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1982
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Wu Tsang was born in Worcester, Massachussetts, in the northeastern United States.
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She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ( SAIC )
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2004
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She graduated with a Bachelor in Art..
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She continued her studies at the University of California Los Angeles.
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2010
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She holds a Master's degree ( Fine Arts Department )
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Filmmaker, activist and artist, she explores the issues of transgender identity
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and queer communities, through installation, performance, filmmaking, sculpture.
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2011
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First solo exhibition in New York : Damelo Todo ( Give Me Everything ) - VHD Video
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with sound, 20 min - adaptation of a short story by Raquel Gutierrez telling the story
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of an Salvadorian teenager who took refuge in a transgender bar, befriended customers
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and began performing on stage in nightclub shows.
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2012
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She shot Wildness, a 75mn feature film showing the conflict between a queer colored
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group and the group of artists who came to do a performance at the Silver Platter,
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Los Angeles'transgender bar frequented by the LGTB community immigrant mostly
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Latino.
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Presented during the fortnight of MOMA's documentary, it introduced the artist
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to the public and won the Grand Jury Prize at OUTFEST Los Angeles.
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2013
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Breakdown Kelela - Asland Mines - Wu Tsang - a performance using voice, sound, light.
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The Tate Modern United Kingdom.
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2014
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A Day of the Life of Bliss - Video, 3 projections, colour and stereo sound, 20mn 25 s
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The Tate Modern United Kingdom
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You're Dead to Me - created on PBS won the Imagen Short Film Award.
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2015
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Premiere of Duilian, an experimental film about the legendary revolutionary feminist
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Chinese Qiu Jin ( 秋瑾 1875-1907 ), following the two three-month residencies,
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at the Spring Workshop Hong Kong China.
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2018
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Into a Space of Love, the first of a four-part film project, in partnership with Frieze Magazine
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in which Wu Tsang shows how house music has been created by queer communities,
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then appropriated by white cultures.
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2020
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First exhibition in France, in France, at LafayetteAnticipations Paris : Visionary Company.
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In this project, built around a monumental video installation The show is over, a kind of opera,
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dancers move to the rhythm of the text of of the poet's and academician's African-American
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Fred Moten, revealing stories of marginalized communities.
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She lives and works in Los Angeles United States.
Danièle Sicard
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2010
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California Biennial Orange County Museum of Art Los Angeles United States
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2012
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Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum New York United States
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2012
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Liverpool Biennial Liverpool United Kingdom
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2012
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Gwangju Biennial Gwangju Korea
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2012
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The Ungovernables New Museum Triennial New York United States
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2016
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12.03 22.05 Duilan Solo exhibition Spring Workshop Hong Kong China
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2017
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23.09 02.11 Sustained Glass Solo exhibition Antenna Space Shanghai China
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2018
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Wu Tsang - Fafswag - Watermelon Sisters cinéma Centre Pompidou Paris France
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2019
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04.09 12.01 There Is No Nonviolent Way To Look At Somebody solo exhibition
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Martin Gropius Bau Berlin Germany
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2020
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21.10 03.01 2021 Wu Tsang Solo exhibition Lafayette Anticipations Paris France
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Wu Tsang - Visionary Company - LafayetteAnticipations Paris 21.10 2020 03.01 2021
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Wu Tsang - Into a Space of Love - the first film in a four-part series collaboration with Frieze-Gucci Stories
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