About the Artist

Wang Bing

WangBing was born in Xi’an, Shanxi Province in 1967. Now working and living in China and France.

In 1992, Wang Bing graduated from the Department of Photography of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, he had made detailed observations of the factory workers in Tiexi District for photography. In 1994, he started his photography in 1994. In 1995, he entered the Film Department of Beijing Film Academy. Before becoming an independent film director in 1998, he worked on TV in 1998. “West of Tracks” , Wang Bing’s first documentary, was shot in 2002 and won numerous awards.

In 2006, Wang Bing received the Knight of the Order of French Literature and Art. In 2009, Wang Bing held his first solo exhibition at the Santa Gallery in Paris, featuring two documentaries: “Hefengming” and “The Nameless”. Since then, Wang has produced many documentaries such as “Three Sisters” (2012), “De Ang” (2016), “Coal Money” (2016), and “Fang Xiuying” (2017) and “15 Hours” (2017), the latter two were exhibited in the Cassel Documentary in Athens and Cassel in 2017.

In 2014, Wang Bing held a solo exhibition of his photography at the Pompi Art Center in Paris, France, showing three groups of photography: “Father and Son”, “The Nameless”, and “Relics”.

In 2015, Wang Bing’s video work “Father and Son” was exhibited at the US Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).

In 2017, his work “Fang Xiuying” was awarded the Golden Leopard Award, the highest award at the Locano Film Festival in Switzerland.In the same year, he also won the EYE Art and Film Award in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for his entire creative journey.In the same year, as the only Chinese artist invited by Kassel, he held a review of personal works at the literature exhibition, as well as “West of Tracks” photography exhibition.

From 2018 to 2019, Wang Bing was a visiting artist professor and doctoral supervisor at the French National Academy of Contemporary Art.

Wang Bing won the CHANEL Next Prize Award in December 2021.

Wang’s major solo exhibitions include the Swiss Photography Centre (2022), the Le Bal Art Centre in Paris (2021), the Zurich Art Museum (2018-2019), the CCA Wortis Institute in San Francisco (2016), and the Pompidou Art Center in Paris (2014).In 2018, the National Art Centre of Queen Sofia and the Spanish Film Library in Madrid held him at the Tate Gallery in London in the same year.

He has participated in a number of exhibitions, including: Halford Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), Washington Textile Museum, D. C. (2020), Bowden College Art Museum (2019), Kassel Literature Exhibition (2017), Shenzhen Urban Architecture Biennale (2017), Brussels Steinbeck Cultural Center (2017), M O M Museum of Modern Art A (2015), Korea Statewide International Film Festival (2015), Shanghai Biennale (2014), Milan Film Festival (2010).

Wang Bing’s works are collected in the National Art Center of Queen Sofia, Madrid, Spain, EYE Museum, Hong Kong China M + Museum, Pompidou Art Center in Paris, France, National Library of France, National Modern Museum in Athens, Greece, Alexander Tutsek-Siftung Art Foundation in Munich, Germany.