Read the Art Basel Article "This artist got lost in the Gobi desert - and made an installation about it".
Frank Wang Yefeng will soon present his hallucinatory piece Desert Garden in the Encounters sector at Art Basel Hong Kong
‘Trying to find where I parked my car, there was a voice that said to me, “as long as you keep walking, you are never lost,”’ Wang explains. While traumatic, the experience of finding himself astray in total wilderness echoes the themes his work addresses: non-belonging, migration, and questions relevant to his own diaspora, such as what it means to live between East and West – both geographically and ideologically.
- Joe Bobowicz for Art | Basel
About the Artist:
Frank WANG Yefeng (b. Shanghai) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and digital nomad situated in-between New York City and Shanghai. Initially trained as a sculptor, Yefeng’s interdisciplinary practice spans a wide range of media, including video installation, experimental 3D animation, painting, drawing, and writing. His art explores the experience of "in-betweenness" that arises from a nomadic transnational existence.
Yefeng earned his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, and was awarded Tenure Professorship in 2018 at Rhode Island College (RI, USA). His projects have been featured in exhibitions internationally, including the BRIC Biennial (SH, CN), the OCAT Biennial (SZ, CN), the WRONG Biennale (USA), City Project of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (SH, CN), The Armory Show (NY, USA), Art Basel (HK, CN), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art (NY, USA), Times Square (NY, USA), Smack Mellon (NY, USA), Denver Theater District (CO, USA), Gasworks London (LDN, UK), Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art (Jeju, KR), Tai Kwun Contemporary (HK, CN), Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing (BJ, CN), Shanghai K11 Museum (SH, CN), etc. Yefeng has also been awarded solo exhibitions, residencies, and fellowships at K11 Art Foundation x ArtReview (WH, CN), International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) (NY, USA), New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation (NY, USA), Pratt Institute (NY, USA), Asia Art Archive in America (NY, USA), MacDowell (NH, USA), and Vermont Studio Center (VT, USA), among others.