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