Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China, 1989
1995 Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Photography Department, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
1996 Film Academy, Photography Department, Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Wang Bing à la trace, curator: Antony Fiant, Galerie Art et Essai Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France

2021
The Walking Eye, LE BAL, Paris, France

2020
Wang Bing à la trace, Galerie Art et Essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France

2019
Wang Bing, Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Rassenge Immagini segrete dalla Cina. Omaggio a Wang Bing, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy

2018
Wang Bing, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Germany
Wang Bing, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Dispossessed Lives. Resilient Lives. – Wang Bing’s complete film restrospective, co-organized by Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca, Madrid, Spain
Traces, Tate Modern Weekend Film Series, Tate Modern, London, UK
Solo Exhibition of Video works, Eye Museum, Amsterdam

2017
Experience and Poverty, Magician Space, Beijing, China

2016
Wang Bing: Three Portraits, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
Special Focus at Kerala Film Festival, India
Special focus at Hambourg Filmwoche, Germany

2015
Film Retrospective at Geneva Black Movies Film Festival, Switzerland

2014
Fathers and Sons, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
Fathers and Sons, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium
Wang Bing Retrospective, Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Wang Bing/Jaime Rosales, Cinéastes en correspondance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Film Retrospective at Pacific Meridian Film Festival, Russia
Special Focus at AV Film Festival, UK

2013
Wang Bing, Institut de l’Image, Aix-en-Provence, France

2011
Special Focus at Cinema South Festival, Israel

2010
Film Retrospective at Milano Filmmaker Film Festival, Italy

2009
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
China – Africa : Crossing the world color line, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2019
Circular Flow, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, Germany
Fast Fashion/Slow Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; George Washington
University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

2018
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing, EYE Art & Film Prize, EYE Filmmusuem, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017
Learning from documenta, Centre Culturel de Strombeek, Brussels, Belgium
Documenta 14, Kassel: Retrospective, Gloria Kino, Kassel, Germany
Documenta 14, Athens, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2016
Chinese Video Art since the 1980s, Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, Beijing CAFA Museum, Beijing, China

2015
Video Retrospective and Photography Exhibition, Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea

2014
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

HONOURS

2004
Residency at Ciné-fondation of Cannes Film Festival

2006
Awarded the French National Order of Merit (Légion d’honneur)

2007
Jury member at Hong Kong Film Festival

2010
Jury member at Doc Madrid

2012
Honorary doctorate degrees from University of Paris 8, France

2012
Jury member at Digital Seoul Film Festival

2014
President of Jury at Marseille International Film Festival, France

2015
Jury member at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

2016
Invited to join the Oscar Masterclass

2016
Jury member at International Competition of Locarno International Film Festival

2017
Winner of Eye Art & Film Prize, Netherland

MEDIA

2004
West of the Tracks rated one of the 10 best films of 2004 by Cahiers du Cinéma

2010
West of the Tracks rated one of the 10 best films made between 2001 and 2010, by Cahiers du Cinéma

2012
West of the Tracks rated as one of the Top 250 greatest films of all time by Sight and Sound Magazine

2014
West of the Tracks rated as one of the Top 50 greatest documentary films of all time by Sight and Sound Magazine, the only Chinese film in the Top 50

2014
Three Sisters selected as one of Top 10 Foreign Movies by Kinema Junpo 2013, Japan

PUBLICATIONS

2010
“Wang Bing”, publication (in Italian) by Milano Film Makers Film Festival

2012
“Epilogue de l’homme sans nom” : article by Georges Didi-Huberman, in « Peuples exposés, peuples figurants », published by Les Éditions de Minuit, France (in French)

2014
“Alors, la Chine” (Interviews with Wang Bing), Published by Les Prairies Ordinaires, France (in French)

2014
“Wang Bing : Un cinéaste en Chine aujourd’hui“, Monograph, Published by Publications de l’Université de Provence, France (French version)

2015
“Wang Bing A Filmmaker in China Today“, Monograph, Published by Publications de l’Université de Provence, France (English version)

COLLECTIONS

Video Art work in limited editions and Photographic Works

2020
Scenes (Chang Jing), Video Art, 54 min.

2018
Mrs. Fang (Fang Xiuying), Video Art, 101 minutes, Beauty Lives in Freedom – Gao Ertai (Mei Zai Ziyou – Gao Ertai) Video Art, 265 min.
Collection of Reine Sofia Museum, Madrid

2017
“15 Hours” (SHIWU XIAOSHI), video installation, 15h50min,
Collection of National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens and Collection of CNAP, France
West of Tracks (Tie Xi Qu), Photographies,

2014
Father and Sons (FU YU ZI): Video Art, 87 minutes. Lisbon International Documentary Festival – Best Film (Grand Prize)
Trace (YI ZHI): Video Art, shot in 35mm, 29 minutes, Collection of M+ Museum Hong Kong
Man with No Name (WUMINGZHE), Photographies,represented by Galerie Paris-B
Father and Sons (FU YU ZI) , Photographies,represented by Galerie Paris-B, Collection of Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Germany
Trace (YI ZHI) Photography

2009
“Man with No Name” (WUMINGZHE): Video Art, 97 minutes, Collections of Centre Pompidou (Paris) and M+ Museum Hong Kong
“Fengming, A Chinese Memoir” (HE FENGMING): Video Art, 226 minutes, Collection of M+ Museum Hong Kong

2008
“Crude Oil” (YUAN YOU): Video Installation, 14 hours, Rotterdam Film Festival 2008 – Special Mention Award
Collection of Reine Sofia Museum, Madrid

All the video works have also been entered at numerous international film festivals, museums and art centers.