Qingsong Wang Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2011
  • Wang Qingsong, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
2010
  • Follow Me, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Almeria, Spain
  • Wang Qingsong: Three Video Projects, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2009
  • Wang Qingsong, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2008
  • Wang Qingsong, Albion Gallery, London, UK
  • Caution, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
  • Phantom China, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria
  • Wang Qingsong — Temporary Ward, Baltic Contemporary Art Center, Gateshead, UK
  • Wang Qingsong Solo Show — Panic, Fear and Violence, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China.
  • Unparalleled Madness, Madhouse Contemporary, Hong Kong
2007
  • China: Past, Present & Future, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
  • Thinker — Wang Qingsong Solo Exhibition, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
  • Wang Qingsong, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Wang Qingsong: Between Nostalgia and Cynicism, Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo (ECCO), Brasilia, Brazil
2006
  • Wang Qingsong, Albion Gallery, London, UK
2005
  • Wang Qingsong in Arras, City Hall, Art Academy and Public Library, Arras, France
2004
  • Wang Qingsong — Romantique, Salon 94, New York, USA
  • Wang Qingsong — Romantique, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2003
  • Wang Qingsong: Present-day Epics, Saidye Bronfman Contemporary Art Center, Montreal, Canada
2002
  • Wang Qingsong Photography, Foundation Oriente, Macau
  • Golden Future — Photography by Wang Qingsong, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
  • Wang Qingsong, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  • Satirizing the times, 2nd Pingyao Photo-Festival, Pingyao, China
2000
  • Glorious Life — The Photographs of Wang Qingsong, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China
     
    h4. Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
  • Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival at a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia.
  • Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea.
  • International Contemporary Art Biennale in China West, Tianye Contemporary Art Museum, China.
  • Photography from the New China, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
2009
  • Action — Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art
    Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • China: Contemporary Art, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
  • The 3rd Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
  • The Simple Art of Parody, Taipei MOCA, Taiwan
  • Gextophoto 2009 International Photography Festival, Gexto, Spain.
  • The V VentoSul Biennial: Large Water: Maps Altered, Brazil.
  • The Dark Science of Five Continents, Gallery BMB, Mumbai, India
  • Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
  • Mise-en-Scene, Officina, Beijing, China
2008
  • CINA XXI Secolo. Arte fra Identita’ e Trasformazione, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  • Fabricating Images from History, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
  • Body Language: Contemporary Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  • 55 Days in Valencia — Chinese Art Meeting, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
  • China Gold, L’Art Contemporain Chinois, Musee Maillol, Paris, France
  • Adidas Sport in Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • Go Game, Beijing!, German Embassy, Beijing, China
  • Translocalmotion: 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, Korea
  • 21: Selections of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
  • Christian Dior and Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  • China: Construction and Deconstruction, MASP, San Paolo, Brazil
2007
  • Zhu Yi! Chinese Contemporary Photography, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
  • Timer — Intimita/Intimacy, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
  • Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM — Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Timeline: Human Speed & Technology Speed, Korea Center, Beijing, China
  • Beyond Icons — Chinese Contemporary Art, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
  • Mirror Image of Diversity — Six Person Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
2006
  • Moscow International Photo Biennale, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • 2nd Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania
  • Public Image, public project in the city of Liege, Belgium
  • Acting the Part — Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • The 37th Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
  • C on Cities — The 10th International Venice Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • Ecotopia, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
  • Intersections — Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
2005
  • Re-viewing the City — the 1st Guangdong International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
  • Over One Billion Served, Singapore Civilizations Museum, Singapore
  • 1st Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain Chinois de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
  • Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Die Chinesen, Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  • Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs form the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, USA
  • Baroque and Neo Baroque — The Hell of Beauty, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
  • Always to the Front — Chinese Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  • Grounding Reality — Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004
  • Over One Billion Served, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
  • Photosynkyria 2004 — Photography as Narrative Art, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Officina Asia (Asian Workshop), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
  • Image of History, Photo España, Madrid, Spain.
  • Between Past and Future, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
  • Die Chinesen — Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany.
  • Exposure, Hereford Photo Festival, Hereford, UK.
  • Past in Reverse — Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
2003
  • First Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic。
  • Fashion and Style , Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
  • A Strange Heaven — Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands
2002
  • Run, Jump, Climb, Walk, Yuanyang Art Center, Beijing, China
  • Money and Value — The Last Taboo, exhibition in the framework of Expo 02, Biel, Switzerland
  • Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
  • Chinese Modernity, Museum of the Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil
  • The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
  • Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
  • CHINART — Contemporary Art from China, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
2001
  • Constructed Reality — Beijing/Hong Kong Conceptual Photography, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
  • Next Generation — Art Contemporain d’Asie, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
  • Promenade in Asia — CUTE, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
  • Chinese Album, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France
  • Cross Pressures, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
  • Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2000
  • Man and Space — 3rd Gwangju Biennale 2000, Gwangju, Korea
  • Big Torino 2000 — Biennale Arte Emergente, Turin, Italy
  • China Avant-garde Artists Documents, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Unusual & Usual, Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Public Collections

2009
  • Denver Art Museum
  • Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2008
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  • Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
2007
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
  • Hammer Museum
2006
  • San Diego Museum of Art
  • Board Member of Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • Billstone Foundation, Spain
  • Aspen Art Museum
2005
  • Williams College of Art. USA
  • MUMOK, Austria
  • New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
  • Cisneros Foundation, Miami, USA
  • Board member of Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
  • Rubell collection
  • Mori Art Museum
2004
  • Smart Museum of University of Chicago.USA
  • Brooklyn Museum. USA
2003
  • The Moscow House of Photography, Russia
2002
  • Art Tower Mito—Contemporary Art Museum, Japan
  • Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP). Paris, France
  • Guy and Miriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
  • National Art Museum of Brazil, Brazil
  • Oriente Foundacion, Portugal
2001
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
  • JGS Foundation, New York, USA
2000
  • The International Center of Photography. New York, USA

Qingsong Wang

Contemporary

Installation, photography

Chinese artist born in 1966 in Province du Heilongjiang, China. 

Localisation
Beijing, China
Themes
Culture, identité, ironie, mémoire collective, mise en scène, paradoxes

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