Download PDF (390 K)WANG JIN
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Lives and works in Beijing, China
1987
Graduated from Chinese Academy of Fine Arts
1962
Born in Datong, Liaoning Province, China
SELECT EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2012
Threads: Contemporary Textiles & the Social Fabric. Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2009
The China Project. Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Action--Camera: Beijing Performance Photography. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2009-05
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Traveling exhibition: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, September 2008 – January, 2009; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Autumn 2006; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany, June - October, 2005
2008
Wang Jin: Dream of China. Designer's Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Food and Shelter. Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Spring Training: Beijing 2008. Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007
Wang Jin. Friedman Benda, New York, NY
The Quiet Gesture: Recent Chinese Art. Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
The First Today's Documents - Energy: Spirit, Body, Material. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006-05
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art. Traveling exhibition:
The Albright Knox Art Gallery, University of Buffalo Art Galleries; and the Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006-04
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Traveling exhibition: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Summer 2006; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, March - May 2006; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, September 2005 - January 2006; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, February - May 2005; Museum of Contemporary Art, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, October 2004 - January 2005, Asia Society, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, June - September 2004
2005
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-Garde Sculpture. Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
2004
Le Printemps de Chine. CRAC ALSAC, Altkirch, France
Chinese Object: Dreams & Obsessions. Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Together with Migrants. Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2002
Paris-Pékin. Place Cardin, Paris, France
The Long March - A Walking Visual Display - On the Wall Hang the Swords. Which are Upside Down, Jing Gang Shan, China
Triennial of Chinese Art - The Landscape Here is Beyond Compare. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
My Tooth. Shandong, China
2000
EXPO 2000 - My Tooth. Hanover, Germany
Our Chinese Friends. ACC Galerie/Galerie der Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany
2000-98
Inside Out: New Chinese Art. Traveling exhibition: Tacoma Art Museum and The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, November – March, 2000; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico, July – October, 1999; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA, February – June, 1999; Asia Society, New York, NY and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY September –January,1998
1999
Art 30 Basel. Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
TRANSIENCE: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. Traveling exhibition: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL, February – April; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, July – September; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October – December
100%. Performance in Beijing, China
POLYPHENOLRENE. Bow Gallery, Beijing, China
APERTO over ALL: The 48th Venice Biennial. Venice, Italy
1998
Ink Art Released. National Gallery of Art, Beijing, China
A Chinese Dream. Shen Lu, The site of the Ming Imperial Tombs, Beijing, China
Museum City Fukuoka 1998 - Forward to the Victory, Memorealism. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Eight Chinese Artists. Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Chinese Dream. Beihai Park, and The Forbidden City, Beijing
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997. Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
W2.Z2: Multimedia Slide Art. CIFA Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Chinese Dream. The Long Corridor in the Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing, China
Dream of China '97. Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
1996
Ice, 96 Central China. (Performance). Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Reality: Present and Future. International Art Palace, Beijing, China
Chinese Art Festival. (Performance). Munich, Germany
1995
Quick Stir-frying RMB. (Performance). Jianxin Hotel, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Fried Land. The Dong'AnMen Night Market (Performance), Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing
Knocking at the Door (21 cash bricks). (Performance). The Wall of the Forbidden City, Beijing
To Marry a Mule. (Performance). Laiguangying Village, Chaoyang District, China
1994
Beijing-Kowloon (Performance). Beijing-Kowloon Railroad, Daxing County, Beijing, China
Fighting the Flood - Red Flag Canal (Performance). Lin Xian, Henan Province, China
Investment Guide - The Last Bus (Performance). Beijing Railway Station, China
Endorse a Declaration - Insect Spray (Performance). The Wall of the Forbidden City, Beijing
1993
Knocking at the Door (drawing US dollars on the Bricks of the Wall of the Forbidden City, Performance). Site-specific work, Beijing, China
1992
100 Straw Portraits, Works: March 1992. The Beijing Youle Amusement, Beijing, China
1986
Trend - Ink Body. The Beijing International Art Center, Beijing, China
1985
Advanced Chinese Youth Art - Pure Brightness. The National Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECT MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Miriam and Guy Ullens Collection, Belgium
Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
SELECT LITERATURE
The China Project. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.
Action--Camera: Beijing Performance Photography. Canada: University of British Columbia, 2009.
Fei Dawei, Henri-François Debailleux, Jean-Marc Decrop, and Chang Tsong-zung.
Paris - Pékin. Paris: Chinese Century, 2002.
Fibicher, Bernhard and Frehner, Matthias. Ed. Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
McDougall, Ruth. Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011. Illustrated pgs. 17 (detail); p. 172.
Vine, Richard. New China, New Art. Munich: Prestel, 2008.
Wu, Hung and Christopher Phillips. Between Past and Future: New Photography and
Video from China. Germany: Steidel Publishers, 2004.
______. Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the 20th Century. Chicago: The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 1999.
Wang Jin. New York: Friedman Benda, 2007.
Xianfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture. Netherlands: Museum Beelden aan Zee, 2005.
SELECT PRESS
2008
"Three at Ten." Art + Auction, January, 2008.
2007
Hanley, William. "AI Reviews: Wang Jin at Friedman Benda." Art Info, April 18, 2007.
Wyndham, Constance. "An exuberant vision of China." Financial Times, April 4, 2007.
Medford, Sarah. "The Chinese Art Craze." Town & Country, March, 2007.
Gordon, Amanda. "Asian Art Fair Kicks Off." NY Sun, 2007.
2005
"Feature: Ambassador of Chinese Art." Artkrush, October, 2005.
1998
Stevens, Mark. "The Great Mall?" New York Magazine, September, 1998.