1960 Born in Shanghai, China
1988 Graduated from Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy (now the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts),
Zhejiang Province, China
Present Dean and Professor, Art & Design Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dean, School of Visual Communication, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ph.D, Calligraphy Department, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Zhejiang Province, China

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Wang Tiande: One Meter Seventy-Three, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
Wang Tiande, Xerxes Fine Arts, London, UK
2007 Made by Tiande Again, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Shan (Mountain) & Shui (Water), Alisan Fine Art, Hong Kong
Wang Tiande Solo Show, Han Art, Montreal, Canada
2005 Redolent of Incense, Yishu Space, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Made by Tiande, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
One-Man Show, Galerie 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany
2003 Wang Tiande: Ink for the 21st Century, Alisan Fine Art, Hong Kong
1995 Solo Show, the German Center, Shanghai, China
1991 Solo Show, Chinese Painting Institute, Shanghai, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Modern Ink Biennale 2008, Taipei, Taiwan
Chinese Minimal Art 30 Years, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
The Transforming Marks of Ink, The Staatiche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
China New Vision-Chinese Contemporary Art Collection From Shanghai Art Museum,
Modern And Contemporary Art Center of Laspezia, Italy
New Ink Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2007 开FUN ,Taipei Calligraphy Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
China Onward - The Estella Collection: Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006, The Louisiana Museum, Louisiana, USA
2006 Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Calligraphy Scene, Heng Lu Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China
Exhibition of World Calligraphy, Seoul, Korea
Light on ChinArt Generation, Palazzo Caponi, Florence, Italy
Exhibition of Chinese Painting Documentaries, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Revival: New Ink Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
China Trade, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada
DU, Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting, The Tianjing Academy of Arts Art Museum,
Tianjin, China
60’s Vision Documenta, Today Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2005 2005 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu International Exhibition Centre, Chengdu, China
The Present for Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting in China and Korea, Seoul Municipal Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Art Rising, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Word, Not Word: Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Hangzhou, China
2004 Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Contemporary Art from Shanghai, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Nomination Exhibition, Wuhan, China
Six Artists Exhibition, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany
The 4th International Biennale of Ink Paintings, Guan Shanyue Museum, Shenzhen, China
2003 An Opening Era, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The White East: 20th Century Chinese Paintings, Paris, France
Dots and Beyond, National Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2002 New Ink Paintings, Teachers College, Taipei, Taiwan
Variations of Ink, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
0 Material, The Museum of Art of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
East + West: Contemporary Chinese Art, Artists’ Home in Vienna, Austria
2001 Ink Color, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
The Chinese Feeling, Changsha, China
Reshuffling, Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
20 Years of Experimental Ink Paintings, Guandong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
The 32nd Düsseldorf International Art Exhibition, Düsseldorf, Germany
Annual Nomination Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Exhibition of Abstract Water and Ink, Xi’an International Exhibition Center, China
2000 Neo-Ink Paintings in China 2000, Shanghai Liu Haisu Museum of Art, Jiangsu Museum of Art, China
Conceptual Water and Ink, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, USA
The Position of East Asia: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Korea and Japan
The 2nd International Biennale of Ink Paintings, Guan Shanyue Museum, Shenzhen, China
1999 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterey, Mexico,
Canberra National Art Museum, Australia, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Black and White, Han Art, Montreal, Canada
1998 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Reflections on Chinese Fine Arts over The Past Two Decades, Beijing, China
Tension & Expression: Ink Painting Exhibition, International Art Gallery, Beijing, China
The 1st International Biennial of Ink Painting, Shenzhen, China
Looking Back on Chang’an: Invitational Exhibition of Modern Ink Painting Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1997 Ink Painting: Grand Exhibition of Chinese Art, Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
’97 Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Artists, Hong Kong Convention Center, Hong Kong
Exhibition of Shanghai Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 Shanghai Ink Painting Exhibition, the Art Museum of Arizona State University, USA
Homeland Revisited: Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Experimental Ink Paintings, The Gallery on the Rim,
San Francisco, California, USA
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Chinese Art Museum, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting from Shanghai Art Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
’96 Chinese Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1995 Contemporary Chinese Art, Lineart International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium
1994 The 8th National Painting Exhibition, China
1993 The 1st National Chinese Painting Exhibition, Chinese Art Museum, Beijing, China
Shanghai Modern Art, Yokohama Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Shanghai-Taipei Modern Chinese Ink Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1992 Sea Horizon Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, Shanghai, China
1991 Four Chinese Artists’ Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1989 The 7th National Painting Exhibition, China

Selected Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
National Art Museum, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, China
Guangdong Art Museum, China
Shenzhen Art Museum, China
JP Morgan Bank