Selected Exhibitions and Invited Projects

2010

• Printervention: Printing for the Public, a Versionfest project, Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.
  
• Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me It’s Raining, apexart, New York, curated by Bad at Sports.
  In collaboration with Compass: Precious Cargo, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, Paul Sargent, curator.

2009

• Without You I Am Nothing, Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, Anne Elizabeth Moore, curator.
• Copy Me, public art project, SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna, Austria, Beatrix Zobl, curator.
• 39 Verbs, a project of Industry of the Ordinary, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago.
• Demise, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, Faheem Majeed, curator.
• In collaboration with Compass: Heartland, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Charles Esche, Kerstin Niemann, Stephanie Smith, curators.

2008

• Song of Returning, Art of This, Minneapolis.
• Looking For Democracy Postcard Project, with Journal of Ordinary Thought and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
• Henry Darger Inventory, cover, Paper & Carriage, no. 3, Chicago.

2007

• Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Tricia Van Eck, curator.
• Continuum 6, inova, Milwaukee, Ariana Huggett, curator.
• Domestic Struggle, Part 2, Roots & Culture, Chicago.

2006

• Distance, ShengHua Art Center, Nanjing, China. Jennifer Jaia Chen, curator.
• Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Allison Peters, curator.
• Paper Politics, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn. Josh MacPhee, curator.

2005

• Dan S. Wang/Amos Paul Kennedy, Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein, Austria.
• Making Ends Meet, Little Black Pearl, Chicago. Theaster Gates, curator.
• Mutations in Print: Terry Couch, Michael Koppa, Dan S. Wang, Pump House Regional Arts Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2004

• BALTIMORE/CHICAGO SHOW, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Kerry James Marshall, curator.

2003

• Solo exhibition: Profit at the Margin: A Case Study, Suitable Gallery, Chicago.
• Alumni Letterpress Printing and Artists’ Books, Golda Meir Library, Milwaukee. Max Yela, curator.
• Copy Cat, Art Academy of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Brett Bloom and Lars Bang Larsen, curators.

2002

• Tell Me A Story: Amos Kennedy, Jr., Carl Pope, and Dan S. Wang, Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Caren Heft, curator.
• Here and Now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago. Gregory Knight, Marianne Richter, James Rondeau, and Lanny Silverman, curators.
• 305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us Fort Gondo, St. Louis. Shannon Fitzgerald and Jenny Strayer, curators.

2001

• Letterpress Prints at the Cortona International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy. John Risseeuw, organizer.

2000

• Book and Paper Arts Biennial 2000, Columbia College, Chicago.
• Rockford Midwestern Juried Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois. James Yood, juror.

1999

• Solo exhibition: Roots of High Tech, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee. Anne Kingsbury, curator.
• Three Alumni, Boliou Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
• Letterpress Prints, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

1998

• 8th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibit: 1997 R.O.C., Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 1998 Stateline Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois.
• Clemson National Juried Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University,
• Clemson, South Carolina. Eleanor Heartney, Juror.

1997

• Graduate Exhibition, inova, UW–Milwaukee, Milwaukee.
• Letterpress Printing and Artists’ Books, Golda Meir Library, Milwaukee.
• Davidson National Juried Print Exhibition, Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina.
• Blue River Invitational, Blue River Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida.
• Multiple Talents IX, ARTS Iowa City, Iowa City, Iowa

1995

• Generation X: New Art From Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum. Dean Sobel, curator.

Selected Published Writings

2010

• “Winter Encounter At The Boggs Center,” Journal of Radical Shimming, no. 9, Portland.
• “Looking, Listening, Making, and Singing the Brightness of Our Common Dark Future,” catalogue essay, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee.

2009

• “Translocal Movement Energy from the Upper Midwest,” Heartland catalogue essay, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago.
• AREA #9 Peripheral Vision, co-editor.
• “Just Seeds: Collectivism in a Culture Machine,” catalogue essay, Union Gallery, Milwaukee.
• “Just Seeds: Collectivism in a Culture Machine,” ART WORK, a project of Temporary Services, Cleveland.
• “Notes on Fang Ling-an’s Obsession,” gallery text, Hyde Park Art Center.

2008

• “Five Notes on Taxis,” HaHa Book, WhiteWalls, Chicago.
• “Notes on Generation Monkey,” AREA no. 6, Chicago.
• “More Reflections on the MRCC/Drift: Driftless Area,” in A Call to Farms, Heavy Duty Press, Viroqua, Wisconsin.
• “The Initiatives Around Us, Regionally,” catalogue essay, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• “Letter to Laura: Remembering Paul Wellstone,” Journal of Radical Shimming, no. 6, Portland.
• “Continental Drift through the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor, Proximity, no. 2, Chicago.
• “Finding, Being the Radical Midwest,” Journal of Radical Shimming, no. 4, Portland.
• “You Want Art? I Give You Revolution,” SITE, no. 22-23, Stockholm.

2007

• “Kerry James Marshall’s Rythm Mastr,” Documenta 12 catalogue, Kassel, Germany.
• “Conversation with a Reflection: Critical Art and the Avant-Garde of China,” in ‘……’ (Dots and Quotes) #2, New York.

2006

• “There Is a War Going On,” a text for Underfire, I-Space, Chicago.
• “Daley Plaza: Notes on a Public Space,” a project of Paul Druecke in cooperation with the Department of Public Art, Chicago.

2005

• “New Solidarities,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, no. 4, Los Angeles.
• MESS HALL: What It Is (After the First Year),” Journal For Northeast Issues, no. 4, Hamburg.
• “Walking Woodlawn,” In the Weather, no. 1, Chicago.

2004

• Downtime at the Experimental Station: A Conversation with Dan Peterman, Temporary Services, Chicago. Excerpt published in “Dan Peterman: Works and Projects,” (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
• “In Their Own Words,” NYFA Current
• Top Ten List for 2004, Coterie, no. 1, Chicago.
• “Notes on LAND: position N 41° 47′ 58′′, E 87° 36′ 23″,” in BOOK, a project of N55, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen. Reprinted in “Terra Form,” WhiteWalls No. 45, Chicago. Co-authored with Sarah Van Orman.

2003

• “Practice in Critical Times,” Art Journal, Summer, New York.

2002

• “Culture & Conflict Group,” catalogue essay, Gallery 400, University of Illinois–Chicago.
• “Project History,” New Art Examiner, vol. 29 no. 5, Chicago.
• “Revolutions Per Minute,” (review), Ten by Ten, vol. 2 no. 1, Chicago.
• “medium(s),” (review), ARTasiapacific, no. 32, New York.
• “Notes on the 12-inch,” Surplus (surplusculture.net), vol. 1, Chicago. 2001
• “Alternative As We Wannabe,” (letter to the editor), New Art Examiner, vol. 29 no. 2, Chicago.
• “Quality Over Cool,” Pole, vol. 1, no. 1, Milwaukee.
• “Compound Fracture,” (extended review), New Art Examiner, vol. 29 no. 1, Chicago.
• “Susan Buck-Morss’s Dreamworld and Catastrophe,” (review), Ten by Ten, vol. 1 no. 3, Chicago.
• “Canceled,” (review), New Art Examiner, vol. 28 no. 6, Chicago.
• “Kerry James Marshall–Agent of Change,” New Art Examiner, vol. 28 no. 5, Chicago.

2000

• Contributor, “Scope,” Ten by Ten, vol. 1 no. 2, Chicago.
• “Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman,” (extended review), New Art Examiner, vol. 28 no. 2, Chicago.
• “Hoopla in Wicker Park,” (letter to the editor), New Art Examiner, vol. 27 no. 10, Chicago.
• “Printmaking: Hegemony and Body Knowledge,” Journal of the Mid-America Print Council, vol. 6 no. 2, Iowa City.
• “Gross Attack,” (letter to the editor), New Art Examiner, vol. 25 no. 5, Chicago.

Invited Lecturer, Panelist, Critic, Juror

2010

• “Radical Corridors and the Ethics of Scale,” Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City.
• Meta-Mentors: DIY, College Art Association, Chicago.
• “Neoliberal Illusion: Penglai and Detroit,” Red76 Pop-Up Book Academy, California College of Art, San Francisco.
• “Paul and Poor Peoples’ Movements,” Red76 Pop-Up Book Academy, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
• Compass Stories: Detroit and Danville, China and Canada, Public Address, Los Angeles.
• “Motor City Illusions, Fairytales Driven Over The Sea,” Space RE:solutions conference, Vienna, Austria.
• A Way of Drifting, UW-Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

2009

• “Gender and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art and Media,” symposium discussant, Columbia College Chicago.
• SOHO Appendix: Gerald Raunig, Gregory Sholette, Dan S. Wang. Vienna, Austria.
• “Activism and the Culture Industry in the City of the Anxious Bourgeoisie,” Project Lodge, Madison.
• Report Back From Vienna, Mess Hall, Chicago.
• “What Do Places Have To Do With It,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

2008

• “China Love, from a Different Perspective,” The Depot, Vienna, Austria.
• “Art and Revolution: A Dialogue with Gerald Raunig,” InCUBATE, Chicago.
• “New Art from China and the ’89 Social Movement,” Franklin’s VDC, Columbus.
• “Past and Futures, Still: Feel Tank, AREA, and the Big Questions,” Experimental Station, Chicago.
• “What Is The MRCC,” Red76’s Battery Republic, New York.
• “I Shall Create: Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz, and Dan S. Wang,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

2007

• “The Many Colors of Black Aesthetics,” documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
• Visiting Critic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• Visiting Critic, interdisciplinary graduate critiques, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• “Complementary Bankruptcies: Activism and Art,” Reed College, Portland.
• “Pathogeographies: Listen and Feel,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
• “America’s Misperception: A Dialogue with Floyd Atkins,” Experimental Station, Chicago.

2006

• Visiting Critic, course: final critiques, Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago.
• “Troubled Life on the Wagon Train,” a lecture for Marginal Travel, a series at Mess Hall, Chicago.
• “Social Art and Chinese Experimental Avant-Garde: An Argument or Engagement,” Red76 Laundry Lecture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• “Complementary Bankruptcies: Activism and Art,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore.

2005

• “Group Formation at Mess Hall: Marginal, in Relation to What?” and “Complementary Bankruptcies: Activism and Art,” at the symposium Dual Commitment–Doppelte Kommunikation, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Radio Kulturhaus, Vienna, and Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria.
• “On Chinese Mountain Water Landscapes,” Artists Connect, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
• Visiting Critic, course: Advanced Sculpture, Instructor: Dan Peterman, Univeristy of Illinois–Chicago.
• “Vision, Media, Memory: A Student Panel,” guest discussant, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
• “Art and Diasporic Experience,” Christopher U. Light Lecture in the Arts, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

2004

• “Coming Together Again,” paper delivered for the session “Aesthetics, Politics and the Counter-Globalization Movement,” College Art Association, Seattle.
• Juror, Juventus, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago.

2003

• Visiting Critic, course: Advanced Painting, Instructor: Kerry James Marshall, University of Illinois–Chicago.

2002

• Nominator, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Individual Artists.
• “Chicago Art in the Global Mix: Dan S. Wang, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Romi Crawford, James Rondeau,” Chicago Cultural Center.
• Class Studio Visit, course: Real World, Instructors: Alison Ruttan and Stephanie Smith, University of Chicago.

2001

• “Seen/Scene: A Discussion With Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, Michelle Grabner, Jennifer Reeder, and Dan S. Wang,” The Stray Show, Chicago.
• Visiting Critic, Graduate Student Final Critique, University of Illinois–Chicago.

1999

• Visiting Artist Slide Lecture, Instuctor: Leslie Vansen, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
• Class Studio Visit, Instructor: Fred Hagstrom, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago.
• Senior Faculty Reviewer, Carleton College Art Department, Northfield, Minnesota.

1998

• Panel Chair, “Artifacts in the Expanded Field,” at Public Showing, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Milwaukee.

1997

• Artist-in-Residence, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
• Juror, Visual Arts Classic–Southeastern Regional, Milwaukee.

Curated Projects, Performances, Public Interventions

2009

• Shanghype!: Film, Video, and Animation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Co-curated with Davide Quadrio, ArtHub Asia. 2007–09
• Curator, Talking Point monthly artist event series, Hyde Park Art Center.

2007

• Journal of Radical Shimming, 3.1: a translation and guerilla dissemination project, Shanghai.

2005

• Curator , Geography of War, an interactive project by Harold Mendez, Mess Hall, Chicago.

2004

• Dan S. Wang’s Errand Walk for Free Walking, a project of Bonnie Fortune, Chicago.
• 1000 Posters, Mess Hall, Chicago.
• “The Pathology of Surplus,” a reading and public discussion with David L. Hoyt, Mess Hall.
• Selections–A Set List of Recorded Music: “Revelations” by Sam Gould, Mess Hall.
• Selections–A Set List of Recorded Music: “Against The Grain,” Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Mess Hall.
• Selections–A Set List of Recorded Music: “The Art of the Mixtape,” Alan Jacobson, Mess Hall.
• Selections–A Set List of Recorded Music: “Screaming in Music,” , Mess Hall. 2003
• Selections–A Set List of Recorded Music: “1984,” Mess Hall.

2003–06

• Co-founder and keyholder, Mess Hall, Chicago.

2002

• “Public Planning: LAND–a project initiated by N55,” public discussion with Michelle Grabner, Brad Killam, and Brett Bloom, Chicago.

2000

• 63rd and Woodlawn Poster Project, public display, Chicago.
• Flaubert, dictionary of the usual, collaboration with Alan Sondheim, net art multiple distributed at Bookends symposium, SUNY–Albany, New York.

Teaching Experience and Awards

2007

• Contemporary Issues in Printmaking, Department of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago.

2009

• Part-time Faculty Development Travel Grant, Columbia College Chicago.

2007

• Part-time Faculty Research Grant, Columbia College Chicago.

2006

• Community Arts Assistance Program individual grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

2004

• Visiting Artist for Special Topics Graduate Seminar: Racial and National Identity in 20th Century Visual Culture, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Spring semester.

1997

• 97-98 Layton Special Achievement Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• 1997-98 Layton Fellowship, UW-Milwaukee.
• 1997-98 Non-resident Tuition Remission Award, UW-Milwaukee.

1996

• Work Award, Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop, Beresford, South Dakota.

1995

• Book Arts Workshop Assistant, UW-Milwaukee, 1995-97.

Bilbliography

• Nykeya Woods, “Wang’s Art Takes Over,” Hyde Park Herald, 5/31/06.
• David L. Hoyt, “Art Underground,” surplusculture.net, vol. 3, 1/03.
• Maurice Lee, “Arts series focuses on pair of local issues,” Hyde Park Herald, 8/29/02.
• Peggy Hong, “Ephemera for the 21st Century,” Art Muscle, June/July 1995.
• James Auer, “X Marks No Particular Spot For Young Artists,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/25/95.

Education

• Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1997.
• Special Certificate in Printmaking and Folk Arts, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, People’s Republic of China, 1994.
• Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1990.
• Member in good standing, College Art Association, 1997-.
• Languages: Fluent English, proficient spoken Mandarin, rudimentary German literacy.