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

Join the Studio Art Department in welcoming our 2025 Winter Term Artist-in-Residence, Dan S. Wang.

The artist's talk will be 4:45 pm, Tuesday, January 14, 2025 in the Loew Auditorium on the first floor of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The opening reception of SPEECH, SPECTERS, SPECTRA will be 6:00 pm, Tuesday, January 14, 2025 in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, on the first floor of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. This 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 18^th 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.

Above: Dan S. Wang, Too Early to Tell drawings, mixed media on graph paper, 2022. Photo credit Gemma Lopez.