WANG Jiazeng (b.1963)

1963 Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

1992 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts

1993 Studied Central Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Technique Seminar

1992-2011 Taught at Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Professor

Currently teaching at Renmin University of China School of Art, Professor and Head of the Painting Department

Wang Jiazeng has been rooted in the old industrial base of Northeast China since he was a child, and the urban imprint of his youth is deeply embedded in his consciousness, which has become an inexhaustible driving power for his creation. In his more than 30 years of artistic career, Wang Jiazeng’s creative language has become more and more refined, growing from a printmaker to an abstract artist, and from an abstract artist to an installation artist. In recent years, the artist has focused on the study of “folds”, from “folds of space” to “folds of objects”, in addition to focus on the change of industrialized cities, he has more philosophical reflection. Wang Jiazeng mainly uses rusted iron, steel, aluminum and other metals to condense the distant and heavy history in the remnant fragments, and return to the trauma that is difficult to name. “Punctum” is just a glimpse into this trauma, and the desolation of bodies and minds left over from China’s northern industrial age.

Important solo exhibitions:

2020  “The Iron Incident”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2018  “The Folds of Objects”, White Box Art Museum, Beijing, China

2018  “Nameless Place”, Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China

2017  “Nameless Place”, Shanghai Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2015  “City Ruins”, China Finance Museum, Beijing, China

2014  “Industrial Diary”, Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China

2012  “Silence in the Noise”, Enjoy·Art Museum, Beijing, China

2011  “Primary Colors”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2010  Wang Jiazeng Printmaking Exhibition, Shanghai Dunhuang Art Center, China

2009  “Existence”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Wang Jiacheng has won several national print works awards, and more than 60 works have been selected by the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum of Cambridge University, the Dusseldorf Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Printmaking Museum, Today Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, Guan Shanyue Art Museum and art museums in Anhui, Sichuan, Guizhou, Qingdao, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, etc.