Wang Sishun
Born 1979 in Hubei, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
EDUCATION
2008
M.F.A., Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2005
B.F.A., Sculpture Department of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Apocalypse, Beijing 1st Space, Beijing
2018
Wang Sishun: Truth, Foundation Salomon, Annecy, France
2016
Wang Sishun: Apocalypse, Long March Space, Beijing
2015
Wang Sishun: Truth, New Galerie, Paris
2014
Wang Sishun: Truth, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai
2013
Wang Sishun: The Indeterminate Boundless, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai
Wang Sishun: Superfluous Things No.3, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Wang Sishun: Back, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2012
Wang Sishun: Liminal Space, Long March Space, Beijing
2011
Wang Sishun: The Wrong body, Galleria Dell’ARCO, Shanghai
2010
Wang Sishun: Top of Dopamine, Taikang Space, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Harmonious & Symbiosis – The 3rd China · Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Xinjiang Art Museum, Ürümqi, China
2022
The 4th Dimension: Extraordinary Interiors of the Hundred-year-old Houses, DG Art Space, Shanghai
The Primevel Fairy Tale, Leo Gallery, Shanghai
2021
The Curation Workshop II, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Reshape, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, JAX District, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
2020
Consenseus Man in Chinese Garden, Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, China; Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Study of Things. Or a Brief Story about Fountain, Brick, Tin, Coin, Stone, Shell, Curtain, and Body, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Golden Flow, Chao Art Center, Beijing
Force Majeure, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
2019
The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea - 2019 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, China
Extreme Mix - Guangzhou Airport Biennial 2019, Guangzhou airport resort, Guangzhou, China
Silent Narratives, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China
Land of Lustrous, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Dune, Beidaihe, China
Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
China Landscape - Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019, 798 A07 Building, Beijing
River flowing without a Beacon, 1979, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Disappearing Archives, Mocube, Beijing
2018
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata, Japan
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2017, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Edge of the Wonderland - The 1st Thailand Biennale 2018, Krabi, Thailand
Heimat - The 2018 Guang'an Field Art Biennale, Baozhensai, Guang'an, China
Beyond the Scenery, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China
Extending Space - 2018 Dongguan Sculpture and Installation Art Festival, Dongguan, China
The 2nd Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert - Ecologies on the Edge, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China
2017
Boundless Realities, Multiple Nows - Contemporary Art from Hubei as a Sample, Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Life a User's Manual: The Catcher in the Mirror at Contemporary Art Biennale: Art Encounters 2017, Arad Art Museum, Arad, Romania
Forty Years of Sculpture, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Frontier - Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, Shanghai OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai
Refocusing - Opening Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature Art Center's New Space, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
Constellation - Contemporary Art in Today's China, National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
Between Utopia and Dystopia, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
Urban Dictionary II - Streetwise of the Humbles, 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China
Yell Space Programme Exhibition - Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai
2016
Position Fixing, Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou, China
The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, United Kingdom
The New Sculpture Since the 21st Century of Exploration and Transformation, Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China
Bagism - We Are All in the Same Bag, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
New voices: a dsl collection story, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
You May Say I am a Dreamer, VM Gallery, Kabuki, Pakistan
2015
Inventing Ritual, Graz Art Museum, Graz, Austria
The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Iset Hotel, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2014, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Photo Shanghai, Shanghai OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai
Essential Matters, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin
The BANK Show, Vive Le Capital, BANK, Shanghai
Unlawfully Constructed, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2014
Harmonious Society - Asia Triennial Manchester 14, Ultimate Holding Company, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The 8 of Paths, S-Bhf. Health Fountain, Berlin
kuratiert von Bianca Regl: Chinese Contemporary Video Performance Show, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2013
Self-discipline and Speculation - The 3rd Beijing Film Academy International New Media Art Triennial Exhibition, Beijing Film Academy 4D Space Art Museum, Beijing
Entangled Particles, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
ON/OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept & Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Residual Value, Lujiazui Central Park, Shanghai
The Overlapping Reflection - The 2nd Zhujiajiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai
Groundwork Community, Taikang Space, Beijing
Innenansichten – Ökonomisierung des Privaten, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China
Post Generation, Yallay Space, Hong Kong
2012
Twenty Years of Chinese Video Art - Moving Image in China 1988 - 2011, Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
Uninkable, Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space, Shanghai
The Girl, Xi Wang Art Museum, Beijing
The Worst Show, Gland Space, Beijing
Eye Contact - Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of Four People, Yiyuan Art Space, Wuhan, China
2011
Image/History/Existence - Taikang Life Art Collection 15th Anniversary Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
The Clear Start from the Horizon, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing
51㎡: 16 Emerging Chinese Artists, Taikang Space, Beijing
Dragon with Sons of Different Individuality, Red Star Gallery, Beijing
Taking over the Stage - Reperform, Bund18, Shanghai
Man for Himself, Art Channel, Beijing
2010
Reflection of Minds, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
Youth at Upstairs - Nomination Exhibition by Young Critics 2010, Times Art Museum, Beijing
Little Step Forward, 798 Originality Square, Beijing
Sculpture - Sui Jianguo and His Students, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
What is Narrative?, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
The Time Being Kept - Group Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists, Artist Commune, Hong Kong
RECURRENCE - Exhibition of Young Artists from Cross-Strait Regions, AFA Beijing Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing
I am, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
Floating Clouds, Galleria Dell’Arco, Shanghai
Wasabi, Li-space, Beijing
Soldier Crab, Li-space, Beijing
Jungle - A Close-up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
2009
Stall, Songzhuang Shangbao Art Museum, Beijing
Re-experimentation: A Reaffirmation of Will and Enlightenment - Young Artists Promotional Exhibition, 798 Originality Square Metal Warehouse, Beijing
China Revisualized & The Banner of Urban Culture - Xi′an Qujiang International Contemporary Art Festival, Qujiang Contemporary Art Center, Xi'an, China
Feeling, Art Channel, Beijing
Energy of Time, Chang Art Gallery, Beijing
In the making, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
2008
Eve, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Updating - Young Art Season, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
Beijing BS1 Museum 2008 Art Nomination Exhibition, Beijing BS1 Contemporary Museum, Beijing
Thinghood: the Object-related Themes in Contemporary Art, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing
Monologue, Shui Mu Contemporary Art Space, Beijing
Tongue Break, T Space, Beijing
Slander, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai
Earthquake, Art Channel, Beijing
2007
Absent, Creativity in the Sun Art, Beijing
Evidence, Unevenness Space, Beijing
2006
Burning a Fire from the Other Side of the River, Unicorn-vision, Beijing
SELECTED AWARDS
2016
Asian Cultural Council Grant
2015
New Prominent Artist, the 4th Huayu Youth Award [nominated]
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Taikang Collection, Beijing