Zhan Wang
1962 Born in Beijing
1978-
1983-
Currently Lives and Works in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Suyuan Stone Machine: 1 Hour Equals to Million Years, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2010 Reflection: Zhan Wang Solo Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
2008 86 Divinity Figures, Long March Space, Beijing
2008 Zhan Wang Garden Utopia, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2008 Rocks into Gold, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2008 Zhan Wang, Hannise Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Zhan Wang Urban Landscape: Beijing Williams College Museum of Art, Beijing
2005 Flowers in the Mirror, Han Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 Mount Everest Project: To the Summit, Everest 8853.5m, Tibet
2003 New Plan to Patch the Sky, Xichang Satellite Lauch Center, Xichang
2002 From Sweden to Taipei, Taipei; Taichung
2001 In & Out: Floating Rock on Sweden, Gothenburg
2001 Sham Nature: Zhan Wang’s Artificial “Jia Shan Shi”, Han Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2001 Inlay Great Wall, Remnant Great Wall of Ba Daling, Beijing
2000 Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles: Floating Rock Drifts on, the Open Sea, Lingshan Island, Jiaonan
1994 Empty Soul Empty: Temptation Series, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Create: An Exhibition of Work from the Faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
2010 Traversing Horizon: Contemporary Chinese Art Show, National Art Museum of Chile, Santiago
2010 West China International Art Biennale, Yinchuan
2010 Reshaping History: Chinese New Art from 2000 – 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing
2010 The City of Forking Paths: 2010 Shanghai World Expo Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Expo Boulevard, Shanghai
2010 Clouds: Power of Asian Contemporary Art, SOKA Art Center 798 Grand Opening, Beijing
2009 Collision Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Art Museum
2009 Sculpture in Nature · Nature of Sculpture, Foundation De 11 Lijnen
2009 Beijing-
2009 Chinese Gardens for Living, Europalia, Brussels
2009 Annual Assembly of Contemporary Art Collection, Songzhuang, Beijing
2009 Vancouver Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture and Installation, Vancouver
2009 60 Years of People’s Republic of China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2009 Embrace Suzhou: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Arts, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
2009 Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2009 A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China, Millennium Park, Chicago
2009 Biennial Cuvee, OK Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz
2009 The Paramount: A Collective Portrait of Asian Contemporary Art, Boao
2009 Recompositions, Xindong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2009 Contemporary Sculpture in the Historic, Homburg Kurpark and Castle Gardens, Hamburg
2008 Year of China Exhibition Series, Great Britain Museum, London
2008 SH Contemporary 08, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2008 Hypallage: The Postmodern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen
2008 Accumulations-
2008 New World Order Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China, Groninger Museum, Groninger
2008 Case Studies of Artists in Art History, SZ Art Center 798, Beijing
2008 The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London
2008 798 Art Festival, Factory 798, Beijing
2008 Wonder 2008: Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2008 Hanging in the Sky, Drifting on the Surface, Linda Gallery, Beijing
2008 Accumulations: Spirit of the East, Asian Art Center, Beijing
2008 Case Studies of Artists in Art History, SZ Art Center 798, Beijing
2008 Beijing – Athens Contemporary Art from China, Athens National Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2008 The Origin: The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival, International Art Center – Beijing Cultural Development Foundation, Beijing
2007 Re-
2007 Recapture History – Contemporary Chinese Art From the Collection, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou
2007 Net: Re-
2007 Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2007 The Power of the Universe: The Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing
2007 The Contemporary Road of Media and Tradition: Group Exhibition of Ten Leading Contemporary Sculptors, Asia Art Center, Beijing
2007 Transparent Frame: Contemporary Art in Tibet, Lhasa
2007 Energy: Spirit, Body, Material, The First Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing,
2007 Escape by Crafty Scheme: Salvation: From Traditional and Revolutional Language, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing
2007 China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People’s Republic, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2007 China Onward: The Estella Collection – Chinese Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
2007 Contemporary Cultural Venation·China Version, 2007 Credit, Suisse
2006 Art in Motion: Contemporary Chinese Art Meets the BMW Art Cars, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2006 Shu: Re-
2006 Hyper Design 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2006 Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, MOCA, Shanghai
2006 In the Name of “Things”, Shan Gallery, Shanghai
2006 New Westernism: Chinese Contemporary Art at Beijing, China Red Square, Beijing
2006 Chinese Ideology: Contemporary Revival of Estheticism, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2006 Song Zhuang Art Festival, Beijing
2006 Size Decides Attitude: First 5×7" (Pingyao) Picture-
2006 Open Path: Second Public Sculpture Exhibition of the Song Zhuang Art Festival, Beijing
2006 City in Progress: Live From Zhangjiang, Shanghai
2006 Beaufort 02 Triennium PMMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Oostende, Oostende
2006 Mahjong: Chinese Contemporary Art Collection of Uli Sigg, Kunstalle Bern, Bern
2006 Heyri Asia Project, Chinese Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul
2006 MArtell Artists of the Year 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2006 Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, World Art Museum, Beijing
2006 The New Chinese Landscape, Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery, Boston
2005 Electrical Scape International New Media Art Exhibition Zhengda Art Museum, Shanghai
2005 Chinese Avant-
2005 Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourists Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Haywood Gallery, London
2005 The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2005 Transparent Box, SOHO Modern City, Beijing
2005 The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing; UB Art Gallery and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2005 Exchange Value of Pleasure, Pusan Museum of Modern Art, Pusan
2005 Hand Upward Are the Clouds, Hand Downward Comes the Rain, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Song Zhuang, Beijing
2005 1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
2005 Beijing and Beijing, Houhai, Beijing
2005 The Festival of China, the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
2004 Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2004 Sightseeing from Beijing: Exchange Exhibition with Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sydney College of Arts and University of Sydney, Sydney
2004 Chinese Imagination, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
2004 The Long March Project, Le Moine et le Demon-
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photograph (ICP), New York
2004 Playing with the Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo
2004 20 Year Anniversary of HanArt Gallery, HanArt Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 Chinese Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome, Italy; Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2004 First Document Nomination Exhibition, Wuhan
2003 Open Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2003 Dreams and Conflicts-
2003 Food Changes Life, Beijing, China
2003 Floating, Post Modern City, Beijing
2003 Open Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2003 First Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2003 Left Hand, Right Hand: A Sino-
2003 New Generation and Post-
2003 Conceptual Real Estate Exhibition, New Technology Center, Shenzhen
2003 China Contemporary Art, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome
2002 Long March-
2002 China Art, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg
2002 China Contemporary Art, Brasilia Art Museum, Sao Paolo
2002 China Contemporary Art, Croatia Art, Museum, Zagreb
2002 Foison: China Contemporary Art, Museum of Farming, Beijing, China
2002 Beijing: Paris, Pierre Cardin Art Center Paris
2002 Chinese Art Triennale, Guangzhou Museum, Guangzhou
2002 A Surplus of Interest, HaKaren Gallery, Singapore
2002 Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Korea International Art Fair, Seoul
2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-
2001 Arco Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona
2001 Hotpot-
2001 New Beginning, Art Filling Station, Beijing
2001 Cross Crossing, Modern Gallery, Chengdu
2001 Dream-
2001 Art and Science, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2001 Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2001 Chinese Contemporary Artists Poster Exhibition, Jianlou, Beijing
2001 Celebration of Life, Beijing Book Building, Beijing
2001 Rocks and Art: Nature Found and Made, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2000 Invited Exhibition on Contemporary Chinese Sculpture, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao
2000 Century Gate: 1979 – 1999 Chinese Art Invitation Exhibition, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
2000 Oriental Plaza Selected Contemporary Sculpture from China, East Square, Beijing
2000 Open2000 International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations, Venice, Italy
2000 Humanities Landscape, Langdao, Guilin
2000 Documentation of Chinese Avant-
2000 2000The West Lake International Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Taiziwan Park, Hangzhou
2000 The World of Real and Illusory, Yun Feng Gallery, Beijing
2000 2000Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2000 With Complements, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels
1999 Cities on Move, Louisiana Modern Art Museum, Copenhagen, Hayward Art Museum, London, Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
1999 Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
1999 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Limn Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Volume & Form, Singapore International Sculpture Singapore
1999 Changchun International Sculpture Invitation Exhibition, Changchun
1999 The Future Plan of Ecology City, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
1999 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, Taipei, Melbourne
1999 The Door of the Century, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
1998 Traces of Being: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Now Studio, Beijing
1997 Cities on Move, Modern Art Museum, Bordeaux; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1998 Spontaneous Act: Chinese Contemporary Art Video Exhibition, Art Space, Auckland
1998 Memorial of Life: Chinese Mainland Youth Sculpture Exhibition, Taipei
1998 Footprint of Half a Century: A Retrospective Sculpture Exhibition of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1998 Chinese Contemporary Art 20 Years Apocalypse, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing
1998 Accumulation, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
1998 Im Spiegel der Eigenen Tradition, Germany Embassy in China, Beijing
1998 First Chinese Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
1998 Platform of Two Genders, TEDA Art Museum, Tianjin
1997 Tokyo 97’ Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Watarium Art Museum, Tokyo
1997 Return Forever: 97’ Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen
1997 Cities on Move, Vienna Art Museum, Vienna
1997 Dream of China: 97’ Chinese Contemporary, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing
1997 1st Sculpture Event of Guilin Sun Valley Art Park, Guilin
1997 Continue: Group Exhibition of Five Artists, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1996 Tianjin TEDA International Art Sculpture Competition, Tianjin Economic Develop Zone, Tianjin
1996 Forrest Sculpture Park 1st Exhibition, Huairou Forrest Sculpture Park, Beijing
1996 Fukuoka International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Uminonakamichi Seaside Park, Fukuoka
1996 Sculpture and Contemporary Culture: Chinese Contemporary Art Documentra, Chongqing
1996 Contemporary Chinese Sculpture Invitation Exhibition, Nanshan Sculpture Museum, Shenzhen
1996 Reality: Today and Tomorrow: 96’ Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, International Art Space, Beijing
1995 45 Degree as a Reason: Art Exchange, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing
1995 Develop Plan: 3 Person Studio Exhibition 1, Central Academy of Fine Arts Ruin, Beijing
1995 Women · Site: 3 Person Studio Exhibition 1, Modern Art Museum, Beijing
1995 Open Your Mouth · Close Your Eyes: Beijing and Berlin Art Exchange, Capital Normal University Gallery, Beijing
1995 China Annual Nomination by Art Critics: 1995 ·Sculpture and Installation, Jiangsu Pictorial, Nanjing
1994 94 Ruins Cleaning Plan, Beijing
1994 2nd National Urban Sculpture Exhibition, National Art Museum of China
1994 Agree 26th November to be a Reason: Art Exchange, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing
1993 Cross-
1992 Twentieth Century China: Fine Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1992 Contemporary Young Sculptor Invitation Exhibition, Zhejiang Fine Art Academy Gallery, Hangzhou
1991 New Generation Arts, Chinese History Museum, Beijing
1991 Seven One: National Art Work Exhibition, National Art Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1990 Studio 1 Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1987 Student Work Exhibition of Art Academy, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
1986 Beijing Young Artists’ Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
