Opera Gallery

Wang Guangyi

(Chinese, born 1957)

Wang Guangyi

Eternal Halo, 2004

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1958: Born in Harbin, China
1984: Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, China
: Lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions

2013: Et la Chine s'est éveillée..., Chapelle De La Visitation, Espace D'Art Contemporain, Thonon-Les-Bains, France
2012: Re-History, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Thing-in-itself: Utopia, Pop and Personal Theology, Wang Guangyi Retrospective Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2011: Collecting History, China New Art, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
Museum on paper, Iberia Center for contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Wang Guangyi. The Interactive Mirror Image, Tank Loft, Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China (solo)
2010: Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
The Constructed Dimension, 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Musume of China, Beijing, China
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Fairy Tales Selections from the MaGMA's Collection, Opera Gallery, Singapore
Photo Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art for The World (The Expo), World Expo by JGM Gallery, Shanghai, China
Clouds: Power of Asian Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
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, China
In the 1980s-Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
First Annual Conference of Collectors of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hejingyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Retrospect and Exploration, Collection Exhibition from Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Hubei Province Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Yi Pai: Century Thinking, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Another Scene - Artists' Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
20th Anniversary of The Fall of The Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
A Collateral Event of 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice, 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, China
State Legacy, A Visual History Project On The State Concept, Holden Gallery, Manchester, England; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Wang Guangyi, Louise Blouin Institute, London, England (solo)
2008: Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Lovely Blossoms and Full moon, YUZ Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, YUZ Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Love of Art: Collection of Contemporary Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Revolution Continues, New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Center, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Our Future, The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Foundation, Beijing, China
Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
People. History, Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Red, Smooth and Luminescent Contemporary Expression, Xindong Cheng Gallery, Beijing, China
Encounter, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Today's China, Belvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium
UNPACK, Museum of China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
Academic and Un-Academic II, Exhibition of Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Visual Politics, Solo Exhibition of Wang Guangyi, He Xiangning Art Museum, Guangdong, China (solo)
Cold War Aesthetics, Wang Guangyi, Institute of Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England (solo)
2007: Absolute Images II, Inaugural Exhibition of Arario Gallery, New York, USA
85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Wuhan 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Strategy on Paper, Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Sport in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Art of Guangzhou Art Academy, Guangzhou; RCM the Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing; Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, Shengyang; Sichuan Fine Arts Museum, Sichuan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
1997- 2007 Awakening From a Ten Year Sleep, HJY Art Center, Beijing, China
The Supplemental History, Contemporary Art Works from the Collection of the Guangdong Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Post-Martial Law VS Post-89, Contemporary Art in Taiwain and China, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan; Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
We Are Your Future, Special Project in Moscow Biennale 2007, Old Winery, Moscow, Russia
Wang Guangyi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
RED HOT, Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
ShContemporary 2007, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
2006: Art in Motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
The Blossoming of Realism: The Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Create History, Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shengzhen, China
From 'The Frigid Zone' to 'The Old Industrial Area', Northeast Contemporary Art Exhibition of China 1985-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Absolute Images I, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Plato and His Seven Spirits, Century OCT, Shenzhen, Guangdong; Century OCT, Beijing, China
Jianghu, Jack Tilton Art Galleries, New York, USA
Wang Guang Yi Solo Exhibition, Gallery Arario, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2005: Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
8th International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation, Venice, Italy
Body Temperature, invoking the Legacy of Hans Christian Anderson through Chinese Contemporary Art, Nor djyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Invitation Exhibition-Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Art and People, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Plato and His Seven Spirits, Century OCT, Shenzhen, China
2004: New Boundaries, Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China
Art on the Beach, Sculptures, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris, France; Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; ADAGP, Paris, France (solo)
Chine, le corps partout? (China, the body everywhere?), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
Wang Guangyi, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)
2003: Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
CP Open Biennale 2003, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
An Opening Era, Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Founding of China National Museum, China National Museum of Fine Art, China
From China with Art, Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Indonesian National Gallery; Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Subversion and Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Art, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Wang Guangyi, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France (solo)
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China
2002: Chinese Modernity, Fondacion Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paris-Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Conceptual Images, 2002 Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong, China
A Point in Time, Meilun Art Museun, Changsha, Hunan, China
Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Media and Arts, World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
Golden Harvest, Chinese Contemporary Art, Zagreb Museum of Art, Zagreb, Croatia
First Guangzhou Trienniale, Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990 - 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Power of Image, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 50 x 50, FIAC 2002 and Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England
2001: Transplantation in Situ, He Xiangning Art Museum ,Shenzheng, China
5 Chinese Avant-Garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Next Generation, Art Contemporain d'Asie, Passage de Retz Galerie, Paris, France
Towards a New Image, Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou; Sichuan Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
As Long as They Catch Mice..., Munkeruphus Gallery, Mumkerphus, Denmark
Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Hamburger Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Wang Guangyi Solo Exhibition, Face of Faith, Soobin Art International, Singapore (solo)
2000: 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Gallery in Beijing, China
Society, 2nd Academic Exhibition Upriver Gallery, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Door of the New Century, Chengdu Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
In and Out, He Xiangning Art Museum, ShengZhen; Australia Embassy, Beijing, China
Futuro, Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau, China
1999: Fortune Global Forum, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jinmao Podium Building, Shanghai, China
Open Channels, First Collection Exhibition of Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shengyang, China
Inside Out, New Chinese Art, Museo de Art Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA; Henry Art Gallery, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
First Invitational Exhibition of Shanghe Art Gallery, Shanghe (Upriver) Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
1998: Inside Out, New Chinese Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA
In and Out, Plimsol Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Australia
China!, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1997: In and Out, Dr Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore; RMIT Gallery, Sydney College of Art Gallery, Australia
Red & Grey: 8 Chinese Artists, Soobin, Singapore
Magie der Zahl-In der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
Quotation Marks, Chinese Contemporary Paintings, National Art Museum, Singapore
Wang Guangyi Solo Exhibition, Gallery Klaus Littmann, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
8+8-1, 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1996: Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia
Begegnungen Mit China, Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale, Kunst, Germany
China!, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Existence and Environment the Chinese Way: The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contenporary Art, Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1995: Art to Swatch, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, USA
Kampnagel, Halle-K3, Hamburg, Germany
New Asian Art Show: China, Korea, Japan, Tokyo & Fukuoka, Japan
Beyond Ideology, New Art from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hamburg, Germany
Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
1994: Seoul 600 International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Wang Guangyi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
1993: 45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
China's New Art, Post-1989, New Art from China, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
China's New Art, Post-1989, Political Pop, China's New Art, Hanart Taipei Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
China's New Art, Marlborough Gallery, London, England
Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
China Avant-garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre and City Hall, Hong Kong
Wang Guangyi, Bellet Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
1992: The First 1990's Biennial Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
China, Avant-Garde at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Art Asia, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
1991: Cocart, Gallery Bianca Pilat, Milan, Italy
1990: I don't Want to Play Cards with Cezanne, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
Modern Chinese Art, Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989: China Avant-garde, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Special Exhibition, Chinese Contemporary Art , Tokyo, Japan
1988: Chinese Contemporary, Museum of Fine Arts, GIFU, Japan
Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
1984: The 6th Art Exhibition of People's Republic of China, China National Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Public Collections

: Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
M+Collection, Hong Kong
Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Beijing

Literature

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