Wang Huangsheng
Wang is a distinguished artist and scholar who enjoys special allowance of the State Council in China. With a doctorate in the History of Art from Nanjing Art Institute, Wang has held numerous prestigious positions as a museum director and academic leader in the field of fine art and contemporary art. He was the Director of Guangdong Museum of Art from 2000 to 2009 and the Director of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum from 2009 to 2017.He is currently the Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a Member of the Academic Committee, Chief Director of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art Museum, Director of the Center of New Art Museum, Deputy Director of the Curatorial Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association and a specially-appointed Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Nanjing Art Institute, Central University for Nationalities and City University of Macau.In 2004, he was awarded the Knight Medal of Art and Literature by the French Government and in 2006 the Knight Medal by the President?of Italy. In 2013 he obtained the “Beijing Best Educator” award from the Beijing government.He is the founder of the Guangzhou Triennial, the Guangzhou Photo Biennale,CAFAM Biennale, CAFAM Future Exhibition and Beijing Photo Biennale.He has been a member of the judging panel at the Kwangju Art Biennial, Olympics in Vision, Greece, the Chinese Contemporary Art Award, and the Venice Biennale China Pavilion.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Wang Huangsheng：Sevenfold Journey and Wang Huangsheng：Tracing back to the Source of Zhujiang touring exhibition 1984/2024 Shantou Station （Shantou Art Museum, Shantou, China)
2022 Wang Huangsheng：Remoteness and River （He Xiangning Art Museum,Shenzhen,China)
Wang Huangsheng：Tracing back to the Source of Zhujiang touring exhibition 1984/2022 Guangzhou Station （Guangzhou Library, Guangzhou, China)
2021 Wang Huangsheng：Tracing back to the Source of Zhujiang touring exhibition 1984/2021 Kunming Station （Yunnan Art Museum, Kunming, China)
Wang Huangsheng：Tracing back to the Source of Zhujiang touring exhibition 1984/2021 Guiyang Station （Guizhou Art Museum, Guiyang, China)
2020 Wang Huangsheng：Breathe In/Out (The Long Museum, Shanghai, China)
Wang Huangsheng：Breathe In/Out（Osthaus Museum Hagen, Haagen, Germany)
2019 Wang Huangsheng: Tracespace (Kunstraun Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany)
2018 Wang Huangsheng: Boundary/Space (Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany)
Wang Huangsheng: Boundary/Space (Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China)
Origin: Wang Huangsheng (Shantou Museum, China)
2017 “Wang Huangsheng:Boungary/Space” (Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China)
“Wang Huangsheng:Boungary/Space” (Ink Asia,Hongkong,China)
2015 "The Garden of Mystery: Wang Huangsheng Art Exhibition" (Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China)
"Wang Huangsheng : Roaming | Apparition" (Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, China)
"Flux: Wang Huangsheng" (Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China)
"Wang Huangsheng: Unbroken Line" (October Gallery, London, Uk)
"Blade & Line: Wang Huangsheng New Ink Artworks" (CAFA International Gallery, Beijing, China)
2014 "On the Run: Wang Huangsheng Solo Exhibition" (Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China)
2013 "The Lines to Freedom" (Schiller Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany)
"Boundless: Wang Huangsheng’s Works (2009-2013) " (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou/ Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China)
"Roaming | Apparition" (WiE KULTUR, Berlin, Germany)
"Wang Huangsheng: Look into the Distance" (Sunshine Space, Shantou, China)
2012 "Post • Refined • Joy -- Art Exhibition of Wang Huangsheng" (Baiyaxuan 798 Art Center, Beijing, China)
2007 "Heaven and Earth • Carefree -- Wang Huangsheng Ink Painting Exhibition" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China)
2006 "Heaven and Earth • Carefree -- Wang Huangsheng Ink Painting Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
"Growth in Spring/Stillness in Autumn -- Wang Huangsheng Art Works Exhibition" (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
2005 "Quotidian Mood -- Flower Series of Wang Huangsheng" (Huayi gallery, Guangzhou, China)
1996 "Wang Huangsheng Art Exhibition" (Hongkong Cultural center, Hongkong, China)
Group Exhibitions:
2023 "Other Matters :The Art Historian's Art Works"(United Art Museum,Wuhan,China)
2021 “The Logic of Painting: China Central Academy of Fine Arts Faculty Works Exhibition”(Xinjiang Art Museum,Wulumuqi,China)
“Round&Develop: Academic Invitation Exhibition of Comprehensive Material Painting”(CAFA Art Museum,Beijing,China)
“Interspace” (Block14 Level1 CAFA ,Beijing, China)
“Awakening” (MGM Macau Lobby , Macau ,China)
2020 "Harmo-Power the First Jinan International Biennale" (Shandong Art Museum,Jinan, China)
2018 “2018 Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists”(Aimer Museum,Beijing,China)
2017 "Annual Review of China Contemprorary Ink Painting2016-2017"(Ucity Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China)
2016 "The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, 2015" (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"Being and Inking – Documenting Contemporary Ink Art (2001-2016) " (Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China)
2015 "Concealed Power" (Yang•Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"The Civil Power" (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"CHINA 8: Chinese contemporary art in Rhine ruhr" (Rhine ruhr, Germany)
"Calligraphic time and space: Abstract Art in China" (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China)
"Confronting Anitya -- Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art" (Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China)
2014 "The Third Criticism: Art Language" (Times Musuem, Beijing, China)
"Rendering the Future -- Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition" (Asia Art Center, Beijing, China)
"A New Context Derived From Shuimo" (Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"For the Chinese Painting–Teacher-student Exhibition of Flower and Bird Painting from Chinese higher art colleges" (China Central Academy of Fine Arts Teaching Gallery, Beijing, China)
"DAJIA • Chinese Painting Biennial of Contemporary Lingnan • 2014" (Poly Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"Spiritual as Mountains" (Pearl Lam Galleries, Hongkong, China)
"Confronting Anitya -- Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art" (Fred Villa Art Center, Bonn, Germany / Yuan art museum, Beijing, China)
2013 "Northern Earth and Southern Sky -- Exhibition of Beijing Resided Chaoshan Rooted Artists " (Three Drops of Water Gallery, Shenzhen, China)
"Special Exhibition of China Central Academy of Fine Arts Teaching Staff • 2013" (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"Silent Realm -- Renaissance of Eastern Aesthetics" (Zero Art Center, Beijing, China)
"Confronting Anitya -- Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art" (Palazzo Michiel Palace, Venice/ MAGI’900 Museum, Bologna, Italy)
"The Taste of Ink" (Amy Li Gallery, Beijing, China)
2012 "Original Forms of Chinese Water Ink Painting" (Sanchuan Modern Art Museum, Nanjing/Tianjin Art Museum, China)
"Visionary: Contemporary Fine Art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts" (Wimbledon College of Art, Art@GoldenSquare, London, England / CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China)
"At Rest - The Fifth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art" (Pifo New ART Gallery, Beijing, China)
"4th Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial" (Taichung Cultural & Creative Industries Park International Exhibition Hall, CKS Memorial Hall Taipei, Taiwan, China)
"Not Only Paper• China -- Japan Paper Art Exhibition First Round" (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China)
2010 "The Enduring Art of China" (Montclair State University Gallery, Montclair, United States)
2009 "The 11th National Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
2006 "The Roaming Boundary -- Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting" (National Museum of Thailand, Bankok, Thailand)
2004 "Point, Radiation and Extension -- Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting" (National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur，Malaysia）
2003 "13th Asia International Art Show" (National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
2001 "Centennial Chinese Painting Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
1999 "The 9th National Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
1997 "China Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
1995 "National Chinese Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
1994 "The 8th National Art Exhibition" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China)
Publications:
Breathe In/Out · Keywords（Guangxi Normal University Press,2024）
New Art Museum：Concept，Strategy & Practice（Guangxi Normal University Press,2022）
New Art Museum Studies Issue No.1 (Guangxi Normal University Press,2021）
Wang Huangsheng:Tracing back to the Source of Zhujiang 1984（Guangxi Normal University Press, 2020）
Wang Huangsheng: Boungary/Space (Hebei Education Press, 2018)
Wang Huangsheng:The Garden of Mystery (Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2017)
Boundless: Wang Huangsheng’s Works 2009-2013 (China Youth Publishing Group, 2013)
Wang Huangsheng: New Experience on Art Museum, No.1 of the Art Museum as Knowledge Production series (Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2012)
A History of Traditional Chinese Painting: Section of Landscape Painting (One of the Authors; Jiangxi Art Publishing House, 2008)
Series of Research regarding Chinese Master painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties: Chen Hongshou (Jilin Art Publishing House, 1995)
los•ge•löst (WiE KULTUR, 2013)
Post • Refined • Joy: Wang Huangsheng’s World of Art (Hebei Education Press, 2012)
Heaven and Earth • Carefree: Paintings by Wang Huangsheng (Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2006)
Wang Huangsheng: Heaven and Earth • Carefree (Liaoning Art Publishing House, 1996)
Collections:
International ： Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) British Museum (London, UK) Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK) Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy) Mantova Museum (Mantua, Italy) Hoffmann Collection (Berlin, Germany)
China： National Art Museum of China (Beijing) Art Museum of China, Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (Nanjing) Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou) Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou) Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan) Guangdong Provincial Museum (Guangzhou) Anhui Provincial Museum (Hefei) Suzhou Museum (Suzhou) Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing) Lingnan Museum of Fine Art (Guangzhou) The Long Museum（Shanghai）