Born in 1982
Lives and works in Zurich

Selected Solo Shows

• 2026 —Wu Tsang, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• 2025 —La gran mentira de la muerte, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (as part of Festival d’Automne)
• —Thailand Biennale 2025: Eternal [Kalpa], Phuket, Thailand
• —Theatre Picasso (curated by Wu Tsang and Enrique Fuenteblanca), Tate Modern, London, UK
• —La montaña invertida (as part of ReCollect!), Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
• 2024 —Carmen and Carmen, Hartwig Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• —La gran mentira de la muerte, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
• —Of Whales, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA
• —MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
• 2023 —One Emerging From a Point of View, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
• —Anthem, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
• —Anthem, Rising Festival, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia
• —Of Whales, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
• 2022 —Of Whales, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
• —Of Whales, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
• 2021 —New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
• —Lovesong, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Anthem, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• 2019 —There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody, Gropius Bau, Berlin
• —An Atmosphere of Messages, Cabinet Gallery, London
• 2017 —Under Cinema, FACT, Liverpool
• —Sustained Glass, Antenna Space, Shanghai
• —Devotional Document (Part 1), Nottingham Contemporary, UK
• —Devotional Document (Part 2 ), Kunsthalle Münster, Münster in Westfalen
• —Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Athens
• 2016 —The lucious land of god is sinking, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles
• —solo presentation, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Art Basel Hong Kong
• —Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
• 2015 —Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, commissioned by Swarovski as part of the Swarovski Series at FIAC Paris
• —Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
• 2014 —Not in my language, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
• —A day in the life of bliss, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —Moved by the Motion, Diverse Works, Houston
• 2013 —Show’s Over, Gallery TPW, Toronto
• —Solo presentation, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
• 2011 —Re:New/Re:Play, Residency and Public Program, New Museum, New York

Selected Group Shows

• 2026 —NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• —If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
• 2024 —Manifesta 15, Barcelona, Spain
• 2023 —Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below, Eleusis European Capital of Culture, Greece
• —Paraventi, Fondazione Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai
• —Paraventi, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
• —We begin Again, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
• —Terms & Uses, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
• 2022 —The Milk of Dreams, 59th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• —Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as Its Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
• —In the Company Of, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi / Eden Eden, Berlin, Germany
• —Kino Roland, Verein Expo, Bern, Switzerland
• —Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• —The Rhythm of the night, Frans Hals Museum, Harlem, Netherlands
• —Ghost 2565, curated by Christina Li, Ghost Festival Bangkok, Thailand
• —Survival Kit 13, LCCA Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Riga, Latvia
• 2021 —ECLIPSE, 7th Athens Biennale 2021, Athens, Greece
• —JSC On View: Mythologists, Julia Stoschek Collection, Duesseldorf, Germany
• —Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
• —Cant Get You Out of My Head, HMKV Hartware Medien Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
• —Language is a River, MUMA | Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
• 2019 —You, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
• —Hyundai Card, Seoul
• —Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana, Venice
• —Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah
• —Producing Futures - An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminismus, Migros Museum, Zurich
• 2018 —‘Strange Days: Memories of the Future’ (curated by Massimiliano Gioni, in association with the New Museum, NY), The Strand, London
• —6th edition of Les atelier de Rennes - Contemporary Art Biennale, Rennes
• —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
• 2017 —Trigger: Gender as a weapon and a tool, New Museum, New York
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
• 2015 —Axolotlism, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
• —The heart is deceitful above all things, Cornerhouse, Manchester
• —Discordant Harmony, Artsonje Center, Seoul
• —Looks, curated by Katharine Stout, ICA, London
• —Real Humans, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
• 2014 —Double Life, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston
• —Something Beautiful, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• —Body Doubles, MCA Chicago, Chicago
• —Don't You Know Who I am? Art After Identity Politics, MuHKA, Antwerp
• —Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum Biennale, Los Angeles
• —The Shape of a Right Statement – Cynthia Maughan with Ben Kinmont and Wu Tsang, Cubitt Artists, London
• 2013 —Affluence of the working class differentiation to collectivism, Pavilion, Bucharest
• —Blues for smoke, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
• —Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum, New York
• 2012 —Blues for Smoke, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
• —Nothing is Forgotten, Everything Considered, UKS, Oslo
• —Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
• —First Among Equals, ICA Philadelphia
• —The Ungovernables, New Museum, New York
• —The Whitney Biennial, New York
• 2010 —Quadruple Consciousness, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
• —California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• 2009 —Dance, Sons and Daughters Dance!, Physics Room, Christcurch, New Zealand
• —Tainted Love’, La Mama Galleria, New York

Selected Screenings

• 2022 —BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
• —Videocittà Film Festival, Gasometer, Rome, Italy
• —Survival Kit 13, LCCA Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
• 2021 —Duilian, V.O Curations, London, UK
• 2019 —Into a Space of Love, IDFA 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• —WILDNESS, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
• —Into a Space of Love, Vivid Live, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
• 2018 —Girl Talk, Screening and Conversation with Martin Syms, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
• 2016 —Wildness, Central European Universty, Budapest
• 2015 —A day in the life of bliss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
• 2014 —WILDNESS, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
• —Guggenheim Museum, New York
• 2013 —WILDNESS, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
• —WILDNESS, www.vdrome.com
• —WILDNESS, The tanks at Tate Modern, London
• 2012 —The Contenders’, MoMA, New York
• —Frieze Film, Frieze Art Fair, London
• —SANFIC 8 Film Festival’, Santiago, Chile
• —WILDNESS, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
• —OUTFEST, Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary, Los Angeles
• —HOT DOCS Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• —Documentary Fortnight, MoMA, New York
• 2010 —Burnt House, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2009 —Freaky Film Club, Berlin, Germany
• —Identities Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
• 2008 —Troca-Trocas, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Selected Performances

• 2019 —Whitney Museum, New York, US
• 2017 —Parcour Nights, Art Basel, Basel
• —Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Who Touched Me?, Tate Modern, London
• 2016 —Wu Tsang and boychild Moved by the Motion, ArtSpace. San Antonio
• 2015 —Wu Tsang in conversation with boychild, ICA, London, UK
• —Wu Tsang and boychild feat. Patrick Belaga, Moved By The Motion, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2014 —Untouchables’ (featuring boychild), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• —Moved by the Motion (featuring boychild), DiverseWorks, Houston
• —Moved by the Motion (featuring boychild), The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
• —Moved by the Motion (featuring boychild), MCA Chicago, Chicago
• 2013 —ration with Kelela and Ashland Mines, The Tanks at Tate Modern, London
• 2012 —Blasting Voice, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York
• 2011 —Full Body Quotation, Performa 11, The New Museum, New York
• —HOW TO CUT A QUEEN, New Museum, New York
• —‘THE TABLE’, with TOTAL FREEDOM (Ashland Mines), KINGDOM (Ezra Rubin), and NGUZUNGUZU (Asma Maroof & Daniel Pineda),, New Museum, New York
• 2010 —Ecstatic Resistance, X Initiative, New York
• 2009 —New Original Works Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles
• —Nostalgia Ain’t What it Used to Be, La Mama Theater, New York
• 2008 —Open Studio, REDCAT, Los Angeles

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