Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist, designer, curator, chronically online researcher, and compulsive overthinker currently based in Toronto, Canada. His work critically engages with digital aesthetics, invisible labor, and algorithmic culture, addressing our entanglement within the attention economy. Spanning photographic collage, video, animation, and installation, his practice explores how contemporary digital culture and technology influences our ways of being under the spell of neoliberal capitalism, humorously trying to process his own productivity dysmorphia. His research-driven projects, Digital Landfill and Performative Digital Bodies, examine the cycle of production and consumption facilitated through desires and immediate gratifications.

​He is currently pursuing a PhD in Information at the University of Toronto, where his dissertation develops the "digital itch," the compulsive itch-scratch cycle of platform use, alongside "edging," a set of tactics of refusal, delay, and counter-use. Wu has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and has exhibited internationally in Canada, the U.S., and Korea. He holds an MFA from OCAD University and is committed to fostering critical discourse on digital culture and imagemaking.

​吴凌翔是一位旅居多伦多的中国酷儿视觉艺术家、设计师、策展人、沉迷网络的研究者与强迫性过度思考者。他的创作以批判性视角介入数字美学、隐性劳动与算法文化，探讨注意力经济时代中人类的生存羁绊。通过摄影拼贴、影像、动画及装置等多元媒介，其艺术实践审视当代数字文化与技术如何塑造新自由主义资本主义迷障下的生存状态，并以诙谐方式解构自身的生产力畸形焦虑与内耗。其研究型项目《Digital Landfill 数码净土》与《Performative Digital Bodies 糜潮涌动》聚焦于欲望与即时满足催生的生产消费循环体系。吴凌翔的创作曾获加拿大艺术委员会及安大略艺术委员会支持，作品已在加拿大、美国、韩国等多国展出。他通过展览、工作坊及讲座，积极推动当代艺术、科技与批判性媒体研究之间的跨学科对话。吴凌翔持有安大略艺术设计大学艺术硕士学位，致力于融合艺术创作、学术研究与策展实践，以此审视数字文化中精微而复杂的勾连，并探索数字冗余所留下的物质与观念痕迹。

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​Education
2026 - | PhD in Information, University of Toronto | Toronto, CA
2017 - 2019 ​| MFA in Interdisciplinary Master of Art, Media, and Design, OCAD U | Toronto, CA
​2012 - 2016 | ​BA in Media Study & BA in Photography, SUNY- Buffalo | Buffalo, US

Experience
2019 Jul - Now | Senior Graphic Designer, Easy Group, Easy Education​ | Toronto, CA
2018 - Now | Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD U | Toronto, CA
2019 Jul - Sep | Video and Communication Coordinator, Lumenus Community Services | Toronto, CA
2016 - 2017 | In-house Graphic Designer, UniCareer | New York, US

Solo Exhibition
​2026 | Digital Bodies: Loops of Desire, Xpace (Forthcoming) | Toronto, CA
2019 | Red Millennial Apple: The Rough and The Smooth Image, Ignite Gallery | Toronto, CA​

Group Exhibitions
2026 | When Does the Wired Body Come Home?, InterAccess | Toronto, CA
2026 | ​EXTRACT PRODUCE PERFORM 2, Festival Miden x ToPikap Kato | Thessaloniki, GR
2026 | flashDRIVE : Digital Arts Fundraiser Exhibition, InterAccess | Toronto, CA
2025 | GongJin, 2025 co-MMotion International Media Art Festa, Azit Museum | Seoul, KR
2024 | New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome  | Toronto, CA
2024 | MadMapper Project Showcase, UKAI Projects | Toronto, CA
2023 | On Display/ For Review, Whippersnapper Gallery | Toronto, CA
2023 | X-ight Project Launch, Dnas Studio x ARKO Metaverse Project | Seoul, KR
2022 | Storytelling for Earthly Survival, Asia Culture Center (Catalogue) | Gwangju, KR
2022 | ​Don’t Look a Grant Horse in the Mouth, ponyHAUS x PIX FILM Gallery | Toronto, CA
2022 | Indelible Discards, Xpace Cultural Centre x Bunkers 2 (Catalogue) | Toronto, CA
2021 | Phygital, Digifest 2021 | Toronto, CA
2021 | Risk, Roundtable Residency | Toronto, CA
2021 | ADA-DADA Artist Residency Exhibition, South Asian Visual Arts Centre | Toronto, CA
2020 | Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art & History | Orillia, CA
2020 | Portal Project, Big on Bloor Festival 2020  | Toronto, CA
2020 | Grow Op 2020, Gladstone Hotel | Toronto, CA
2020 | ​You Are Here, John B. Aird Gallery | Toronto, CA
2019 | Reality Vanishing In Plain Sight, Propeller Gallery | Toronto, CA
2019 | Fresh Paint/ New Construction, Art Mûr | Montreal, CA
2018 | Beyond Borders, 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival | Toronto, CA
2018 | Always-Already, OCAD University Graduate Gallery | Toronto, CA
2018 | 31x31: Making Moments into Movements, Celebration Square | mississauga, CA
2017 | Trace, OCAD University Graduate Gallery | Toronto, CA
2017 | FORMAT: Juried Exhibition, Hillyer Art Space | Washington, US
2016 | 2016 CEPA Gallery Member’s Exhibition, CEPA Gallery | Buffalo, US
​2016 | Experimental Film “Look Up” Screening, Binghamton Film Festival | Binghamton, US

Curatorial
Nov 2025 | Edging the Unscratchable Digital Itch, InterAccess | Toronto, CA
Nov 2024 | Bad Timekeepers, This is Not a Church (TINC) | Seoul, KR
Oct 2024 | Bad Timekeepers, InterAccess, University of Toronto, Charle Street Video | Toronto, CA

Award/Grant
​​2026 | OAC Media Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council | CA
​​​2026 | Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council | CA
​​​2025 | Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council | CA
​​​2024 | Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts | CA
​​2024 | Professional Development for Artists, Canada Council for the Arts | CA
​​2024 | Market Development Grant 2024-2025, Ontario Arts Council | CA
​​2024 | Canada Korea Co-creation Fund, Canada Council for the Arts | CA
​​2024 | Korea-Canada Co-Creation Fund, Arts Council Korea | KR
​​2023 | Research and Creation - Explore and Create, Canada Council for the Arts | CA
​​2023 | OAC Media Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council | CA
​​​2021 | Research and Creation - Explore and Create, Canada Council for the Arts | CA
​​2018 | Winner of 2018 Student Awards, Mixed Media, Applied Arts | CA
​​2017 | Silver Prize in the PX3 2017 Competition, Prix de la Photographie Paris | FR
​​2016 | Pierre McAloon Memorial Award, State University of New York at Buffalo | US
​​2015 | The Morrison Scholarship, State University of New York at Buffalo | US

Residency
2026 | Vector Festival 2026 AR Residency, InterAccess | Toronto, CA
​​​​2023 | RBC Emerging Artist Network, The Power Plant | Toronto, CA
2022 | On Display/ For Review, Whippersnapper Gallery | Toronto, CA
2022 | 2022 International Residency, ACC (Asia Cultural Center)  | Gwangju, KR
2021 | Virtual Grounds 2021, Trinity Square Video | Toronto, CA
2021 | Roundtable Residency | Toronto, CA
​2020 | ADA DADA RESIDENCY, South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) | Toronto, CA

Conference
Dec 2022 | Representing Pasts - Visioning Futures, AMPS | Queen’s University Belfast | Cape Peninsula University of Technology | National University of Singapore | Online
Oct 2021 | UAAC-AAUC Online Conference 2021, Universities Art Association of Canada | Online​

​​Artist Talks
​Nov 2022 | ACT Festival - Micro Utopia, Asia Cultural Center | Gwangju, KR
Feb 2022 | JAV 130 - Visual Strategies, University of Toronto | Toronto, CA
Nov 2021 | Phygital, Digifest organized by George Brown College | Online
May 2021 | PROXY FESTIVAL, School of Communication at Simon Fraser University | Online
Sep 2018 | SCIN-4006 Agency and the Emotive Object, OCAD University | Toronto, CA
Jun 2018 | VISC-4005 Urban Life: Art, Design, City, OCAD University | Toronto, CA
Feb 2017 | Trace, OCAD University​ | Toronto, CA

Academic Service & Community Engagement
​2026–present | Social Committee Member, Doctoral Student Union, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
2026–present | PhD Student Representative, AMIA University of Toronto Student Chapter (Association of Moving Image Archivists)
​2023 - Now | Program Advisory Committee Member, VCC Program, Seneca Polytechnic​

Press/Publication
2023 | Wu, L. Cristobal, E. and Poole-Adler, K. “THE SCREEN, INTIMACY AND THE ATTENTION ECONOMY: ARE WE EVER TOGETHER?” AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 32 (2023): 175-184 | Online
​2023 | Review by _feature_creep_team_, Second Waves: Lingxiang Wu’s The Labyrinth of Digital Bodies, https://featurecreep.net/SecondWaves.html  | Online
​2023 | Interview, Face2Face, Gwangju Foreign Network  | Gwangju, KR
​2023 | Review by _feature_creep_team_, Strange Biomes: Lingxiang Wu’s Digital Landfill, https://featurecreep.net/StrangeBiomes.html  | Online
2023 | “Polychromatic colours, irresistible art and Toronto’s diversity are on full display at Gladstone House”, Foodism Toronto, by Byron Armstrong | Toronto, CA
​2023 | Interview, Gallery Hopper, OCAD University | Toronto, CA
2023 | Interview, Remote Possibility, Roundtable Residency | Toronto, CA
2023 | Issues Magazine, No.5 - technical issue, Page 6 | Toronto, CA
2023 | The Student Awards Annual, Fall 2018, Applied Art Magazine, Page 122 | Toronto, CA
2023 | Annual PX3 Book No. 11, 2017, The Prix de la Photographie, Page 34​ | Paris, FR

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