Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester) currently lives and works in Berlin and New York. 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. In 2025, Tsang has been chosen as the Solomon Fellowship at Havard University’s AFVS, and had been in residence at AFVS from February 3 to 7, 2025.

Selected solo exhibitions, performance and film screenings: Carmen and Carmen, De Balie, NL (2025); La gran mentira de la muerte, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (2024); 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: Macalline Center of Art (MACA), Beijing (2024); Prada Foundation, Shanghai (2023); Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland (2023); The 59th Venice Biennale, Giardini della Biennale and the Arsenale, Venice, Italy (2022); MOCA Taipei, Taipei (2021); The Glucksman, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (2020); Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2019); City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France (2019); Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah, UAE (2019); Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2019); Strange Days: Memories of the Future (in association with the New Museum, NY), The Strand, London, UK (2018); New Museum, New York, US (2017); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland (2017) etc.