1966
Born in Heilongjiang Province, China
1991
Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China
Lives and works in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
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
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, Macau
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
2009
Action – Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
China: Contemporary Art, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
The 3rd Guangzhou International Photo Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
The Simple Art of Parody, Taipei MOCA, Taiwan
Gextophoto 2009 International Photography Festival, Gexto, Spain.
The V VentoSul Biennial: Large Water: Maps Altered, Brazil.
The Dark Science of Five Continents, Gallery BMB, Mumbai, India
Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Mise-en-Scene, Officina, Beijing, 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, San 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, 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
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 Netherlands
2002
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, Tokyo, 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, 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
1999
Ouh La La, Kitsch!, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
SYNERGI: Fourteen Danish and Foreign Artists Exhibition, Udviklings Center Odsherred,
Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Renocontres de le Photographie, Arles, France