Biography

Wang Bing
Born in 1967, Xi'an, China
1992

Photography Department in Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang

1995

Film Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy, Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021

Wang Bing – L'Œil qui marche, LE BAL, Paris

2019

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

2018

Wang Bing, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Wang Bing, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Dispossessed Lives. Resilient Lives, Museo Reina Sofía/Filmoteca Española, Madrid
Traces, Tate Modern Weekend Film Series, Tate Modern, London
Wang Bing: The Weight of Experience, Film Society, Lincoln Center, New York2017

Experience and Poverty, Magician Space, Beijing
documenta 14, Kassel: Retrospective, Gloria Kino, Kassel, Germany

2016

Wang Bing: Three Portraits, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California

2014

Film Retrospective and Video/Photography Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris; Brussels
Film Retrospective and Video/Photography Exhibition, Cinematek,
Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels

2009

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022

Okayama Art Summit 2022: Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama

2020

China⇋Africa: Crossing the world color line, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2019

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

2018

4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Artists' Cinema - Documentation in Digital Humanities,
curated by Li Zhenhua, Kochi, India
Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing, EYE Art & Film Prize, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

2017

Learning from documenta, Centre Culturel de Strombeek, Brussels
Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen & Hong Kong

documenta 14, Athens, EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2016

Chinese Video Art since the 1980s, as part of Time Test: International Video Art Research
Exhibition, C.A.F.A. Art Museum, Beijing; Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou

2014

10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Selected Film Festivals
2023

Official Selection, 76th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes

2016

Special Focus, dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, Hamburg
Special Focus, Kerala Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, India

2015

Film Retrospective, Festival Black Movie, Geneva
Video Retrospective and Photography Exhibition, Jeonju International Film Festival,South Korea

2014

Film Retrospective, Pacific Meridian Film Festival, Vladivostok
AV Festival 14, Newcastle upon Tyne

2011

Special Focus, Cinema South Festival, Sderot, Israel

2010

Film Retrospective, Milano Filmmaker Film Festival, Milan

Selected Awards & Grants
2021

CHANEL Next Prize

2019

Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan- Dead Souls (2018)2017

Golden Leopard Award, Concorso Internazionale of 70th Locarno Festival, Switzerland- Mrs. Fang (2017)
Recipient of the 2017 EYE Art & Film Prize, Amsterdam

2016

Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay, 73rd Venice International Film Festival, Venice- Bitter Moneys (2016)2014

Best Film (Grand Prize), Lisbon International Documentary Festival, Lisbon- Father and Sons (2014)

2013

Mongolfière d'argent, Festival des trois continents, Nantes - Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Grand Prize, Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland - Three Sisters (2012)
Critic Prize, Black Movie Festival, Geneva - Alone (2012)2012

Orizzonti Award for Best Film, 69th Venice International Film Festival, Venice- Three Sisters (2012)
Montgolfière d'or, Festival des trois continents, Nantes - Three Sisters (2012)
Best Director, Muhr AsiaAfrica Award, Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai- Three Sisters (2012)
Best Film Award, Lisbon International Documentary Festival, Lisbon - Three Sisters (2012)

2011

Prix Spécial du Jury, Festival Ânûû-rû âboro, Pwêêdi-Wiimîâ, Kanaky-New-Caledonia- Man with No Name (2009)2010

Jury Prize, Prize of the Spirit of the Mirror, Andrei Terovsky International Film Festival“Zerkalo,” Ivanovo, Russia - The Ditch (2010)

2008

Ecumenical Jury Award, Special mention, Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland

- Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)
2007

Georges de Beauregard Prize, FIDMarseille, Marseille- Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan- Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)
Young Critics Award, Cinema Digital Seoul, Seoul - Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)
IPJ University Prize, Lisbon International Documentary Festival, Lisbon- Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)

2006

French National Order of Merit (Légion d’honneur)

2005

Grand Prize of the Documentary Jury, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival(FICCO), Mexico CIty - West of the Tracks (1999 - 2003)

2004

Grand Prize of the Documentary Jury, Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal, Montréal- West of the Tracks (1999 - 2003)
Prize-winner, La Résidence, Cinéfondation of 57th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes- West of the Tracks (1999 - 2003)

2003

Robert and Frances Fleherty Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan- West of the Tracks (1999 - 2003)
Grand prix, FIDMarseille, Marseille - West of the Tracks (2003)
Montgolfière d’Or, Jury Documentaire, festival des trois continents, Nantes- West of the Tracks (1999 - 2003)

2002

Grand Prize, Lisbon International Documentary Festival, Lisbon - West of the Tracks(1999 - 2003)

Public Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris
CNAP, Paris
EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
M+, Hong Kong