ABOUT

Lives and Works

New York

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Education

M.F.A  Columbia University

B.A. University of California-Irvine

 

Ryan Muchen Wang is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Working across photography, video, installation, and text, he draws on personal and collective histories of travel and migration to examine memory and its metamorphosis across reality and fabulation. Across his practice, Wang explores modes of human adaptation and change, paying particular attention to the emotions that emerge in the unfolding of everyday life and within the spaces between transit and separation, homeland and hostland.

 

Wang’s work has been exhibited and screened at the Jewish Museum (New York), the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn), 4C Gallery (Los Angeles), the Manhattan Film Festival, the Athens Animfest, the Shanghai International Short Week, and other international festivals in Sweden, Canada, Chile, and the United States. His work has also received recognition from the New York Cinematography Award, the Independent Shorts Awards, and the Art Film Spirit Awards. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.