Moyan Wang

Moyan Wang was born in China in the year 2000 and is currently an MFA student at UNC–Chapel Hill. She uses ceramics, painting, and sculpture to explore the intersections of personal, social, and historical trauma in China and the Chinese diaspora, drawing connections between the private and the public, the mythological and the realistic. Using materials and objects with rich cultural histories, she creates enigmatic metaphors for unspoken stories.

She graduated with a BA from Northwestern University and received the Graduate Merit Fellowship from UNC–Chapel Hill. Her work has been featured in Beijing Design Week, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Royal West of England Academy Biennial, and the Ambition Award exhibition in Shanghai.

Using diverse materials with deep cultural significance in China’s collective memory, she addresses themes of immigration, diaspora, gender, surveillance, and resistance. Her art is haunted by the atmosphere of silence and restraint, shaped by the experience of living under the stigmatization of trauma. Through layers of encrypted symbolism, she aims to evoke the weight of history endured by individuals like herself.


Instagram: @moyanwang.art