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WILDNESS, 2012. HD video, color, 72 minutes. Courtesy the artist
Politically Involved Girls (PIG), 2009/10. Performance in collaboration with Zachary Drucker and
Mariana Marroquin. Courtesy the artist
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Worcester, Massachusetts, 1982
Resides: Los Angeles, California
Education: Performance Residency, New Museum, New York (2010); University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2010); Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fellow, Como, Italy (2005); School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 2004); Smith College (M.A., 2002)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Clifton Benevento, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
"2012 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.
"The Ungovernables," New Museum Triennial, New York. Catalogue.
"First Among Equals," ICA Philadelphia.
2010
"Quadruple Consciousness," Vox Populi, Philadelphia.
"California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
"After Image," S33, Baltimore.
2009
"Dance, Sons and Daughters, Dance!" Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand.
"Tainted Love," La Mama Galleria, New York.
2008
"Our Bodies Our Selves," El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
"MAKE OUT!" Studio44, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007
"Shared Women," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
2006
"Bunker o no Bunker: por una profiláxis del sujecto," Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico.
"Cyberfem. Feminisms in the Electronic Landscape," Espai d'Art Contemporani, Castellon, Spain.
"New Ghost Entertainment Entitled," Städtische Galerie Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany.
Selected Performances
2011
"FULL BODY QUOTATION," PERFORMA 11, New Museum, New York.
"HOW TO CUT A QUEEN: A Conversation with Jonathan and Ivan Monforte," 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. "Wildness," The Silver Platter, Los Angeles.
Selected Bibliography
2011
Barliant, Claire. "Wu Tsang," The New Yorker (July 11).
Cornell, Lauren. "Two Questions for Wu Tsang," Rhizome (June 22).
Cotter, Holland. "Wu Tsang," The New York Times (July 8).
Fitzpatrick, Corrine. "Critics' Picks," Artforum.com (June).
Lightbody, Kimberly. "BashCompactor: Wu Tsang's Clan," (June 29).
McGarry, Kevin. "Wu Tsang: Body Quotations, Back-Breaking Sparkle and the Dissemination of Wildness," Mousse (Fall). Schneider, Anja Isabel. "Wu Tsang," Kaleidoscope (Fall).
Scoccimarro, Antonio. "Preview: Wu Tsang," Mousse (Summer).
Simpson, Ashley W. "Silver Screen," Interview (June/July).
Tozer, Gillian. "When Tables Turn: The Table at the New Museum," Opening Ceremony, June 24.
Vargas, Chris. "Interview: Wu Tsang," Original Plumbing (February 20).
2010
Geyer, Andrea, and Sharon Hayes, eds. "In Conversation with Wu Tsang and Mary Kelly, Switzerland." New York: Clifton Benevento.
2009
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity and Sports. New York: Independent Curators International. Cotter, Holland. "Tainted Love," The New York Times (June 19).
2008
Ball, Katie Brewer. "In Sight, Out of Focus: Marriage, the Union of Wu Tsang and Math Bass," PSi #14 (August).
Bordowitz, Gregg. "Sentiment, Belief, and Medium," Film, Avant-Garde and Biopolitics Conference, Vienna (January). Coburn, Tyler. "Then and Now: Desire on Screen," rhizome.org (August 5).
2006
Wolf, Matt. "New Live Queer Art" in The Uncertain States of America Reader, Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis, eds. Berlin: Sternberg Press.