Born in Beijing, China, 1962
EDUCATION
1983-1988 Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts
1978-1981 Beijing Industrial Arts College
SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2008
“Gold Mountain,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Garden Utopia,” National Museum of China, Beijing, China
“On Gold Mountain: Sculptures from the Sierra,” The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Zhan Wang,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
“Zhan Wang: Urban Landscape,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2005
“Flowers in the Mirror,” Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2004
Mount Everest Project -to the Summit Everest 8853.5m
2002
From Sweden to Taibei, Taibei-Taizhong
2001
Inlay Great Wall" Remnant Great wall of Badaling, Beijing
Sham Nature, Zhan Wang's Artificial Jiashanshi, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
Inside 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 1994
"Kong Ling Kong- Seduction Series,” Works of Zhan Wang, CAFA Gallery, Beijing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"Material Terrain", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
“Floating: New Generation of Art in China,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
“Landscape & Memory II,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People's Republic,” Deborah Colton Gallery,
Houston, TX
“Temptations,” The Columns, Seoul, Korea
2006
6th Shanghai Biennale - Hyper Design, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity,” Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China “City in Progress/Live from Zhang Jiang,” Zhangjiang Shanghai, China
“Chineseness in Indigenous Mode: Contemporary Renaissance in Aesthetic Reconstruction,” Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The New Chinese Landscape,” Arthur M Sackler Museum,” Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
PMMK Museum of Modern Art, Ostent, Belgium
Heyri Asia Project, Chinese Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
“Building Cod Violations,” Long March Foundation, Beijing, China
2005
“The Wall - Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourists Eye,” Hayward Gallery, London, England
“Xiangeng! Chinese Avant-Garde,” Museum Beelden aan Zee, Schevengingen
Mahjong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst,” Kunstmuseum, Bern. Germany
“The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Japan.
“The New Long March Space Inaugural Exhibition,” Long March Foundation, Beijing, China.
2004
“Chinese Imagination,” Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
“Beyond Boundaries,” Shanghai Gallery of Art
“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China,” International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY
“Playing with the Energy,” House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
“Stone Face BANG,” Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Dreams and Conflicts-The Dictatorship of the Viewer 50th Venice Biennale, Synthi-Scapes: Chinese Pavilion
2003
China Guangdong Museum of Art/Venice - China Art Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome, Italy
“Chinese Contemporary Art,” Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Space Art & Culture, Beijing, China
Open Times Chinese Art Gallery, Beijing
2002
The First Guangzhou triennial Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000) Guangdong
Art Museum
China Contemporary Art Brasileira Art Museum
Chinart, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
Beijing-Paris, Paris Centre Pompidou
China Contemporary Art, Croatia Art Museum
2001
Poster Exhibition of Chinese Avant-garde, Red Door, Beijing
HOTPOT kinesisk samtidskunst Kunstnernes Hus Oslo ,Norway
Dream 01, Contemporary Art of China, The Red Mansion Foundation, Atlantis, London
“With complements,” Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
Shanghai Biennale Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
The West lake International Sculpture Invitational Exhibition Taiziwan ≈ Atlantis, London
2000
"The World of Real and Illusory," Yunfeng Gallery, Beijing, China
Documentation of Chinese avant-garde Art in 90s, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
"Humanities Landscape," Langdao, Guilin
"Open2000" International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations Venezia, Italy
Invited Exhibition on Contemporary Chinese Sculpture, Qingdao, Sculpture Museum, Qingdao
Oriental Plaza Selected Contemporary Sculpture from China East Square, Beijing, China
1999
The Door of the Century Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
The Future Plan of Ecology City Shenzhen
Volume & Form, Singapore International Sculpture Singapore
“Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth
Century,” The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Chinese Contemporary Art LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Cities on the More Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek,
Denmark, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture Hexiangning Museum, Shenzhen
“Building Blocks,” The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
A Revelation of 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art Workers' Cultural Palace, Beijing, China
Cities on the Move Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
New York, USA
"Commemorating Life," Jinshan, Taiwan
Half a Century of Footprints, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Institute CAFA Museum, Beijing,
China
Autonomous Action Art Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Signs of Life, group exhibition of modern Chinese art Modern Art Studio, Beijing
1997
Continue CIFA Gallery, Beijing, China
The First Sculpture Activities in Guilin Dayanggu Art Palace, Giulin, Guangxi
Dream Of China '97 Chinese Contemporary Art, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Watari-UM, Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Forever Return -97' Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition
Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen
Cities on the Move Succession, Vienna, Austria
1996
Certificate Of Award '96 TEDA International Sculpture Symposium, Tianjin
The First Exhibition in Mountain-Forest Sculpture Park Huairou, Beijing
International Sculpture Wild-open Show Fukouka Seaside Park, Japan
The First Academic Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Artist Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
Sculpture & Contemporary Culture, The Research Report on Chinese Contemporary Art Chongqing, Sichuan
Invited Works of Chinese Contemporary Sculpture, Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen
"Reality: Present & Future" 96 Chinese Contemporary Art International Art Place, Beijing, China
1995
Woman's Here, Triplicate Studio 2nd Exhibition Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing
Degree as a Reason, Postcard Exchange Hangzou, Shanghai, Beijing
Development Plan, Triplicate Studio 1st Exhibition
Debris of the Central Academy Of Fine Arts, Beijing Woman's Here, Triplicate Studio 2nd Exhibition Beijing Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes, Beijing- Berlin Art Exchange Art Museum of Capital Teaching University,
Beijing, China
Exhibition of Works Nomination by Critics (1995 Sculpture & Installation) "Jingsu Art Monthly"
1994
Agree to 11/26 As a Reason, Postcard Exchange Hangzou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
Kong Ling Kong- Seduction Series, Works of Zhan Wang CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
1993
Taiwan-Beijing Two Sides of the Straits, Sculpture Exchange Gaoxiong Art Gallery, Taiwan & Beijing
1992
Contemporary Youth Sculptor Invitation Exhibition ZIFA Gallery Hangzhou 20th Century China, China Art
Gallery, Beijing, China
1991
New Generation Art Exhibition Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1990
The First Studio Art Exhibition CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
1986
Beijing Youth Art Exhibition, Chinese Art Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES
2008
Baker, Kenneth. “Zhan Wang’s mercurial monuments,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2008,
www.sfgate.com
Kraft, Jessica. “On Gold Mountain: Sculptures from the Sierra,” Art Asia Pacific, May/June 2008.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Beijing sculptor Zhan Wang steels the scene,” Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2008.
Farr, Kristin. “Zhan Wang: On Gold Mountain,” KQED arts & culture, March 03, 2008.
“Zhan Wang’s San Francisco In Stainless Steel,” SF Weekly, Feb. 26, 2008.
Baker, Kenneth. “Zhan Wang’s mercurial monuments,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2008,
www.sfgate.com.
Janku, Laura. “The Best of the Bay Area,” ARTINFO, January 22, 2008.
Baker, Kenneth. “Art exhibitions to look forward to in 2008,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 2008
2007
China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual:
English, German, Chinese, Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
Muchnic, Suzanne. “MOCA’s Chinese future,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 2007.
“Zhan Wang at the Williams College Museum of Art,” Art in America, May 2007
2006
Cha, Carina. “Zhan Wang: The man whose work fell from the stars,” ArtAsiaPacific, No.48, Spring 2006.
2004
Movius, Lisa. “Shanghai Spring,” Art in America, June/July 2004.
2001
Erickson, Britta. “Material Illusion: Adrift with the Conceptual Sculptor Zhan Wang,” Art Journal,
Summer, 2001.
1999
Wu, Hung. “Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 1999.
1997
Smith, Karen. “Contemporary Rocks: Zhan Wang reworks the traditional Chinese concept of the Chinese ornamental mountain and preindustrial notions of landscape,” World Sculpture News, winter 1997.
AWARDS
2006 Martell Artist of the year, China Art Museum, China
