Vanguard Gallery

Frank WANG Yefeng is an interdisciplinary artist who works across multiple media, including 3D animation, video art, installation, and poetry. Through CGI simulations of hyperreality and absurd cinematic compositions, his practice produces peculiar and poetic entanglement of reality and fantasy. Traversed from China to North America, his existential position as a multicultural individual illuminates his creation and makes him investigate the questions related to Nomadism and liminality. As a migrant who turned nomad, his experience hatches whimsical characters that are often post-anthropocentric, and imageries that weave together the real and the virtual. The narratives in his time-based works are often in-between frontiers, multi-linguistic, and in the state of becoming.

1984 Born in Shanghai, China
2002-2007 BA in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, China
2009-2011 MA in Fine Arts, Art and Technology Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA

Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2025
Groundless Flower, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China

2024
Avatopology, NARS Foundation, New York, USA
Solo Project with Vanguard Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong, China

2023
The House of the Solitary, Smack Mellon, New York, USA

2022
The Levitating Perils, Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Slow Spectre, Seager Gallery, London, UK

2021
On Hold, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
Terraza Cervantes – Frank WANG Yefeng & José Ruiz, The 13th Shanghai Biennale Special program, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes，Shanghai, China

2020
The Groundless Protag, GlogauAIR Public Showcase, Berlin, Germany
The Expelled New, Multispace NYC, New York, USA

2019
The Table and Online Artist Screening Series, Arthub Asia, Shanghai, China

2018
Dyspepsia – Mattia Casalegno x Frank WANG Yefeng, Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2017
Penthaus, Between Art Lab, Beijing, China
Parallel Reality – Wang Yefeng / Shamus Clisset, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York (SUNY), Long Island, USA

2016
The Drifting Stages, Arthub Asia Artists Screening Program, Shanghai, China

2015
New Games, V Art Center, Shanghai, China

2014
I – Generation, Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2013
Impersonal, HEREArts Center, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Vanguard Onwards, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
ISCP 30 Years Anniversary Show, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Reanimator, Stove Works, Tennessee, USA

2023
Distortions, Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary
Pidgin Spectrum: Nonlinear Narratives of Multiculture, City Project of the 14th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Cosmos Cinema, Sinan Mansions, Shanghai, China
A Way of Crossing Space, LEVANTART, Shanghai, China
Hong Kong Art Book Fair, Tai Kwun, Curated by Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, China
Mediums and Messengers: on shifting discourses in ‘new media’ and ‘technology’, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
The Whimsical Characters, Public Screening, APS Museum and L+MALL, New York, USA

2022
Beast, Chimera, Kin, Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard, New York, USA
Hug: Nestling the Drifting World, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, South Korea
Gold Canopy, Yve Yang Gallery, New York, USA
ONBD Selects: Live At SuperRare, SuperRare Gallery, New York, USA
Art Week Encore: Art021×H8, No.8 Hengshan Rd, Shanghai, China

2021
Boomerang – OCAT Biennial ’21, Shenzhen, China
Encounters with Incomprehension, The Wrong Biennale No.5, Online
There was only this world, this looted, ventriloquized Earth, Hook.art, Online
Night Lights Denver, Public Projection Installation, Commission for Denver Digerati, Colorado, USA
RenZhiChu, Public Screening at Times Square, ZAZ10TS, New York, USA
Fulfillment Service Ltd, Outdoor billboards and Online, Commission for Royal College of Art and Gasworks, London, UK

2020
Liminal Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial, Online
AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing, China
Resonance, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2019
BRIC Biennial – Volume III, New York, USA
Ocean, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China

2018
International Festival Les Instants Video, Marseille, France
Cynetart 2018, Festspielhaus Hellerau and Pylon Lab, Dresden, Germany
Liminality, The Border Project Space, New York, USA
Immortal City, Tianjin Binhai Museum, Tianjin, China

2017
Art in the City, K11 Museum, Shanghai, China

2016
Threshold Frequency, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

Shenzhen MAF Media Art Festival, Shenzhen, China
Real-Fake.2.0, Bronx Art Space, New York, USA

2013
There is A Body on Screen!, Museum of Luxun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China

2012
Currents 2012, Santa Fe International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Residency/Fellowship
2024
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Artist in Residency for Alumni, New York, USA
K11 Art Foundation × ArtReview Magazine Artist-in-Residence, Wuhan, China

2023
Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) Fellowship, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA

2022
Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency, Vermont, USA
Asia Art Archive in America Inaugural Zine Residency, New York, USA

2021
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Artist in Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2020
GlogauAIR Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany

2013
New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA