Wang Qingsong

1966
Born in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China

1991-93
Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China

Lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu since 1993

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
Wang Qingsong– Social Mobility, San Diego Museum of Art, USA.

2019
Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA.
Wang Qingsong: The Glorious Life, Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea.
Alternative Reality, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China.

2017-2018
The Great Wall? Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK), Germany.

2014
Follow You – Wang Qingsong, Koege Museum, Denmark
Asian Contemporary Photography, Wang Qingsong and Jung Yeondoo, Daegu Art Museum, Korea
AD-Infinitum, Frost Art Museum, Florida, U.S.A.

2011
When the World Collides, International Center of Photography, New York City, U.S.A.

2009
Wang Qingsong, 2009 Hammer Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Learning Art and the World Together, Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.

2022
A Window Suddenly Opens: 30 Years of Experimental Photography in China, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA.

2020
Civilization The Way We Live Now, (travelling show), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand.

2019
Turning Points Contemporary Photography from China, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

2018
Time Frames: Contemporary East-Asian Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, USA.

2016
China Whispers, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
12th edition of Dakar Biennale, IFAN African Art Museum.

2015
Fusion: Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art since 1930s, Wan Lin Museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Unfamiliar Asia: 2nd edition of Beijing International Photography Biennale, CAFA Art Museum.

2014
3rd Wuhan Art Literatures Exhibition, Hubei Art Museum, China.
Recreating Spectacles, the 10th Edition of Lianzhou International Photography Festival.

2013
Transfiguration, Venice Biennale, China Pavilion.
Mum! Am I Barbarian? Istanbul Biennial, Turkey.

2012
Go Figure ! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra, Sydney, Australia.
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art - First Kyiv International Contemporary Art Biennale, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2011
42nd Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
Towards the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Photo Festival, Guangdong Province, China.

2010
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival at a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Photography from the New China, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2009
Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
The 3rd Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.

2008
Translocalmotion: 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China,
Consumerism - Special Exhibition of Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea.

2007
Zhu Yi! Chinese Contemporary Photography, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo (ARTIUM), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Timer – Intimita/Intimacy, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2006
Con Cities: The 10th International Venice Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York City, U.S.A.

2005
Re-viewing the City: the First Guangdong International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Asia Society Museum and the International Center of Photography, New York, U.S.A.
Die: Contemporary Photography and Video from China, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany

2003
Prague Biennale 1, Prague, Czech Republic
Fashion and Style, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia

2002
Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A.
Chinart: Contemporary Art from China, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany (touring to Rome, Budapest, Poland, Palma de Mallorca)

2001
Promenade in Asia: CUTE, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
16th Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2000
Man and Space: 3rd Gwangju Biennale 2000, Gwangju, Korea
Big Torino 2000: Biennale Arte Emergente, Turin, Italy

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

 

Awards

2006
Outreach Award from Renocontres de le Photographie, Arles, France

Public Collections

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, USA.
Peabody Essex Museum, USA.
The Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea.
United Art Museum, Hubei, China.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. (donated by a collector)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. (donated by a collector)
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea.
John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, USA.
Taikang Group, China.
White Rabbit Art Museum, Sydney, Australia.
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China.
M+, Hong Kong.
Asia Society, New York City, USA.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA.
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia.
Denver Art Museum, U.S.A.
Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
J. Paul Getty Museum, USA.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Hammer Museum, USA.
San Diego Museum of Art, USA.
Billstone Foundation, Spain.
Aspen Art Museum, USA.
Baltimore Museum of Art, USA.
MUMOK, Austria.
New Orleans Museum of Art, USA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
Cisneros Foundation, Miami, USA.
Mori Art Museum, Japan.
Smart Museum of University of Chicago. USA.
Brooklyn Museum. USA.
Williams College of Art. USA.
The Moscow House of Photography, Russia.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France.
National Art Museum of Brazil, Brazil.
Oriente Foundacion, Portugal.
Art Tower Mito: Contemporary Art Museum, Japan.
JGS Foundation, New York, USA.
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.
The International Center of Photography. New York, USA.