Juliann Wang’s work focuses on the capacity to evoke a coherent vision of communication, harmony, and meditative contemplation, in dialogue with contemporary practices and societal context. She has been actively creating and sharing her practice through exhibitions, performances, workshops, community engagement, lectures, events, etc.

Juliann visual work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Elon University, Saint Xavier University, Waubonsee Community College, Oh Art Foundation, The Schoolhouse Arts Center (China) etc. Selected group exhibitions at Susquehanna Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at Art Institute of Chicago, Cetys University in Baja California (México), Hyde Park Art Center, Evanston Art Center, 33 Space (China) and others.

Her work has been featured in various exhibitions and publications such as the International Virtual Exhibition of “Bie-Modernism: Current Challenges and the Future”, the Center for Chinese Bie-modern Studies at Georgia Southwestern State University, Art Center Highland Park, Sullivan Galleries at Art Institute of Chicago, The Schoolhouse Arts Center (China), China Residencies (New York City) and in the publication «ShuDo» Magazine (China).

Juliann’s performance work has been presented at venues such as Chicago Cultural Center, Anderson Japanese Garden, Experimental Sound Studio, Old Town School of Folk Music, Hyde Park Art Center, Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Compound Yellow, High Concept Labs and others. Her sound projects have been featured in the Asian American Arts Alliance in partnership with Bang & Olufsen SoHo NYC 2025, “Harris Theater Fest: Music + Dance in the Park” at Millennium Park 2023, as a performer/presenter for New Music Chicago’s 2023 “Impromptu Fest”, and curated “Notes in the Wind” 16-Channel Listening Experience at Elastic Art Foundation 2023.

She also has choreographed and performed dance at Zhou B Art Center for 3rd Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts 2025, at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art for “APIDA Arts Festival” 2023, “Community: A Choreographer's Festival” at Old Town School of Folk Music 2023, Elastic Arts for “Hot Mess” 2023, Movement Matters Performance Series for Bridge Journal 2022.

Juliann received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA from Lesley University, a DCASE IAP Grant award recipient in 2021 + 2022, and recipient of The Creative Accelerator Award from the Illinois Arts Council 2025. She has awarded Fellowship Artist Residence in The Schoolhouse Arts Center in Beijing, an Artist Residency at High Concept Labs, and subsequently a Fellow Artist in 2023.