Bo Wang (b. 1982, Chongqing, China) is an artist, filmmaker and researcher currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Education2025 PhD Candidate, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2011 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York
2007 MS Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2004 BS Physics and Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Revolution Will Not Be Air-conditioned, LUX, London
2019 Song for the Dreamless, Yell Space, Shanghai
2011 Heteroscapes, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Guangdong, China
2010 Heteroscapes, Gallery 456, New York Festivals and Screenings
2024 Experimenta, Bangalore
2024 Dekoloniale Festival, Berlin
2024 World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok
2024 Indie Chinese Cinema Week, Berlin
2024 Hong Kong Film Festival UK, London
2024 DocLisboa, Lisbon
2024 Festival de Cine INSTAR
2024 Ekrani i Artit, Shkodër
2024 M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2024 Cripta747, Torino
2024 IndieLisboa, Lisbon
2024 ReCNTR, Leiden
2024 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei
2024 Chinese Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg
2024 It's Gonna Rain, Shanghai
2024 FICCI - Cartagena Film Festival, Cartagena
2024 ZagrebDox, Zagreb
2024 Brive Film Festival, Brive
2024 Courtisane Festival, Ghent
2024 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Thessaloniki
2024 Shapeshifts, Sonic Acts x Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2024 Festival Allers-Retours Cinéma d'auteur Chinois, France
2024 e-flux Film Award Screening, e-flux, New York
2024 Beirut Art Center, Beirut
2023 Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
2023 Cinémathèque Française, Paris
2023 Forum Film Dokumenter, Yogyakart
2023 Torino Film Festival, Torino
2023 International Competition, Entrevues Belfort Film Festival, Belfort
2023 Sine Screen Chinese & ESEA Disapora Film Season, London
2023 Indie Chinese Cinema Week, Sinematranstopia, Berlin
2023 Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide
2023 International Competition, DOK Leipzig, Leipzig
2023 Mirage Film Festival, Oslo
2023 Cosmos Competition, Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela
2023 New Horizons Shorts Competition, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico City
2023 East Asian Experimental Competition, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2023 Int'l Competition, Arkipel, Jakarta
2023 Vilnius documentary film festival, Lithuania
2023 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2023 Jumping Frames Movement-Image Festival, Hong Kong
2023 Open City Documentary Festival, London
2023 Ghost Dance, DIFFUSION 2023, Toronto
2023 Invisible Maps: Give Space, CEF x By Art Matters, Hangzhou
2023 Inventory of the Week, the National Center for Dance, Bucharest
2023 Markers program, Hot Docs, Toronto
2023 New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
2022 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2022 Images Festival, Toronto
2021 Int'l Competition, Arkipel, Jakarta
2021 Festival International du Film d'Architecture, Bègles/Bordeaux
2021 The Body and the City, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2021 Stories from the South, Critical Conditions, bi'bak, Berlin
2021 Darak, DMZ Docs Online, South Korea
2021 Taiwan Int'l Documentary Festival, Taipei
2021 Elemental Relations, NYU Shanghai
2021 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
2020 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing
2020 Reframe: The (In)Hospitable World, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
2020 SALT, Istanbul
2020 New Narratives Film Festival, Taipei
2020 Korean Film Archive, Seoul
2020 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
2020 Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2020 State of Motion, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2019 Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong
2019 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
2019 DOKUARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin, Germany
2019 Asiatica Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2019 fARAD Documentary Film Festival, Arad, Romania
2019 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2019 Open City Documentary Festival, London
2019 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen
2019 Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
2019 Burning Lights Competition, Visions du Réel, Nyon
2019 Essay Film Festival, ICA, London
2019 Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision, Tokyo
2019 Cinema Fund Premier, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2018 BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2017 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 Dong Film Fest, Turin, Italy
2017 Chinese Ghosts, Message To Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Reload_HK, Hong Kong
2017 The East Space, Milan, Italy
2017 Autonomous Cinema, Hong Kong
2017 Tales of Our Time, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
2016 Filmpodium, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 DOKU.ARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin
2016 DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2016 Arkipel - Jakarta Int'l Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Indonesia
2015 Hazy Sunday, Connecting Space, Hong Kong
2014 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2013 Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden
2013 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Times Culture Complex Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2013 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, USA
2013 Chinese Independent Film Series, Atlanta, GA, USA
2013 Documentary Fortnight, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013 Asia Council Faculty Workshop, Georgia Perimeter College, GA, USA
2012 Asia Art Archive, New York
2012 China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China
2012 Beijing Independent Film Festival, Songzhuang, Beijing
2012 Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Exhibitions and Biennales
2024 Cocoa's Journey to Asia, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2024 Constellations: Racial Myths, Land, and Labour, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
2024 Dream Screen, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
2024 Follow the Feeling, Times Museum, Guangzhou
2024 Cocoa's Journeys to Asia, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City
2024 Deathpower, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Mni Sota Makoce
2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
2023 Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo
2023 Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul
2023 Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta
2022 Fellows, SNAP, Shanghai
2022 Lonely Vectors, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2022 Spinning East Asia II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT, Hong Kong
2022 Lustrous Like Plastic, CCS Bard, New York
2022 Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
2021 I Could Not Recall How I Got Here, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
2021 PUBLIK, Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design XI, Jakarta
2021 Hotel Asia Project 2021, Prague/Yogyakarta/Kitakyushu
2020 Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
2020 On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
2020 Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is on the Other Side of the Planet, AIL, Vienna
2020 Golden Flow, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020
2020 An Impulse to Turn, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
2020 Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
2019 Here Lead to All Roads, Chongqing
2019 A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, How Art Museum, Wenzhou
2019 A+ Contemporary @ Nanjing Art Fair International, Nanjing
2019 2141, FAS x Rongyi Art Museum, Shanghai
2019 Dream Video, West Bund Art & Design 2019, Shanghai
2019 Hot Flows, University Museum of Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou
2019 Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Hot Flows: Pearl River Delta Arts Retrospective in Macao
2019 The Racing will Continue, the Dancing will Stay, Times Museum, Guangzhou
2019 Unidentified Landscape: Hotel Asia Project 2019, Barrak, Okinawa, Japan
2018 Infrastructural Territory, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
2018 Life & Dreams: Photography & Media Art in China since the 1990s,
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2017 Indoors-Universe, Huayu Youth Award Exhibition, Sanya, China
2017 Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2017 Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2017 The Making of an Institution, NTU CCA, Singapore
2016 Gillman Barracks Open Studio, Singapore
2016 Patafest, Duplex, New York
2016 We Chat, Asia Society Texas Center, TX, USA
2016 We Chat, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT, USA
2015 Urban Livingroom, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
2014 Reminiscence of the Land, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
2013 Knowing Me, Knowing You, School of Visual Arts Theatre, New York
2012 Dali International Photography Exhibition, Yunnan, China
2012 NextKunst.Licht, Kunst.Licht Gallery, Shanghai
2011 Marina Bay Financial Centre, Singapore
2011 Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris
2011 Artist Tree, Hong Kong
2011 Human/Time/Space, DOB Gallery, Bangkok
2011 Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
2011 China Now, Nina Torres Fine Art, Miami, FL, USA
2011 Shanghai Library, Shanghai
2010 798 Originality Square, Beijing
2010 Chinescape, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2010 1500 Gallery at SP-Arte/Foto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 The Curator, Milk Gallery, New York
2010 AuthetiCity, Via Tortona, Milan
2010 Pyramid Scheme, Page Not Found, Brooklyn, NY
Events, Talks and Presentations
2024 Indeks, Bandung
2024 Cemeti Institute x Forum Film Dokumenter x Institut Français Indonésie, Yogyakarta
2024 The Tehran Summit
2022 The 12th Seoul Mediacity Pre-Biennale II Terrainforming, Seoul
2022 Global Seminar, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto
2022 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich
2022 Digital Direction MA, Royal College of Art, London
2022 Counter-Archives: in conversation with Tiffany Sia, Open City Docs, London
2022 Meiji University, Tokyo
2022 Triple Canopy & Asia Art Archive in America, New York
2020 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2020 Aotu Space, Beijing
2020 JACS, Nagoya University, Nagoya
2020 Summer Screenings, Asia Art Center, Shanghai
2019 West Bund Forum, Shanghai
2019 Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London
2019 Chungking Global, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
2019 East Asia Film and Inquiry, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2019 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
2018 Para Site International Conference, Hong Kong
2018 École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels
2018 Noon Story Salon, Beijing
2018 Young Thinkers, OWSpace, Beijing
2018 East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, CT, USA
2018 Institute for Provocation, Beijing
2017 Soeng Joeng Toi, Guangzhou
2017 MFA Photo, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York
2016 International Symposium on Essay Film, DOKU.ARTS, Berlin
2016 Salt Projects, Beijing
2013 Times Culture Complex Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2013 BANNED IN CHINA: The Post-Olympic Moment in Chinese Film, Media and Performance, NY
2012 Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2012 Eat and Crit at Asia Art Archive, New York
2012 China Institute, New York
2012 Long Island Center of Photography, Manhasset, NY, USA
2012 Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Curatorial Practice
2024 Technodiversity, Studium Generale Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2023 Still Thriving, Studium Generale Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2018 Nine Days to See, Beijing
2016 Ode to Infrastructure, META Project Space, Shanghai
2014 We Landed/I Was Born/Passing by, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Teaching
2024-now Leiden University, Leiden
2023-2024 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2014-2019 School of Visual Arts, New York
Miscellaneous Activities
Jury, New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX 2024
Jury, Film Forward Competition, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2024
Co-editor, Non-Fiction Journal Issue #5: The Obsolete and The Resurrected
Advisory Board Member, ReCNTR, Leiden University
Selection Committee Member 2022-2024, Go Short - Int'l Short Film Festival Nijmegen
External Examiner 2022 & 2023, Master Institute of Visual Cultures, AKV St. Joost, Den Bosch
Residencies and Workshops
2024 900mdpl, Yogyakarta
2018 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2017 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2016 ZK/U, Berlin
2016 NTU CCA, Singapore
2016 Oberhausen Seminar, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2014 Berlinale Talents, Berlin International Film Festival
2013 The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
Collections
M+ Museum
Kadist Foundation
Awards and Fellowships
2025 The UNDO Fellowship, UnionDocs, New York
2024 Audience Award, Chinese Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg
2024 Special Mention, Label Jeune Création et Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Brive Film Festival
2024 Honorable Mention, e-flux Film Award, New York
2023 Winner Documentary Short, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah
2023 Grand Prix André S. Labarthe, Festival Entrevues Belfort, Belfort
2023 Ostrovsky Family Fund Award, the 22th Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo
2023 Golden Dove Award, DOK Leipzig, Leipzig
2023 Cosmos Award for the Best Innovative Film, Curtocircuito Int'l Film Festival, Spain
2023 New Jury Award, Curtocircuito Int'l Film Festival, Spain
2023 Award for Excellence, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2023 Arkipel Award, Arkipel, Jakarta
2023 Forum Lenteng Award, Arkipel, Jakarta
2023 New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
2019 Open City Awards nominee, Open City Documentary Festival, London
2018 Award for Excellence, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2018 ACC Cinema Fund, South Korea
2017 Finalist, Huayu Youth Award
2014 DMZ Documentary Fund, DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2014 Honorable Mention, UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant
2013 Fellow, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
2012 Research Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society, New York
2012 Best Photographer Nominee, Dali International Photography Exhibition
2011 Chairperson's Honors, MFA Photo, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts
2010 Finalist, Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards
2010 Winner, Photo District News: The Curator
2010 Semifinalist, Illy Authenticity contest
2010 Top 25 artists, 3rd Ward Solo Show Art Call