A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
Portrait of Pei-Hsuan Wang, an adult Taiwanese-American person with a medium-fair skin tone and dark shoulder-length hair, in an art studio space.

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Pei-Hsuan Wang

Assistant Professor

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Bio

Pei-Hsuan Wang’s (she/her) practice traces kinship shaped by migration, memory, and the interplay between personal and canonized histories. Weaving together bio(mytho)graphical narratives, folklore, and cultural artifacts born of Asia-Pacific geopolitics, her work reflects on how meaning is carried and reconstructed across generations. Through sculpture, installation, video, drawing, and public intervention, Wang navigates migratory restlessness, incorporating materials ranging from sancai ceramics and institutionally loaned objects to motorized mechanisms.

Exhibitions

Pei-Hsuan Wang has presented work at institutions, project spaces, biennials and triennials, and galleries including Braake Grond, Amsterdam, NL; Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL; Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, NL; Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, BE; Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, BE; Rhizoma Biennial at MASEREEL, Kasterlee, BE; Kortrijk Triennial, Kortrijk, BE; Beaufort Triennial, Belgian coastline, BE; STUK Leuven, Leuven, BE; Publiek Park, Antwerp, BE; Ballon Rouge Collective, Brussels, BE; Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, BE; Good Weather, Chicago, US; and Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, TW, among others.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

A course that expands on the concept of the vessel as both a literal and a metaphorical form. Through cultural and historical references - including artifacts, historical records, speculative fictions, and alternative narratives - we will explore how vessels trace and express individualized identities and worldviews. Students will develop a series of ceramic-based works, using research, imagination, and technical skill to connect personal experiences to broader contexts. The technical knowledge introduced in this course will be tailored to each student¿s project needs, with the instructor providing guidance through demos and technique sharing to support individual exploration.

Class Number

1354

Credits

3

Description

This course offers advanced students a forum for critiques and discussion of contemporary ceramic directions. Emphasis is placed on individual development through complex integration of technology and information. Field trips and artists' studio tours provide a format for extensive dialogue. Students with a studio in the department are highly encouraged to enroll in this class.

Class Number

2085

Credits

3

Description

This interdisciplinary seminar introduces graduate students from any department to key historical and contemporary issues in the overlapping fields of Contemporary Ceramics. MFA students in this course will learn to navigate both the school community and its resources, as well as the Chicago art scene. Through readings, critical discussions, evaluations, field trips, and presentations, students will expand and deepen their understanding of studio professional practice. Coursework includes engagement with critical theory and the development of methods for analyzing and creatively responding to these theories. Students will also have access to the Ceramics Department to work independently on clay-focused projects. Students are expected to present research or studio work for critiques throughout the semester.

Class Number

2063

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2084

Credits

3