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Wang Zhiyuan    (Chinese/Australian, 1958)

  Wang Zhiyuan - Underpants (Sculptures) h: 86 x w: 76 x d: 10 cm / h: 33.9 x w: 29.9 x d: 3.9 in
Wang Zhiyuan
Underpants 2007
 
  

Biography
1958 Born in Tianjin, China
1980 - 1984 BA (print media) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts
1989 Emigrated to Australia
1995 Project grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
1996 Project grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
1999 - 2000 Enrolled at Sydney University (MA programme)
2000 Project grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
2001 Artist in residence, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
2003 - 2004 Artist in residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Currently lives and works in China and Australia

Exhibitions
2006 Fiction Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2005 Grounding Reality-New Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
2005 Austral-Asia Zero Five“, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 Shanghai Cool - Creative Reproduction, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005 Asian Traffic, Today Art Museum, Zhengda Art Museum, Beijing, China
2005 Paradiso d’Amore—Neo-Aesthetics of Anosmatic Age, Art Museum of China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2005 Inter-tivity, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2004 Artificial Happiness, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001 - 2004 Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum, Bond University Art Gallery, Australia
2003 Lost and Found, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2003 Group Show, Seasons Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2003 50x50, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2002 Monument and Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2002 State of Flux, Art Museum of China Millennium, Beijing, China (solo)
2000 - 2001 Seven pieces sheet metal wall sculpture on display in the Australian Art Section of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2000 Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1997 - 2000 IN and OUT - Contemporary Chinese Art from China and Australia, exhibition toured to Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Queensland, Perth, Canberra in Australia as well as to Shenzhen and Beijing in China and to Singapore
1999 Two from One, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1998 CultureGraft,4AGallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1994 Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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