Born 1962 Beijing, China
Graduated from Beijing Industrial Arts College, 1981
Master of Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture
Lives and works in Beijing, China
Currently Associate Professor of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008   
Garden Utopia, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
On Gold Mountain Zhan Wang: Sculptures from The Sierra, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
86 Divinity Figures, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2006   
Zhan Wang: Urban Landscape, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
2004   
Mount Everest Project — to the Summit, Mt. Everest 8853.5m, China
2002   
From Sweden to Taibei, Taibei-Taizhong, Taiwan
2001   
Inlaying the Great Wall, Great wall of China, Badaling, Beijing, China
Inside out- Floating Rock on Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden
2000   
Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles-Floating Rock Drifts On The Open Sea, Lingshan Island, Jiaonan City, Shandong Province, China
1994   
Kong Ling Kong- Seduction Series-Works of Zhan Wang, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009   
Collision – Experimental Cases of Contemporary Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum,    Beijing, China
Beyond Limits 4, Chatsworth, UK
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
Sculpture in Nature, Nature of Sculpture, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Contemporary Sculpture in the Historic, Bad Homburg Kurpark and Castle Gardens, Germany
Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists, Suzhou Museum and Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou, China
The Paramount – A Collective Portrait of Asian Contemporary Art, Bo’ao Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bo’ao Asian Forum International meeting Center, Hainan, China
2008   
Biennial Cuvee, OK Centre of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
798 Art Festival, Factory 798, Beijing, China
Wonder 2008 – Singapore Biennale, Singapore
SHcontemporary 08, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Hanging in the Sky, Drifting on the Surface, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China
Hypallage – The Postmodern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Accumulations: Spirit of the East, Asian Art Center, Beijing, China
New World Order: Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Case Studies of Artists in Art History, SZ Art Center 798, Beijing
Beijing – Athens Contemporary Art from China, Athens National Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
The Origin: The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival, International Art Center – Beijing Cultural Development Foundation, Beijing, China
2007   
Re-incarnation, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
Recapture History – Contemporary Chinese Art From the Collection, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Net: Re-Imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
The Power of the Universe: The Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
The Contemporary Road of Media and Tradition — Group Exhibition of Ten Leading Contemporary Sculptors, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
Transparent Frame – Contemporary Art in Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet, China
Energy: Spirit, Body, Material, The First Today’s Documents, Today Museum, Beijing, China
Escape By Crafty Scheme – Salvation: From Traditional and Revolutional Language, Nanjing Square Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
China Under Construction: Contemporary Art From the People’s Republic, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
China Onward – The Estella Collection – Chinese Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Contemporary Cultural Venation.China Version” 2007 Credit Suisse
Energies - Synergy, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Belgium
2006   
Art in Motion: Contemporary Chinese Art Meets the BMW Art Cars, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Shu: Re-inventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute, New York, USA
Hyper-Design: 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Song Zhuang Art Festival, Beijing, China
Open Path: Second Public Sculpture Exhibition of the Song Zhuang Art Festival, Beijing, China
City in Progress – Live From Zhangjiang, Shanghai, China
2nd Beaufort Triennale by the Sea, PMMK Museum, Oostende, various locations along Belgium coastline, Belgium
Heyri Asia Project: Chinese Contemporary Art Festival, Heryi Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Martell Artists of the Year 2006, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, World Art Museum, Beijing, China
Building Code Violations, Long March Space, Beijing, China
The New Chinese Landscape, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery, Massachusetts, USA
2005   
Electrical-Scape: International New Media Art Exhibition, Zendai Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Netherlands
Universal Experience- Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
The Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Transparent Box, SOHO Modern City, Beijing, China
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
Exchange Value of Pleasure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Korea
Hand Upward Are the Clouds, Hand Downward Comes the Rain, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, World Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Festival of China, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., USA
Taking Off: An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection in the He Xiangning Art Museum and Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunst Museum, Bern, Switzerland; Hamburg, Germany (touring)
Beijing and Beijing, Houhai, Beijing, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, USA; Asia Society Museum, New York, USA; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art - University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara USA
2004   
Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Sightseeing from Beijing: Exchange Exhibition with Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sydney College of Arts and University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Chinese Imagination, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Between Past and Future : New photography and Video from China, International Center of photograph(ICP),  New York, USA
Playing With Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
20 Year Anniversary of HanArt Gallery, HanArt Gallery, Hong Kong
The Long March Project, Le Moine et le Demon-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Chinese Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome, Italy; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
First Document Nomination Exhibition, Wuhan, China
2003   
Dreams and Conflicts-The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Synthi-Scapes: Chinese Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Food Changes Life, Beijing, China
Floating, Post Modern City, Beijing, China
Open Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
First Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand – A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 798 Space Art & Culture, Beijing, China
New Generationand Post Revolution, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, China
Conceptual Real Estate Exhibition, New Technology Center, Shenzhen, China
2002   
The First Guangzhou triennial, Guangdong Fine Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
The Long March-A Walking Visual Display, Ruijin, Guangxi Province, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Museum Kuppermuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
China Contemporary Art, Brasileira Art Museum, Brazil
Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of Croatia, Croatia
Harvest, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Paris – Peking, Pierre Cardin Center, Paris, France
Contemporary Sculpture from Asia, KIAF, Seoul, Korea
2001   
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
HOTPOT: Kinesisk samtidskunst, Kunstnemes Hus, Oslo, Norway
New Starting Point, Art Gas Station, Beijing, China
Cross Crossing, Modern Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
Dream: Contemporary Art of China, Atlantic Fine Art, London, UK
Art and Science, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Making China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Poster Exhibition of Chinese Avant-garde, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Knowledge is Power, Beijing Book Building, Beijing, China
Celebration of Life, Oriental Plaza, Beijing, China
Rocks and Art: Nature Found and Made, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2000   
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture from China, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China
Oriental Plaza Selected Contemporary Sculpture from China, Oriental Plaza, Beijing, China
Open 2000, International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation, Venice, Italy
Sui Jianguo and Zhan Wang: Two Man Sculpture Exhibition, Loft Gallery, Paris, France
Humanist Landscape, Gulin, China
Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in the 1990’s Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2000 West Lake International Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Taiziwan Park, Hangzhou, China
The World of Real and illusory, Yun Feng Gallery, Beijing, China
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
With Complements, Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
1999   
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Contemporary Art from China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Volume and Form, Singapore International Sculpture Exhibition, Singapore
Changchun Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Changchun, China
Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
At the New Century 1979-1999, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
1998   
Signs of Life: Group Exhibition of Modern Chinese Art, Modern Art Studio, Beijing, China
Autonomous Action, ArtSpace, Auckland, New Zealand
Commemorating Life, Jin Bao Shan, Taiwan
Half a Century of Footprints, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Institute, CAFA Museum, Beijing
A Revelation of 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Workers’ Cultural Palace, Beijing, China
Building Blocks, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
Rethinking Tradition – An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, German Embassy, Beijing, China
First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
Platform for the Two Sexes, Taida Economic Zone, Tianjin, China
1997   
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cities on the Move? Asian Contemporary Art (Touring Exhibition 1997-1999), Austria, France, U.S., Finland, U.K., Denmark
Eternal Memory – Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen Nanshan Sculpture Park, China
Chinese Dream – 97 Contemporary Chinese Art, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
First Dayanggu Sculpture Activities, Engraving Research Institute, Gulin, China
Continuation, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1996   
International Outdoor Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Fukuoka, Japan
TEDA International Sculpture Competition, Tianjin, China
Huairou Forest Engravings exhibition, Huairou, China
Invitational Academic Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Hong Kong Art Center
Sculpture and Contemporary Culture, The Research Report on Chinese Contemporary Art, Chongqing, Sichuan, China
Reality: Present and Future ’96: Chinese Contemporary Art, International Crowne Plaza, Beijing, China
1995   
New Map of Beijing: Today and Tomorrow’s Capitals-Rockery Remolding Plan, Beijing, China
45 Degrees as a Reason Art Exchange, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
Development Plan, Triplicate Studio 1st Exhibition, remains of the original Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Women | Site, Triplicate Studio 2nd Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes, Beijing – Berlin Art Exchange, Art Museum of the Capitol Normal University, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Works Nominated by Critics (1995 Sculpture and installation), Jiangsu Art Monthly, Nanjing, China
1994   
Cleaning Ruins Project, Wang Fujing, Beijing, China
Second National Urban Sculpture Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Agree to 11/26 as a Reason, Art Exchange, Hagnzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
1993   
Taiwan – Beijing Two Sides of the Strait, Sculpture exchange, Kaohsung Art Gallery, Taiwan and Beijing, China
1992   
20th Century China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Contemporary Youth Sculptor Invitation Exhibition, Gallery of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
1991   
New Generation Art Exhibition, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China
1990   
Studio One Art Exhibition, Art Gallery of the Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
1987   
Art Academy Student Work Exhibition, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1986   
Beijing Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China