{
  "name": "Yang Wang",
  "bio": {
    "long": "Yang Wang 汪洋 (b. 1989, Zibo, China) is an artist, writer, researcher, and coder based in New York, where he has lived and worked since 2012. His practice operates at the intersection of continental philosophy, experimental engineering, design, and media art. Formally trained as a designer and professionally shaped by software engineering, he uses computation as both a creative medium and a critical subject, building simulated environments and inscriptive systems that examine how technical systems shape the conditions under which human beings perceive, remember, judge, dwell, speak, and act. Drawing on phenomenology, critical theory, and speculative inquiry, his writing and projects investigate computational modernity — how software, AI, media, and technical infrastructures reorganize world, memory, judgment, and subjectivity. Through zzyw, a collective co-founded with Zhenzhen Qi, Wang challenges dominant technological constructs through software prototyping, interactive systems, philosophical writing, and teaching. He describes his ongoing body of work as Autonomous Practice and Critical Experiments.\n\nWang's creative and critical work has been exhibited at institutions including the New Museum/Rhizome (New York), Ars Electronica (Linz), Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel), Elektra (Montreal), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), National Museum of China (Beijing), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Museum MACAN (Jakarta), and HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), among others. He has held residencies at Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, BabyCastles, NEW INC, the New Museum's art-and-technology incubator, and the Counterstructural Commons Residency, organized by Rhizome and the Mozilla Foundation. He has presented at academic conferences including the College Art Association Annual Conference (2025) and the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities Conference (HKADH, 2026), and has given talks and lectures at institutions such as Duke Kunshan University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Times Museum, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His essays and criticism have appeared in LEAP, Rhizome, The Thinker Weekly (信睿周报), Beijing Literature and Art Review (北京文艺评论), and ESP Cultural Magazine, and his writing has been included in the Onassis Foundation publication _Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition_.\n\nWang has developed and taught courses on technology critique, experimental computing, worldbuilding, interactive art, and media art at Cooper Union, China Academy of Art, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. His pedagogy combines neural network building with phenomenological inquiry, establishing computation as a medium for collaborative creation and critical reflection. He maintains an industry presence to sharpen his critical inquiry into emerging technology — previously as a senior software engineer at Snap Inc., working on creative and engineering challenges in augmented and virtual reality; as a senior creative technologist at Rockwell Group's LAB; as an interactive designer at Potion; and through freelance technical roles in New York's creative technology sector. He holds an MPS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (2014).\n\nWang previously used the alias 黄瓜 (huáng guā, \"cucumber\"), a name that originated during his teenage years playing strategy games online in the early 2000s, and now uses his formal name exclusively. Outside institutional and project contexts, he is open to writing and teaching engagements around critical computing, creative technology, and the culture of computation from technical, computer-science-oriented, and philosophical perspectives.\n",
    "short": "Yang Wang 汪洋 (b. 1989, Zibo, China) is an artist, writer, and coder based in New York. His practice operates at the intersection of continental philosophy, experimental engineering, and media art, using computation as both a creative medium and a critical subject. With Zhenzhen Qi, he co-founded zzyw, a collective producing software, installations, and philosophical writing on the cultural and ontological dimensions of digital infrastructure. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum/Rhizome, Ars Electronica, Power Station of Art, Times Museum, and National Museum of China, among others. He is an alum of Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NEW INC (New Museum), and the Counterstructural Commons (Rhizome × Mozilla Foundation). He holds an MPS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program."
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          "city": "Beijing",
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          "exhibition_name": "Zone of Nowhere",
          "start_month": 4,
          "start_year": 2026,
          "end_month": 5,
          "end_year": 2026,
          "curator": "Jiaqi Cui"
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          "institution": "City Campus Art Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Guangzhou",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Bay Area Art and Technology Triennial",
          "start_month": 11,
          "start_year": 2025,
          "end_month": 12,
          "end_year": 2025
        },{
          "institution": "Tank Shanghai + UFO Terminal",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["Mountain of Many Voices | 众鸣山"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Electrified Kids, The 8th Intermedia Art Festival",
          "start_month": 10,
          "start_year": 2025,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
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          "institution": "PARC 杭州",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Hangzhou",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "情山智水：裸物与复形——「今天\"山水\"有用吗？」项目第11期",
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2025,
          "end_month": 11,
          "end_year": 2025,
          "curator": "任越 Ren Yue"
        },{
          "institution": "Times Museum",
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          "city": "Guangzhou",
          "artwork": ["Mountain of Many Voices | 众鸣山"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "AI, as Seen at the End of Ownership",
          "start_month": 3,
          "start_year": 2025,
          "end_month": 6,
          "end_year": 2025,
          "curator": "Jianru Wu"
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          "institution": "HOW Art Museum",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Life After Life (未来生命档案)",
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2024,
          "end_month": 2,
          "end_year": 2025,
          "curator": "Yu Zhen;Wang Kaimei"
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          "institution": "New Arts Museum",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Langfang",
          "artwork": ["Go To Sea 下海"],
          "artist": ["zzyw","Qianlin Li","Zongying Liu","Jiaoyang Li"],
          "exhibition_name": "班味剧场：如何更好地工作 (Corporate Scent Theater: How to Work Better)",
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "end_year": 2024,
          "curator": "Zhang Jiawei"
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          "institution": "Hanart TZ Gallery",
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          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
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          "start_month": 8,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "institution": "Today Art Museum",
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          "artist": ["zzyw"],
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          "start_month": 7,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "end_year": 2024
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          "institution": "Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Virtual Conference and Media Festival",
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          "artwork": ["Go To Sea 下海"],
          "artist": ["zzyw","Qianlin Li","Zongying Liu","Jiaoyang Li"],
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          "institution": "HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste)",
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          "city": "Basel",
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          "artist": ["zzyw"],
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          "start_month": 6,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "artist": ["zzyw"],
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          "start_month": 2,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "end_year": 2024
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          "institution": "数知妙悟 \u0026 四川美术学院实验艺术学院",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Chongqing",
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Apparatus Less Experiment 无设备实验",
          "start_month": 1,
          "start_year": 2024,
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          "end_year": 2024,
          "curator": "Iris Long 龙星如 \u0026 Qin Yueshi 秦越石"
        },{
          "institution": "Objectifs",
          "country": "Singapore",
          "city": null,
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Singapore Art Week 2024",
          "start_month": 1,
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          "end_year": 2024
        },{
          "institution": "Power Station of Art 上海当代艺术博物馆",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["Something Of A Day"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Permanent Collection",
          "start_month": null,
          "start_year": 2023,
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        },{
          "institution": "China Academy of Art",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "The Interface Between Humanity and the Universe 3.0 天人之境 v3.0",
          "start_month": 10,
          "start_year": 2023,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null,
          "curator": "Ziyang Wu"
        },{
          "institution": "Today Art Museum",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Beijing",
          "artwork": ["Go To Sea 下海"],
          "artist": ["zzyw","Qianlin Li","Zongying Liu","Jiaoyang Li"],
          "exhibition_name": "To Your Eternity 致不灭的你",
          "start_month": 7,
          "start_year": 2023,
          "end_month": 10,
          "end_year": 2023,
          "curator": "Xin Wang"
        },{
          "institution": "Ars Electronica",
          "country": "Austria",
          "city": "Linz",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2023,
          "end_month": null,
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        },{
          "institution": "Elektra Virtual Museum",
          "country": "Canada",
          "city": "Montreal",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
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          "start_month": 5,
          "start_year": 2023,
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        },{
          "institution": "HMG",
          "country": "South Korea",
          "city": "Yongin",
          "artwork": ["Other Spring"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 5,
          "start_year": 2023,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Tokyo University of the Arts",
          "country": "Japan",
          "city": "Tokyo",
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Glitches in Love: A New Formula",
          "start_month": 3,
          "start_year": 2023,
          "end_month": 4,
          "end_year": 2023
        },{
          "institution": "West Bund Art \u0026 Design 西岸艺术与设计博览会",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["Out of Sight"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Infinity Games: Impossible Improvisation 无限游戏：不可能的即兴",
          "start_month": 11,
          "start_year": 2022,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null,
          "curator": "Baoyang Chen"
        },{
          "institution": "Museum of Art Pudong",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Cyber Garden",
          "start_month": 7,
          "start_year": 2021,
          "end_month": 11,
          "end_year": 2021,
          "curator": "Special Special"
        },{
          "institution": "Alberta University of the Arts",
          "country": "Canada",
          "city": "Calgary",
          "artwork": ["LENNA"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Contingent Systems",
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2021,
          "end_month": 11,
          "end_year": 2021,
          "curator": "Lisa Lipton, Ashley Scarlett"
        },{
          "institution": "Rhizome of New Museum @ https://worldonawire.net/",
          "country": "Online",
          "city": null,
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "World On A Wire",
          "start_month": 2,
          "start_year": 2021,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null,
          "curator": "Michael Connor, Baoyang Chen"
        },{
          "institution": "National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Beijing",
          "artwork": ["LENNA","ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "As-Helix",
          "start_month": 11,
          "start_year": 2019,
          "end_month": 12,
          "end_year": 2019
        },{
          "institution": "Power Station of Art 上海当代艺术博物馆",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Bad Code",
          "start_month": 11,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": 3,
          "end_year": 2019,
          "curator": "Xinyi Ren, Ningjue Lv, Jingqiu Li"
        },{
          "institution": "Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["ThingThingThing"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "On Collaboration",
          "start_month": 6,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "3LD Art \u0026 Technology Center",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["PRISM"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": ".Zip Season 2",
          "start_month": 6,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum",
          "country": "South Korea",
          "city": "Gimpo",
          "artwork": ["LENNA"],
          "artist": ["Yang Wang"],
          "exhibition_name": "New Texture",
          "start_month": 3,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Onassis Foundation",
          "country": "Online",
          "city": null,
          "artwork": ["Quarantinediary.ai"],
          "artist": ["Zhenzhen Qi"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": null,
          "start_year": 2020,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null,
          "curator": "NEW INC, New Museum"
        },{
          "institution": "Refest 2.0",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["The Black Box","Another Internet"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 3,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "3LD Art \u0026 Technology Center",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["TV Man"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "UNCOMPRESSED",
          "start_month": 2,
          "start_year": 2018,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "CultureHub",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["The Mind Ocean","The Black Box, Selfie"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2017,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Riverside Art Museum 山水美术馆",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Beijing",
          "artwork": ["Shell","PRISM"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 9,
          "start_year": 2017,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "BHQFU Gallery",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "Brooklyn, NY",
          "artwork": ["The Mind Ocean"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": "Calm Before/After the Storm",
          "start_month": 5,
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          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Chinatown Soup",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "New York, NY",
          "artwork": ["LENNA"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 6,
          "start_year": 2016,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "FL:EX Gallery",
          "country": "China",
          "city": "Shanghai",
          "artwork": ["The Introspection Game"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 7,
          "start_year": 2016,
          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        },{
          "institution": "Laboratory Gallery",
          "country": "US",
          "city": "Spokane, WA",
          "artwork": ["The Introspection Game"],
          "artist": ["zzyw"],
          "exhibition_name": null,
          "start_month": 5,
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          "end_month": null,
          "end_year": null
        }],
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          "year": 2025,
          "semester": "Fall",
          "position": "Visiting Professor",
          "course": "World, Computationality 世界，计算性",
          "institution": "China Academy of Art"
        },{
          "year": 2023,
          "semester": "Spring",
          "position": "Adjunct Professor",
          "course": "Computational Studio: Simulated",
          "institution": "School of Art, The Cooper Union"
        },{
          "year": 2017,
          "semester": null,
          "position": "Visiting Professor",
          "course": "Interactive Media and Visual Programming",
          "institution": "Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA)"
        }],
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          "title": "Toward a Recursive System: Building a Reflexive Topology",
          "type": "Peer-reviewed Conference Presentation",
          "publication": "Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting"
        },{
          "year": 2026,
          "title": "Conceptual Art in the Age of AI",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities Conference (HKADH 2026) roundtable, The Chinese University of Hong Kong"
        },{
          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Mountain of Many Voices: Workshop and Lecture",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Asia Art Archive in America"
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          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Software as Worlding Infrastructure",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Duke Kunshan University"
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          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Orientation in the Age of Automation: Theory, Systems, Practice",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Hong Kong Baptist University"
        },{
          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Mountain of Many Voices: Workshop and Artist Talk",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "HART HAUS"
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          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Hive AI Utopia: Confrontation and Symbiosis Forum",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Hive Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District"
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          "year": 2025,
          "title": "The Rights of Revealing",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Times Museum"
        },{
          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Mountain of Many Voices: Reorient the Relation to Automation",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)"
        },{
          "year": 2025,
          "title": "Remystification and Demystification: Cultivating a 'free relation' to AI",
          "type": "Peer-reviewed Conference Presentation",
          "publication": "College Art Association 113th Annual Conference"
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          "year": 2024,
          "title": "Uncomputable in the Computational World",
          "type": "Peer-reviewed Conference Presentation",
          "publication": "College Art Association Annual Conference"
        },{
          "year": 2024,
          "title": "从高架桥到算法现实：探索技术多样性与个体化路径 From Overpasses to Algorithmic Reality: Exploring Technodiversity and Individualized Paths",
          "type": "Essay",
          "publication": "信睿周报 The Thinker Weekly, (120), 21–24"
        },{
          "year": 2024,
          "title": "Networked Worlds",
          "type": "Research Memo",
          "publication": "WePresent / co-matter",
          "link": "https://co-matter.com/project/networked-worlds"
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          "year": 2023,
          "title": "Appropriately Crap 恰当的烂",
          "type": "Cultural Critique",
          "publication": "LEAP 艺术界",
          "link": "http://www.leapleapleap.com/2023/11/appropriately-crap/"
        },{
          "year": 2021,
          "title": "Between Code and Mystery",
          "type": "Essay",
          "publication": "ESP Cultural Magazine, (2), 18–25"
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          "year": 2022,
          "title": "LENNA",
          "type": "Publication",
          "publication": "Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, Onassis Foundation"
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          "year": 2021,
          "title": "Architecting Emergence",
          "type": "Essay",
          "publication": "Rhizome",
          "link": "https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/feb/17/architecting-emergence/"
        },{
          "year": 2026,
          "title": "北京文艺评论 Beijing Literature and Art Review (forthcoming)",
          "type": "Essay",
          "publication": "北京文艺评论 Beijing Literature and Art Review"
        },{
          "year": 2020,
          "title": "Computational Simulation as a Mode of Collaborative Making in Museum Space",
          "type": "Invited Talk",
          "publication": "Museum 2050"
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          "year": 2022,
          "name": "5th VH Award",
          "work": "Other Spring",
          "status": "Finalist"
        },{
          "year": 2021,
          "name": "Lumen Prize",
          "work": "LENNA",
          "status": "Shortlist"
        },{
          "year": 2020,
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          "status": null
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