WANG TIANDE 王天德
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BIOGRAPHY
WANG TIANDE 王天德
b. 1960 in Shanghai, China; lives and works in Shanghai, China
Wang Tiande (b. 1960 in Shanghai) graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1988 and later obtained his doctoral degree from its Department of Calligraphy. He is currently a professor at the Fudan University in Shanghai.
Celebrated for his revolutionary takes on traditional Chinese art in China and abroad, Wang Tiande is best known for his burned landscapes, consisting of a painted underlayer and an overlayer burned with incense sticks. More recently, he has incorporated into the landscapes rubbings of famous ancient steles from his own collection. In their fusion of the fleeting and the timeless, Wang Tiande’s works meditate on creation and destruction. They are both elegies to the past and celebrations of its present persistence.
Wang has had many solo and group exhibitions in major museums, academic institutions and well-known galleries nationally and internationally. Major museum and academic institution exhibitions include: Nanjing University of the Arts Art Museum (2023); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021); Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University (2018); National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2018); Guangdong Museum of Art (2017); Beijing Palace Museum Fujian Palace (2015); Suzhou Museum (2014); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2014); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); University of the Arts Sydney, Australia (2010); Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA (2009); among many others.
Wang’s work has been collected by internationally renowned art museums and academic institutions, including: the British Museum, London; Oxford University Museum of Art; Paris Cernuschi Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; among many others.
越走越远 Farther and farther away, 2022
Xuan paper, ink, burn marks, rubbing
28.7 x 34.7 in | 73 x 88 cm
小桥漫水家 A Home Nestled by the Small Bridge and Flowing Water, 2017
Xuan paper, ink, burn marks, rubbing
18 x 22.5 in | 20.3 x 57.2 cm
24.38 x 28.88 in | 61.9 x 73.4 cm (framed)
百丈烟叠图 A Cliff Encircled by Layers of Drifting Clouds, 2022
Xuan paper, ink, burn marks, rubbing
70.5 x 46.25 in | 179.1 x 117.5 cm
陶庐登雪图 Hermit Tao’s Hut in the Snowy Mountain Vista, 2022
Xuan paper, ink, burn marks, high-resolution calligraphy scan
34 x 29 in | 86.4 x 73.7 cm
漫山雪霁图 Rolling Mountains after the Snow, 2022
Xuan paper, ink, burn marks, high-resolution calligraphy scan
13 x 69.5 in | 33 x 176.53 cm
Detail, 漫山雪霁图 Rolling Mountains after the Snow, 2022
Boundless, 2021
Xuan paper, ink, and burn marks
32 x 120 in | 81.3 x 304.8 cm