WANG QINGSONG

1966
born in Heilongjiang Province, China
lives and works in Beijing


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2010
“Wang Qingsong – Fotografie”, Stadtmuseum, Siegburg, Germany
“Follow Me”, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia (CAF), Almeria, Spain
“Wang Qingsong: Three Video Projects”, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2009
“Wang Qingsong”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2008
“Wang Qingsong”, Albion Gallery, London, UK
“Caution”, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
“Phantom China”, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria
“Wang Qingsong – Temporary Ward”, Baltic Contemporary Art Center, Gateshead, UK
“Wang Qingsong Solo Show – Panic, Fear and Violence”, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China
“Unparalleled Madness”, Madhouse Contemporary, Hong Kong, China

2007
“China: Past, Present & Future”, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
“Thinker – Wang Qingsong Solo Exhibition”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
“Wang Qingsong”, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Wang Qingsong: Between Nostalgia and Cynicism”, Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo (ECCO), Brasilia, Brazil

2006
“Wang Qingsong”, Albion Gallery, London, UK

2005
“Wang Qingsong in Arras”, City Hall, Art Academy and Public Library, Arras, France

2004
“Wang Qingsong – Romantique”, Salon 94, New York, USA
“Wang Qingsong – Romantique”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

2003
“Wang Qingsong: Present-day Epics”, Saidye Bronfman Contemporary Art Center, Montreal, Canada

2002
“Wang Qingsong Photography”, Foundation Oriente, Macao, China
“Golden Future – Photography by Wang Qingsong”, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
“Wang Qingsong”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Satirizing the times”, 2nd Pingyao Photo-Festival, Pingyao, China

2000
“Glorious Life – The Photographs of Wang Qingsong”, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China


Selected Group Exhibitions


2010
“A Decade of Long Exposure – The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Contemporary Photography”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Photography from the New China”, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Daegu Photo Biennale 2010, Daegu, Korea
“Western China International Art Biennale”, Tian Ye Contemporary Museum, Ningxia, China
2010 Happiness, Richness, and Longevity International Art Biennale, Zhang Hua County, Taiwan
"Zeitgenössische chinesische Fotografie", Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
“Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China

2009
“Mise-en-scène – Wang Qingsong/Debora Vrizzi”, offiCina, Beijing, China
“Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography”, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection”, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
“China: Contemporary Art Magazine”, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
The 3rd Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2008
“CINA XXI Secolo. Arte fra Identita’ e Trasformazione”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
“Fabricating Images from History”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
“Body Language: Contemporary Chinese Photography”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
“55 Days in Valencia – Chinese Art Meeting”, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
“China Gold, L’Art Contemporain Chinois”, Musee Maillol, Paris, France“Adidas Sport in Art Exhibition”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Go Game, Beijing!”, German Embassy, Beijing, China
“Translocalmotion: 7th Shanghai Biennale”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Expenditure”, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, Korea
“21: Selections of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum”, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
“Christian Dior and Chinese Artists”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“China: Construction and Deconstruction”, MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil

2007
“Zhu Yi! Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo (ARTIUM), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
“Timer – Intimita/Intimacy”, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
“Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves”, ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Timeline: Human Speed & Technology Speed”, Korea Center, Beijing, China
“Beyond Icons – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
“Mirror Image of Diversity – Six Person Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects (BTAP), Beijing, China

2006
Moscow International Photo Biennale, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2nd Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania
“Public Image”, public project in the city of Liege, Belgium
“Acting the Part – Photography as Theatre”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The 37th Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
“C on 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, USA
“Intersections – Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA

2005
“Re-viewing the City – the First Guangdong International Photo Biennale”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Over One Billion Served”, Singapore Civilizations Museum, Singapore
1st Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain Chinois de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
“Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Die Chinesen – Contemporary Photography and Video from China”, Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
“Beyond Delirious – Architecture in Selected Photographs form the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection”, Miami, USA
“Baroque and Neo Baroque – The Hell of Beauty”, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
“Always to the Front – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
“Grounding Reality – Chinese Contemporary Art”, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004
“Over One Billion Served”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
“Photosynkyria 2004 – Photography as Narrative Art”, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
“Officina Asia (Asian Workshop) ”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
“Image of History”, Photo España, Madrid, Spain“Between Past and Future – New Photography and Video from China”, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
“Die Chinesen – Contemporary Photography and Video from China”, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany
“Exposure”, Hereford Photo Festival, Hereford, UK“ Past in Reverse – Contemporary Art of East Asia”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA

2003
First Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic“Fashion and Style”, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
“A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands2002 “Run, Jump, Climb, Walk”, Yuanyang Art Center, Beijing, China
“Money and Value – The Last Taboo”, exhibition in the framework of Expo.02, Biel, Switzerland
“Special Projects”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
“Chinese Modernity”, Museum of the Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil
The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China“Paris-Pekin”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“CHINART – Contemporary Art from China”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany (touring to Rome, Budapest, Poland, Palma de Mallorca)

2001
“Constructed Reality – Beijing/Hong Kong Conceptual Photography”, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
“Next Generation – Art Contemporain d’Asie”, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
“Promenade in Asia – CUTE”, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
“Chinese Album”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France
“Cross Pressures”, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China

2000
“Man and Space – 3rd Gwangju Biennale 2000”, Gwangju, Korea
“Big Torino 2000 – Biennale Arte Emergente”, Turin, Italy
“China Avant-garde Artists Documents”, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
“Unusual & Usual”, Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China

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

1996
“China!”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany  (travelling exhibition)
“Gaudy Life”, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China


Awards

 
2006
Outreach Award from Les Rencontres d’ Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France