WANG YIGANG
Born in 1961, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China
1986 BFA, Oil Painting Department, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Former Professor, Graduate Supervisor, Grade III Professor and Museum Director, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Former Member, Curatorial Committee, China Artists Association
2012 Specially Appointed Research Fellow, Creative Research Center, China Academy of Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 “Flow of Things”｜Art Vega Gallery, Sicily
2026 “Decentered Action”｜Scieppan Gallery, Sydney
2025 “Canned Air”｜Shenyang Chitown Art Museum
2024 “Ode to Color”｜Lattuada Gallery, Milan
2023 “Surging Statement”｜Han Jian Art Museum, Beijing
2023 “Abstraction and Concept — Body, Action and Postmodernity”｜Chengdu Art Museum
2022 “Plastic Dynamics”｜Ca’ D’Oro Gallery, New York
2020 “Impulse of Connection”｜Martinelli Art Gallery, Italy
2019 “Wang Yigang”｜LDV Gallery, Locarno; Soka Art Center, Beijing
2018 “Recent Works by Wang Yigang”｜Mark Borghi Gallery, New York
2017 “Through Color”｜Brown Gallery, London; Absolute Art Gallery, Lugano
2016 “Flow”｜Shannon Gallery, Paris
2016 “Anti-Abstraction: Writing, Process and the Body as a New Method”｜Xi’an Art Museum
2010 “Wang Yigang: Retrospective of Abstract Art”｜Today Art Museum, Beijing
2008 “This Is Not Chinese Landscape”｜Singapore
2004 “Chinese Landscape”｜Double Vision Gallery, California
2003 “Born Under the Red Flag”｜Double Vision Gallery, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 “Words of Things — Research on Painting Materials and Pictorial Language”｜National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2025 “The Shape of Thought ”｜Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
2025 “100 Years of Chinese Abstract Art”｜Zhizhu Art Center, Shunde, Guangdong
2025 “After the Concept”｜Songzhuang Contemporary Art Documentation Museum, Beijing
2024 Wuhan Biennale
2024 B2Z: Wang Yigang × JonOne｜Wuhan SKP
2023 “Chinese Kaleidoscope”｜Avellino Irpino Museum, Italy
2021 Chengdu Biennale; Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Germany
2018 “Chinese Spirit — 4th China Oil Painting Exhibition”｜National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2018 “The Possibilities of Abstract Painting in China”｜Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing
2017 Anren Biennale; “Vision — The Vocabulary of Abstract Art”｜Sichuan Art Museum
2016 “Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper”｜The Waterfront Gallery, London
2016 “Research Exhibition of Abstract Art”｜Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013 “Unheard Voices” Parallel Exhibition｜Venice
2012 Guangzhou Triennial, “The Third Nature: Recreating China”｜Guangdong Museum of Art
2012 “Contemporary 2012: China Oil Painting Biennial”｜National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2010 “Reconstruction — TOP Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art”｜Zhejiang Art Museum
2009 “Collision — Cases of Experimental Chinese Contemporary Art”｜CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
2007 “Chinese Contemporary ‘Social Art’”｜Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006 “Third Space — Invitational Exhibition of Abstract Painting”｜Shanghai Art Museum
2000 “Centennial Review of 20th-Century Chinese Oil Painting”｜Beijing
COLLECTIONS
Collections: National Art Museum of China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, 2017 Hangzhou G20 Summit, Midea Group Art Center, Today Art Museum, and other museums and private collections in China and internationally.
AWARDS
1985 Encouragement Award, National Youth Art Exhibition
1991 Bronze Medal, National Art Exhibition Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the CPC
1992 Nomination Award, China Guangzhou Biennale
1993 Academic Award, China Oil Painting Biennial
2007 Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Art Award, Asian Cultural Academy, USA
