Bio.
Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang is a Los Angeles-based Taiwanese artist/lighting designer. She’s collaborated with theater directors Jessica Hannah, Larry Biederman, Jack Stehlin, Matthew Leavitt; playwright Virginia Grise; artists James Franco, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrew Schneider, Nikita Gale; choreographer Heidi Duckler, composer/producer Ajay Kapur, Madeline Falcone, and vocalist Dorian Holley. Presented artwork in Cuba and designed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her interactive lighting project SPECTRUM won LIT Lighting Design Awards 2018.
Josephine develops unconventional design techniques for performances, installations and everything in between, embraces possibilities of new technology used in multimedia designs, dedicates to arts bridging gaps between classes and races, speaking social justice and human rights.
Josephine develops unconventional design techniques for performances, installations and everything in between, embraces possibilities of new technology used in multimedia designs, dedicates to arts bridging gaps between classes and races, speaking social justice and human rights.
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EDUCATION
2018 BFA in Theater Lighting Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 BS in Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - Senior AV Technician, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Theatrical Technician, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Production Technician, REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Stagehand, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
2017 Teaching Assistant, Unity: Programming in C#, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 - 15 Lighting director/Sound Technician, Wild Gain Studio, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2013 - 15 Lighting director/Sound Technician, Playmusiclifes Audio Lighting, Hsinchu, Taiwan
AWARDS
2018 LIT Lighting Design Awards for Lighting Designer of the Year - Interactive Lighting Projects
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Private Dancer, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (installation by Nikita Gale) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2019 SPECTRUM, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition curated by CultureHub Los Angeles)
2018 Until, Until, Until…, Brown University, Providence, RI (performance installation by Edgar Arceneaux) Collaboration: Lighting design.
2018 SPECTRUM, CalArts Expo, Valencia, CA (group exhibition)
2018 Mehahn, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (performance installation by Chris Williams) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2017 Over and over and over, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (performance installation by Tim Johnson) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2017 El Acercamiento Delicioso, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba (group exhibition curated by
Evelyn Serrano and Yamile Pardo)
2017 El Acercamiento – Afrofuturo, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba (performance installation by Shaina Simmons) Collaboration: Lighting design.
LIGHTING DESIGN – THEATER
2020 Everyone Agrees It’s About To Explode, Diavlo Dance Studio, Los Angeles, CA (director. Derek Spencer)
2019 Their Dogs Came with Them, Julian Wash Archeological Park, Tucson, AZ (playwright. Virginia Grise, director. Kendra Ware)
2019 Rhinoceros, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (director. Larry Biederman)
2019 Passion, The Theater in Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (creator. Rachel Jendrzejewski and Zoe Moore)
2019 Boxing Lessons, The New American Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Jack Stehlin)
2019 Letters From Home, Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA (director. Marina McClure)
2019 Hamlet, The New American Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Matthew Leavitt)
2019 Mr. Crow, Son of Semele Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Changting Lu)
2017 Our Iliad, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Jessica Hannah)
2017 THE END, THE END, THE END…, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland (director. Scarlett Kim)
2017 Happy Med, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Rodrigo Correia)
2015 The Glass Menagerie, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. James Franco and Deborah LaVine)
LIGHTING DESIGN – MUSIC
2019 What’s Going On – Tribute to Marvin Gaye, Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA (performer. Dorian Holley Band)
2018 Machines and Strings, REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA (co-design with R.S. Buck, curator. Isaura String Quartet)
2018 Orca, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (composer. Sean Renner)
2017 Begin Again music video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (composer. Ian Stahl (Cilience), director. Freddy Fu-Jui Tang)
2014 Beastie Rock Festival, Tamsui Culture Park, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2014 Geometry Interactive Music Performance, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (creator. Mark Lin, composer. Elephant Gym)
2013 Ride Piano, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (producer. Ride Piano Creative Team)
LIGHTING DESIGN – DANCE
2019 Coexist, “Best Of” NEW SHOES, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA (choreographer. Sophia Stoller)
2017 Open House Dance Concert, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (choreographer. Kevin Zambrano, Audrey Martin, Abriel Gardner, Elizabeth Noriega)
2016 FishEyes, Grand Performances/Pershing Square/Tree People/Marsh Park, Los Angeles, CA (director. Heidi Duckler Dance Theater)
LIGHTING DESIGN – OTHER
2018 Immersive performance and installation, CAGES, Los Angeles, CA (associate-design with Chu-Hsuan Chang and R.S. Buck)
2018 Exhibition, CalArts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (producer. Ajay Kapur and Madeline Falcone)
2017 Event, CalArts Halloween, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (producer. Malik Pauldon)
2015 Film studio, Affection, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Freddy Fu-Rui Tang)
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
2018 Curator, CalArts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2018 Lighting consultant and interactive engineer, Hamlet, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 Playwright and director, Stella and Gold Medal, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 Creative director, Liberation Music Festival, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
LIGHTING DESIGN ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE
2019 Dick Clerk’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, Walt Disney Studio, Burbank, CA (lighting designer. Lee Rose)
2018 Nervous/System, Lumberyard, Albany, NY (creator and lighting designer. Andrew Schneider)
2018 A Picture of Dorian Gray, A Noise Within, Pasadena, CA (lighting designer. Rose Malone)
2018 Bordertown Now, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA (lighting designer. Lap Chi Chu)
MASTER ELECTRICIAN EXPERIENCE
2017 The Hendrix Project, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Cameron Pieratt)
2016 Winter Dance Concert, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Sevim Abaza, R.S. Buck, Alexander Freer)
2016 Nightwalk in Chinese Garden, Huntington Gardens, Los Angeles, CA (lighting designer. Dylan Phillips)
2016 assistant, Jackie, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Dylan Phillips)
2016 assistant, Shelter, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, CA (lighting designer. Jesse Fryery)
2016 assistant, Fantomas, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. R.S. Buck)
2015 assistant, Hamletmachine, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Alexander Freer)
LANGUAGES AND SKILLS
Mandarin Chinese (native), Taiwanese Chinese (native), English (professional).
Computer Drafting, Rendering, 3D Modeling, Programming Languages (C, C++, C#), Game Engine,
Visual Programming Software, Digital Electronics, Entertainment Lighting Consoles, Rigging, Media Servers,
Network Management, Welding, Woodworking, Music Literate, Chinese Calligraphy.
2018 BFA in Theater Lighting Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 BS in Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - Senior AV Technician, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Theatrical Technician, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Production Technician, REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Stagehand, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
2017 Teaching Assistant, Unity: Programming in C#, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 - 15 Lighting director/Sound Technician, Wild Gain Studio, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2013 - 15 Lighting director/Sound Technician, Playmusiclifes Audio Lighting, Hsinchu, Taiwan
AWARDS
2018 LIT Lighting Design Awards for Lighting Designer of the Year - Interactive Lighting Projects
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Private Dancer, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (installation by Nikita Gale) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2019 SPECTRUM, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition curated by CultureHub Los Angeles)
2018 Until, Until, Until…, Brown University, Providence, RI (performance installation by Edgar Arceneaux) Collaboration: Lighting design.
2018 SPECTRUM, CalArts Expo, Valencia, CA (group exhibition)
2018 Mehahn, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (performance installation by Chris Williams) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2017 Over and over and over, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (performance installation by Tim Johnson) Collaboration: Lighting and interactive system design.
2017 El Acercamiento Delicioso, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba (group exhibition curated by
Evelyn Serrano and Yamile Pardo)
2017 El Acercamiento – Afrofuturo, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba (performance installation by Shaina Simmons) Collaboration: Lighting design.
LIGHTING DESIGN – THEATER
2020 Everyone Agrees It’s About To Explode, Diavlo Dance Studio, Los Angeles, CA (director. Derek Spencer)
2019 Their Dogs Came with Them, Julian Wash Archeological Park, Tucson, AZ (playwright. Virginia Grise, director. Kendra Ware)
2019 Rhinoceros, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (director. Larry Biederman)
2019 Passion, The Theater in Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (creator. Rachel Jendrzejewski and Zoe Moore)
2019 Boxing Lessons, The New American Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Jack Stehlin)
2019 Letters From Home, Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA (director. Marina McClure)
2019 Hamlet, The New American Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Matthew Leavitt)
2019 Mr. Crow, Son of Semele Theater, Los Angeles, CA (director. Changting Lu)
2017 Our Iliad, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Jessica Hannah)
2017 THE END, THE END, THE END…, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland (director. Scarlett Kim)
2017 Happy Med, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Rodrigo Correia)
2015 The Glass Menagerie, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. James Franco and Deborah LaVine)
LIGHTING DESIGN – MUSIC
2019 What’s Going On – Tribute to Marvin Gaye, Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA (performer. Dorian Holley Band)
2018 Machines and Strings, REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA (co-design with R.S. Buck, curator. Isaura String Quartet)
2018 Orca, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (composer. Sean Renner)
2017 Begin Again music video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (composer. Ian Stahl (Cilience), director. Freddy Fu-Jui Tang)
2014 Beastie Rock Festival, Tamsui Culture Park, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2014 Geometry Interactive Music Performance, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (creator. Mark Lin, composer. Elephant Gym)
2013 Ride Piano, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (producer. Ride Piano Creative Team)
LIGHTING DESIGN – DANCE
2019 Coexist, “Best Of” NEW SHOES, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA (choreographer. Sophia Stoller)
2017 Open House Dance Concert, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (choreographer. Kevin Zambrano, Audrey Martin, Abriel Gardner, Elizabeth Noriega)
2016 FishEyes, Grand Performances/Pershing Square/Tree People/Marsh Park, Los Angeles, CA (director. Heidi Duckler Dance Theater)
LIGHTING DESIGN – OTHER
2018 Immersive performance and installation, CAGES, Los Angeles, CA (associate-design with Chu-Hsuan Chang and R.S. Buck)
2018 Exhibition, CalArts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (producer. Ajay Kapur and Madeline Falcone)
2017 Event, CalArts Halloween, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (producer. Malik Pauldon)
2015 Film studio, Affection, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (director. Freddy Fu-Rui Tang)
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
2018 Curator, CalArts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2018 Lighting consultant and interactive engineer, Hamlet, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 Playwright and director, Stella and Gold Medal, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 Creative director, Liberation Music Festival, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
LIGHTING DESIGN ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE
2019 Dick Clerk’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, Walt Disney Studio, Burbank, CA (lighting designer. Lee Rose)
2018 Nervous/System, Lumberyard, Albany, NY (creator and lighting designer. Andrew Schneider)
2018 A Picture of Dorian Gray, A Noise Within, Pasadena, CA (lighting designer. Rose Malone)
2018 Bordertown Now, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA (lighting designer. Lap Chi Chu)
MASTER ELECTRICIAN EXPERIENCE
2017 The Hendrix Project, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Cameron Pieratt)
2016 Winter Dance Concert, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Sevim Abaza, R.S. Buck, Alexander Freer)
2016 Nightwalk in Chinese Garden, Huntington Gardens, Los Angeles, CA (lighting designer. Dylan Phillips)
2016 assistant, Jackie, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Dylan Phillips)
2016 assistant, Shelter, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, CA (lighting designer. Jesse Fryery)
2016 assistant, Fantomas, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. R.S. Buck)
2015 assistant, Hamletmachine, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (lighting designer. Alexander Freer)
LANGUAGES AND SKILLS
Mandarin Chinese (native), Taiwanese Chinese (native), English (professional).
Computer Drafting, Rendering, 3D Modeling, Programming Languages (C, C++, C#), Game Engine,
Visual Programming Software, Digital Electronics, Entertainment Lighting Consoles, Rigging, Media Servers,
Network Management, Welding, Woodworking, Music Literate, Chinese Calligraphy.