Wang Yi (b.1992 Shanghai). Graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts and now lives in London.
Wang Yi is interested in life forms, cross-cultural identities, liquid environments, and biotechnology in a broad sense. Over the past year, his research has explored the boundaries of identity through physical transformation, vital functions, and special metamorphosis, presenting experiments in uniquely alienated structures.
His recent exhibitions include: Ghosts don’t die, they archive, Fussili Pot, Shanghai (2025); Warlock and Hound, Half Image, Shanghai (2022); Cold Flame, Bund BFC Art Season, Shanghai (2021); Strange Flash, West Bund Dome Art Center, Shanghai (2021); Fan 101 New, ShanghART Gallery & Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing (2020); Li Xiang, Cooper Art Museum, Shanghai (2020); Explosive Blue, Half Image, Shanghai (2019); Liangshan Project II, Big Fitness-AMNUA International Program III, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing (2018); Che Jin, ShanghART Gallery M50, Shanghai (2018).
Wang Yi is interested in life forms, cross-cultural identities, liquid environments, and biotechnology in a broad sense. Over the past year, his research has explored the boundaries of identity through physical transformation, vital functions, and special metamorphosis, presenting experiments in uniquely alienated structures.
His recent exhibitions include: Ghosts don’t die, they archive, Fussili Pot, Shanghai (2025); Warlock and Hound, Half Image, Shanghai (2022); Cold Flame, Bund BFC Art Season, Shanghai (2021); Strange Flash, West Bund Dome Art Center, Shanghai (2021); Fan 101 New, ShanghART Gallery & Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing (2020); Li Xiang, Cooper Art Museum, Shanghai (2020); Explosive Blue, Half Image, Shanghai (2019); Liangshan Project II, Big Fitness-AMNUA International Program III, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing (2018); Che Jin, ShanghART Gallery M50, Shanghai (2018).