Michael Wang

Born in Olney, Maryland in 1981, Michael Wang lives and works in New York. He uses systems that operate at both a local and global scale as media for art: climate change, species distribution, resource allocation and the global economy. His works include Extinct in the Wild, a project that engages species that no longer exist in nature but persist under human care; 10000 li, 100 billion kilowatt-hours, a work that 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 living replica of 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."

Select exhibitions include Lake Tai, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai (2022); Extinct in New York, LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island, NY (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Meta City Biennale, Shanghai (2023); Solastalgia, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden (2023); The 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2021); Elevation 1049, 'Interstices,' Gstaad, Switzerland (2023); Vulnerable Critters, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2022); Manifesta 12: The Planetary Garden, Palermo, Italy (2018); Parcours, Art Basel, Switzerland (2016).