Awards
Artist Profile
Wang was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1957. In 1984, he graduated from the oil painting department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a Chinese artist known for being the leader of the new art movement that erupted in China after 1989, and for his series of paintings which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revoution (1966-1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising, entitled Great Criticism.
During the last two decades, the Chinese art field was rapidly commercialized and the wealth & social status of Chinese artists' began to rise. Today they have managed to place themselves among the wealthy class. In 2005, Wang's Great Criticism Series sold for 1.08 million RMB and set a record for the contemporary Chinese market. Two years later, he sold his Mao AO painting from 1988 for £2,036,000 at a Phillips de Pury & Company auction in London in December 2007. This has lead to some viewing him as an “art manufacturing machine”.
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | Wang Guangyi. The Interactive Mirror Image, Tank Loft. Chongqing Contemporary Art Center | ||||
| 2008 | Visual Politics, Solo Exhibition of Wang Guangyi, He Xiangning Art Museum, Guangdong | ||||
| Cold War Aesthetics, Wang Guangyi, Institute of Louisse Blouin Foundation, London, U.K. | |||||
| 2007 | Wang Guangyi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | ||||
| 2006 | Wang Guang Yi Solo Exhibition, Gallery Arario, Seoul, Korea | ||||
| 2004 | Wang Guang Yi Solo Exhibition, Gallery Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland | ||||
| 2003 | Wang Guang Yi, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris, France | ||||
| 2001 | Wang Guangyi Solo Exhibition, Face of Faith, Soobin Art Int'L, Singapore | ||||
Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | Museum on paper, Iberia Center for contemporary Art | ||
| 2010 | Made in popland, National Museum of Contemporary art | ||
| The Constructed Dimension, 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Musume of China, Beijing | |||
| Portrait, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai | |||
| Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing | |||
| Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai | |||
| Fairy Tales Selections from the MaGMA's collection, Opera Gallery, Singapore | |||
| Photo Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing | |||
| Art for The World (The Expo), World Expo by JGM Gallery, Shanghai | |||
| 2009 | Beijing - Havana, China contemporary art exhibition, Cuba Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba | ||
| Collision, Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing | |||
| First Annual Conference of Collectors of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hejingyuan Art Museum, Beijing | |||
| Retrospect and Exploration, Hu Bei Province Art Museum | |||
| Yi Pai - Century Thinking A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing | |||
| ShanghART Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai | |||
| Another scene - artists' projects, concepts and ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai | |||
| Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, U.S.A. | |||
| The 20th Anniversary of The Fall of The Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany | |||
| A Collateral Event of 53nd International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, A Gift to Marco Polo, Venezia, Italy | |||
| ChinaMania, Colorful,Diverse and Distinctly Narrative, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
| Strategy On Paper, Works On Paper Invitational, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing | |||
| State Legacy, A Visual History Project On The State Concept, The Holden Gallery,Manchester, U.K.;OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen | |||
