WANG QINGSONG

Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Wang Qingsong has lived and worked in Beijing since 1993. He has more than forty solo shows in bptj museums and galleries at home and abroad. He participated in Gwangju Biennale, Taipei Biennial, Sydney Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale China Pavilion, Istanbul Biennial, Kiev International Biennial and etc. In 2019, he had his solo shows at Wuhan United Art Museum and the Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea. In 2006, he was honored the Outreach Award in Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France. He organized and curated Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale and Chengdu “Golden Panda Photography Award” exhibition. Now he is the artistic director for Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum.

His art works have been collected by more than sixty public art museums including the Museum of Modern Art (USA), Getty Museum (USA), San Francisco Museum of Art (USA), Queensland Art Gallery (Australia), Art Tower Mito (Japan), National Museum of Art (Brazil), Museum of European Photography (France), MUMOK (Austria), National Gallery of Australia, Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Daegu Art Museum (Korea), the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, and etc.

Constructed with expensive scenographic techniques requiring large studios, complex architectural structures, park lamps and numerous extras, the disillusioned expressions in Wang Qingsong’s photos relate the broken dreams and promises of a society that changes too quickly to develop models of life that respect the needs of everyone. In them we recognize not only the China of today, but also traces of a global society that could be ours.

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