Biography
Xaunlynn Wang (b. 1994 TW) is an artist based in Antwerp. Working across material-based practice, photography, printmaking, and performance. She graduated in Costume Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2020, receiving the Prizes Lon Landau and Andrei Ivaneanu, as well as the Horlait-Dapsens Prize from the Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Foundations.
That same year, she presented a solo exhibition at Raf Van Severen Gallery. Her performance project “To Be a Plant in the Botanical Garden” (2021), realized with Friends of SMAK Museum in Ghent, and performance and solo exhibition “To Be a Plant in the Gallery” (2022) at Life is Art Gallery. She later held a one-year research position at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2022.
Her photography series “Non-Being” gained international visibility through selection by Photo VOGUE Taipei (2023) in Taiwan. She later presented the solo exhibition “Environmental Consciousness” at Life is Art Gallery in Belgium in 2024.
Artist statement
Xuanlynn Wang (b. 1994 TW) works across a material-based practice, photography, and performance to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. Her works is influenced by the subtle, fleeting moments around the surrounding.
Through the synthesis of these mediums, she develops a distinctive visual language that invites reflection on the intrinsic beauty of the organic world and our deep connection to it. Her works create a dialogue between image and natural materials, merging environmental presence with artistic expression.
Her practice evokes an emotional awareness of time and nature—how they continuously shape and reshape the textures of our everyday surroundings.
Exhibition
2025 Group exhibition, Fundraiser for Palestine, Antwerp. BE
2025 Group exhibition, Headspace, Brussels. BE
2024 Group exhibition, 30x40, LifeisArt gallery, Antwerp. BE
2024 Solo exhibition, Environmental consciousness, LifeisArt gallery. Antwerp. BE
2023 Photo VOGUE Taipei talented artist selection group exhibition, TW
2023 Duo exhibition, ‘Raw’, at Hoogstraat 37, Antwerp. BE
2022 Solo exhibition, '10's of non-being', toitoitoi coffee, Antwerp. BE
2022 Solo exhibition, To be a plant in the gallery, LifeisArt gallery. Antwerp. BE
2021 3D Virtual group exhibition “Arte & Natureza: poéticas e pedagogias da Mãe Terra”, Arte & Natureza. BR
2021 Virtual Group exhibition "Bloom", Surface Gallery. UK
2020 Solo exhibition at Raf Van Severen gallery. Antwerp. BE
2020 Group exhibition at LifeisArt gallery. Antwerp. BE
Performance
2022 “whatashittyworld’, the other space, Antwerp, BE
2022 ”To be a plant in the gallery’’, Lifeisart Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2021 "Tell me yourself, I will tell you mine", onboards.biennale 2021, Antwerp, BE
2021 "To be a plant in the botanical garden. Gent" friends of SMAK museum. Gent, BE
2020 Bio;O performance premier, Antwerp, BE
Award
2020 Prizes Lon Londau from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2020 Prizes Jat en Andrei Ivaneanu from Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2020 Prizes Horlait-Dapsens from Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Foundation
2020 Prizes TEKENMARATHON/OFF second prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Publication
2022 ‘what a shitty world’, 7 limited edition, self-published, BE
2022 '10's of non-being' self-published, BE
2021 'Artificial Natural' 250 copies, BE
2020 "WANG XUAN LIN"- Human nature, BE
2020 XAUNLINWANG WORKING DIARY No.01- No.11, Antwerp, BE
Featured in a publication
2024 Wabisabi Magazine, Issue 18, Creator “ Seek the True Meaning of Creation and Explore Your True Self“
2021 Publiek Park featured 'To be a plant in the botanical garden' page-artist Xuanlynn Wang
2020 Metropolis M 'Eindexamens 2020' page-15.
Interview
2021 'To be a plant: A conversation with Xuanlynn Wang', Inooknit blog, TW
2021 Podcast "How to study costume design in art?", midnight Royal, TW x UK x BE
