Living Between Worlds: Wu Tsang M.F.A. ’10 is one of our most fascinating and talented provocateurs, challenging the very notion of what art is — and what it can be.

Before she was a MacArthur Fellow, before she took the world by storm with sublime multimedia installations, before she had her work shown and her performances installed at the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Museum and the Tate Modern — before any of that — Wu Tsang was simply a young artist from chilly Worcester, Massachusetts. The child of a white mother and a Chinese father, she remembers looking for her place, for where she fit in the world. “I was doing all the things that I still do today, but I didn’t have a label or an identity attached to it,” she says. “I knew what I was excited about, but I didn’t really know where I belonged.”