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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 College 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 exhibitions include Dad’s Hands Are Smaller, Art Center College of Art and Design (2020); Art Making, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2020); and The Third Thing, 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), Dad’s Hands Are Smaller (2018), and Learning Art and Art Learning Society (2017). He was an Artist in Residence at the Hammer Museum in 2019. John has also worked with Empty Gallery, in Hong Kong.