BIOGRAPHY
WANG DONGLING 王冬齡
b.1945; lives and works in Hangzhou, China
Wang Dongling was born in 1945 in Jiangsu Province, China.
Wang Dongling is one of China’s most highly regarded ink artists and widely recognized as one of China’s greatest living calligraphers. Trained in classical calligraphy, he studied at the progressive Zhejiang Academy and became increasingly involved in China’s avant-garde movement in the mid-1980s.
While continuing to work in traditional styles, he also explores the abstract potential of calligraphy in freely brushed works that can be compared with Western gestural abstraction. His latest Chaos Script series is considered a breakthrough in contemporary Chinese calligraphy, and he has been asked to perform this unique style of writing in a large scale format at institutions around the globe.
His work has been collected by numerous institutions including the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
British Museum, London, UK
Asia Society New York, USA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, USA
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Palace Museum, Beijing, China
Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, Beijing, China
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
National Library of China, Beijing, China
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Peking University, Beijing, China
Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
晏殊词乱书 Yan Shu’s Words in Chaos Script, 2016
Ink on xuan paper
29 1/2 x 31 1/2 in | 75 x 80 cm
晏殊词乱书 Yan Shu’s Words in Chaos Script, 2016
Framed: 89 x 95.25 cm | 35 x 37.5 in
汉乐府 . 江南可采莲 Han Dynasty Poetry: Picking Lotus in Jiangnan, 2025
Ink on paper scan of photo
16 7/8 x 25 7/8 in | 43 x 65.6 cm
Framed: 58.5 x 80 cm | 23 x 31.5 in
汉乐府 . 江南可采莲 Han Dynasty Poetry: Picking Lotus in Jiangnan, 2025
老子道德经 Lao Zi, (Tao Te Ching) Chapter 10, 2025
Ink on paper
17 3/8 x 26 3/8 in | 44 x 67 cm
Framed: 58.5 x 80.5 xm | 23 x 31.75 in
老子道德经 Lao Zi, (Tao Te Ching) Chapter 10, 2025
镜花水月 Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water, 2025
Ink on xuan paper
21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in | 55 x 55 cm
Framed: 70 x 70 cm | 27.5 x 27.5 in
镜花水月 Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water, 2025