Ziping Wang is a painter, who creates canvases that bring to mind the unavoidable online crowdedness caused by the digital age. Fascinated by living every day with constant notifications, endless social feeds and abrupt pop-ups, Wang paints gripping compositions of a mix of images, referring to advertising visuals and cultural motifs.

Wang grew up in China, around the paint buckets and canvas rolls of his artist father. She recalls being an introverted child, who was not so keen on talking. Instead, she turned her focus to painting as a way to share her experiences and thoughts. Wang moved to the USA to study art when she was 17. During grad school, she tried out different mediums until eventually experimenting with graphics as she always wanted to. She states that, for artistic growth, it is essential for an artist to try things out as much as possible.

The paintings of Wang contain a load of stimulating visuals. Interested in the persistent content overflow, the illusory reality and how they grab the attention, the artist aims to recreate the emotional and intellectual tiredness on the viewers. Her use of advertising and brand prints channels the same intention, as she uses flashy designs that are both invasive and uplifting. Through her artworks, Wang communicates her criticism of the virtual reality that, inevitably, we all have to live in.

Regarding her practice, Wang describes her studio as “clean compared to the stereotypical artist studio one might imagine”. Contrary to her artworks, but in line with her quiet nature, the artist does not allow messiness in her working space and tends to work with one piece at a time. She does not let the scatter get on her large scales too and prefers medium size brushes while painting.

She is inspired by images that are visually appealing and personally nostalgic. While working, she first goes for collages of selected prints to construct her paintings, like a puzzle. When she is done with a painting, she picks a title for it from her collected notes, continuing the puzzle solving.

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About Ziping Wang

Ziping Wang was born in 1995 in Shenyang, China. She got her MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2020, after obtaining her BFA from the Rhode Island School Of Design in 2017. Her artworks have been exhibited since 2015, her first group show being at Jolie Gallery in Shenyang (China), followed by many group exhibitions across the pacific. The artist’s solo debut was in 2018, titled “Unsettling Garden” and exhibited at Space Feng in New York. Her recent exhibitions include “Utopia” at Peres Project in Berlin (2021), “The Other Landscape” at Unit London (2021), and “3×3” at Galerie Marguo (2021).

Ziping Wang is represented by Unit London and Galerie Marguo (Paris, France). She lists the American painter and printmaker James Rosenquist, the German artist Albert Oehlen, the American painter Laura Owens, and the Japanese contemporary artist On Kawara as her inspirations. The artist currently lives and works in China and in New York.