Wang Xin (; born 1983) is a Chinese artist whose artworks take the form of installations, moving images, and new media.

Biography

Wang was born in Yichang,

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, China and currently lives and works in

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. She graduated from

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with a B.F.A. in 2007, then went on to earn her master's degree from the

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in 2011. In 2007, Xin received the Pierre Huber Creation Prize Award of Excellence. Galleries, artists, art agents, and artworks are often the subject of her work. Wang is also a certified hypnotist and has explored using hypnosis in her art. With an interest in

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, she has tried to use self-hypnosis to achieve these dreams. In 2014, Xin founded the 8HZ Hypnosis Lab in Imago Kinetics' Art Center in

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. 8ZH is an artistic project focusing on spontaneous inner vision by using hypnosis methods and experimenting with the possibilities of hypnosis in art. She is also the founder of The Gallery, an alternative art space/system. Her work frequently uses language to challenge the status of the artist and the functioning of the art market. In 2016, Xin had a solo show at the de Sarthe Gallery called ''Every Artist Should Have A Solo Show.'' Her works in this show were part of her "Rose-Color" series, which are about the art world and its systems. The colour pink is used to mark her artwork and projects related to these topics, because Xin feels that it matches the feeling of the art world. It also adds to the hypnotizing effect and gives a sense of fervency to her work. Some of her works include bold slogans about her own position and relation to the art world, which contain a sense of sarcasm or irony. Her second solo show, ''The Must-See Art Show Where You Can Find 10,000 Artists,'' focuses on the structure of the art world through its institutions, systems, and dogma. Both exhibitions consisted of multiple interactive, site-specific installations that encouraged participation once visitors entered the gallery.

List of solo exhibitions

Other solo exhibitions from Xin include: * ''Let's Play in the Name of Art'', Antenna Space, Shanghai (2013) * ''The Gallery'', C-Space, Beijing (2014) * ''8 HZ Hypnosis lab'', MoCA Pavilion Shanghai, China (2015) * ''Every Artist Should Have a Solo Show'',de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing (2016) * ''Unknown Artists Agency'', K11 Art Village, Wuhan (2018) * ''Maybe It’s Time To Refresh the Art World A Little Bit'', chi K11 Art Space, Hong Kong (2019) * ''In the Flow of Becoming - An Awakening Art Log from a Fictional AI Artist (2022)

References

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