For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Frank WANG Yefeng will be joined by curator Xiaoyu Weng. WANG will present on his practice and share his recent projects including Groundless Flowers, a new work that he made during his ISCP residency. He will speak with Weng about his interest in “nomadism” and “in betweenness” and how these ideas filter into his artmaking. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Frank WANG Yefeng is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based between New York and Shanghai. Initially trained as a sculptor, WANG’s work spans diverse media, including video installation, 3D animation, painting, drawing, and writing. His practice explores the “in-betweenness” of a transnational, nomadic existence, blending physical and digital realms to critically examine fixed identity constructs, the histories of racialized “others,” and the alienation of people and objects within dominant cultural and technological narratives. He has exhibited work at Smack Mellon, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, New York; BRIC Biennial, New York; Times Square, New York; the OCAT Biennial, Shenzhen; Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, among others. 

Based in New York, Xiaoyu Weng is Artistic Director of the Tanoto Art Foundation, a Singapore-based not-for-profit foundation. From 2021-2023, she was Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she served as Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, where she curated exhibitions including Tales of Our Time (2016–17) and One Hand Clapping (2018), exploring the responses of Chinese artists to globalization. Weng also curated the fifth Ural Industrial Biennial in 2018–19 in Yekaterinburg, and from 2010 to 2015, she held the position of director and curator of Asia Programs at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco.

This program is supported by Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.