Xin Wang's Projects

MFA Student

Major: Painting

Graduation Year: 2016

Artist Statement:

As a Chinese contemporary artist, Xin Wang makes painting and installation for establishment her individual thinking which is separated from the collective consciousness in Chinese culture. “Yellow Consciousness” is the term that the artist Xin Wang has invented to define a kind of brainwashed ideology she has observed in the Chinese culture due to their government-imposed and formulaic education system. The color yellow is always a dominant factor for her audience and their reception of her political message about brainwashing, Chinese culture, and her own ethnic background. Xin Wang uses the luminous yellow, which translates from the culture of yellow into her wall painting to make a conversation with her audience about perception and afterimage.

Biography:

Xin Wang is an emerging international artist who works with installation and painting. She was born in Anhui, China,where she attended Wuhu Highschool of the Arts until 2008, after which she earned a B.A. degree in photography at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China. Currently, she is experiencing her second year in the Master’s program at Maine College of Art, in the United States. Xin has loved painting and drawing since she was a little girl. However, due to the educational policy in China. She was discouraged from pursuing these mediums, and so she joined as a photography major at CAA. There, she developed a photographer's eye with the help of a large repository of images from photographic history. Although she drew and painted occasionally, Xin paid more attention to her formal study in photography. In her studio, she practiced formal composition, lights, structure. When she went abroad to MECA, she decided not to be limited to photography. Currently, Xin utilizes a conceptual approach to painting and installation, using her Chinese background as a base.