Bio
Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist, designer, curator, chronically online researcher, and compulsive overthinker currently based in Toronto, Canada. His work critically engages with digital aesthetics, invisible labor, and algorithmic culture, addressing our entanglement within the attention economy. Spanning photographic collage, video, animation, and installation, his practice explores how contemporary digital culture and technology influences our ways of being under the spell of neoliberal capitalism, humorously trying to process his own productivity dysmorphia. His research-driven projects, Digital Landfill and Performative Digital Bodies, examine the cycle of production and consumption facilitated through desires and immediate gratifications. Wu has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and has exhibited internationally in Canada, the U.S., and Korea. He holds an MFA from OCAD University and is committed to fostering critical discourse on digital culture and imagemaking.
Degrees
2017 – 2019 | MFA in Interdisciplinary Master of Art, Media, and Design, OCAD U | Toronto, CA
2012 – 2016 | BA in Media Study & BA in Photography, SUNY- Buffalo | Buffalo, US