WANG YI

Wang Yi graduated from the Second Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art, and obtained the BA and MA degrees. He seeks to combine slow and exquisite classical painting techniques, standardized production of industrial materials, modernist design and architectural paradigms to form abstract expressions that illustrate social mechanisms and natural elements. Wang Yi is one of the new generation of Chinese abstract artists. Many of them conceal political or social commentaries in their creations, but those critique and confrontation of the realistic context are rooted in their diverse abstract art language. Wang Yi's works use symbolic structures, colors, shapes, and materials as a medium to explore the relationship between urban development, ideology, as well as history and nature that we are experiencing.

Wang Yi has had solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in many places in Asia, and was shortlisted and received several awards, including: Porsche 2020-2021 China Young Artists Biennial Selection, Tomorrow Sculpture Awards, Powerlong Art Award (PAA), The Signature Art Prize (China), John Moore Painting Award (China), Luo ZhongLi Scholarship, Creative M50 Creative Talent Award, etc.

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2021: Porshe China Young Artists Biennial Selection
2021: Tomorrow Sculpture Awards
2020: Powerlong Art Award (PAA
2019: The Signature Art Prize, China
2017: Inter-youth Youth Painting Award, China
2016: John Moore Painting Award
2016: Luo Zhongli Scholarship
2012: Creative M50 Creative Emerging Award
2011: Maries Arts Scholarship

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITION

2020: “Dark Light Bright Night”, Aike-Dellarco Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: “Hollow Fire”, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2019: “Chemical Nature: Hu Weiyi&Wang Yi Double Project”, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018: ”Geometry Rules All Phenomena”, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
2018: “Inside and outside: Claude Viallat & Wang Yi”, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China
2017: “A Thousand Layers: Wang Yi Solo Project”, ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
2016: “Yi Ri Guang”, Aike-Dellarco, Shanghai, China
2015: “Void Mirror: Wang Yi Solo Project”, Art Taipei 2015, Taipei, China
2014: “Wang Yi”, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2013: “Zhang Peiyun & Wang Yi Duo Exhibition: Dream”, M50 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2012: ‘Nothing”, J: Gallery, Shanghai, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023: "Streamer", Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
“WE LOVE SINGAPORE”, Whitestone Gallery, Singapore
2022: "Appeal to the Infinite Within", Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
"The Human World”, BLANKgallery, Shanghai
2021: "Colour Provokes A Psychic Vibration", HdMGallery, London
"The World Is Yours?", Yibo Gallery, Shanghai
2020: "Painting and Existence", Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
"Winter Group Show", HdMGallery, London
2019: "The Atonal River", Aike Dellarco Gallery, Shanghai
"New Abstraction: Chapter 3", HdMGallery, Beijing
2018: "Brilliant City (Reprise)", David Zwirner, Hong Kong
"After Sunset", Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris
2017: "All Happens After Sunset…", MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2016: "John Moores Painting Prize (China)", Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2015: "The Boundaries of Order", Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2014: "New Generation of Abstract Art", Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing
2013: "From University to Universe: Fresh Vision 2013", OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen
2012: "Heart Beating", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2011: "The Sixth Century Star Exhibition of China Academy of Art”, The Art Museum of China Academy of Art,,
2010: "CREATIVE M50 2010 Annual Creative Prominent Awarded Works Exhibition", Epson Imagine Gallery,

COLLECTIONS

Fairyland Art Foundation, 2023 / SiMian Collection, China, 2022 / The Walt Disney Company Group, 2022 / Sifang Art Museum, China, 2021 / Fosun Foundation, China, 2021 / Mitsubishi, Japan, 2021 / LouisVuitton, 2021 / Wagas, 2020 / Illuminera, 2020 / Naera, 2019 / How Art Museum, China, 2018 / MiSuMi, Taiwan, 2018 / Arario Museum, Seoul, 2017 / Right View Art Museum, 2016 / Le Groupe Dassault, 2014 / DSL collection, 2013 / China Academy of Art, 2010

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