CV

Wang Yigang
1961	Born in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province
1986	Graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department
2012	Appointed Distinguished Researcher at the Chinese National Academy of Arts
	Presently Professor & Director of the Art Museum of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019	Per Leonardo, LDV Art Gallery, Locarno, Switzerland
2018	Beyond Abstraction, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei Wang Yigang Recent Works, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, US
2017	Disinterested, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany Through Color, Absolute Art, Lugano, Switzerland
2016	Color Bloom, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Transformation of the Flow, Shannon Gallery, Paris, France Unseen, Centre Artasia, Paris, France Anti-Abstraction, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an
2013	Not A Matter of Distance, Jolie Art Museum, Shenyang
2012	Between Color & Emotion, Soka Art Center, Beijing
2010	From West to East, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei Wang Yigang Abstract Art Retrospective, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2008	This Is Not Chinese Landscape, ARTrium @ MICA, Singapore From Revealingism to This Is Not Chinese Landscape, Hwa’s Gallery, Shanghai
2007	We Are All Responsible, Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai Made in America, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing Offhand, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland, US
2004	Chinese Landscape, Double Vision Gallery, West Hollywood, California, US
2003	Under the Red Flag, Double Vision Gallery, West Hollywood, California, US
1996	Wang Yigang Solo Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
1994	Wang Yigang Solo Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
1992	Early 1990s – Wang Yigang Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019	Cross-Strait Contemporary Abstract Art Exchange Exhibition, Yun Fei Fan Art Museum, Tainan
2016	Heavy Painting, Dilemma of the Contemporary Art Game, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing Contemporary Chinese Painting on Paper, Waterfront Gallery, London 2016 Abstract China, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai Non-Image in Motion, Right View Art Museum, Beijing Recreational Age – Poetry in Chinese Contemporary Art, J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen Abstract Art Study, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2015	Art Historical Flashback: Another Clue to Chinese Contemporary Art, Yili Art Museum, Beijing Abstraction and Conception, Binfeng Art Museum, Beijing National Style – Chinese Contemporary Art International Exhibition, SZ Art Center, Beijing. Post-Academic Research Exhibitions, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
2014	Social Landscape, Chengdu International Cultural Art Center, Chengdu 1960, Springs Center of Art, Beijing Recoding: Reconstruction of Rhetoric & Narrative, Parkview Green Art, Beijing
2013	Voices of the Unseen, Parallel Exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
2012	In the Prime of Vitality, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Paris The 4th Guangzhou Triennial – The Third Nature – Chinese Reconstruction, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou The Shape of Imaging—Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany In Time – 2012 Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Diversion of Contemporary Art Value Paradigm, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu
2011	Commemoration – 10th Anniversary of Soka Beijing, Soka Art Center, Beijing Ruins – Face of Contemporary Art Northeast China, Soka Art Center, Beijing
2010	Landscape in Transition – 2009 Yuzi Paradise International Art Symposium, Yuehu Art Museum, Shanghai Refactoring – Top Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou Reshaping History – China Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing Nature of China – Contemporary Art Documenta, True Color Museum, Suzhou
2009	Collision – Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, CAFA Arts Museum, Beijing Mix – Contemporary China France Art View, Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
2008	Abstractism and Modern Nature, Deshan Art Space, Beijing Building Code Violations II, Long March Space, Beijing
2007	Multivariate Coexistence Sino-Korean Exchange Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Post Avant-Garde Chinese Contemporary Art: Four Directions of the New Era, Atting House, Hong Kong Contemporary Art of Northern China, Goettingen City Museum, Goettingen, Germany Chinese Contemporary SOCART, The State Treyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006	Chinese Contemporary Art Literature, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing The Third Space – Chinese Text of Abstract Art, Shanghai Art Museum The 2nd Sino-German Contemporary Art Exchange, CAFA Arts Museum, Beijing From Extreme Zone to West of the Tracks – The Artists of Northeastern China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou A Point in Time, Fine Arts Literature Center, Wuhan
2003	A Point in Time, Meilun Art Museum, Changsha
2001	Academic and Non-Academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai
2000	20th Century Chinese Oil Painting, National Museum of China, Beijing
Selected Awards
2007	Outstanding Contribution in Contemporary Art, US Asian Cultural Academy
1993	Academic Award, Chinese Oil Painting Biennial
1992	Award Nomination, Guangzhou Biennial
1991	Bronze Medal, The 70th Anniversary of PRC Art Exhibition
1985	Encouragement Award, National Junior Art Exhibition
Selected Public Collections
National Art Museum of China, Beijing Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Hangzhou International Expo Center, Hangzhou Midea Group HQ, Foshan Yuehu Museum of Art, Shanghai Centre Artasia, Paris, France Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Xi’an Art Gallery of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an Hejingyuan Art Museum, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts, Beijing