Chinese Contemporary Artists
Wang Zifan
Wang Zifan was born in 1997 in Sichuan, China.
Wang has been working in oil painting for six years, during which she obtained BFA and MFA degrees. Her artworks actively reflect on how individuals relate to other individuals as well as to groups, while also focusing on the conflict and coexistence of individuals, groups in spaces, whilst focusing on the importance of spatial relations in individual and collective experience.
Education
Painting BFA, VCU ARTS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, the United States
Painting MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Exhibitions
2022, MFA Thesis Exhibition (Solo), Temple Gallery , Rome, Italy.
2019, BFA Thesis Exhibition, VCU ARTS, Richmond, Virginia.
Artist Statement
The discussion on individual psychologicy and its connection with psychology space and the physical world are important to the past two years of my practice. I am trying to figure out the existence of imagery in connection with unconscious psychological motivations, trying to figure how imagery appears from this connection in a feedback loop with the physical world. The inspiration of catching unconscious imagery comes from a desire for talking and expressing after a long time of personal isolation. This isolation has not only been spatial but also cultural. In the past two years, I lived in China and Italy and these two countries both made me feel out of place. In the silent COVID years in China, my practice was stopped due to reasons including miscommunication as well as space limits and time difference. My mind was isolated. But when I went to Italy and participated in studio art again, the cultural differences and extremly unknown surroudings also made me feel that I couldn’t locate myself. The constant pains of loss and isolation produced a desire for shouting and reconstructing a connection to my surroundings, especially at the moment when I had strong and uncontrollable psychologial impulses, so that I found myself able to capture these strongest impulses in paint.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Definite Images Uncertain Identity ”, lumiere Gallery, Chengdu, China
2022, Wang Zifan Solo Exhibition, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2023 Global New Painting – A New Generation of Chinese Artists (Parallel Exhibition in China), Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 Global New Painting – A New Generation of Chinese Artists, MART Museum, Italy
2023 City Nomadism, Sen Museum, Chengdu, China
22023 Memorandum On Painting Issues, Unique Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023 Geographies of Feeling-2023 Chengdu Biennale Parallel Exhibition, A4 Museum, Chengdu, China
2019 VCU ARTS BFA, Richmond, VA, USA
Featured Works
Window on the Metro Line A
Wang Zifan, Oil on canvas, 172 cm x 191 cm, 2022.