Wang Chuan
introduction
- 1967 Born in Beijing
- Professor of Photography Department, China Central Academy of Fine Arts
- Doctoral Supervisor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts
- 2000 Tutor of Photography and Digital Media Studio, CAFA
- 2003 - 2010 Director of Photography Dept., School of Design, CAFA
- 2011 - 2014 Vice Dean of School of Design, CAFA
- 2014 – 2020 Director of Development and Planning Dept., CAFA
- Specialist of National Cultural Development Program; National Cultural Innovation Program, Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
- Evaluation Committee Member of Ministry of Culture Science and Cultural Innovation Program; National Key Laboratory, Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
- Projects Evaluation Expert of National Art Disciplinary; National Social Science Fund of China
- Director of International Office, CAFA
- Director of Future Image Lab, VAII, CAFA
- Guest Professor of Hunan Normal University
- Director of National Film and Television Cultural Innovation Development Alliance, State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense of the People's Republic of China
- Executive Deputy Director of National Fine Art Photography Expert Committee of Datong Art Museum
Education
- 1986 -1990 Book Design Dept., China Central Academy of Art and Design, graduated with BA degree
- 1990–1992 Art Designer of Beijing Hotel
- 1992 – 1998 Art Editor of China Children Press and Publication Group
- 1998 - 2000 Master of Arts in Visual Art - Photography Program between CAFA, China and QCA, Griffith University, Australia, Graduated with MAVA degree
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Tracing, dual exhibition, K11 Q CLUB, Shanghai;
2020 In Parallel: History and The President, 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou
2014 Fleeting Time, Solo Exhibition, Fu Jen Catholic University, FJU, Taipei;
2013 Colorful ,Pekin Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing;
2011 Wang Chuan Photo Solo Exhibit, Epsite, Shanghai, China;
Refocus: Dragon, Solo Exhibit, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China;
2009 Beijing Pixels, Gallery 49, Beijing;
The 8 Great Sites of Beijing, Solo Exhibition, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing;
2006 Post Fact, New Beijing Gallery Beijing, China;
Curated Exhibitions
2021
Persistent gaze -- Zhong Liming's vision, boundary and view , Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, Zhejiang.
2018
TeamLab★Future Park, YAM Museum；
2016
Unbounded, Photo Tai Bei: Marks of The Generation, Curator, Zhong Zheng Gallery, Taipei;
Scenery Shots – Unrelated to Photography, New Gallery of Art, Shanghai;
The Fantastic Art China: International Creative Festival Exhibition, Javits Center, New York.
2015
Persistently, Photography 2 x 6, Redtory, Guangzhou, China.
Group Exhibitions
2021
Story of Time: the 24 Solar Terms, Zunyi Art Museum;
The Chronicle of the Spirit: The Thematic Exhibition for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing;
Story of Time: the 24 Solar Terms, Light Is Dust Art Museum, Wuxi;
Light Begets All Things of The World: 10+ Chinese Institutions Photography Teachers 'Group Show,The 4th International Photography Symposium & 2021 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, Zhejiang;
The Photography Is Not What's Important: Photographs from The Central Academy of Fine Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing;
The Photography Is Not What's Important: Photographs from The Central Academy of Fine Art, Xiamen.
2020
Harmo-Power, First Jinan International Bienalle, Shan Dong Museum;
Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Three: The Island, CAFA online exhibition;
Story of Time: the 24 Solar Terms, Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan；
Community：2020 Shenzhen Contemporary Art Exhibit, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen;
Documenta 2020, group exhibition, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing
2019
Illustration in China, The Cultural Palace of Nationalities, Beijing;
Holly's International (Hong Kong) 2019 Spring Sales Preview Exhibition, Grand Hyatt, Hongkong;
180 Years of Photography in China, MOCA Yinchuan;
The Gaze of History - Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen
Story of Time: the 24 Solar Terms, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
2018
A Reporting Presentation of Visual Memory of Tongzhou, An image Culture, Date Management and Application Platform Project, Huai Gulin Contemporary Art Center;
The Dimensions of Land：To Write Contemporary By Art，Lu Art Museum；
2018 1st Beizhen International Photography Exhibit, Beizhen, Liaoning;
Backlight/Chinese Contemporary Landscape Photography, group show, New Vison Image Art Center, Chengdu;
Echo of Cultures-Round 3-Portraits of Ages, group show, the Art Gallery of the Imperial Ancestral Temple;
Along the Balkan Mountains to the Black Sea: Zhongbao Contemporary Art Communication Show, the Art Gallery of the Imperial Ancestral Temple;
Special Exhibition of Space & Family Art Gallery：White box Art Gallery;
Desperate Searching: China Contemporary Photography Show, Metropolis Art Center, Beijing;
The Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Spatial Transformation of Photographic Images, Art museum of Tsinghua University;
40 years of Chinese Landscape, Dongguan chang 'a library, China;
Yuanrong -- Buddhism and Art Exhibition, group exhibition, Putian Art Gallery
2017
2017 Space of the City Art Season: Shanghai Pictures of Society-Iconography from Inner City, group show, 80,000-ton Soil Wear-house
Fashion Art – Contemporary Dialogues between Fashion and Art，the Zhuzhong Art Museum；
Medicine and Art are in the Same Boat Series of Exhibitions，China-Japan Friendship Hospital；
The Silk Road and Celestial Clothes， the Art Gallery of the Imperial Ancestral Temple；
The Silk Road: Artistic Connection of Landscape, Xiaozuo Art Museum, Huian
2017 Lishui Photography Festival: 10+ Chinese and French Institutions Photography Teachers 'Group Show, Lishui, Zhejiang
2017 Lishui Photography Festival: Shifting Mountains and Stabling Rivers, group show, Lishui, Zhejiang;
On Paper 2017: China Central Academy of Fine Arts Teachers’ Group Show, Times Art Museum;
Oasis in Desert, Ordos Museum;
90th Army Day National Art Expo: 13th Army Art Show, group show, 81 Art Museum;
Never Forget Why You Started: To Sages, group show, Luxun Original Art Site, Yanan;
Echo of Cultures: To Ingenuity, group show, Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen
2016
To Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese Workers’and Peasants’ Red Army · CAFA Relay Series of Exhibitions: Long March of Art, NAMOC, China;
Chinascape: From Rural To Urban Exhibition of Cniese Contemporary Photography，
Embassy of P.R. China in Italy, Italy;
China New Pictorial Photography Biennale, Jiang Su, China;
To Dunhuang – Echo of Civilization, the Ceramic Art Museum, Jing Dezhen, China;
Beyond: New Abstract Art From China , SANGHA GALLERY, SuZhou, China；
Spanning Time: Revisiting the Aesthetics of The North Song Dynasty Through Contemporary Chinese Photography, University Museum and Gallery The University of Hong Kong;
CIGE 2016 Group Exhibit, Beijing, China;
Dak Art 2016 54+1 Pavillon Chine PUISSANCE VERTE POUR L’AVENIR, Dakar;
Confronting Tradition – Photography Works by Wang Chuan and Yao Lu, Columbia University, NYC;
The World of Fantasy – Thematic Photography Exhibition, Javits Centre, NYC
2015
Unfamiliar Asia – 2nd Beijing Photo Biennale, Thematic Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing;
Second Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, group exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing;
Breaking the Image, group Exhibition, Sishang Museum, Beijing;
Changjiang International Image Biennale, Special Exhibition, Changjiang Museum
Awards
2021 Outstanding Curator of Lishui Photography Festival
Outstanding Exhibition Award of Lishui International Photography Festival :Light Begets All Things of The World: 10+ Chinese Institutions Photography Teachers 'Group Show, (Group Award)
2020 <PXL X> Excellence Award of the 8th Jinan International Photography Biennale and “Silk Road Asia” International Photography Festival
2017 Experts Recommended Book Award, Chinese Contemporary Photography Catalogue y, Lishui Photography Festival (Including my subvolume)
2016 2015-16 Excellent Course Award of Central Academy of Fine Arts
2011 Supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
2000 THIRD PRIZE (Portfolio) of PIEA Student-Teacher Exhibition and Competition
2000 Best Photography of The Year, JUE Magazine
1999 Griffith Award For Academic Excellence
Achievements
2003-2010
Director of the Photography Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In these seven years, the department has achieved significant breakthroughs in the construction of professional disciplines, not only completed the application for new undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education (2007), but also won a series of major awards, such as the "Beijing Municipal Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center" (2008), "First Prize of Beijing (Higher Education) Education and Teaching Achievement" (2009), and "Beijing Municipal Excellent Textbooks of Higher Education" (Commercial Photography Course, 2011).
2012
Member of the "Comparison of The Education Quality of International Art Colleges and Universities” research team, Central Academy of Fine Arts.
2015
The primary member of the “National Laboratory of Digital Art and Virtual Reality" project application team, Central Academy of Fine Arts.
The core member of the “Vision Beijing Advanced Innovation Center" application team, Central Academy of Fine Arts.
2017
The "Fine Arts" and "Design" of the Central Academy of Fine Arts have been approved as the "Double First-Class" construction discipline of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
Research Achievements
2021
Academic Coordination of The New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Project "Research On The Reform of Chinese Art Education In The International Context."
2020
The Project Leader of Central Academy of Fine Arts' independent research and creative key project "Dimension 3.5-Image Creation Research Between 3D and 4D”.
2019
The Project Leader of “A Reporting Presentation of Visual Memory of Tongzhou-An image Culture, Data Management and Application Platform Project” Phase II: “Rebirth-Digital Innovation Based on the Cultural Relics of Old Summer Palace ”, Songzhuang Xiaobao Village.
2018
The Project Leader of the construction of “A Reporting Presentation of Visual Memory of Tongzhou-An image Culture, Data Management and Application Platform Project”.
2017
Director of the significant theoretical research project " Contemporary Chinese Narrative-Case Study of Image Practice and the Construction of Image Theory” of the "Centennial Glory" project, Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Publications
2006
Existence in Signs, Chinese Photography Magazine, Issue 8,2006.
Post Facts, collection of works, Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House.
2008
Commercial Photography Course, topic selection planning and co-authoring, China Higher Education Press.
2009
Conceptual Photography Series—The Sky Here, Compiler, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House.
2011
Chinese Image Education in the Context of Popularization, Today’s Image, 5th Annual Conference of Center of Chinese Visual Arts.
2014
Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century-Educators Share Thoughts and Assignments, Chinese expert on international cooperation in photography education, co-authored, Taylor and Francis Group.
2016
Talks about Photography Education-Interview with Wang Chuan, Associate Professor of the Department of Photography of the Central Academy of Fine Arts; From “Pixel” to “Refocus”-Interview with Professor Wang Chuan of the Department of Photography of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chinese Photographers Magazine, Issue 11,2016.
2017
From Photography to Planning: Interview with Professor Wang Chuan, Director of Development and Planning Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Art Research Magazine, Issue 3, 2017.
Chinese Contemporary Photography Catalog-Wang Chuan, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House.
2018
Farewell and Reunion, Art Observation, Issue 8, 2018.
The Gray Palette: My Time at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, co-written, CITIC Press Group.
2019
Image Data, Public Memory and Urban-Rural Changes- Thinking on the project “A Reporting Presentation of Visual Memory of Tongzhou-An image Culture, Data Management and Application Platform”, Art Research Magazine, Issue 3, 2019.
2020
Photography, a Journey of Self-disenchantment, Art Research Magazine, Issue 3, 2020.
Focus and Defocus: Tradition in the Present, Central Academy of Fine Arts Academic Series, co-authored, Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House.
2021
Rise at 30, Tsinghua Alumni Gazette.
