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About the Artist
Wang Haiyang (b. 1984, Shandong) graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and currently lives and works in Beijing. A short time after graduating, Wang began to produce psychologically-charged stop-motion animations, using widely varying elements to create impossible forms and relationships. Wang has won numerous international and domestic awards, including the Jury Award at 3rd Art • Sanya (2014), Silver Dove at the 55th DOK Leipzig Film Festival for Double Fikret (2012), the Focus on Talents Award (Today Art Museum and Martell Art Fund, 2012), and Grand Prix for Freud, Fish and Butterfly at the 25th Holland Animation Film Festival (2010). His recent solo exhibitions include “Dynamic Field: Wang Haiyang” (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “Rhizomes” (Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, 2013), and “The Metamorphosis” (White Space, Beijing, 2012). Recent group exhibitions featuring his work include “Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000” (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “Air—The 2nd Ningbo International Contemporary Art Exhibition” (Ningbo Museum of Art, Zhejiang, 2016), “Collection of Contemporary Art” (Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, 2014).
About New Directions
Initiated in 2015, New Directions offers some of China’s most promising artists a platform to realize their first institutional solo exhibition and monographic publication. Deepening UCCA’s ongoing commitment to emerging practices pioneered by shows including “ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice” (2013), “Breaking Forecast” (2009), and the Curated By…series (2010-2012), this series of solo exhibitions aims to present, through a constellation of singular positions, an overall sense of the richness and complexity of new art in China today.
About the Exhibition
New Directions: Wang Haiyang, the sixth installment of the New Directions series, is curated by Winnie Hu. New Directions is initiated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph of the same title with essays contributed by Bao Dong and Wang Wenfei and a conversation between the artist and curator, Winnie Hu. The monograph is available at UCCASTORE. Barco is the video equipment sponsor, and sound equipment support comes from GENELEC.