Wu Tsang (born 1982, Worcester, MA; lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and London, England) is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary. Her projects have been presented at museums, biennials, and film and theater festivals internationally, including Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana (2024); 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Whitney Biennial (2012, 2022); SXSW (2012); and Holland Festival (2022, 2024). Tsang is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, and she has won numerous other awards, including a Hugo Boss Prize nomination (2018), a Guggenheim Fellowship for film/video (2016), and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant (2014). Tsang received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010). From 2019 to 2024, she was a director-in-residence at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. Tsang is known for her long-term collaborations, notably with Moved by the Motion, a performance collective that she cofounded with Tosh Basco in 2013.
