Wang Tuo (b. 1984, Changchun, lives and works in Beijing) graduated from Tsinghua University in 2012 and the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, in 2014 with MFAs in painting. His major solo exhibitions include “Standing at the Crossroads” (WHITE SPACE, Beijing, 2020); “Wang Tuo: Smoke and Fire” (Present Company, New York, 2019); “Monkey Grammarians” (Salt Projects, Beijing, 2017); and “A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting” (Taikang Space, Beijing, 2016). Major group exhibitions include the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), “MMCA Asia Project – Looking for Another Family” (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2020); “Psyche and Politics” (Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2019); “New Metallurgists” (Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, 2018); “One Northeast” (Zarya Center of Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, 2018); and “Nine” (Queens Museum, New York, 2017).