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Zhan Wang    (Chinese, 1962)

  Zhan Wang - Rocks off (Design)
Zhan Wang
Rocks off 2007
 
  

Biography
1962 Beijing, China
1978 - 1981 Graduated from Beijing Industrial Arts College, Beijing, China
1983 - 1988 Graduated from Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Currently lives and works in Beijing

Exhibitions
2006 The New Chinese Landscape, Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2006 Beaufort Sea Triennium, PMK Museum of Modern Art Ostende, Belgium
2006 Heyri Asia Project /Chinese Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
2006 Martell Artists of the Year 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2006 1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
2006 Exchange Value of Pleasure, Pusan Museum of Modern Art, Korean
2006 The Festival of China, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
2006 ‘Electrical Scape’ International New Media Art Exhibition, Zheng Da Art Museum, Shanghai
2006 Chinese Avant-garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee Holland
2006 On the Edge--Visiting Artists Program, Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, USA
2006 Hyper Design 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum
2006 Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, MoCA, Shanghai
2006 City in Progress/ Live from Zhang Jiang, Zhangjiang, Shanghai
2006 Chinese in Indigenous Mode: Contemporary Renaissance in Aesthetic Reconstruction, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2006 The New Chinese Landscape, Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2006 ZHAN WANG Urban Landscape-Beijing, Williams College Museum of Art (solo)
2005 Flowers in the Mirror, Han art Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
2005 The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2005 Universal Experience--Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Haywood Gallery, London
2005 ‘The Wall’-- Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; UB Art Gallery and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2005 ElectroScape, International New Media Art Exhibition, Zhengdai MoMa, Shanghai
2005 Xianfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpure, Museum Beelden aan Zee/Waanders Uitgevers
2005 On The Edge Visiting Artists Program, Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, San-, USA
2005 The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2005 Universal Experience- Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2004 Mount Everest Project —to the Summit Everest 8853.5m (solo)
2004 Chinese Imagination, Paris, Jardin des Tuileries
2004 Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art
2004 Between Past and Future : New photography and Video from China, International Center of P hotograph (ICP), NewYork
2004 Playing with the Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo
2003 Dreams and Conflicts-The Dictatorship of the Viewer
2003 50th Venice Biennale: Synthi-Scapes: Chinese Pavilion
2002 From Sweden to Taibei, Taibei-Taizhong (solo)
2002 Sham Nature--Zhan Wang’s Artificial ‘Jia Shan Shi’, Han art Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
2002 In & out --Floating Rock on Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
2001 Inlay Great Wall, Remnant Great wall of Badaling, Beijing (solo)
2001 Sham Nature : Zhan Wang’s Artificial Jiashanshi, Hanart Gallery, Hongkong
2001 Insaid out: Floating Rock on Sweden, Gothenbog, Sweden
2000 Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles: Floating Rock Drifts On The Open Sea, Lingshan Island Jiaonan City, Shandong Provence
1999 Volume and Form, Singapore International Sculpture, Singapore
1999 Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1999 Chinese Contemporary Art, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1998 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, He Xiang Ning Museum, Shenzhen, China
1998 Building Blocks, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1998 A Revelation of 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Worker’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China
1998 Commemorating Life, Jinshan, Taiwan
1998 Half a Century of Footprints, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1998 Autonomous Action, Art Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1998 Signs of Life: Group Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art, Modern Art Studio, Beijing, China
1997 Continue, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1997 The First Sculpture Activities in Guilin Dayanggu Art Palace, Guilin, China
1997 Dream of China 1997: Chinese Contemporary Art, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
1997 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Watari-UM, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Forever Return 1997: Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition, Nanshun Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
1996 The First Exhibition in Mountain-Forest Sculpture Park, Huar Rou, Beijing, China
1996 International Sculpture Wild: Open Show, Fukouka Seaside Park, Fukouka, Japan
1996 The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
1996 Reality, Present and Future, International Art Place, Beijing, China
1995 Woman’s Her: The Second Triplicate Studio Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1995 Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes, Beijing–Berlin Art Exchange, Beijing, China
1994 Agree to 11/26 as a Reason: Postcard Exchange, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing
1994 Kong Ling Kong Seduction Series: Works of Zhan Wang, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1994 ‘Vacant Empty- Seduction Series’-- Works of Zhan Wang, CAFA Gallery, Beijing (solo)
1993 Taiwan–Beijing Two Sides of Straits: Sculpture Exchange, Gao Xiaong Art Gallery, Taiwan and Beijing, China

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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