Hope Wang
Hope Wang explores memory, loss, and longing. Through a combination of handweaving, photography, poetry, and printmaking, she develops what she calls an “(American) Midwest Melancholy” as a visual language. Her work dwells on what is often already disappearing: the last seconds of the sun setting against a factory wall, the shadow of a locked gate cast by streetlights, or the wavering space between an open storefront and a vacant one.
In tandem with her artistic practice, Wang is also the founder and co-director of LMRM “loom room,” a project space that blends art, research, and community programming around digital weaving. She was recently named one of Newcity Magazine’s 2025 Breakout Artists. She is a recipient of an Artists Run Chicago Grant (2024) from the Hyde Park Art Center, and a Chicago Community Fellowship Fund (2023) from the Breakout Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, and The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, among others.