WANG GUANGYI
Born in Harbin, China
Graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts (formerly the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts), Hangzhou, China
Solo Exhibition
2019
Wang Guangyi Research on Popular Anthropology, XUN WAY, Shanghai, China
2016
Image Correction-Wang Guangyi, Museum of Contemporary Art, SingaporeNorthern Temperature-Wang Guangyi, Museum of Luxun Academic of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Wang Guangyi Existence And Transcendence, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2015
Wang Guangyi-Relics of Believers, MAC contemporary Art Museum, A Coruna, Spain
The 5th Art Changsha-China: Bridges To/ Bridges From History, Technology, Poetry, And Grace, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China
2014
Implosion and Crises: International Forum on experimental art of Wang Guangyi, Museum of Xinan Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Wang Guangyi, Viaggio in Italia, Museo di Villa Rufolo, Salerno, Italy
Negatives of Idols-Wang Guangyi, Spring Art Center, Beijing, China
2012
Things-In-Itself: Utopia, Pop and Personal Theology, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Wang Guangyi: Cold War Aesthetic(Shanghai Pujiang Oversea Chinese Town Public Art Project), Pujiang Oversea Chinese Town, Shanghai, China
2011
Visual Archives of Chinese Contemporary-Wang Guangyi. The Interactive Mirror Image, Tank
Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art center, Chongqing, China
2008
Visual Polity: Another Wang Guangyi, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
Cold War Aesthetics-Wang Guangyi, Louise Blouin Institute of Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
2007
Wang Guangyi, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
2006
Wang Guangyi, Arario Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2004
Wang Guangyi, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003
Wang Guangyi, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France
2001
Wang Guangyi: Face of Faith, Soobin Art Int'l Gallery, Singapore
1996
Witnessed-Wang Guangyi, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland
1994
Wang Guangyi, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Group Exhibition
2017
METAMORPHOSIS: Huang Zhuan Memorial Invitational Exhibition , OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2016
Working in collusion-First E’mei Invitation Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, E’mei, China
Art Historical Flashbacks: Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Models-The Visual Experience and Cultural Identity of Chinese Modernity, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China
An Exhibition about Exhibitions: Displaying Contemporary Art in 1990s, OCAT, Beijing, China
Busan Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
3rd Nanjing International Arts Festival Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The 3rd Today's Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
Loitering Spirit: A Tribute to Paul Gauguin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tahiti
Breaking the Image: Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists From China, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China
La Sindone e l’impronta dell’arte, Museo Civico di Sansepolcro, Arezzo, Italy
The Civil Power: Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Northern Artist Group Archival Exhibition, North Art Group, Kong Kong, China
Displaying Fragments: Ten Years of OCAT (2005-2015), OCAT, Beijing, China
2014
Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
8+1-A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2013
Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Venice, ItalyPost Pop: East Meets West, 2014, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial: Serendipitous Information-Art is Not a System-Nor is it World, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2011
Museum on Paper: 12 Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (ICCA), Beijing, China
Pure Views: New Painting from China, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Chengdu Biennale-Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chengdu, China
Collecting History: China New Art, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
Little Movements: Self Practice in Contemporary Art, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2010
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Pure Views, Louise Blouin Institute of Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
Art for the World: The Sculpture Project of the EXPO Boulevard in the World EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
Chinese Contemporary Art From 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Constructed Dimension: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Minimum, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Made in Pop Land, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009
A collateral Event of 53rd International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia-A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice, Italy
State Legacy: A Visual History Project on the State Concept, Manchester Institute Research and Innovation of Art and Design; OCAT, Shenzhen, China
CHINAMANIA, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yi Pai, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Collision-Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Fine Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
2008
Case Studies of Artists in Art History , SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Writing On The Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Netherlands
Today’s China, Bellevue Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Encounter, Pace Beijing Gallery, China
Red, Smooth and Luminescent Contemporary Expression, Xindong Cheng Gallery, Beijing, China
Avant-garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan;
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; etc
People-History-Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Revolution Continues-New Art From China, The Saatchi Gallery, UK
2007
We Are Your Future: Special Project in Moscow Biennale 2007,Moscow, Russia
Chinese Contemporary Sots Art, The State Tretykov Gallery,Moscow, Russia
Post-Martial Law vs Post-89: The Contemporary Art In Taiwan and China, Taiwan Museum of Art, China
RED HOT: Asian Art Today,Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The USA
SH Contemporary 2007-Best of Artists, Shanghai Exhibition Center, ShangHai, China
Forms of Concepts: 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Art Scene, Wuhan, China
The Supplemental History : Contemporary Artworks from Collection of Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China85 New Wave: the Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
1997-2007 Awakening from a Ten-Year Long Sleep, Hejingyuan Art Center, Beijing, China
Absolute Images II, Arario New York Gallery, New York, The USA
Escape By Crafty Scheme: Salvation From Traditional And Revolutional Language, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Sport in Art 2007-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China; Art Museum of Guangzhou Art Academy, China; RCM the Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China; Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, Shenyang, China; Sichuan Fine Arts Museum, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006
Jiang Hu, Tilton Gallery, New York, The USA
Absolute Images I, Arario Seoul Gallery, Korea
Plato and His Seven Spirit, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
From The Frigid Zone to The Old Indus trial Area: Northeast Contemporary Art Exhibition of China
1985-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Blossoming of Realism: The Oil Painting of Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2005
Body Temperature: Invoking the Legacy of Hans Christian Anderson through Chinese Contemporary Art, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Invitation Exhibition: Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, OCAT, Shenzhen, ChinaOpen 2005-8th International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation, Lido, Venice, Italy
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Beijing Gallery, China
Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National Museum of the Arts, Taipei, China
2004
China, the Body Everywhere(Chine, Le corps partout), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
Art on the Beach: Sculptures, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris, France; Han Art TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China; ADAGP, Paris, France
2003
Alors, La Chine, Pompidou Art Center, Paris, France
From China with Art-The Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
An Opening Era: Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Founding of National Museum of China, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
CP Open Biennale 2003, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2002
The Power of Image, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Modernity, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paris-Peking, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
Take Part Ⅱ , Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Media and Arts, International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Golden Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Art, Zagreb Museum of Art, Hrvatska
The First China Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Concept Image: 2002 China Modern Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial : Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990- 2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
Towards New Image:20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of China, Beijing, China. etc.
Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
Next Generation: Art Contemporain d’Asie, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Transplantation in Situ, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000
Door of the New Century, Chengdu Art Scene, Chengdu, China
Society: The 2nd Academic Exhibition Upriver Gallery, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Futuroe: Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Macao, Macao, China
1998
Inside Out-New Chinese Art 1998-2000, Asia Society Galleries, New York, United States;P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, United States;San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, United States;Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States;Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico;Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, United States;Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong S.A.R.
1997
Magie der Zahl-In der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Chinese Art of The 1990s: Faces and Bodies of The Middle Kingdom, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, the Czech Republic
Red and Grey-8 Avant-garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Quotation Marks, Singapore Art Museum, SingaporeIn and Out, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore; Arts Gallery of Sydney College, Australia; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
1996
Begegnungen mit China, Ludwig Forum Fur International Kunst, GermanyChina! Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany
The Second Asia-pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AustraliaThe First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of China, Beijing, China;
The Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1995
Art to Swatch, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, The USA
New Asian Art Show-China, Korea, Japan, Kilin Plaza, Osaka; Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie, Neue Kunst Aus China, Hamburg, Germany
Aperto 95, Avant-gardes Artistiques Xinesses, Santa Monica Center d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
1994
22nd Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
94 Beijing International Com-Art Show: China, Korea, Japan, The Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China;
600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mao Goes Pop, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
China’s New Art, Marlborough Gallery, London,United KingdomChina’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China; Political Pop,
China’s New Art:Han Art Taipei Gallery, Taipei, China; New Art from China:Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
China Avant-garde, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Kladefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1992
The 1st Biennial of Art in the 1990s, Guangzhou International Exhibition Centre, China
1991Cocart Bevete Arte Contemporarea,Bianca Pilat Gallery, Milan, Italy
1990I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne, Asian Pacific Museum, California, USA
1989China Avant-garde, National Museum of China, Beijing, China