Age: 49
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Albert Abdul-Barr Wang is an indigenous Taiwanese-American Los Angeles-based Oulipo-influenced poetic bard, experimental writer, and visual artist. He
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang is an indigenous Taiwanese-American Los Angeles-based Oulipo-influenced poetic bard, experimental writer, and visual artist. He received a MFA in studio art from the ArtCenter College of Design (2025), a BFA in Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah (2023), and a BA in Creative Writing/English Literature at Vanderbilt University (1997).
Wang's artworks, prose, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, New Delta Review (NDR), BRINK, Clockwise Cat, Ekphrastic Review, The Hooghly Review, Brooklyn to Gangnam, and fractured lit. His piece "Bryan Betancur, Insider #2160" was longlisted for the The Masters Review's 2025 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers judged by Jennine Capó Crucet. His art has been exhibited at The New Wolford House, Postmasters Gallery, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Filter Space, Equity Gallery, Texas Photographic Society, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Also he has been an artist-in-residence at the School for Visual Arts and a recipient of the Working Artist Org grant. He is currently the literary editor-in-chief at Brooklyn to Gangnam and a prose reader for Quarterly West. You can find him at albertabdulbarrwang.art and on Instagram at @albertabdulbarrwang.
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