KIKI XUEBING WANG
b. 1993, ChinaKiki Xuebing WANG was born in 1993, Zhengzhou, China. She obtained her BFA from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016 and her MA degree from the Royal College of Art in 2020. She currently lives and works in London. Fascinated with common visual patterns, both commercial and natural ones, and reflecting upon their role as cultural rhetorics, Wang’s practice delves into our mysterious instincts that charge the visual with emotions. The clinging relationship between feelings and objects is further addressed in her prismatic and grainy color which captures the reflected light radiating and escaping from the surface. What she depicts is both a twilight zone between light and the intrinsic color of objects and a saturating presence of the simulacrum world. As the intensity of emotions and memories fluctuates, Wang’s often labyrinthic canvas creates a multi-layered surface that not only probes her experiences but also disrupts the sense of distance between different boundaries, tellingly reexamining the two- dimensionality of paintings.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: “Ripples”, 2023, LINSEED, Shanghai; “Marble Dessert”, 2023, Sadie Coles x Ginny on Fredrick, London; “Lapwings”, 2022, Half Gallery, New York; “Blue Hour”, 2022, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing; “A Robin Red Breast In a Cage, Puts All Heaven In a Rage”, 2021, PM/AM Gallery, London; “The Green Ray and The Scorpions”, 2020, LINSEED, Shanghai. Her selected group exhibitions include: “The Cloud Catcher”, 2025, Perrotin, Shanghai(upcoming); “little tree”, 2024, Ginny on Frederick, London; “Dream Plane”, 2024, Fernberger Gallery, Los Angeles; “Notes Toward a Shell”, 2024, Tara Downs, New York; “Sympathetic Magic 2”, 2024, Ginny on Frederick, London; Felix Art Fair, 2024, Ginny on Frederick, Los Angelas; ART SG, 2024, LINSEED, Singapore; “Friends in the Arts”, 2023, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai; “Tie Up”, 2023, Mugyewon, LINSEED, Seoul; “The Connection”, 2022, Billytown, The Hague; “A Place of One’s Own”, 2022, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome; “Harmonious Arrangement”, 2022, Half Gallery, Los Angeles; “SALON”, 2022, The Sunday Painter x Guts Gallery, London; “A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists”, 2021, Hive Art Center, Beijing; “Watch the Fire from the Shore”, LINSEED, 2021, Shanghai; “Reality Check, Guts Gallery”, 2021, London; “John Moores Painting Prize”, National Museum Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 2021, Liverpool; “Still @Live”, MAPA Gallery, 2021, London; “Barbican Arts Group Trust Open”, 2019, London; “Sympathetic Magic”, Zona Mista, 2019, London.
Text courtesy LINSEED Projects.
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