WANG QINGSONG

1966 Born in Heilongjiang Province, China.

1991 Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China.

1993-now lives and works in Beijing.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 “Wang Qingsong”, Albion Gallery, London, UK.

“Caution”, PKM Gallery, Beijing.

2007 “Thinker”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing.

China: Past, Present & Future. MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany.

Wang Qingsong, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

Wang Qingsong: Between Nostalgia and Cynicism. ECCO Contemporary Art Center, Brasilia, Brazil.

2006 Wang Qingsong, Albion Gallery, London. UK.

2005 “Wang Qingsong in Arras”, city hall, art academy and public library, Arras, France.

2004 Romantique --- Wang Qingsong, Salon 94, USA.

Romantique --- Wang Qingsong, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing.

2003 Wang Qingsong: Present-day Epics, Saidye Bronfman Contemporary Art Center, Montreal Canada.

2002 Wang Qingsong Photography, Foundation Oriente, Macao, China.

Golden Future, Wang Qingsong Photo Exhibition, Galerie Loft, France.

Wang Qingsong, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy.

Satirizing the times, 2nd Pingyao Photo-festival, Shanxi Province.

2000 “Glorious Life”, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 “Asian Contemporary Art Fair(ACAF NY)”, New York, USA

“CINA XXI Secolo, Arte fra Identita’ e Trasformazione”, Palazzodelle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.

“Fabricating Images from History”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing. China.

“Body Language”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

55 Days in Valencia, IVAM, Spain.

“China Gold”, Musee Maillol, Paris, France.

“Translocalmotion ---7th edition of Shanghai Biennale”, Shanghai Art Museum, China.

21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA.

ARTHK08 ’Hong Kong International Art Fair’, Hongkong

2007 Chinablue in Berlin, Berlin Art Centre, Berlin, German

ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China. Artium of Alava (Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo ARTIUM), Spain.

Timer: Intimacy, the Triennale di Milano, Italy.

Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany.

China Songzhuang Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Circular Railway Times Museum, Beijing.

International Exchange Exhibition of Modern Art, Seongnam Cultural Foundation, Korea.

Timeline: Human Speed & Technology Speed, Seoul Cultural Institute, Beijing.

“Beyond Icon: Chinese Contemporary Art in Miami”, Miami, USA.

Mirror Image of Diversity. Beijing Tokyo Art Projects. Beijing.

2006 Photo biennale, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.

2nd Bucharest Biennale, Romania.

Public Image, Liege, Belgium.

Acting the Part -- history of staged photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

The 37th Recontres de Arles Photographie, Arles, France.

C on Cities: 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Ecotopia: ICP Triennale, New York City, USA.

Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wiscounsin, USA.

2005 Re-viewing the City --- Guangdong International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China.

Over One Billion Served, Singapore Civilizations Museum, Singapore

Montpellier-Chine 1: 1st Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain Chinois de Montpellier, France.

Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Japan.

Die Chinesen – Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Museum Het Kruithuis, The Netherlands.

Pocheon Asian Art Fair (PAAF2005), Pocheon, Korea.

Baroque and NeoBaroque – The Hell of Beauty, Domus Atrium 2002, Salamanca, Spain.

Always to the Front – Chinese Contemporary Art, Guandu Art Museum, Taiwan.

Beyond Delirious – Architecture in Selected Photographs form the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, USA.

Grounding Reality – Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Center, Korea (catalogue)

2004 Over One Billion Served, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA.

Photosynkyria --- Photography as Narrative Art, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece.

Officina, Galeria of Modern Arte, Bologna, Italy.

New Photography from China, International Center of Photography, New York City, USA.

Past in Reverse, San Diego Museum of Art, USA.

2003 Prague Biennale 1, Czech Republic.

Contemporary Chinese Photography, Rudolfinum Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

2002 Run, Jump, Climb and Walk, East Modern Art Center, Beijing.

Money and Value/The Last Taboo, Basel, Switzerland.

Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA.

Chinese Modernity, Museum of the Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The 2nd Pinyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi Province, China.

Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France.

CHINaRT, Museum Kuppersmuhle, Zeitgenossische Kunst,Duisburg, traveling in Rome and etc.

2001 Constructed Reality --- Conceptual Photography from Beijing. Hong Kong Arts Center.

Next Generation. Passage de Retz, Paris, France.

Promenade in Asia-CUTE. Art Tower Mito, Japan.

China Album. Nice Contemporary Art Museum, France.

CROSS-PRESSURES. Finnish Museum of Photography. Finland.

Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, China.

2000 Man + Space, 3rd Kwangju Biennale 2000. Kwangju, Korea.

BIG TORINO 2000 Biennale Arte Emergente. Turin, Italy.

China Avant-Garde Artists Documenta. Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan .

Unusual and Usual. Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai. China.

1999 Ouh La La, Kitsch! TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China.

SYNERGI: Fourteen Danish and Foreign Artists Exhibit. Udviklings Center Odsherred, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1998 Site of Desire: 1998 Taipei Biennial. Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.

1996 China! Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany, traveling in other countries.

Gaudy Life. Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing. China.