Zhan Wang 展望 (b. 1962)

Born in Beijing in 1962, Zhan Wang studied at the Beijing Industrial Arts College for a year from 1995 – 96. He returned to the same college to further his studies from 1978 -81. Two years later, he spent five years studying in the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing before graduating in 1988.

Zhan Wang is widely recognized as one of China’s leading contemporary artists today. Working in installation, photography and video, his sculpturally informed practice challenges ideas of landscape and environment, addressing the urban, rural, artificial and industrial. Zhan Wang’s art is a particular perspective fundamentally anchored in his relationship to his own cultural heritage.

Throughout the 1990s, as a young artist, Zhan took part in many group exhibitions and sculpture competitions in China (Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guilin, Qingdao, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. In 1996 he began to exhibit overseas, invited to participate in platforms such as the International Sculpture Wild-Open Show in Fukuoka, and “The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artist” at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Between 1997 – 99, he was also invited to exhibit at The Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Hayward Gallery in London and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York, and other exhibitions in Taiwan, Auckland, Chicago, and San Francisco.

In the 2000s, the artist continued to actively participate in many exhibitions and platforms in China such as the National Art Museum of China. For international exhibitions, he has exhibited his work in Asia: Singapore, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Seoul, Busan; in the USA, San Francisco, Washington D.C and in Europe, Venice, Brussels, Budapest, London, Sweden, and Germany. Notably, in 2000, Zhan took part in the 3^rd Shanghai Biennale at the Shanghai Art Museum. Three years later in 2003, Zhan participated in the Chinese Pavilion at the 50^th edition of the Venice Biennale.

To date, Zhan Wang has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries across the world including the National Museum of China (Beijing, China), Williams College Museum of Art (Massachusetts, USA), Kunst Museum (Bern, Switzerland), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), International Center of Photography (New York, USA) and the Asia Society Museum (New York, USA) just to name a few. He has also executed a number of art projects at significant landmarks such as Mount Everest and the Great Wall of China. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

Solo Exhibitions

2019 | The Invisible, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 | Forms in Flux, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2015 | Space Art Project “One Plus One”, Shanghai Hong Fong, Shanghai, China
2015 | “Nothing for the time being”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China
2014 | Morph, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2012 | Form of Formless, Long March Space, Beijing, China / Universe, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2011 | My Personal Universe, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Bejing, China
2010 | Reflection Zhan Wang, ESLITE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 | Suyuan Stone Generator – 1 Hour Equals 100 Million Years, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 | Zhan Wang Garden Utopia, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2008 | On Gold Mountain: Sculptures from the Sierra, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
2008 | 86 Divinity Figures, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2008 | Zhan Wang, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006 | Zhan Wang Urban Landscape – Beijing, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
2005 | Flowers in the Mirror, Han Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2004 | Mount Everest Project to the Summit, 8,853.5m Mt. Everest, Tibet, China
2003 | The Now Sky Plan Collection and Display, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Xichang, China
2002 | From Sweden to Taipei, Taipei/Taichung, Taiwan
2002 | Sham Nature – Zhan Wang’s Artificial ‘Jia Shan Shi’, Han Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2001 | In & Out Floating Rock on Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden
2001 | Inlay Great Wall, Remnant Great wall of Badaling, Beijing, China
2000 | Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles – Floating Rock Drifts on the Open Sea, Lingshan Island, Jiaonan City, Shandong, China
1994 | Vacant Empty – Seduction Series’ Works of Zhan Wang, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2019 | iPreciation 20th Anniversary: Reverie Collection – 25 Years of Art Collecting Journey, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore
2018 | Speak to the Stones, and the Stars Answer, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2018 | From 1978 to 2018 Shaped By 40 Artists Art History”, Power Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2018 | The Road Of Avant-Garde Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, China
2017 | Wu Bin: Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2017 | Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA / 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts
2016 | An Instance of Concentration: Reminiscence and Peconstruction, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
2016 | The 3nd Nanjing International Art Festival: Scarcity & Supply, Committee Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
2015 | La Chine Ardente – Sculptures Monumentales Contemporaines, Anciens Abattoirs, Mons, Belgium
2015 | CHINA 8 – Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn, Germany
2015 | Breaking the Image, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 | The Wondrous All: Leading Edge of Eastern Thought, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 | Bloom: ESLITE GALLERY 25th Anniversary, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 | Passage to History：20 Years of la Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art Biennale Arte 2013, Venice, Italy
2013 | Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices A Juried Invitational Exhibition of AAC (the Award of Art China), Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012 | Chinese public Art in Cassell, Cassell, Germany
2011 | Songzhuang Art Festival: If – Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Scenery, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
2011 |3rd Art Changsha, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China
2011 |Shanshui – Chinese Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Art in Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2010 | Zaoxing: Artwork from the Faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 | Great Performances, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
2010 | Crossing Horizons: Contemporary Art From China, National Gallery Chile, Santiago, Chile
2009 | Collision, Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009 | Sculpture in Nature, Nature of Sculpture, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
2009 | Beijing – Havana: New Contemporary Chinese Art Revolution, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
2008 | Chinese Exhibitions and Events in London, British Museum, London, UK
2008 | The Revolution Continues – New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2008 | Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden, Germany
2008 | Beijing – Athens, Contemporary Art from China, Athens National Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2007 | Reincarnation, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada /
2007 | Recapture History – Contemporary Chinese Art From the Collection, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2007 | Net: Re-Imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007 | Art Now Shanghai, Inaugural Exhibition of Beijing Art Now Gallery in Shanghai, Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006 | New Occidentalism – Chinese Contemporary Art in Beijing, Hongxuan Plaza, Beijing, China
2006 | Art in Motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2006 | Hyper Design: The 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
2005 | Electrical Scape: International New Media Art Exhibition, Zendai Museum, Shanghai, China
2005 | Chinese Avant-garde Sculpture, Museum Sculptures by the Sea, Hague, Netherlands
2005 | Universal Experience – Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA; Haywood Gallery, London, UK
2005 | The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004 | Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2004 | Sightseeing from Beijing: Exchange Exhibition with Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sydney College of Arts and University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2003 | Blue Sky Unguarded, Yizhuang, Beijing, China
2003 | Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Synthi-Scapes: Chinese Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002 | The Long March – A Walking Visual Display, Ruijin, Jiangxi/ Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Xichang, China
2002 | Chinese Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
2001 | Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnemes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2001 | New Starting Point, Art Gas Station, Beijing, China
2001 | Cross Crossing, Modern Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
2001 | Dream: Contemporary Art of China, Atlantic Fine Art, London, UK
2000 | Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture from China, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China
2000 | Oriental Plaza Selected Contemporary Sculpture from China, Oriental Plaza, Beijing, China
1999 | Cities on the Move, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998 | Signs of Life: Group Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art, Modern Art Studio, Beijing, China
1998 | Cities on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1998 | Autonomous Action – New Chinese Art on Video, Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 | Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1997 | Eternal Memory – Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition, Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
1997 | Cities on the Move – Asian Contemporary Art (Touring Exhibition 1997 –1999) China
1996 | TEDA International Sculpture Competition, Tianjin, China
1996 | The First Exhibition in Mountain-Forest Sculpture Park, Huairou, Beijing, China
1995 | 45 Degrees as a Reason, Art Exchange, Hangzhou/ Shanghai/ Beijing, China
1995 | Development Plan, Triplicate Studio 1st Exhibition, remains of the original Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1995 | Women·Site, Triplicate Studio 2nd Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1994 | Cleaning Ruins Project, Wang Fujing, Beijing, China
1994 | Second National Urban Sculpture Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1994 | Agree to 11/26 as a Reason, Art Exchange, Hangzhou/Shanghai/Beijing, China
1993 | Taiwan – Beijing Two Sides of the Strait, Sculpture Exchange, Kaohsiung Art Gallery, Taiwan; Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
1992 | 20th Century China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1992 | Contemporary Youth Sculptor Invitation Exhibition, Gallery of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Zhejiang, China
1991 | New Generation Art Exhibition, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1990 | The First Studio Art Exhibition, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
1987 | Art Academy Student Work Exhibition, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1986 | Beijing Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China