
    2021 I Could Not Recall How I Got Here, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
    2021 PUBLIK, Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design XI, Jakarta
    2021 Hotel Asia Project 2021, Prague/Yogyakarta/Kitakyushu
    2020 Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
    2020 On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
    2020 Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is on the Other Side of the Planet, AIL, Vienna
    2020 Golden Flow, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020
    2020 An Impulse to Turn, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
    2020 Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
    2019 Here Lead to All Roads, Chongqing
    2019 A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, How Art Museum, Wenzhou
    2019 A+ Contemporary @ Nanjing Art Fair International, Nanjing
    2019 2141, FAS x Rongyi Art Museum, Shanghai
    2019 Dream Video, West Bund Art & Design 2019, Shanghai
    2019 Hot Flows, University Museum of Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou
    2019 Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
    2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea
    2019 Hot Flows: Pearl River Delta Arts Retrospective in Macao
    2019 The Racing will Continue, the Dancing will Stay, Times Museum, Guangzhou
    2019 Unidentified Landscape: Hotel Asia Project 2019, Barrak, Okinawa, Japan
    2018 Infrastructural Territory, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
    2018 Life & Dreams: Photography & Media Art in China since the 1990s,
            The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
    2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
    2017 Indoors-Universe, Huayu Youth Award Exhibition, Sanya, China
    2017 Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
    2017 Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
    2017 The Making of an Institution, NTU CCA, Singapore
    2016 Gillman Barracks Open Studio, Singapore
    2016 Patafest, Duplex, New York
    2016 We Chat, Asia Society Texas Center, TX, USA
    2016 We Chat, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT, USA
    2015 Urban Livingroom, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
    2014 Reminiscence of the Land, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
    2013 Knowing Me, Knowing You, School of Visual Arts Theatre, New York
    2012 Dali International Photography Exhibition, Yunnan, China
    2012 NextKunst.Licht, Kunst.Licht Gallery, Shanghai
    2011 Marina Bay Financial Centre, Singapore
    2011 Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
    2011 Artist Tree, Hong Kong
    2011 Human/Time/Space, DOB Gallery, Bangkok
    2011 Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
    2011 China Now, Nina Torres Fine Art, Miami, FL, USA
    2011 Shanghai Library, Shanghai
    2010 798 Originality Square, Beijing
    2010 Chinescape, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
    2010 1500 Gallery at SP-Arte/Foto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    2010 The Curator, Milk Gallery, New York
    2010 AuthetiCity, Via Tortona, Milan
    2010 Pyramid Scheme, Page Not Found, Brooklyn, NY

    Events, Talks and Presentations
    2022 The 12th Seoul Mediacity Pre-Biennale II Terrainforming, Seoul
    2022 Global Seminar, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto
    2022 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich
    2022 Digital Direction MA, Royal College of Art, London
    2022 Counter-Archives: in conversation with Tiffany Sia, Open City Docs, London
    2022 Meiji University, Tokyo
    2022 Triple Canopy & Asia Art Archive in America, New York
    2020 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
    2020 Aotu Space, Beijing
    2020 JACS, Nagoya University, Nagoya
    2020 Summer Screenings, Asia Art Center, Shanghai
    2019 West Bund Forum, Shanghai
    2019 Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London
    2019 Chungking Global, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
    2019 East Asia Film and Inquiry, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
    2019 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
    2018 Para Site International Conference, Hong Kong
    2018 École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels
    2018 Noon Story Salon, Beijing
    2018 Young Thinkers, OWSpace, Beijing
    2018 East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, CT, USA
    2018 Institute for Provocation, Beijing
    2017 Soeng Joeng Toi, Guangzhou
    2017 MFA Photo, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York
    2016 International Symposium on Essay Film, DOKU.ARTS, Berlin
    2016 Salt Projects, Beijing
    2013 Times Culture Complex Art Center, Guangzhou, China
    2013 BANNED IN CHINA: The Post-Olympic Moment in Chinese Film, Media and Performance, NY
    2012 Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    2012 Eat and Crit at Asia Art Archive, New York
    2012 China Institute, New York
    2012 Long Island Center of Photography, Manhasset, NY, USA
    2012 Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Curatorial Practice
    2024 Technodiversity, Studium Generale Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
    2023 Still Thriving, Studium Generale Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
    2018 Nine Days to See, Beijing
    2016 Ode to Infrastructure, META Project Space, Shanghai
    2014 We Landed/I Was Born/Passing by, Anthology Film Archives, New York

    Teaching
    2023-now Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
    2014-2019 School of Visual Arts, New York

    Miscellaneous Activities
    Jury, New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX 2024
    Jury, Film Forward Competition, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2024
    Co-editor, Non-Fiction Journal Issue #5: The Obsolete and The Resurrected
    Advisory Board Member, ReCNTR, Leiden University
    Selection Committee Member 2022-2024, Go Short - Int'l Short Film Festival Nijmegen
    External Examiner 2022 & 2023, Master Institute of Visual Cultures, AKV St. Joost, Den Bosch

    Residencies and Workshops
    2018 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
    2017 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
    2016 ZK/U, Berlin
    2016 NTU CCA, Singapore
    2016 Oberhausen Seminar, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
    2014 Berlinale Talents, Berlin International Film Festival
    2013 The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

    Collection
    Kadist Foundation

    Awards and Fellowships
    2024 Honorable Mention, e-flux Film Award, New York
    2023 Winner Documentary Short, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
    2023 Grand Prix André S. Labarthe, Festival Entrevues Belfort, Belfort
    2023 Ostrovsky Family Fund Award, the 22th Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo
    2023 Golden Dove Award, DOK Leipzig, Leipzig
    2023 Cosmos Award for the Best Innovative Film, Curtocircuito Int'l Film Festival, Spain
    2023 New Jury Award, Curtocircuito Int'l Film Festival, Spain
    2023 Award for Excellence, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
    2023 Arkipel Award, Arkipel, Jakarta
    2023 Forum Lenteng Award, Arkipel, Jakarta
    2023 New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
    2019 Open City Awards nominee, Open City Documentary Festival, London
    2018 Award for Excellence, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
    2018 ACC Cinema Fund, South Korea
    2017 Finalist, Huayu Youth Award
    2014 DMZ Documentary Fund, DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
    2014 Honorable Mention, UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant
    2013 Fellow, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
    2012 Research Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society, New York
    2012 Best Photographer Nominee, Dali International Photography Exhibition
    2011 Chairperson's Honors, MFA Photo, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts
    2010 Finalist, Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards
    2010 Winner, Photo District News: The Curator
    2010 Semifinalist, Illy Authenticity contest
    2010 Top 25 artists, 3rd Ward Solo Show Art Call