AlbertWang

Albert [Abdul-Barr] Wang


Los Angeles, CA
About

Albert [Abdul-Barr] Wang is a Los Angeles-based conceptual photographer, tapestry, painter, sculptor, and installation artist. His projects focus on historical and economic archives, glitches in artificial intelligence and speculative themes as related to Afro and Asian identities, surveillance, post-language relating to science fiction, capitalist machinery, and the architectonics and commodification of sociopolitical violence via technology and social media.



Wang was born in Brooklyn, New York City. Currently he is a MFA student in art at the ArtCenter College of Design. He received his BFA in Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah; also he has exhibited at Postmasters Gallery, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Filter Space, Equity Gallery, Texas Photographic Society, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Also he has been an artist-in-residence at the School for Visual Arts and a recipient of the Working Artist Org grant.

Books by Albert [Abdul-Barr] Wang