Wang Tiande 王天德

Biography

Wang Tiande (b. 1960 in Shanghai) graduated from the Chinese Painting

Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in

1988 and later obtained his doctoral degree from its Department of Calligraphy. He

is currently a professor at the Fudan University in Shanghai.

Celebrated for his revolutionary takes on traditional Chinese art in China and

abroad, Wang Tiande is best known for his burned landscapes, consisting of a

painted underlayer and an overlayer burned with cigarettes or incense sticks. More

recently, he has incorporated into the landscapes rubbings of famous ancient steles

from his own collection. In their fusion of the fleeting and the timeless, Wang

Tiande’s works meditate on creation and destruction. They are both elegies to the

past and celebrations of its present persistence.

Wang has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in major galleries and museums

worldwide, including Chambers Fine Art, New York (2004), Alisan Fine Art, Hong

Kong (2007), Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas (2009), University of Sydney, Australia

(2010), Suzhou Museum, Suzhou (2014), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2014), The

Palace Museum, Fujian and Beijing (2015), Nanhai Art Center, San Francisco (2016),

Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou (2017), National Art Museum of China,

Beijing (2018), and Suning Museum of Art, Shanghai (2019), among others.

Wang’s work has been collected by the British Museum, London, the Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, UC

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, Asian Art Museum

of San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of

Contemporary Art, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, Hong Kong

Museum of Art, Shanghai Museum of Art, Suzhou Museum, Guangdong Art

Museum, Shenzhen Art Museum, and Today Art Museum, Beijing, among many

others.

1960						Born in Shanghai, China
Currently						A professor at Fudan University, lives and works in Shanghai.

EDUCATION
1988						BA China Academy of Art, Chinese Painting Department
2014						PhD. China Academy of Art, Department of Calligraphy

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019						"Wang Tiande: Winter of Longing", Ink Studio, Beijing, China
2018						"Awaiting: New Works by WANG Tiande", Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2017						"Over Mountains And Across Valleys: WANG Tiande Solo Exhibition", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2016						"Literati Gathering: New Work by WANG Tiande", NanHai Art, San Francisco, USA
2015						"The Palace", The Palace Museum, Beijing, China
2014						"Kai Men", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China "Mountain Forward", Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
2012						"Gu Shan", Sanshang Art, Hangzhou, China "Gu Shan", Nou Gallery, Taipei
2011						"3720", Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA "Boat", Gallery 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany
2010						"3,720", Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China "Shuang Shuang", University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia
2009						"Up Down: WANG Tiande Art Project", Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2008						"WANG Tiande: One Meter Seventy-Three," Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
						"WANG Tiande Solo Exhibition", Xerxes Fine Arts, London, UK
2007						"Made by Tiande II", Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA "Shan ( Mountain ) & Shui ( Water ) ", Alisan Fine Art, Hong Kong "WANG Tiande Solo Show", Han Art, Montreal, Canada
2005						"Redolent of Incense", Yishu Space, Vancouver, Canada
2004						"Made by Tiande", Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA "One-man Show", Galerie 99, Germany
2003						"WANG Tiande: Ink for the 21st Century", Alison Fine Art, Hong Kong

SELECTED Group Exhibitions
2019						"Inquiry on Water", Suning Art Museum, Shanghai, China "Spirit of Ink Art: New Creation from Traditional Thoughts and Wisdom", Jining Art Museum, Jining, China "Writing Non-Writing: Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Festival", China Academy of Art Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2018						"Reconfirming: The Future - Oriented Ink Art", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
						"Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang", Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University, California, USA "From the Canglang Pavilion", Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China "Splendors of the Sun and Moon: Contemporary Art Exhibition of China", Museo Querini Stampalia Fondazione, Venice, Italy "Chinese Expressionism: The First International Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art", Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Xi’an, China "INK: Zeitgenossische Tuschemalerei aus China", Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany
2017						"Luxehills Art Museum Contemporary Ink 10: More Than 10 Feasibilities of Ink", Luxehills Art Museum, Chengdu, China "Mountain Removing: The Thematic Exploring of 13 Contemporary Artists", Ucity Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China "Crisscrossing East and West: The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia", MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China "Boundless: Ongoing-Chinese Ink Art 2017", Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China "Mandala of Ink Art", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung
2016						"Gather They Conceive Donations: Suzhou Museum Modern and Contemporary Art Exhibition", Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China "In Disguised Forms: The Dimension of The Ink Painting, Guangdong Museum", Guangzhou, China "Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting 2015-2016", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015						"Polar Light, Ink Ocean: The Exhibition of Chinese Ink Painting and Artists to the Antarctic", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China "Haunt of the Recluse: Chinese Contemporary Ink Art Invitational Exhibition", Dachuan Comtemporary Art Center, Changzhou, China
2014						"Within & Without", Museum of Stanford University, California, USA "Contemporary Ink Art Exhibition", Nanhai Art, San Francisco, USA "Shuimo: Water Ink", Sotheby’s S2 Gallery, New York, USA "The Joy of Collecting Art", Chiang Kai-shekMmorial Hall, Taipei
2013						"Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA "Insightful Charisma: Inaugural Exhibition of Shanghai Himalayas Museum", Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2012						"Chinese Modern Art Exhibition", British Museum, UK "New Ink Painting", Saatchi Gallery, UK "Ink Painting Promotion: International Ink and Wash Painting Exhibition", Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei
2011						"Red Flag: Contemporary Chinese Art in Montreal Collection", Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
						"Word: China Mainland Contemporary Art Exhibition", Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei
						"Papercut: Exchange Exhibition of Sine-German Contemporary Art Work", Creative Centre of Shanghai Artists Association, Shanghai, China
2010						"Create Something Out of Nothing", Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
						"New Ink", Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China "Memories of the Past: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting", Transylvania University, Kentucky, USA
2009						"Ink Not Ink: Contemporary Chinese Art", Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
						"Contemporary Ink Art Evolution: Nominating Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Artist", Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA "YI PAI: Century Thinking", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008						"Chinese Minimal Art 30 Years", La Caixa Forum, Palma, Spain "The Transforming Marks of Ink", The Staatiche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany "New Ink Art", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2007						"Extension Deduction Permeability: Ink, Pure World", Kyo Po Pen, Tokyo, Japan
						"FUN: Taipei Calligraphy Biennial", Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei "China Onward", Luisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Danmark
2006						"Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2005						"The 2nd Chengdu Biennale", the International Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China "Contemporary Ink Art of Korea and China", Seoul Municipal Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2004						"Contemporary Chinese Art", Dublin Contemporary Art Museum, Dublin, Ireland
						"Modern Times of Shanghai", Museum Villa Stuck, Germany
2003						"An Opening Era", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
						"Art of East Asia: 20th Century Painting Exhibition of China", Golden Palace, Paris, France "Dots and Beyond", National Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2001						"Ink Color", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China "20 Years of Experimental Ink Paintings", Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

SELECTED Public COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, London, UK The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, USA The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, USA Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA Royal Ontario Museum, Toront, Canada Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong