25W Artist-in-Residence: Dan S. Wang

Artist talk 4:45 - 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

Opening reception of SPEECH, SPECTERS, SPECTRA to follow in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery.

The exhibition will be on view through March 9, 2025.
 

Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer, Chinese-Midwestern by birth, he lives in Los Angeles and Chicago. He makes drawings, prints, sculptures, and organizes events. His obsessions include histories of monetary policy and the afterlives of the French Revolution. Recent projects include commissioned work for Station Museum (Houston) and Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and a Ragbox of Overstood Grammars, a twenty-year retrospective of eighty-plus letterpress prints, exhibited in 2020 at Fonderie Darling (Montreal) and acquired by the Block Museum of Northwestern University. He often has worked in group situations, as in the past as a founding keyholder of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago, to a current collaboration, Now-Time Asian America.

His critical writings have been published internationally in book collections, museum catalogs and in dozens of artists publications. Along with Anthony Romero and Daniel Tucker, he co-edited LASTGASPISM: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic, published by Soberscove Press in 2022. From 2019 to 2024 he was an Artist in Residence at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. In summer of 2025 he will exhibit new work in the Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago.