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WANG Guang-Yi
Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China in 1956, Wang Huangyi was graduated from the Oil Paintings Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, now he lives and works in Beijing.
Wang GuangYi, a famous Chinese artist, is belong to the category of Chinese contemporary art termed Political Pop: his paintings appropriated the visual tropes of the propaganda of the Cultural Revolution, color style of American Pop.
Wang Guangyi was focused on painting “Great Criticism”, a series of paintings motivated by his perceptive understanding of commercial society. His paintings expressed that imported commodities from the West had entered China in large quantities in the 90ies, and to the artist it seemed that this was an invasion of culture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002 <Wang Guang Yi>, Hanart TZ Gallery, HongKong, Chine
2001 <Face of Faith>, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
1997 <Wang Guang Yi>, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Bâle, Suisse
1994 <Wang Guang Yi>Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1993 Bellet Gallery, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 <Chinese Contemporary Art>, Marseille Contemporary Art Museum, Marseille, France
2003 < Alors la Chine?>, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
2002 <Conceptual Images - 2002 Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition>,
Shenzhen Art Museum
<Paris-Pekin>, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
<The First Triennial of Chinese Arts>, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou
2001 <Towards a New Image: Twenty years of Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum, Beijing; Art Museum, Shanghai; Art Museum, Guangzhou; Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
1998 <China!> , Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1997 <Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990'>, Galerie Rudolfini, Prague, Czech Republic Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Charlottengburg Exhibition Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark Zacheta Modern Art Mudrum, Warsaw, Poland
Quotation Marks, Modern Art Museum, Singapore Gallery Klaus Littmann, Basel, Switzerland
1996 Ludwig Forum, Fur Internationale, Kunst, Germany
<China!> , Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia
Art 27 '96 International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1995 Des Pais del Centre, Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre,
Barcelona, Spain
Beyond Ideology: New Art from China, Haus der Kulture das Welt, Hamburg, Germany
New Asian Art Show, Touring Exhibition, Japan
Kampnagel, Halle-K3, Hamburg, Germany
Art to Swatch, The Museum of Architecture and Design, The Chicago Athenaeum,
Chicago, USA
1994 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil ( cat. )
Seoul 600 International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
Korea
1993 <China's New Art Post -1989>, Touring Exhibition, City Hall/ Art Centre, HongKong
<China’s New Art> Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
<Mao Goes Pop>, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney, Australia
1992 <China Avant-garde>, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Kunsthall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark
Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
The First 1990's Biennial Art Fair, Guangzhou
1991 <Cocart>, Gallery Bianca Pilat, Milan, Italy
1990 <>Modern Chinese Art, Tokio Art Gallery, Tokio, Japan
<I don`t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne>, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena,
California, USA
1989 <China /Avantgarde>, National Arts Gallery, Beijing (cat.)
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