Yi-Chun (Josh) Wang
Glass · Ceramics · Sculpture
“I work with glass and ceramics as both material and narrative mediums, exploring instability, hybridity, material behaviour, and the relationship between body, object, and space.”
Profile
Yi-Chun Wang is a Taiwanese contemporary craft artist currently studying MA Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, London. His practice focuses on glassblowing, ceramics, and sculptural installation, often exploring instability, hybridity, material behaviour, and the relationship between body, object, and space.
Education
2024 Tsing Hua University, Art and Design, Bachelor of fine art (B.F.A)
2026 Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass, Master of Art (M.A)
Exhibitions
2025, Stanislav Libenský Award, Prague, Czechia
2024, Hsinchu City Glass Art Festival, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2024, International Competition MilanoVetro -35. IV Edition, Milan, Italy
2024, Light, Glass & Shadow, International Glass Exhibition, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2023, Contemporary International Glass Art Exhibition Hsinchu, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2023, Tracing - Yi-Chun Wang Solo Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan
Awards
2025 Stanislav Libenský Award
2024 International Competition MilanoVetro -35. IV Edition
2023 TCOD Taichung Original Award
2022 3rd FRANZ Rising Star Project Scholarship
Projects
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Fields of Residue
April, 2026
Blown glass, photographic installation, bodily performance, long-exposure imaging.
The project centres around two blown glass forms whose unstable surfaces are shaped through inflation, gravity, heat, collapse, and continuous manipulation. Rather than functioning as static sculptural objects, the forms operate as relational surfaces that invite touch, balance, attachment, resistance, and adaptation. Through bodily interaction, the work explores how bodies search for temporary moments of alignment between themselves, objects, and space.
Close-up photographic images capturing skin pressed against the glass surfaces further blur the boundaries between body and object. Touch, pressure, and proximity leave temporary traces, transforming the glass into a site of intimacy, tension, and bodily residue.
Long-exposure photography plays a central role within the work. Rather than serving as documentation, it compresses movement, hesitation, duration, and spatial negotiation into luminous traces of light and motion. These accumulated paths generate temporary behavioural sculptures.
Through this practice, the work moves beyond the idea of sculpture as a fixed object, proposing instead an evolving relational system shaped through contact, traces, coexistence, and behavioural mapping. Meaning emerges through continuous negotiation rather than resolution, allowing the work to exist as an ever-shifting field of bodily, spatial, and temporal relationships.
Geologies of Identity
July, 2025
Blown glass, Minerals
This pair of blown glass sculptures takes the island as its motif. Blue-green hues evoke both sea and land, while metallic textures suggest mountains and strata. Their differing heights subtly echo the layered tensions shaping Taiwan’s geography and cultural identity.
By fusing glass and minerals, the work occupies a state of liminality-fragile yet resilient, transparent yet weighty-reflecting the layered hybridity formed through Taiwan‘s entangled histories.
More than a depiction of islands, the sculptures articulate an ”island language“ of form-reframing isolation as a space of cultural imagination, and resonating with broader conversations on marginality and hybridity.
Greenspacing
An observation deck created from recycled materials to honor the outlands.
About
Locations
New York
London
Taiwan