Michael Wang

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Michael Wang uses systems that operate at both regional and planetary scales as media for art, addressing climate, ecology, extraction, and capital. His works include Extinct in the Wild, a project onspecies that exist only under human care; 10000 li, 100 billion kilowatt-hours, which harnessed Shanghai’s hydropower-fueled electric grid to create a frozen facsimile of the glaciers at the origin of the Yangtze river; First Forest, a Carboniferous forest installed in a disused coal-gas plant; and, Carbon Copies, an exhibition linking the production of artworks to the release of greenhouse gases—envisioning all artists as "air artists."

Wang was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and his work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai (2022), LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island, New York (curated by the Swiss Institute, 2019) and the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2017). His work was also included in Planetary Peasants at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (2025), Elevation 1049 in Gstaad, Switzerland (2023), the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), Manifesta 12 Palermo (2018), and the ** Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in Valparaíso (2017).

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