1957 Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province
1984 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
 Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Visual Politics - Solo of Wang Guangyi, He Xiangning Art Museum, Guangdong, China
2008 Wang Guangyi: Cold War Aesthetics, Louise Blouin Institute, London, United Kingdom
2007 Wang Guangyi, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2006 Wang Guangyi, Galerie ARARIO, Seoul, Korea
2006 Jiang Hu, Tilton Gallery, New York 
2004 Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003 Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
1997 Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland
1994 Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 China Now: Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York 
2008 Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
2008 Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant - Garde in the 80’s and 90’s, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL
2008 Avant-Garde China: Tenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2008 The Revolution Continues - New Art from China, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007 RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2007 ShContemporary 2007, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2006 Jiang Hu, Tilton Gallery, New York
2006 Plato and His Seven Spirits, Century OCT, Beijing, China
2005 Invitation Exhibition-Opening Ceremony of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2005 Plato and his seven spirit’Beijing, China. “OCAT” Art Terminal
2005 Beautiful Cynicism, ARARIO BEIJING, Beijing, China
2004 Body-China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
2003 ALORS, LA CHINE? Pompidou Art Center, Paris, France
2002 Chinese Modernity, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 Paris-Peking, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2002 Welcome China, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
2002 Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2002 Media and Arts World Trade Centre Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2002 Guangzhou Triennial Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2002 The Power of Image He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
2001 New Image:20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2001 Polypolis Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
2001 The Academic and the Non-academic Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2001 Next Generation: Art Contemporain d’Asie Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2001 5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 Transplantation in Situ He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000 Door of the New Century Chengdu Art Gallery, China.
2000 Society Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
2000 In and Out He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2000 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition’ National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1999 Inside Out San Francisco Museum of Modem Art
New Modernism for a New Millennium Limn Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Open Channels Dong Yu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
1998 Made in China, Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1998 Inside Out, Asia Society, New York
1997 China!, Kuenstlerhaus, Wien, Australia
1997 Quotation Marks, Modern Art Museum, Singapore
1997 Magie der Zahl-In der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts’ Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 Red and Grey, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
1997 In and Out, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
1997 The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art’ National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1996 Begegnungen mit China, Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Germany
1996 China!, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany
1996 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1995 Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie, Kampnagel Halle-K3, Hamburg, Germany
1995 Aperto 95, Avant-gardes Artistiques Xinesses, Centre d’Art, Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1995 Art to Swatch, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago
1994 22nd International Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazi
1994 600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1993 China, Avant-garde, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holland
1993 China, Avant-garde, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1993 45th International Biennale of Venice, Italy
1993 China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, China
1993 Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1993 China’s New Art, Marlborough Gallery, London
1992 The 1st Biennial of Art in the 90s’ Guangzhou, China
1992 China, Avant-garde’ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1991 Cocart, Bianca Pilat Gallery, Milan, Italy
1990 I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne: China’s Avant-garde, Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena, California
1989 China Avant-garde, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China