Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester) currently lives and works in Zürich. Tsang received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2010.

Tsang is a filmmaker and performance artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary in works that explore hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. Tsang re-imagines racialized, gendered representations beyond the visible frame to encompass the multiple and shifting perspectives through which we experience the social realm. Her films include We hold where study (2017), Girl Talk (2015), Damelo Todo (Gimme Everything) (2010), and Shape of a Right Statement (2008) among others. Her works have been featured in Gropius Bau, Berlin; MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle Münster, Münster in Westfalen, Germany; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam among others.

Selected solo exhibitions, performance and film screenings: Wu Tsang: Of Whales, the institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston (2024); Wu Tsang: Duilian, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth, Australia (2023); MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain (2023); Wu Tsang: Anthem, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US (2021); Visionary Company, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France (2020); There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (2019); An Atmosphere of Messages, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK (2019); Diversity is Reality, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019); Under Cinema, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2017); Sustained Glass, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2017); Devotional Document (Part 2), Kunsthalle Münster, Münster in Westfalen, Germany (2017); Devotional Document (Part 1), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2017); The Luscious Land of God is Sinking, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, US (2016); A day in the life of bliss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düesseldorf, Germany (2015); Wu Tsang Ft. Boychild: Untouchable, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2014); Whitney Biennial 2012: Wu Tsang, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2012) etc.

Selected group exhibitions: An Atlas of the Difficult World, Macalline Center of Art (MACA), Beijing (2024); Paraventi, Prada Foundation, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai (2023); Hans-Ulrich Obrist Archive Chapter 1: Édouard Glissant, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland (2023); The 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams, Giardini della Biennale and the Arsenale, Venice, Italy (2022); Chrono-Contemporary, MOCA Taipei, Taipei (2021); 1,2,3,4: Dance in Contemporary Artists’ Films, The Glucksman, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (2020); Singapore Biennale 2019: Every Step In The Right Direction, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2019); You: Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France (2019); Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2019); Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah, UAE (2019); Producing Futures – An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminismus, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2019); Strange Days: Memories of the Future (in association with the New Museum, NY), The Strand, London, UK (2018); A group exhibition with work by Dora García, Sharon Hayes, Emily Jacir, Mahmoud Khaled, Carlos Motta, Wu Tsang and Akram Zaatari, as well as a letter by Quinn Latimer, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2018); Trigger: Gender as a weapon and a tool, New Museum, New York, US (2017); Biennale of Moving Images, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland (2017) etc.