The inaugural Santa Fe Lamp Show (10/17 – 10/25) was a radiant group exhibition that brought together artists and designers working with light, glow, and electricity. From sculptural lamps that hum with personality to immersive installations that play with shadow and space, the show was a celebration of light as both medium and muse. Over 30 participating artists from New York, Minneapolis, and New Mexico were featured, including ITP alum Josephine Wang. Visitors saw light sculptures, soft-lit objects of comfort, and conceptual pieces that blur the line between art and utility.

Josephine’s “Lamp Hat” is a timeless fashion accessory.

It not only looks cool but also helps with social anxiety and sensory overload. When you want to avoid eye contact and take a break from the outside world, but you simply don’t want to move, wear Lamp Hat over your head to cover your upper face to signal “unavailable” to the people around you while continuing tasks under a personal reading light. When it’s off your head, it can also function like a regular table lamp.

Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang (b. 1992, Taipei) is an artist, designer, and technologist who plays with light, sculpture, and electronics in installation and performance art. Josephine uses visual mechanisms, technology, and interactivity to examine the universality of human experiences, with recent work centering around the perseverance of diasporic identities.

Josephine has presented work at CURRENTS New Media Festival (2024), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2022 ~ 2023), Taoyuan Technology Performing Arts Awards (2022), Waveform, CultureHub LA (2019), California Institute of the Arts (2018), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2017), and Fabrica de Arte Cubano (2017). Josephine was a recipient of the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant (2021) and the LIT Lighting Design Awards: Interactive Lighting Project (2018).

Josephine received an MPS from NYU ITP in 2023, a BFA in Lighting Design from CalArts in 2018, and a BS in Computer Science from NCU, Taiwan in 2015.