Xueli Wang

Writer & PhD Candidate

United States

Portfolio

Scholarship

Criticism

Aperture
06/12/2023
The Possibility of Home

Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.

Artforum International
07/29/2022
Ashes of Time

Chan Tze-woon's past and future Hong Kong

Art in America
05/01/2019
Community of Wanderers

For filmmaker Jia Zhangke, China's embrace of mass consumerism is offset, however violently, by ancient social bonds.

Art in America
12/01/2018
China's Photographic Memory

These works are part of an ongoing effort among Chinese artists to restore photography's diminishing power over memory.

Los Angeles Review of Books
05/24/2018
Hong Sang-soo's Dream Time

On Hong Sang-soo's The Day After and the filmmaker's place in slow cinema.

Art in America
05/01/2018
Qiu Anxiong

Qiu Anxiong works in various mediums but is perhaps best known for his animations that adopt the aesthetic of Chinese ink painting. His desire to turn traditional painting into moving images is at the same time a desire to defamiliarize video and critique contemporary realities through ancient sensibilities.

Art in America
03/01/2018
Patty Chang

Patty Chang's show at the Queens Museum, her most expansive to date, encompassed video, photography, glass sculpture, ephemera, and an artist's book.

Taipei Times / 台北時報
03/04/2016
Cinephilia lives on in Taipei's cafes

Toward the end of Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn, an aged film star half whispers to another: "No one goes to the movies anymore. And no one remembers us anymore."

Exhibitions & Programs

Metrograph
12/29/2023
Spacked Out q&a

A conversation with actress Christy Cheung on the opening night of Spacked Out 無人駕駛 (2000) at Metrograph, New York, with translation by Tom Chan.

Museum of Modern Art
11/05/2023
Six Decades: A Chronology

An annotated chronology of the life and work of photographer An-My Lê, published in the MoMA exhibition catalogue "An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers."

Grants & Fellowships

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
12/01/2022
Xueli Wang - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant

Xueli Wang's article "Poetics of Interiority in Asian American Photography" will examine Asian American photographers whose work eschew historical flash points to linger instead over the long stretches of ordinary life in between-offering visions of the familiar and familial, daily routines and domestic interiors, quotidian intimacies and private yearnings.