Marcel Yiran Wang(b.1998) is a Chinese artist based in New York. She is currently working as a technical artist at The Mill Experience Team, a dynamic Advertising and Brand Experience company specializing in VFX and Creative Technology. The team is dedicated to bringing virtual characters to life through real-time technology, previsualization, and offline workflows, creating memorable interactive experiences. In her role, she primarily leverages game engines and CG tools to realize her creative visions.


Marcel received her Bachelor’s degree in Oil Painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2020 and received her Master’s degree from New York University’s Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).  Her works have been shown in CVPR2023(Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference), Currents New Media2023, HOT`BED Gallery in Philadelphia, Culture-hub Re-fest 2022, Art Number 23, and Brownie/Project at Shanghai, among others.  She has performed at NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit, MOCO 22’ Conference in Chicago, and NIME at NYU. 

Selected Exhibitions / Performances


2023
Artist Interview, CanvasRebel: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-yiran-wang/
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023, Art Gallery, group show, Vancouver, Canada, June
Currents New Media 2023, group show, Santa Fe County, US, June

2022
Group Exhibition, “Waiting Room,Immersive Art for Wellbeing”, HOT·BED Gallery, Philadelphia, US
Live Performance, “8th International Conference on Movement and Computing Conference”, Chicago, US. June 22-24
Live Performance, “New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit”, New York, US. April 30
Virtual Exhibition, “Dialogue with Southeast Asia: ASIAN International Contemporary Art  Exhibition”, China. April
Group Exhibition, “Athens Open Art”, London, UK. April
Virtual Exhibition, “Culturehub Re-Fest 2022”, New York, US. March

2021
Artist Talk, iidrr Open Calls, New York, US. Nov 15
Selected artist for “2021 Hyper youth Award”, China
Group Exhibition, “Neo-Imaginaria: A Collection of Gen-Z New Media Poetics”. Brownie/Project, M50, Shanghai, China. June
Curation and Group Exhibition, “NYU Tisch ITP Spring Show ETUDE x Anomaly Open Space”，Shanghai, China

2020
Group Exhibition, “The 23rd Annual Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute”, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Group Exhibition, “BORDER”, X Gallery, Chongqing, China
Group Exhibition, “Punctum, The 26th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting Department”, CAEA Gallery, Chongqing, China

Awards

2022
Dune, First Place, “The 2022 Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health Student Design Competition”



Publications

2022Elias Jarzombek and Yiran Marcel Wang. 2022. Pendular. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537972.3538021