Suling Wang

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Suling Wang | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}} | birth_place = Taichung, Taiwan | death_date =  | death_place = | nationality = | spouse = | field = | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website =  | bgcolour = }} '''Suling Wang''' (王淑鈴) is an internationally recognized painter and contemporary artist, known predominantly for her large scale abstract works. In 2023, Wang was awarded the Medal of Arts<ref>https://art.state.gov/medal-of-arts/</ref> by the United States Department of State. The medal was presented by Jill Biden at The White House in Washington DC.<ref>https://www.moc.gov.tw/en/News_Content2.aspx?n=467&sms=10708&s=173797</ref>

Wang's art is inspired by Taiwanese oral tradition from her childhood<ref>Comis, Guido, “Suling Wang,” Tema Celeste, May/June 2005.</ref> and her exploration of identity within Eastern and Western cultures. Her work is composed of meticulously created layers of painted calligraphy and cartoon-like forms overlaid atop other shapes that suggest trees, stems, and mountains.<ref>“Suling Wang” The Guardian Guide, 19 February</ref>

== Early life and education== Wang grew up in rural Taiwan and in 1993 moved to London to study fine art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design. She completed her master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in 1999.<ref name="Hillings, Valerie L. 2007">Hillings, Valerie L., Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.</ref>

== Exhibitions == Wang's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She held solo exhibitions at Eslite Gallery, Taipei(2011);<ref>https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/suling-wang</ref> Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing (2007);<ref>https://www.artlinkart.com/en/space/art/be1atC/e51ctAr</ref> Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (2006); <ref>https://artouch.com/viewing-room/en/online-view-room/suling-wang</ref> Lehmann Maupin, New York (2005);<ref>https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/suling-wang</ref> and Victoria Miro Gallery, London (2005).<ref>https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/362/</ref> She was included in group exhibitions such as ''Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Collection'' at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston;<ref name=Bio/> ''Passion for Paint'' at The National Gallery in London, 2006<ref>"A Global Art Explosion", Apollo: International Magazine of Art and Antiquities, August 2006.</ref> and ''The Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now'' at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.<ref name="Hillings, Valerie L. 2007"/>

== Museum collections ==

Her work is represented in the permanent collections of important museums, particularly in USA, where her paintings are the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;<ref>Raymond Gill, "A Show of Strength: The Guggenheim Collection 1940s to Now", The Age, Australia, 28 June 2007</ref> the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;<ref>Chelsea Mason, "Contemporary Chinese Art: Generating Debate and Sometimes Staggering Prices" US [http://www.uschina.usc.edu/w_usci/showarticle.aspx?articleID=12273&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 China Today], 8/11/2008 and "MOCA's Chinese Future", Suzanne Muchnic, 29/08/2007, Los Angeles Times.</ref> the Cincinnati Art Museum;<ref>2010 Report to the Community, Cincinnati Art Museum.</ref> The Utah Museum of Fine Arts;<ref>UMFA Press, Past Exhibitions</ref> and the Rubell Museum, Miami;<ref>Rubell Family Collection, [http://www.rfc.museum/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=195 Browse the Collection]</ref> and the Pizzuti Collection (Columbus Museum of Art), Ohio.<ref>[http://www.pizzuticollection.com/exhibitions-main/artists?pid=79&sid=180:Suling-Wang Pizzuti Collection]</ref>

Internationally her paintings can also be found in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain;<ref>https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/untitled-sin-titulo</ref> White Rabbit Gallery, Australia;<ref>White Rabbit Gallery,[http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org Browse the Collection]</ref> and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.<ref>https://www.tfam.museum/Exhibition/Exhibition_Special.aspx?id=777&ddlLang=en-us</ref>

== Awards and commissions==

In 1995 Wang received the Swiss National Tourism/Tate Gallery Travel Award.<ref name="Bio">[https://www.sulingwang.tw/_files/ugd/8beb60_aeccf9857deb4a0ea81bdc1e066413ae.pdf]</ref> In 1998, she was the recipient of the Studio Award from the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the John Crane Travel Award.

In 2018, Wang was commissioned to make a 9 metre painting title ''The Singing River 2'' for the new building of the American Institute in Taiwan in Taipei for the permanent collection of the United States Department of State.<ref>https://www.chinigallery.com/en/load_page/get_exhibition_content/70</ref>

In 2019, Wang was chosen to be an honouree by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC for the museum's New York Gala.<ref>https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/hirshhorn-gala-honor-42-contemporary-artists-21-pairs-intergenerational</ref>

In 2023, Wang was awarded the U.S. Medal of Arts in recognition of her artistic achievements and her promotion of cultural diplomacy.<ref>https://art.state.gov/portfolio/taiwanese-artist-receives-u-s-medal-of-arts-award/</ref>

==See also== *Taiwanese art

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[http://www.sulingwang.tw Official Website of the Artist Suling Wang] *[https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/suling-wang Guggenheim Museum]

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