John Wu

John Ziqiang Wu (b. 1983, Tangshan, China) is an artist and educator who lives  and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Fine Art from Art Center Col lege of Design in 2013 and his MFA in Photo/Media from the California Institute  of the Arts in 2017. Wu is the co-founder of Learning Art & Art Learning Studio,  an art tutoring workshop he has run with his wife, Yinan, in Chino, California  since 2014. Wu’s solo exhibition Dad’s Hands Are Smaller at Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall, Art Center College of Art and Design (2020); Art Making, Armory  Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2020); The Third Thing at Todd Madigan Gallery,  California State University, Bakersfield (2019). Wu’s work has been included in group exhibitions at SALT, Istanbul (2018); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2017);  and Pasadena Museum of California Art (2010). He also performed alongside  Asher Hartman in ANNIE OKAY at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010).  Wu has published several artist books, including One Day Intern (2020), The  Place and The People (2018); The Lamps’ Story (2018); and Dad’s Hands Are Smaller (2018); and Learning Art and Art Learning Society (2017).  

He was an Artist in Residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019) and  contributed the artist project for X-TRA (2022)  

Wu’s work is in the collections of Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Productions (as Cast):

“Annie Okay”