Jianwei Wang - Artist Info

About Jianwei Wang

  • Biography

    The Most Challenging Chinese Artist Wang Jianwei- On October 31 of this year, Wang Jianwei's solo show "Wang Jianwei: Time Temple" will open in the Guggenheim Museum in New York as the first of three exhibitions commissioned by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. This has turned Wang Jianwei into the most anticipated Chinese artist. He began a graduate program in the oil painting department of the Zhejiang Academy of Art in 1985 and engaged with this medium in the 1980's. In the 90's, he turned to video, performance, installation, and multimedia art.

    He is one of the most restlessly challenging Chinese artists working today and rejects the conventional perspective...

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