Installation view of Wen-hao Tien: Home on Our Backs, 2020-2021, Pao Arts Center, Boston. Photo Credit: Warren Patterson. This exhibition was the culmination of Tien’s year as the Pao Arts Center’s artist in residence. Tien created five new works
Have a Seat, 2022, created for the exhibition, Sanctuary City, at Somerville Museum, this piece explores how, in a multicultural society, we often must find new ways of communicating our individuality that push us beyond our comfort zone and evolv
Weed Out Island, 2017, New Art Center, Newton, MA. The Weed-Out Island uses a polycultural planting concept. Cultivating many varieties at once is my metaphor for exploring immigration, alienation and belonging.
Words Don't Come Easy , 2022, clay, wax, tree trunk, vintage bottle, drawing. Installed as part of the exhibition, “Wen-hao Tien: It Speaks for Itself?” in Frederick, MD, which invited viewers to experience how the words land on us, how they feel w
Teach Me Your Song, 2021, as part of my residency at Pro Arts Center, I invited the public to teach me a song or a poem in their native language, whatever that language may be.
e-sapien , 2020, Spent e-commerce bags overflow recycling bin; business shirts are cut-up into masks; we drive less but Zoom down the digital superhighway; what r we b-e-coming? 36 x 20 x 20 inches @ Boston Sculptors Gallery , Becoming: Inaugur
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