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Wonbin Yang is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores interconnected inquiries into what counts as life, time, reality, and how existence emerges within different configurations. Born in Seoul and based in the Chicago area, Yang works across sculpture, robotics, moving image, installation, drawing, and documentation.
One of his ongoing projects, Species series, begun in 2009 received the New Face Award at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival and has been presented internationally at institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; The National Art Center, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad; Art Center Nabi, Seoul.
The series has been discussed in publications including Emerging Affinities: Possible Futures of Performative Arts (transcript Verlag), Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines (Routledge), and Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life (Thames & Hudson). It was also featured on NHK’s ETV program 2355, broadcast nationally in Japan.
Yang received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. His honors also include the Publikumspreis at Begehungen Art Festival and the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship.