Biography - Zhan Wang and MVRDV

Zhan Wang

December, 14th, 1962, Born in Beijing
1978-1981 Beijing Industrial Arts College
1983-1988 Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Lives and works in Beijing nowadays.

Exhibition

2008
Zhan Wang Hannes Gallery, Sanfrancisco
Zhan Wang Garden Utopia National Art Musuem of China, Beijing
Rocks into Gold Asian art museum, San-Francisco
86 Divinity Figures Long March Space, Beijing798

2006
ZHAN WANG Urban Landscape-Beijing Williams College Museum of Art

2005
Flowers in the Mirror Han art Gallery, Hong Kong

2004
Mount Everest Project -- to the Summit Everest 8853.5m

2003
2002
From Sweden to Taipei Taipei- Tai Zhong

2001
In & out --Floating Rock on Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden
Sham Nature--Zhan Wang's Artificial 'Jia Shan Shi'Han art Gallery, Hong
Inlay Great Wall Remnant Great wall of Ba Daling, Beijing

2000
Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles--Floating Rock Drifts On The Open Sea Lingshan Island Jiaonan City, Shandong Province

1994
'Vacant Empty- Seduction Series'-- Works of Zhan Wang CAFA Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

2008
SH Contemproary 08Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Hypallage/ The Post-modern mode of Chinese Contemporary ArtOCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen
Accumulations The Spirit of the East Asia Art Center, Beijing798
New World Order Contemporary Installation Art And Photography From China Groninger Museum，Holand
Case Studies of Artists in Art HistorySZ Art Center 798, Beijing

2007
Energies-Synergy Foundation De 11 Lijinen
TOP10 Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Asia Art Center, Beijing
"Contemporary Cultural Venation.China Version" 2007 Credit Suisse ReincarnationDORIS MCARTHY Gallery University of Toronto Scarborough
Beijing Comprehensive Art Exhibition Florilegium Museum of Art Today
Escape By Crafly Scheme_salvation From Traditional And Revolutional Language Square Gallery of Contemporory Art.Nanjing
China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People's Republic ART Houston
China Onward-The Estella Collection-Chinese contemporary Art 1996-2006Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

2006
Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of HeterogeneityMoCA, Shanghai
City in Progress/ Live from Zhang Jiang Zhangjiang, Shanghai
Hyper Design 6th Shanghai Biennale Shanghai Art Museum
Chinese in Indigenous Mode: Contemporary Renaissance in Aesthetic Reconstruction Today Art Museum, Beijing
The New Chinese Landscape Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums gallery
Beaufort 02 Triennium PMMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Ostende, Belgium
Heyri Asia Project/Chinese Contemporary Art Festival Seoul, Korea
Martell Artists of the Year 2006 National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2005
1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
Exchange Value of Pleasure Pusan Museum of Modern Art, Korean
The Festival of China the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
'Electrical Scape' International New Media Art Exhibition Zheng Da Art Museum, Shanghai
Chinese Avant-garde Sculpture Museum Beelden aan Zee Holland
On the Edge--Visiting Artists Program Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, San-, USA
The Elegance of Silence Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Universal Experience--Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eyes Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Haywood Gallery, London
'The Wall'-- Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
'The Wall'UB Art Gallery and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2004
Chinese Imagination Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
Beyond Boundaries Shanghai Gallery of Art
Between Past and Future: New photography and Video from China International Center of photograph (ICP), New York
Playing with the Energy House of Shiseido, Tokyo

2003
Dreams and Conflicts-The Dictatorship of the Viewer 50th Venice Biennale: Synth-Scape: Chinese Pavilion Venice; China Guangdong Museum of Art
Open Times National Art Museum of China, Beijing
A Sino-German Exhibition of Contemporary Art798 Space Art & Culture, Beijing
New Generation And post-Revolution Yan Huang Museum, Beijing
China Contemporary Art Museo Arte Contemporanea di Rome, Italy Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2002
Long March-A Walking Visual Display Ruijing and Xichang, China
Beijing-Paris Paris
China Contemporary Art Brasilia Art Museum, Brazil
Foison - China Contemporary Art Museum of Farming, Beijing
China artMuseum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany
The First Guangzhou triennial Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art(1990-2000)Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou

2001
Poster Exhibition of Chinese Avant-garde Red Door, Beijing
HOTPOT-kinesisk samtidskunstKunstnernes Hus Oslo, Norway
Making China Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Rocks and Art--Nature Found and Made Chambers Fine Art, NY
Dream--contemporary Art of China Atlantic Fine Art, London
Cross Crossing Modern Gallery, Chengdu, China

2000
With complements Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
2000'Shanghai Biennale Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2000'The West lake International Sculpture Invitational Exhibition Taiziwan Park, Hangzhou, China
The World of Real and Illusory Yun Feng Gallery, Beijing
Documentation of Chinese avant-garde Art in 90sFukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Humanities Landscape Langdao, Guilin, China
'Open2000' International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations Venice, Italy
Invited Exhibition on Contemporary Chinese Sculpture Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China
Oriental Plaza Selected Contemporary Sculpture from China East Square, Beijing

1999
The Door of the Century Chengdu Art Museum, China
The Future Plan of Ecology City Shenzhen, China
Volume & Form, Singapore International Sculpture Singapore
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
1999`Chinese Contemporary ArtLIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Cities on the Move Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary art, Helsinki, Finland

1998
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
Building Blocks the Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
A Revelation of 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art Workers' Cultural Palace, Beijing
Cities on the Move Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Commemorating life Jin Bao Shan, Taiwan
Half a Century of Footprints --Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Institute CAFA Museum
Autonomous Action Art Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Signs of Life--group exhibition of modern Chinese art Modern Art Studio, Beijing

1997
Continue CAFA Gallery, Beijing
Dream Of China '97 Chinese Contemporary Art Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Watari-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Forever Return -97' Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
The First Sculpture Activities in Guilin Da Yang Gu Art Palace Guilin, Guangxi, China
Cities on the Move Vienna, Austria

1996
Certificate Of Award '96 TEDA International Sculpture Symposium Tianjin, China
The First Exhibition in Mountain-Forest Sculpture Park Huairou, Beijing
International Sculpture Wild-open Show Fukouka Seaside Park, Japan
The First Academic Exhibition Of Chinese Contemporary Artist Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
Sculpture & Contemporary Culture, The Research Report on Chinese Contemporary Art Chongqing, Sichuan, China
Invited Works of Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Nanshan Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen
Reality: Present & Future ’96 Chinese Contemporary Art International Art Place, Beijing

1995
45 Degree as a Reason, Postcard Exchange Hangzhou; Shanghai; Beijing, China
Development Plan, Triplicate Studio 1st Exhibition Debris of the Central Academy Of Fine Arts, Beijing
Woman's Here, Triplicate Studio 2nd Exhibition Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes, Beijing- Berlin Art Exchange Art Museum of Capital Teaching University, Beijing
Exhibition of Works Nomination by Critics (1995 Sculpture & Installation ) Jiangsu Art Monthly, Nanjin, China

1994
Kong Ling Kong- Seduction Series, Works of Zhan Wang CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
Agree to 11/26 As a Reason, Postcard Exchange Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China

1993
Taiwan-Beijing Two Sides of the Straits, Sculpture Exchange
Gaoxiong Art Gallery, Taiwan & Beijing

1992
Contemporary Youth Sculptor Invitation Exhibition ZIFA Gallery Hangzhou, China
20th Century ChinaNational Art Museum of China, Beijing

1991
New Generation Art ExhibitionC hinese History Museum, Beijing

1990
The First Studio Art Exhibition CAFA Gallery, Beijing

1986
Beijing Youth Art Exhibition National Art Museum of China, Beijing

MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993. The name is an acronym for the founding members: Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964) and Nathalie de Vries (1965). Maas and Van Rijs worked at OMA, De Vries at Mecanoo before starting MVRDV.