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Chen Wang

  • Assistant Professor, Art

204 Arts Cottage

Penn State shield logo featuring a stylized mountain lion in white and light blue on a blue to green gradient background.

Biography

Wang’s work incorporates digital video, performance, 3D game design, sculpture, drawing, costume fabrication and sound design. By layering these different mediums, Wang constructs immersive alternate realities that probe the intersections of myth, imagination, and identity across both physical and virtual landscapes, crafting dreamscapes that envelop the viewer.

Wang has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Fotografiska Museum in Sweden, China, and Estonia, Roswell Museum in New Mexico, Lauren Powell Project in Los Angeles, The Immigrant Artist Biennial in NYC, Alfred University, and Crosstown Art Center in Memphis.

Wang’s fellowships, awards, and residencies include New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow (Interdisciplinary), MacDowell Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Artist Foundation in Brooklyn, and Roswell Artist in Residency.

Collected Works

A kaleidoscopic image with bright swirling colors and furry, human-like creatures arrayed and distorted
Three colorful, fiery sculptures displayed against a deep red wall.
An illustrated arboreal scene in vivid greens, blues, reds, and pinks with six central characters amongst the woods and flora.
Colorful featured costume worn by reclined person lifting one leg and arm toward each other
Two human-like feathered costumes, one in an upright pose, one in a crouched pose
Two brightly colored, feathery costumes in dancing poses.
A brightly colored still image from an art video
Sculpture from In the Woods (clay, acrylic paint, pen and wood) with four central characters within a perimeter of woods.
Triptych sculpture in yellows, greens, blues, and reds, showing three stages of brightly colored friendly monster actors performing while surrounded by dancing audiences
A pair of clay sculptures with eye-shaped apertures into performance stages featuring dancing actors. The red eye-lids are surrounded with green and blue floral lash-leaves.
An elaborate sculpture with a performance stage and friendly white-furred monsters holding each other's upraised hands; the stage is sandwiched between foreground and background layers of plants, flowers and trees.
A lush arboreal painted scene with a ring of black and white speckled silhouettes dancing around a multi-eyed blue, pink, and grey character.