Studio Will Kwan
- Jones, Ronald. "Will Kwan." Artforum, May 2012.
- Peckham, Robin. "Digital Politics." ArtSlant, 30 Jan 2012.
- Chappa, Kirsten. "Fire with Fire." In Common Love: Aesthetics of Becoming in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. Kaira Cabañas (ed). New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2011, 51-63.
- Kanamitsu, Tomoko. "Letting Go of Nature." In Common Love: Aesthetics of Becoming in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. Kaira Cabañas (ed). New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2011, 28-49.
- Roundtable discussion, "Art, Politics, and Love." In Common Love: Aesthetics of Becoming in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. Kaira Cabañas (ed). New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2011, 94-101.
- Cho, Seon Ryeong. "Will Kwan: Displacement (With Chinese Characteristics)." In A Monumental Tour. Exhibition catalogue. Seon Ryeong Cho. Seoul: Space*C, Coreana Museum of Art, 2010, 33-34.
- Davis, Laura. “Will Kwan creates wall of burning flags at Scandinavian Hotel for Liverpool Biennial.” Liverpool Daily Post, 1 September 2010.
- Killackey, Fiona. “Will Kwan and a World of Infinite Identity.” Flux Magazine, Autumn 2010.
- Kwan, Will. “Research in Motion: An Interview with Will Kwan.” By Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh. Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2010.
- Legge, Laura. “Mining the Archive: Connecting concept and narrative in the work of Will Kwan.” Hart Beat Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2010.
- Loeffler, Frances. "Will Kwan: Flame Test, 2010." In 2010 Liverpool Biennial: Exhibition Guide. Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2010, 68-69.
- Lowry, Glen. “Three Takes on the Dissolution of Empire: Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close.” FUSE Magazine, Volume 33, Number 2, 2010
- Pickles, Helen. “Liverpool Biennial festival - North West England.” The Telegraph, 24 Sep 2010.
- Ward, Ossian. “Liverpool Biennial 2010.” Time Out London, September 2010.
- Jager, David. “Burning Issues: Will Kwan probes recession fallout.” NOW Magazine, Volume 26, Number 16, 2009.
- Lee, Minna. “Art with a global currency.” Canadian Art online, December 2009.
- Milroy, Sara. “An artist’s alternative map of the world.” The Globe and Mail, 02 December 2009.
- Sung, Doris and Rhee, June. “Transpulsation: New Asian Imaginings.” Published in conjunction with the exhibition Transpulsation, Gales Gallery, Toronto, CA.
- Whyte, Murray. “Kwan and the culture of cash.” The Toronto Star, 15 November 2009.
- Baerwaldt, Wayne. "Remuer Ciel et Terre – Crack the Sky." In Remuer Ciel Et Terre – Crack the Sky: La Biennale De Montréal 2007. Exhibition catalogue. Montréal: Centre International d'art Contemporain de Montréal, 2007, 35, 43, 102-103.
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Displacement (With Chinese Characteristics)
Cho Seon Ryeong | A Monumental Trip. Exhibition catalogue. Seoul: Coreana Museum of Art, 2010, 33-36.
Born in Hong Kong and living in Canada, Will Kwan's projects are filled with conceptual humor. This artwork, composed with a single-channel video and a photograph, came from his participation in the residency program of Duolun Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai) for three months in 2006. There, he witnessed the city landscape of Shanghai, which has rapidly changed through the adoption of capitalism in China. He made art about this new Shanghai landscape by creating a parody of Western "land art" popular in the 1960-1970s. He created a new work of land art with broken pebbles in an empty space, constructing a new building in the center of Shanghai. However, his land art delivers no message of "returning to nature." Rather, with the shape of Chinese bank logo imitating old Chinese money, it signifies that capitalism newly occupies nature and space.