Will Kwan
Title: Canaries (the bank and the treasury) Effigy Tower
Medium :Lightjet print, transmounted
Dimensions: 30 x 48”
Date of Production: 2007
Edition: AP 1
Estimated Market Value: $800
Bio:
Will Kwan makes art that takes a critical view on the visual and material culture of globalization and examines the sociopolitical and cultural consequences of how the ‘global’ is represented. Kwan is interested in the iconography and vocabulary that shapes our impressions of a synchronized, impartial, and frictionless world economy, but even more so in the omissions and contradictions that haunt our ‘global pictures.’ His research is also an idiosyncratic study of globalization as an historical experience of intercultural encounter and exchange at the level of politics, identity, and daily life.
Will Kwan was born in 1978 in Hong Kong. He received his MFA from
Columbia University in 2004 and from 2005-2006 was a research fellow at
the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His work has
been presented at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the 2003 Venice
Biennale, the 2007 Montreal Biennale, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art and
Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Art in General in New York, The
Power Plant and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto, The Western
Front in Vancouver, the Irish Museun of Modern Art in Dublin, the
Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, the Polish National Museum in Poznan.
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