Wang Peng

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Beyond, 2014 by Wang Peng
3 channel video, monitors, 20:00

Wang Peng (b. 1964, China) explores a very particular logic relating to screen space in his recent video work. His approach is realised through constructed techniques that includes the synthesis of two or more spatial points of view within the one screen. Since the early 1990s Peng has experimented with performance, time-based arts, video, photography and installation. He is credited as being the first performance artist in China. Exhibitions include TRA Gallery Beijing, Platform China Beijing, Boers-Li Gallery Beijing, 01100001 Gallery Beijing, Chengdu Biennial, Tate Liverpool, UK, the 4th Gwangju Biennale.

Peng’s work Beyond (2014) & Feeling North Korea (2008) will be featured in MAAP’s 2014 international touring exhibition LANDSEASKY.

Born 1964, Shandong Province, China

Education

  • 1988 – Graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
  • 1984 – Graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2007

  • wangpeng’s photo exhibition, Tra Gallery China, Beijing, China

2005

  • Designed Meaninglessness, Platform China, Beijing, China

2004

  • Breath, Performance, Beijing, China

2001

  • Gate, Performance, MSG, Beijing, China
  • Ourdesktop.org, Beijing, China

1997

  • Passing Through, Performance in New York

1996

  • Inside & Outside, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1995

  • Three Days, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
  • Water from the Heaven, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
  • River, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
  • Rainy Pavilion, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

1994

  • Form of Reality, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing, China
  • We Live in Art, Beijing, China

1993

  • Wall, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

1991

  • Wang Peng’s Abstract Painting Exhibition, Gallery of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1984

  • 84’s Performance, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2009

  • The Same, 01100001 Gallery, Beijing

2007

  • The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate, Liverpool, UK

2004

  • Is it Art? An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Xi’an, China

2003

  • Water, Beijing, China
  • DNA Visual Exhibition, Beijing, China

2002

  • Moist, MAAP in Beijing, China
  • The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

2001

  • Sound2, MSG, Beijing, China

2000

  • Family, Shanghai, China

1998

  • Inside/Out, P.S.1, New York
  • Memory, Brooklyn, New York
  • Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York

1995

  • Open Your Mouth and Close Your Eyes, Beijing, China
  • Contemporary Art from China, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
  • Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany

1994

  • Post-October, Beijing, China

1993

  • Twentieth Century China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

1992

  • Positions 92, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China