Alex Wang-Chung
Visual arts
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Ceramics
My location: Vancouver, Canada
Alex Wang-Chung
First Name: Alex
Last Name: Wang-Chung
University / College: Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Course / Program: Visual arts
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Ceramics
My Location: Vancouver, Canada
About
Alex Wang-Chung is a Canadian artist based in Burnaby, BC on the unceded and ancestral lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He works primarily in ceramics, and has a BFA at Emily Carr University of Art & Design (2026). His work focuses on representing urban and domestic spaces and their relationship to people and animals, as well as identity through vessel and sculptural wheel thrown forms. Alex has exhibited in group exhibitions at Emily Carr, as well as received a scholarship for a month-long residency at Medalta. Additionally, his work has received support from the Kerry Black scholarship.
Amber Charlize and I chose to make this piece in collaboration because of our interests in different aspects of city life. For Amber, it was the animals and her relationship to them, transcendent of language or communication as humans do with one another. I was interested in urban infrastructure, and the different ways that they obstruct or alleviate pathways. Combining our interests--mine in wheel thrown large scale vessels, and Amber's in ceramic sculpture--this project culminated into an observation on Vancouver crows, using the site of Still Creek (a major roosting spot for crows) as research. Through time spent looking at crows and noticing the ways they move in and out of Still Creek, our project is an interpretation of these behaviours, which we found were not dissimilar at all to the ways that humans move. A gathering of crows experiencing death and grief destabilizes human exceptionalism, and the idea that humans are the only ones with capabilities to feel and communicate with complexity.
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