Wang Dongling

Biography

1945

• Born in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China

1961-66

• Studied at the Department of Fine Arts, Nanjing Teachers’ College under Shen Zhishan and Wei Tianci

1968    

• Studied under Professor Lin Shanzhi

1979   

• Enrolled as a member of the graduate program of calligraphy, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts

1981    

• Taught and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
• Won first prize in the National Collegiate Calligraphy Exhibition
• M.A. Calligraphy Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art (now China National Academy of Fine Arts), Hangzhou, China

1986    

• The Art of Calligraphy published by the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts Press, revised 1988

1989    

• Visiting professor in Chinese Calligraphy at the Continuing Education and Extension of the East Asian Studies and Art Department, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, University of Kansas, Art School of Santa Cruz, California, York University, USA    

1990

• Citizen of the State of Minnesota, endowed by the Governor of Minnesota

1992

• During four years of lecturing in the United States, he gave lectures and held exhibitions in more than twenty universities

1993    

• Invited by the National Education Committee of China to return to Beijing and work in the Research Department of the Chinese Calligraphers Association
• Board Member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association
• Professor of Yangzhou University 
• Chief Calligraphy Instructor of the Central Y.V. College member of Xiling Seal 
• Engraving Society
• Visiting professor of the University of Minnesota

2007

• Created the longest calligraphy work (length over 50m) in the history of Chinese calligraphy at National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2023

• Published "Luan Shu: The Ever-Evolving Chinese Calligraphy", Zhejiang People's Fine 
• Arts Publishing House, Hangzhou, China

Present    

• Director, Modern Calligraphy Study Centre, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions  

2023

• Wang Dongling: Ink.Space.Time, The Heong Gallery, Downing College Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2021

• From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 Years of Calligraphy, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2020

• THE WAY — A Solo Exhibition by Wang Dongling, iPreciation, Singapore

2019

• Wang Dongling: Ink in Motion, Asia Society, New York, USA
• In Between the Bamboo, Hyatt Regency Suzhou, Suzhou, China
• Wandering Beyond, Public calligraphy performance, Ink Masters program, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

2018

• Wang Dongling: Poetry and Painting, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2017

• Poetic Rainbow: The Calligraphy of Wang Dongling, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
• Wang Dongling: The Bamboo Path, OCAT, Shenzhen, China

2016

• Echo of Civilization: Crossing Dunhuang, Tai Miao Art Museum, Culture Palace, Beijing, China
• Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
• Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Library, and Archives Canada, Vancouver, Canada
• Between Heaven and Heart, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Wang Dongling: Writing Chaos, INK studio, Beijing, China
• Public performance of calligraphy, Guiyang Confucius Academy, Guiyang, China
• Wang Dongling: Contemporary Calligraphy, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
• Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, British Museum, London, UK
• Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
• Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

• Wang Dongling: New Work, Chamber Fine Arts, New York, USA
• Wang Dongling: The Heart Sutra in Chaos Script Performance, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
• Public calligraphy performance, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Drinking by the Lake: Clear Sky followed by Rain by Su Shi, public calligraphy performance, Apple Store West Lake, Hangzhou, China
• Writing Non-Writing: Calligraphic Works by Wang Dongling, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Wang Dongling·The Heart Sutra, Wenzhou Contemporary Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

2014               

• Public performance of monumental cursive-script calligraphy, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden      
• Public performance of monumental cursive-script calligraphy, Metropolitan Museum of 
• Art, New York, USA
• Beside the Ancient Road, Jinwan Faculty of Humanities of Tianjin Water Park, Tianjin, China   
• The Moon over the River on a Spring Night, The Art of Calligraphy by Wang Dongling, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong   
• Small Calligraphic Works by Wuzhai, Jingcai Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2013              

• Wang Dongling: The Origins of Abstraction, Ink Studio, Beijing, China      
• Wang Dongling: Brushing the Ties, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
• Calligraphy performance “Dancing Writing”, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• The Moon over the River, Wang Dongling Public Performance of Calligraphy, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

2012               

• Decanter Ink: Hangzhou Cross-year Exhibition, Wang Dongling solo, Sanshang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Work by Wang Dongling, Qiu Zhenzhong and Xu Bing, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2011

• Wang Dongling: The Daoism of Calligraphy, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2007               

• Share the Peripateticism: Calligraphy Exhibition by Wang Dongling, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2006                

• Calligraphy Performance: Linhe Xu, Lanting International Calligraphy Festival, Shaoxing, China

2005               

• INK, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA

2003

• Calligraphy by Wang Dongling, Yilanzhai Art Museum, Nanjing, China
• Calligraphy by Wang Dongling, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2002

• Works of Wang Dongling, Goedhuis Gallery, New York, USA

2001

• It is Not Calligraphy, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA 
• Writing With Ease, Jincai Gallery, Hangzhou, China 
• Calligraphy of Wang Dongling, Lanting International Calligraphy Festival, Shaoxing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023-2024

• Embark．Hang: Central Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2023

• Chengdu Biennial: Time Gravity, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China

• New Calligraphy for the Times: 20th Anniversary of Modern Calligraphy Research 

• Global INK: INKstudio’s Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, INKstudio, Beijing, China
• Centre of China Academy of Art, Yuan Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Thinking with the Senses: Inaugural, Dacheng Art Museum, Changzhou, China
• Kunming Art Biennale: Writing and Boundary, Yunnan Art Museum, Kunming, China
• Gaze of Time — OCAT 18th Anniversary Collections Exhibition in Guangming, Art Museum Of Guangming Culture and Art Center, Shenzhen, China
• BEYOND 2003-2023, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2022-23

• From Dawn to Dusk: Life in the Forbidden City, Gallery 2, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kong

2022

• Painting with Ink - Confront the Scenery: 7th Contemporary Ink Art Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
• 2nd Exhibition of Chinese Ink Art Yearbook 2020, An Art Museum, Beijing, China
• The Mountain of the Endless: Chinese Ink Yearbook Exhibition, An Art Museum At New Everbright Center, Beijing, China

• Innovation of Ink: Transformation and Reinvention of Oriental Aesthetics – Featured 

• Exhibition of Wang Dongling & Xu Lei, Sands Gallery, Macau

2021

• Invitation Exhibition of Creative Calligraphy in China, Eastern Creative Calligraphy Institute, Shenzhen, China

• Art and Writing: Gao Xingjian, Gu Gan, Walasse Ting, Wang Tiande, Wang Dongling, Southside Saturday, Alisan Fine Arts-Aberdeen, Hong Kong

• Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County 
• Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
• Ancient, Modern To and Fro, Jiangshu Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China
• Flying Ink, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taiwan

2020

• Landscape and Books, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, NewYork, USA
• Ink Sky: Exhibition of Chinese Ink Art Yearbook 2020, An Art Museum, Beijing, China

2019

• The Latent Paradigm: Research on the Status and Ecology of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Writing Non-writing: Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Art 
• Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
• In Ink: Current Trends of Ink Art, NanHai Art, San Francisco, USA
• Great Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: One Belt — One Road Exhibition, World Calligraphy Museum, Moscow, Russia

2018               

• Beyond Ink: 20th China Shanghai International Arts Festival Program, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Boundary of Freedom, Fifth Found—Chinese Contemporary Ink World Tour, Taihe Art
• Gallery, Beijing, China
• Mind Temple, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China

• Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and 

• Jerry Yang, The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, US
• The Voice of the Brush Part 1, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

2017               

• Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
• The Unusual West Lake: The First Art Scene of West Lake Photo Exhibition, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou, China

2016                

• Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
• Open Books: International Artists Explore the Chinese Folding Book, Library and 
• Archives Canada, Vancouver, Canada
• Between Heaven and Heart, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Shan Shui  A Manifesta , Gong Wang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China       
• Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
• Light Writers 2016, Light Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2015                

• Writing Non-writing, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
• Tracing the Brush, Transformed Text, Ink Asia, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• 10th World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju, Korea
• Magic Mountains, Hong Kong     

• Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition and Writing Nor-writing 

• Document Exhibition , Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou, China  
• China 8: Contemporary Art from China at Rhine & Ruhr   Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

2014

• Kochi-Muziris Biennial: Collateral Project "Janela-Migrating Forms and Migrating 

• Gods", Mill Hall Compound, Kochi, India
• Orchid Pavilion Calligraphy Biennial, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Guanshan Gathering: Works by Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling, Chambers Fine 
• Art, New York, USA
• Ink and the Body, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
• China's Changing Landscape: Contemporary Chinese Ink, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (Nordic Watercolour Museum), Goteborg, Sweden

2013               

• Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
• Beyond Black and White: Chinese Abstract Ink, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China
• Guanshan Gathering: Works by Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

2012          

• Images and Words: Since Magritte Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• Inner and Outer Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
• Textual Logic: Works by Wang Dongling, Qiu Zhenzhong and Xu Bing, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2011

• International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Wiesbaden International Arts Festival, Badenand Hamburg, Germany
• Hollow Stroke Style: Dimension of Chinese Character, Chengdu Biennial Special Invitation Exhibition, Chengdu, China

2010                

• Wiesbaden International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Baden, Hamburg, Germany

• Hollow Stroke Style: Dimension of Chinese Character, Chengdu Biennial Special 

• Invitation Exhibition, Chengdu, China
• Lanting Pavilion Review: China Calligraphy Exhibition, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Beauty of Chinese Character: China Calligraphy Exhibition, Paris, France
• Trace and Qualitative Leap: Beijing Film Academy’s 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Beijing Film Academy 4 ° Space Gallery, Beijing, China
• Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
• Breaking out, Zhejiang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
• Beauty of Chinese Characters: Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Paris, France

2009                

• Asian Ink Masters, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA

• Calligraphy and non-Calligraphy: 2010 Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Hangzhou, China

• In the Hand of Paper, Art Academy of Roma, Rome, Italy
• 1st Linzhou Ink Brush Biennale (International), Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
• The Orchid Pavilion: The Art of Writing in China, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Black and White Image: Wang Dongling & Joao Carlos Almeida, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

2008

• Seoul Calligraphy Art Biennial, Seoul, Korea
• Water & Wood Wonderland, BFA International New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, China
• 6th International Brush Painting Biennial: Ink · City Exhibition, Shenzhen, China
• Eighteen Teaching Plans - Experimental Art Teaching Plan Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
• Classic Calligraphy - Silent Night Calligraphy Activity, Hangzhou, China

2007

• In the Hand of Paper, Art Academy of Rome, Rome, Italy
• Reboot, 3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
• Opening Fun: International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
• Made in China: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Louisiana Art Museum, Louisiana

2006               

• Ink and Brush: The Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
• Yellow Box, Qingpu China Space Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China

2005

• 1st International Cao Shu Exhibition, West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• The Act of Writing and of Non-writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy, China 
• Fine Arts Academy, Hangzhou, China
• The Calligraphy Is Not Calligraphy: The Open Calligraphy Space — International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
• International Calligraphy Exhibition, World Exposition, Nagoya, Japan

2004

• Maze: The 2nd National Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
• The 8th National Calligraphy and Seal Exhibition, Xi'an, China

2003

• Calligraphy Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
• International Modern Ink Color Exhibition, Xi'an, China
• Hello, Chinese Calligraphy, Modern Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Finland
• The 1st Exhibition of the Works of Chinese Leading Calligraphers, Tokyo, Japan

2002

• Silent Music — Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, London, UK
• Brushes with Surprise: The Art of Calligraphy, British Museum, London, UK

2001

• Borderless China: Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, New York, USA
• Spirit of Ink & Brush, Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

1999

• Exhibition of The Works of 46 Contemporary Chinese Artists, Shanghai, China; Melbourne, Australia
• Grand Exhibition of Chinese Calligraphy in the 20th Century, Tokyo, Japan

1998

• Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Paris, France
• Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy & Paintings, Konsthall Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
• Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, USA
• Chinese Art & Civilization of Five Thousand Years, Guggenheim Museum, NewYork, USA

1997

• Calligraphy Exhibition of the 21st Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1994

• Modern Calligraphy Exploration Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1993

• Chinese Seal Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, USA

1992

• The 2nd International Art Exposition, Miami, USA

1991

• Chinese Art and the West — Chinese Art Exhibition, San Diego, USA

1990

• Brush Dancing & Ink Singing, collected by the British Museum, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1989

• Sino-Japanese Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition, Hong Kong  
• Paper Art from Hangzhou, Hamburg, Germany

1987

• Lanting Sino-Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition, Shaoxing, China
• Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Treasures from Mainland China, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Public Collections

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

• Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
• Yale University, New Haven, USA
• The University of California, Berkeley, USA
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
• British Museum, London, UK
• The Olenska Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
• Palace Museum, Beijing, China 
• National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 
• China Central Television, Beijing, China 
• Chinese Arts Centre, Beijing, China 
• Beijing Library, Beijing, China 
• Chinese Military Museum, Beijing, China 
• Beijing University, Beijing
• China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 
• Zhejiang Museum of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China 
• Jiangxi Museum, Nanchang, China 
• Jiangsu Museum, Nanjing, China 
• Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, Beijing, China
• National Library of china, Beijing, China
• North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, USA