VOEED CHAO WANG
Chao Wang, also known as Voeed, is an artist, researcher, and educator. Currently a practice-based PhD candidate in contemporary art at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London. Through photographic, digital, and peripatetic projects, his research investigates the mentality of contemporary urbanites in relation to optical technology, urban development, political visual language, and the cultural translation of space. Based in London, he won the 2019 John Ruskin Prize and became a companion of the Guild of St. George. He established his personal studio in 2019 and continues to teach as a tutor in contemporary art.
Recently in his doctoral research, he focuses on the three-dimensional scanners as a form of optical technology and the concept of flâneur which has been subject to an ethical turn, and questions the technological production and perceptive role that urban images play in urbanites’ negotiation between submission to, and re-definition of their 21st-Century urban milieu of London and Shenzhen.
Education:
2022 - ongoing
UAL Central Saint Martins, Unite Kingdom
PhD in fine arts (expected)
2017 - 2019
Royal College of Art, Unite Kingdom
MA: Photography
2013 - 2017
University of Toronto, Canada
BA with Honour: Visual Study major & Architecture Design major
Group Exhibition:
Great Sounds Seek Silence
2023, St. James' Hatcham Church, London, United Kingdom
MUSE Digital Art Award Exhibition
2023, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
The Postgraduate Selects Exhibition
2023, UAL London College of Communication, London, United Kingdom
The Still Life
2020, London , Minneapolis MN, United States
Royal College of Art Degree Show
2019, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Fragmentation
2019, Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom
John Ruskin Prize 2019: Agent of Change
2019, Holden Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Image can be
2018, Lumen Crypt Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Thin Reality
2018, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
The WIP Show
2017, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Hope, Fear and the Future
2017, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Subject: Post-
2017, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The Nth Degree
2017, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, United States
Summer Heat
2016, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada
Urban Studio: Hong Kong
2015, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China
Blooming
2015, Robarts Library, Toronto, Canada
Blooming
2015, East Asian Library (Cheng Yu Tung), Toronto, Canada
The Eyeball
2014, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Award and nomination:
MUSE Digital Art Award
2023, Longlisted
Lumen Prize 2020
2020, Shortlisted
John Ruskin Prize 2019: Agent of Change
2019, Award Winner
7th Zebra Photography Award
2019, Finalist
Art Olympia 2019 International Open Art Competition
2019, Semi-Honourable Mention
Selected Experiences:
VO International Art Education, Tutor
2019 - current, China
Sphinx International Art Education, Tutor
2018 - 2020, China
URBANUS Architecture & Design, Assistant Architect Internship
2017, China
Assistant Curator, Art Exhibition [Subject: Post-]
2017, Canada
Lecturer, [Paint Nite] Workshop
2015, Canada
Lecturer, [Camera Exposure] Workshop
2015, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Canada
Curator, Series Art Exhibition [Blooming]
2015, Canada