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Wang Guangyi    (Chinese, 1957)

  Wang Guangyi - Great Criticism (Paintings) h: 100 x w: 80 cm / h: 39.4 x w: 31.5 in
Wang Guangyi
Great Criticism 2006
 
  Wang Guangyi - Materialist (Sculptures) h: 170 x w: 150 x d: 80 cm / h: 66.9 x w: 59.1 x d: 31.5 in
Wang Guangyi
Materialist 2002
 
  Wang Guangyi - Materialist (Installations)
Wang Guangyi
Materialist 2002
 

Biography
1957 Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province
1984 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (NZAFA)
Lives and works in Beijing

Exhibitions
2006 Plato and His Seven Spirits, Century OCT, Beijing
2006 Wang Guangyi, Galerie ARARIO, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2006 Jiang Hu Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Mahjong, Kunstmuseum Bern
2005 Beautiful Cynicism, ARARIO BEIJING, Beijing, China
2005 Invitation Exhibition-Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2004 Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris (solo)
2004 Wang Guangyi, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)
2004 Chine, le corps partout? Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles
2003 Wang Guangyi, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France (solo)
2003 Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2003 Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
2003 Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2002 Welcome China,Galerie Soardi, Nice, France; Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerme, Switzerland;
2002 Media and Arts,World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China;
2002 The 1st Guangzhou Contemporary Art Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China;
2002 Chinese Modernity, Fondacion Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 Paris-Beijing, Espace Cardin Paris, France
2002 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shenzhen Museum of Art
2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art
2002 The Strength of Picture, Museum He Xiangning in Shenzhen, China
2001 Faces of Faith, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
2001 Soobin Art Gallery,Singapore (solo)
2001 Towards a New Image :20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art,National Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum; China;
2001 Polypolis,Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany;
2001 Academic and Unacademic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China;
2001 Initial Image——Contemporary Art on Paper, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai;
2001 Next Generation: Art Contemporary d’Asie,Passage de Retz, France;
2001 5 Chinese Avant——garde Artists’,Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
2000 SOCIETY,Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China;
2000 He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China;
2000 China-Art in the Twentieth Century, Touring Show in Beijing and Shanghai, China.
2000 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Gallery in Beijing, China
1999 New Modernism for a New Millennium,LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA;
1999 Open Channels,Dongyu Art Museum, Shenyang, China;
1998 Made in China,Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
1998 New Chinese Art,Asia Society, New York, USA;
1998 New Chinese Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA.
1997 Quotation Marks: Chinese Contemporary Art,Singapore Art Museum, Singapore;
1997 Magie der Zahl——IN DER KUNST DES 20 JAHRHUNDERTS,Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany;
1997 Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1997 Littman Kultureprojekte,Basel (solo)
1996 China, Kunst Museum in Bonn, Germany
1995 Art to Swatch, Museum of Architecture and Design, The Chicago Athemnaeum
1994 Hanart TZ Gallery,Hong Kong (solo)
1994 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo
1994 Wang Guangyi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
1993 Gallery Bellefroid Paris, France
1993 Bellefroid Gallery, Paris (solo)
1992 The First 1990's Biennial Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
1992 China, Avant-Garde' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany
1990 Pacific Asia Museum, California, USA
1989 China Avant-Garde Exhibition

Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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