Chinese · b. 1990
Painting
Xiao Wang is a figurative painter born in China and based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates evocative, moody portraits and scenes rooted in everyday life, often characterized by theatrical lighting and exaggerated color palettes that lend his work an uncanny, dreamlike quality. His practice explores the emotional dissonance of the immigrant experience and contemporary anxieties. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute.