This interview was conducted at the UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley on 7 April 2011. For more information please visit the Materials of the Future website.


Biography:

Wang Gongyi (b. 1946) is an artist who lives in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

Wang Gongyi graduated in 1962 from the Affiliated High School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She joined the Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House as an editor the following year. In 1978, she entered the Printmaking Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts), and after receiving her degree there she remained as a teacher. In 1980, Wang was awarded the grand prize for her Qiu Jin series of woodcut prints at the ‘Second National Youth Art Exhibition’. Six years later, she set out to France on a cultural exchange programme. By 2001, the artist had moved to the United States.

In 1992, Wang was awarded a scholarship from the French Ministry of Education. She met and worked with artists at L’école supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence, and subsequently worked and studied at URDLA – Centre International Estampes & Livres (International Centre for Prints and Books) and ALMA Printmaking Studio in Lyon, France.


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王公懿，1946出生，藝術家，現居美國波特蘭。

1962年中央美術學院附中畢業，1973年入天津人民美術出版社，1978年入中國美術學院版畫研究班，畢業後留系任教。1980年憑木刻組畫《秋瑾》獲全國第二屆青年美展大獎。1986年王公懿赴法國參加交流活動。1992年獲法國教育部獎學金，Aix美校訪問藝術家，在里昂的URDLA及ALMA版畫工作室工作、學習。2001年始旅居美國。

近年在中國舉行的個展包括《王公懿版畫回顧展1979-2002》（2006年，廣東美術館），《王公懿藝術展》（2010年，天津美術學院美術館；2011年，中國美術學院）。