Name: Wang Jianwei

Born: Shuining, Sichuan province, 1958

Lives and works in: Beijing

Education

Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, 1988

Exhibitions

Solo shows

2006

Arario Gallery, Beijing

Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

2005

Chambers Fine Art, New York

2004

Giant Steps, Australia-Asia Arts Centre, Sydney

2003

Walker Art Center, US

1994

“Accomplish Circulation-Sowing and Harvesting,” performance, Sichuan province

1992

Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong

1991

Cultural Palace of Nationalities, Beijing

Group shows

2006

“China Contemporary,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Netherlands

“Micrology,” Museum of Modern Art, Macao

2005

Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia

“The Wall” Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art,” Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York

2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou

05\lst Senzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Senzhen, China

“Variation Xanadu,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2004

“China Now,” MOMA, New York City

Lille 2004, Lille, France

“Between Past and Future,” International Center of Photography, New York City

“East of South of West,” National Contemporary Art Centre, Nice, France

“Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California

Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, China

“Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, 18 Solo Exhibitions,” Kinmen, Taiwan

3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

2003

“CAMERA,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Kunsten FESTIVAL des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

“How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in A Global Age,” Walker Art Center, USA

“Alors, La Chine?” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Festival D’Automne, Pompidou Center, Paris, France

“Ceremony,” ICA, London

2002

25th Sao Paulo Biennale, National Representation, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Kunsten FESTIVAL des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

“Site + Sigh,” Museum of Asian Civilization, Singapore

1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, China

2001

“Translated Acts,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. New York Queens Art Museum, USA

The State of Things, Centre Kunst-Werke , Berlin, Germany

My home is yours, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Compound Eyes, Lasalle· Sia College of the arts, Singapore

Living in time, National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin, Germany

2000

Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz, France

2000 Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK

World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Holland

Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, China

“My home is Yours,” Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1999

“Fast>> Forward—New Chinese Video ART,” ECNTRE Art Contemporain, Macao

“Cities on the Move,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

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

Hayward Gallery, London, England

Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Melbourne

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival ’99, Yamagata, Japan.

“Beijing-London,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1998

“Cities on the Move,” Secession, Vienna, Austria

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

“Journey to the East 98: A Cultural Exchange Program,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Center for the Arts, Hong Kong

1997

1st Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, China National Gallery and Art Museum of the Capital Normal University, Beijing

“Another Long March: China Conceptual Art ’97,” Breda, Holland

10th Documenta, Kassel, Germany

“Journey to the East 97: A Cultural Exchange Program,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Center for the Arts

“In and out,” Art Museum of LASALLE-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore

Art Museum of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Art Museum of Sydney University, Sydney

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival ’97, Yamagata, Japan

1996

Second Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Triennial, Brisbane

1995

“New Asian Art Show: An Exhibition of Works by Artists from China, South Korea and Japan,” Osaka, Tokyo, Japan

“’95 Kwang-ju Biennale—InfoArt,” Kwang-ju City, Korea

1994

Beijing International COM-ART Show, Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijin

1993

“Accident-Process and State,” Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong

“China’s New Art, Post-1989,” Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong

Marlborough Fine Art, London

“Mao Goes Pop,” MoCA, Sydney