Chih-Chien Wang
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- Associate Professor, Photography, Studio Arts
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Sign in to editResearch areas: everydayness, perception, perception, presence, fiction/reality, photography, ritual, memory, identity, affect, representation, media arts, installation, documenting, found objects, intimacy, collecting, text/image interactions, temporality, storytelling, collective experience
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Biography
Born in Taiwan, Chih-Chien Wang has been living in Montreal since 2002. He obtained a BFA in Theatre and Cinema in Taipei in 1994, and worked for television companies producing documentaries before moving to Canada. Wang obtained a MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2005.
Wang's works, mainly in photography and video, frequently contain subtle traces which might refer to personal, cultural or social concerns while dealing primarily with his everyday experience.
Wang's works have been seen in exhibitions held in Montreal, Lausanne, Milan, New York, Ping Yao, Beijing, Peterborough, Miami, Calgary and Toronto at galleries and museums including: Dazibao, Optica, Gallery 44, Gallery TPW, The New Gallery, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Dare-Dare, FOFA, Thérèse Dion Art Contemporain, Art Space, Galerie Les Territoires, Jack Shainman Gallery, Aperture, Musée de l'Elysée. Recent exhibitions include at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2008, 2010), the National Gallery (Ottawa, 2010), Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montreal, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020, 2023), Expression (Saint-Hyacinthe, 2012, 2014) and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2012 - 2013), the Darling Foundry in Montreal (2015), the Art Gallery of Mississauga (2015), Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2016), Plein sud (2019), Maison de la Culture Janine-Sutto (2022) and Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York (2023).
Wang was awarded le Prix Louis-Comtois in 2020 and the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography in 2017. Wang’s public art and architecture integration projects are installed at Montreal City Hall (2024), REM Panama Station (2024) and Verdun Hospital (2025). Wang’s work has been seen in collections including: Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, National Gallery of Canada, Hydro Quebec, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Caisse Desjardins, Caisse de dépôt et placement, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Collection Prêts d'œuvre – MNBAQ, BMO Financial Group, City of Montreal and Canada Council Art Bank.
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Photography
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