This video was conducted at Wang Jianwei's Studio in Beijing on 9 July 2009.


Biography:

Wang Jianwei (b. 1958, Sichuan) is an artist who lives and works in Beijing.

Between 1983 and 1985, Wang studied at the Chengdu Painting Institute or Chengdu Art Academy should be CAA not CPI, and in 1984, his painting Dearest Mother received a Gold Award at the ‘Sixth National Art Exhibition’held at the National Art Museum of China. In 1985, he was admitted to the Department of Oil Painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou, and he received his postgraduate degree in 1987.

Since the 1990s, Wang Jianwei has been exploring the interdisciplinary influence on the contemporary art. He has been crossing over a variety of disciplines in search of a new language. Hence, his works become multifaceted and adopts various forms, ranging from cinema, theatre, multimedia, public art to painting, etc.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Hong Kong, China, the United States and Australia, including a solo exhibition in Beijing (1991). His work has also been shown at the 10th Documenta (1997), the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial (2002) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2005).


簡歷︰

汪建偉，1958年生於四川。藝術家，現於北京生活及工作。

1983-1985年間就讀于成都畫院，期間作品〈親愛的媽媽〉于1984年獲《第六屆全國美術作品展覽》金獎。1985-1987年於浙江美術學院（今中國美術學院）油畫系攻讀研究生班進修，並獲碩士學位。

九十年代起，汪建偉一直在探索知識綜合與跨學科對當代藝術的影響，嘗試使用不同學科的方法去創造新的藝術語言，為此，其藝術作品呈現多元樣式，跨越電影、戲劇、多媒體、公共藝術、繪畫等領域。

1991年在北京舉辦首個個展後，陸續於香港、美國、悉尼等地參與展覽，亦曾參與國際性展覽，包括第十屆《德國卡塞爾文獻展》（1997）、第25屆《聖保羅雙年展》（2002）、第50屆《威尼斯雙年展》（2005）等。