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‘If Rothko polished the world to an icy emptiness, Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang tunes it to melodic perfection.’
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Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang is a Taiwanese-Australian interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the liminal tension between dualities — East and West, logic and intuition, the visceral and the ephemeral. Born in Taiwan in 1979 and raised in Australia, she spent her childhood wandering the noisy compound of her grandfather’s factory on the outskirts of Taipei before migrating to Perth at age ten. She later earned a double degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, and worked for several years in the mining industry before returning to her creative roots and completing a degree in Contemporary Art.
Annie’s paintings, sculptures, and installations have been exhibited internationally — in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Her work has received broad media coverage and is held in public, private, and corporate collections around the globe. She is the recipient of awards such as the NAVA Ignition Prize and the Young Artist with Artitude Award, and has been a finalist in prestigious exhibitions including the Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Informed by her bicultural heritage and contemplative practice, Annie’s visual language moves between precision and intuition. Her paintings —abstract and meditative — explore the sublime and the numinous, inviting viewers into a liminal space of stillness, silence, and spiritual inquiry. Through sculpture and installation, she extends this vision outward, addressing humanity’s relationship with the natural world and the urgent ecological crises we face.
Whether through pigment or material, her work is an ongoing inquiry into what it means to be human — a poetic investigation that spans the physical and metaphysical, the seen and unseen. She is also the author of several archaeological adventure novels. To explore her writing, visit ahwangauthor.com.
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Catalogues:
Somnium Catalogue, 2014
Out of the Blue Catalogue, 2014
Origins Catalogue, 2013
Within Silence Catalogue, 2013
Illume Catalogue, 2010
Discordant Natures Catalogue, 2009
Press:
Tatler Asia, 22nd October 2022
ARTouch (Taiwan), 22nd July 2022
Gina Studio Podcast (Taiwan), 14th July 2022
Yuan Magazine (Taiwan), Sep/Oct 2017
China Times (Taiwan), 3rd March 2017
This Month in Taiwan (Taiwan), February 2017
Belle magazine (Australia), November 2014
Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang’s Origins: Leaving Reason, Gaining Insight) – Art Collection + Design (Taiwan), Zheng Fang-He, July 2013
Merit Times (Taiwan), 18th July 2013
ArtCo – (Taiwan), August 2013
Abstract Origins – Asian Art News (Hong Kong), Vol. 23 No. 4 July/August 2013
Liberty Times (Taiwan), 28th July 2013
States of Mind – Asian Art News (Hong Kong), Vol. 21 No. 6 November/December 2011
Something for everyone – The West Australian, R. Spencer, 15th October 2010
Illuminating abstract – Asian Art News (Hong Kong), Vol. 20 No. 5 September/October 2010
Prayer on a g-string – The West Australian, R. Spencer, 18th September 2009
Uneasy bodies of work – The Wire Mag (Australia), J. Bahr, 10th September 2009
The West Australian – S. Bevis (Australia), 18th July 2009
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