Wang Qing

Shanghai, China & Tokyo, Japan

Wang Qing is a Shanghainese artist who spent nearly two decades in Tokyo, Japan, winning numerous awards and achieving a PhD from Tokyo Fine Arts University. He was the recipient of The 32nd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize winner in Japan and was awarded with a solo exhibition at Ueno Royal Museum in February 2016.

Wang is an artist that a lot of people are talking about; a secret to some, known to many. Like a dairy itself his paintings record a life of growth, both of his own and that of his country of birth. His work spans a time of miraculous change in his own career, and a successful homecoming to a land that has also emerged triumphant. Other works, newer styled paintings, deal with the theme of inter- generational conflict so commonly found in families in China today. They are eccentric, dense, complexly layered, simply executed and certainly captivating and universal in their appeal.


Coming & Going - Shanghai?
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Coming & Going 2 (Tokyo)
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Coming & Going - Air
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Coming and Going 1
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Summer
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Make Pretty
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Forgotten Time
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Mirror Image
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Ship of Fools 1
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Dark Eden
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Dangerous Garden
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Fireworks
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Coming & Going - Silhouettes
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Evident
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Dark Side of a Bright Moon
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Time 2
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Time 1
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Time is Money
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Coming & Going - Man & Woman
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Coming and Going - Winter
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Tokyo Diary
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Lethe of Memory
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Coming & Going - NYC
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Bare Circles
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Flew to the Moon
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Daytime in Midsummer
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Day Dream
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Golden Timeline
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Spring Shower
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Love
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Coming & Going – Shanghai
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Window
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Forest
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Ship of Fools 2
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Urban Melody 2
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Coming & Going-NYC & SH
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Urban Melody 1
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BORN

in Shanghai, China

EDUCATION

2001
PhD of Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Japan

1997
MFA, Japanese Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Japan

1994
BFA, Tama Art University School of Japanese Painting, Japan

1982
BFA, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Wang Qing Solo Exhibition, Taigado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014
Wang Qing Solo Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

2012
Deep Thinking, Shallow Intent, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2009
Coming & Going, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2007
Tokyo Diaries, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2000
Solo PhD Graduation Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Japan
Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Kintetsu Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Kurashiki-shi, Okayama, Japan

1998
Department Store, Takamatsu, Japan

1996 Mitsukoshi Department Store, Sendai, Japan
1995 Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikkebukuro
1995 Universe of Heart, Setagaya Art Museum, Japan
1994 Mitsukoshi Department Store, Sendai, Japan
1993 Mitsukoshi Department Store, Shinjuku, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
New Space Grand Opening Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
New Space Soft Opening Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
10 Years of Love, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2013
I Love Shanghai, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Filter the Public, SWFC, Shanghai
Expressions of My City, Lane Crawford, Shanghai

2011
Shanghai Gallery Selection, SWFC, Shanghai
High 5, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2010
2nd Impression, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2009
Harbour•Future Art Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan
14th Japanese-French Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo

2008
Art Shanghai, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Autumn Art Salon, Beijing

2007
4th China Mineral Ink Painting Exhibition, Beijing

2000
8th Santa Monica Art Fair, California, USA

1999
Promise Season of 55th Japan Academy Exhibition
Ueno Royal Museum Painting Exhibition

1996
Opening Show for Watercolour Exhibition of Sessue Hayakawa’s 500th Birthday Anniversary, Tokyo

1994
Joint Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan and France, Paris

1993
25th Japan Exhibition, Tokyo
57th He Bei Art Exhibition, Tokyo
29th Kanagawa-ken Art Exhibition, Tokyo

1992
Japanese Painting Exhibition, Tokyo
The 28th Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo
The 56th “He Bei” Art Exhibition

1991
27th Asian Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition
Invited as designate to the Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition
Representative Art Work for Student Abroad Exhibition

1989
25th Asian Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition

AWARDS

2014
Grand Prize - The 32nd Ueno Royal Museum Painting Exhibition

1999
First Candidate - Ueno Royal Museum Painting Exhibition

1996
Gold medal in the Opening Show, Watercolour Exhibition of Sessue Hayakawa’s 500th Birthday Anniversary

1995
“Global Chinese Artist” in important Hong Kong publication Achievements of Global Chinese Artists

1993
Gold Medal – Japanese Painting Award, 29th Kanagawa-ken Art Exhibition
Monbusho Award - 57th He Bei Art Exhibition

1992
Fuji TV Station International Award - The 28th Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition

1991
International Award and Marukuwa Award - 27th Asian Contemporary Art Invitational
Silver Prize - Representative Art Work for Student Abroad Exhibition

1989
International Award - 25th Asian Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition

IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS

Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan