Wang Yigang

Born in 1961 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province
Assigned to the Shenyang Normal Institute in 1986
Acquired a certificate in oil painting from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Worked as specially-appointed researcher of Chinese National Academy of Art
Currently the professor of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts

■ Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Wang Yigang Recent Works”, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York, USA
“Art from the Chinese Art Museum, Beautiful China – World in Color Images”, Berlin China Cultural Center, Germany
“Out of Nothing”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Beyond Abstraction”, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei
2017 “Through Color”, Brun Gallery, London, UK
“Detached Abstract”, Space Station, Beijing, China
“Through Color”, Absolut Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
“Selfless State”, Villa Friede Art Mueaum, Bonn, Germany
“Sparks of Passion”, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 “Flow”, Chenaux Gallery, Paris, France
“Croire ses yeux”, Centre Artasia, Paris, France
“Anti-Abstraction: a new method stablished by descriotion,process and body-painting”, Xi’an Art Museum, China
2013 “Nothing About Distance”, Jolie Art Gallery, Shenyang, China

2012 “Between Color and Mood”, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
2010 “From the West to the East”, Huashan Culture Park, Taipei
“The Abstract Works Retrospective of Wang Yigang”, Today Art Museum,
Beijing, China
2008 “This is not Chinese Landscape”, Singapore
“From Vague Vision to This is not Chinese Landscape”, Hwa’s Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 “We Are All Responsible”, Shanghai, China
“Made in America”, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“The Time and the Place”, Art Gallery of Maryland University, USA
2004 “Chinese Landscape”, Double Vision Gallery, California, USA
2003 “Growing Up Under the Red Flag”, Double Vision Gallery, California, USA

■ Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 “China Spirit – Fourth China Oil Painting Exhibition”, Beijing Museum of Art, China
“New Impressionism”, Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Shanxi, China
“Serious Rebel”, Mofeimo Gallery, Qingdao, China
“The Possibility of Chinese Abstract Painting in China”, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2017 “Chinese Spirit – Fourth China Oil Painting Exhibition”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Abstraction and Post Abstraction”, Zhi Space, Chongqing, China
“Biennal of Anren”, Anren, Sichuan, China
“Blue”, Lanan Gallery, Shenzhen, China
“Brotherhood and Menhood”, Zoomart Museum, Beijing, China

“Vision, Abstract Art Exhibition”, Sichuan Art Museum, Sichuan, China
“Transcendental Performance”, Bai Jiahu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
“The Academy of Visual Arts”, Space Yi Kang, Huhehaote, China
2016 “Over-painting – Mitigating the Dilemma of Contemporary Art”, White Box Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Contemporary Chinese Paper Painting”, The Waterfront Gallery, London, UK
“Abstract China 2016”, Mingyuan Museum, Shanghai, China
“The Working Non-Figurative System”, Right View Museum, Beijing, China
“The Era of the Bords, the Poetry in Chinese Contemporary Art”, J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Abstract Art Research Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 “China Wind” China International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
“Abstract and Artistic Conception”, Beijing, China
2014 “‘Social Landscape’——‘Landscape Narrative’ in Contemporary Art”, Chengdu, China
“1960”, Springs Center Of Art, Beijing, China
“The Reconstruction of the Recoding: Rhetoric and Narrative”, Parkview Green Art, Beijing, China
2013 “Voice of the Unseen”, Venice, Italy
2012 Invitational Exhibition of China Contemporary Art, Paris, France
“The 4th Guangzhou Triennial — The New Nature Shape: Break the Routine”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“The Shape of Imaging — Chinese Contemporary Art”, Carl Shute Arts Center, Germany
“At the Present Times — Biennale of Chinese Oil Painting”, National

Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
“Diversion of Contemporary Art Value Paradigm”, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu,
China
2011 “Commemoration — 10th Anniversary of Soka Art”, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
“Ruins — Face of Contemporary Northeast China”, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
2010 “Refactoring — Top Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art”, Zhejiang Art Museum,
Zhejiang, China
“To Transform History — New Art in China 2000 through 2009”, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
“The Chinese Nature of Contemporary Art Studies”, True Color Museum, Suzhou, China
2009 “Collision — Cases of Chinese Contemporary Art Experiments”, The Central
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
“Mix-Sino-France Contemporary Art”, Shenyang, China
2008 “Abstractism and Modern Nature”, Deshan Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“Violation of the Rule”, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007 China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
“Co-existence of Plural Art Forms” — Sino-Korea Exchange Exhibition, Leeum
Samsung Museum of Art, Korea
“Post Avant-Garde Chinese New Art”, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Washington International Art Expo, Washington, USA
Spain International Art Expo, Spain
Contemporary Art of Northern China, Goettingen Gallery, Germany

“Chinese Contemporary SOCART”, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 “Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art”, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
“The Third Space — Abstract Painting Exhibition”, Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China
Sino-Germany Exchange Forum and the Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
“From ‘Extreme Territory’ to ‘The Iron East’, the Artist of the Northeast”, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
“A Point in Time”, Hubei, China
2004 International Art Biennale, California, USA
2003 “A Point in Time”, Changsha, China
2001 “Academic and Non-Academic”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2000 “Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th Century”, Beijing, China
“The Third National Exhibition of Young Artists”, Beijing, China