LINGXIANG WU
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Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist currently based in Toronto/Tkaronto. Wu completed a BA degree double major in Studio Art - Photography and Media Studies at the University at Buffalo in 2015 and an MFA degree in Interdisciplinary Master's of Arts, Media, and Design at OCAD University in 2019. 

His work investigates the entangled relationship between images and us across physical and digital spaces. Today's digital communication platform performs like a giant meat market within the phantom of Neoliberal capitalism. Visual content is stripped naked to accelerate information exchange, thus stimulating instantaneous gratification of desire. Images are now atmospheric, creating strong wind gusts with bold-lettered messages, coming at us from all angles to sway, push and agitate. 

Through experimentation with photographic collage, video, animation, VR, and installation, Wu uses artistic methods as visual detours. Re-imagining the digital/urban space into visual experiences where viewers can look into and dwell within, encouraging the moments of contemplative lingering. 

Wu's work has been exhibited internationally in CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, Art Mur in Montreal, and various galleries in Toronto, including Xpace, SAVAC, and Whippersnapper Gallery. In 2021, Wu was awarded a grant from Canada Arts Council through the Research and Creation program for his ongoing research project, Digital Landfill: A Strategic Retreat from Hypervisibility. Currently, Wu is participating in a research initiative, Virtual Grounds, hosted by Trinity Square Videos and the Digital Justice Lab as a researcher and artist. ​
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​Education
2017 - 2019
​2012 - 2016

Experience
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2022-2023
​2019 Jul - Now
2018 - Now


2019 Jul - Sep
2016 - 2017

Solo
2019
​2017

Group Exhibitions
2022
​2021
​2021
​2021
​2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
​2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
​2017
2016
2016
2014

Award/Grant
2023
​2022​
​2018
2017
2016
2015

Residency
2022-2023
​2022
​2021-2023
2021
​2020-2021

Conference
Dec 2022
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​Oct 2021

​Artist Talks
​Nov 2022
Feb 2022
Nov 2021
May 2021
Sep 2018
June 2018
Feb 2017​
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Press/Publication
2022
2022
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​2022
2021
2019
2018
2017

​MFA in Interdisciplinary Master of Art, Media, and Design, OCAD U
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BA in Media Study & BA in Photography, SUNY- Buffalo
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RBC Emerging Artist Network, The Power Plant
Senior Graphic Designer
, Easy Group
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, OCAD U
​Global Visual & Material Culture: VISC 1001/1002 (2018-2020)
Research Method for graphic design (2021)
Video and Communication Coordinator, Lumenus Community Services
In-house Graphic Designer, UniCareer

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Red Millennial Apple: The Rough and The Smooth Image, Ignite Gallery
A Modern Flaneur’s Possession, CEPA Gallery


Indelible Discards, Xpace Cultural Centre x Bunker 2
Remote Possibility, Roundtable Residency x Whippersnapper Gallery
Phygital, Digifest 2021
Risk, Roundtable Residency
ADA-DADA Artist Residency Exhibition, (SAVAC)​
​Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition,
Orillia Museum of Art & History
Portal Project, Big on Bloor Festival 2020
Grow Op 2020, Gladstone Hotel
You Are Here, John B. Aird Gallery
Reality Vanishing In Plain Sight, Propeller Gallery
Fresh Paint/ New Construction, Art Mûr
Re)constructed Landscapes, OCAD University Graduate Gallery
Beyond Borders, 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Always-Already, OCAD University Graduate Gallery
31x31: Making Moments into Movements, Celebration Square
Trace, OCAD University Graduate Gallery
FORMAT: Juried Exhibition, Hillyer Art Space
2016 CEPA Gallery Member’s Exhibition, CEPA Gallery
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Experimental Film “Look Up” Screening, Binghamton Film Festival


OAC Media Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
​Research and Creation - Explore and Create, Canada Council for the Arts
Winner of 2018 Student Awards, Mixed Media, Applied Arts
Silver Prize in the PX3 2017 Competition, Prix de la Photographie Paris
Pierre McAloon Memorial Award, State University of New York at Buffalo
The Morrison Scholarship, State University of New York at Buffalo


On Display/ For Review, Whippersnapper Gallery
2022 International Residency, ACC (Asia Cultural Center) 
Virtual Grounds 2021, Trinity Square Video
Roundtable Residency
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ADA DADA RESIDENCY, South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)

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


​ACT Festival - Micro Utopia, Asia Cultural Center
JAV 130 - Visual Strategies, University of Toronto
Phygital, Digifest organized by George Brown College
PROXY FESTIVAL, School of Communication at Simon Fraser University
SCIN-4006 Agency and the Emotive Object, OCAD University
VISC-4005 Urban Life: Art, Design, City, OCAD University
Trace, OCAD University​


​Interview, Face2Face, Gwangju Foreign Network
“Polychromatic colours, irresistible art and Toronto’s diversity are on full 
display at Gladstone House”, Foodism Toronto, by Byron Armstrong
​Interview, Gallery Hopper, OCAD University
Interview, Remote Possibility, Roundtable Residency
Issues Magazine, No.5 - technical issue, Page 6
The Student Awards Annual, Fall 2018, Applied Art Magazine, Page 122
Annual PX3 Book No. 11, 2017, The Prix de la Photographie, Page 34​


Toronto, ON
​Buffalo, NY


Toronto, ON
​Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON


Toronto, ON
​New York, NY


Toronto, ON
Buffalo, NY


Toronto, ON​
​Toronto, ON​
​Online
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​Toronto, ON
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Orillia, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Montreal. QC
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Missisauga, ON
​Toronto, ON
Washington, DC
Buffalo, NY
Binghamton, NY


Toronto, ON
​Toronto, ON
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Toronto, ON
Paris, France
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo, NY


​Toronto, ON
​Gwangju, KR
​Toronto, ON
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​Toronto, ON
​Toronto, ON


​Online
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Toronto, ON
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Toronto, ON
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Paris, France

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  • About me
  • Performative Digital Bodies
  • Digital Landfill
  • A Modern Flaneur's Possessions
  • Ctrl + collective
  • Red Millennial Apple: The Rough and The Smooth Image
    • Google, Show Me the Colors (2017-)
    • CUBES (2018-2019)
    • The Reflection Between the Real and the Fake (2019)
    • Format (2019)
    • WHAT ILLUMINATES THE CITY? (2019)
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