VOEED CHAO WANG
Voeed is the artist name for Chao Wang - an award-winning multidisciplinary practitioner working between Vancouver, Canada and Shenzhen, China. Winner of 2019 John Ruskin Prize. Holding an MA in photography and honours BA in architecture, he works in multiple mediums, including photography, installation, video, and print. He often employs architectural elements and techniques in his work, such as architectural images rendering techniques.
His research and subject often involve the state of metropolis-dwellers, act of look (such as gaze and voyeurism) and the utopia-dystopia theme in contemporary urban context. Recently (from his second year of master degree), his works focus on ordinary urban dwellers’ incompetent and inconsequentiality, under the influence of power of architecture
design - a power that he deems strong yet subtle, altering us in every second, changing who we are, or to say, participating in the forming of ourselves.
While Voeed is interested in the manipulation from states and corporations through architecture design, his goal is not to seek for a freedom from it. Believing such freedom is non perishable and, sometimes, necessary, he only calls for the right to know it, as well as the existence and access of an archive, documenting the methods and their desired goal. To him, freedom of knowing how our need and life is controlled by authorities is the prerequisite to, not to resist, but ultimately to yield and obey.
Companion of Guild of St. George, UK
Education:
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:
The Still Life
2020, Praxis Gallery, 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:
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