{{Short description|Chinese art historian, curator, and critic}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Wang Chunchen | native_name = 王春辰 {{in lang|zh}} | honorific_suffix = | image = Portrait of Chunchen Wang.jpg | image_size = 220px | alt = Black and white photographic portrait of Wang Chunchen | caption = Photographic portrait of Wang Chunchen | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1964}} | birth_place = Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Central Academy of Fine Arts | known_for = | employer = Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum | occupation = {{flatlist| * Art historian * author * critic * curator }} | awards = China Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Critics Award (2009) | spouse = | children = }}
'''Wang Chunchen''' ({{zh|王春辰}}, born 1964 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province<ref name="bm">{{cite web| url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/AUTH232802 | title=Wang Chunchen 王春辰 | publisher=British Museum | language=en-UK | access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>) is a Chinese curator, critic, and art historian.<ref name="rockbundartmuseum">{{cite web| url=http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/cn/artist/overview/17bfsv | title=Wang Chunchen | publisher=Rockbund Art Museum | language=en | access-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref> He has been described as "one of China's most distinguished curators, art critics and historians".<ref name="ocula">{{cite magazine| url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/wang-chunchen/ | title=Dr. Wang Chunchen | first=Michael | last=Goedhuis | magazine=Ocula Magazine | location=London | date=26 June 2015 | access-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref>
==Education== Wang was educated at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China.
==Career== Dr Wang is employed by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, formerly the CAFA Art Museum, where he is Head of the Department of Curatorial Research.<ref name="k11art">{{cite web| url=https://www.k11artfoundation.org/en/collaboration/wang-chunchen | title=Wang Chunchen | publisher=K11 Art Foundation | language=en | access-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref> He is engaged in modern art history and contemporary art theory and criticism.<ref name="rockbundartmuseum" />
In 2012, Wang was hired as a special adjunct curator to curate Chinese contemporary art exhibitions by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in the United States,<ref name="rockbundartmuseum" /><ref name="k11art" /><ref name="ocula" /> the first Chinese curator to be so employed at an America art museum.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/wang-chunchen-58981/ | title=Wang Chunchen becomes first China-based curator hired by U.S. museum | first=Brian | last=Boucher| date=6 August 2012 | work=Art in America | publisher=Artnet | access-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref> In 2013, he was appointed as curator of the Chinese pavilion at the ''55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia'' and deputy principal editor of the ''Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art'' in the United Kingdom. He is also the editor-in-chief of the ''Chinese Contemporary Art Series'', published by Springer.
==Books== Wang has written and translated the following books:<ref name="douban">{{cite web| url=https://book.douban.com/tag/王春辰 | title=Douban Books Tags: Wang Chunchen | work=Douban Books | publisher=Douban | language=zh | access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="amazon">{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Wang+Chunchen | title=Wang Chunchen | website=Amazon.com | access-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref><ref name="k11art" />
* ''Art Intervenes in Society'' (Timezone Publishing House, 2010) * ''Artistic Democracy'' (China Youth Publishing House, 2013) * ''The Politics of Images'' (China Youth Publishing House, 2013) * ''Jizi and His Art in Contemporary China: Unification'' (with David Adam Brubaker, Springer, Chinese Contemporary Art Series, {{isbn|978-3662449288}}, 2015) * ''Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China'' (Art Media Resources, {{isbn|978-1588861184}}, 2015)
;Translations * ''Art Since 1940'' (Renmin University Press of China, 2006) * ''Phenomena of Painting'' (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006) * ''New Thinking of Decoration'' (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006) * ''After the End of Art'' (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007) * ''The Abuse of Beauty'' (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007) * ''The Interpretation of Art'' (Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008) * ''The Language of Art History'' (Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008) * ''Cai Guoqiang: I Want to Believe'' (People's Publishing House, 2008) * ''Contemporary Art Theory Since 1985'' (Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2009) * ''A Brief History of Art'' [Beauty] (Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013)
==Awards== Wang received the 2009 China Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Critics Award.<ref name="k11art" /> In 2011, he was funded by the Overseas Training Project of Chinese Young Artist Theorists to investigate the development status of art museums in the United States. In 2012, he was selected to participate in the ''Art Management Project'' co-organized by the British Council for Cultural Exchange and the Chinese Ministry of Culture, visiting the Royal College of Art and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
==Selected curation== [[File:Le pavillon de la Chine (55ème Biennale de Venise) (10387973914).jpg|thumb|The Chinese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), curated by Wang Chunchen]] thumb|Detail of the Chinese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale
Wang has curated the following exhibitions in China and elsewhere:<ref name="k11art" />
;2008 * ''Mixed Maze'', London, United Kingdom * ''Supernatural – China’s Photography in the New Century'', New York, United States
;2011 * ''CAFAM Biennale 2011: Super-Organism'', CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
;2012 * ''Conceptual Renewal: A Brief History of Chinese Contemporary Photography'', Beijing
;2013 * ''Transfiguration: The Presence of Chinese Artistic Methods'', Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
;2014 * ''Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China'', Broad Art Museum, Chicago, United States
;2016 * ''Time Test-International Video Art Research Observation Exhibition'', CAFA Art Museum, Beijing * ''Internal Combustion – A New Generation of Female Artists in China'', Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing * ''Coincidence of Time – Spanish Artist Naranjo's Printmaking Exhibition'', Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
;2017 * ''Dating: Youth Art Exhibition from China and France'', CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China * ''Ink Attack – The First Wuhan Ink and Wash Biennale'', Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
;2018 * ''Harmony-Buddhism and Art Exhibition'', Putian Art Museum, Putian, Fujian * ''Jizi: Journey of the Spirit'', WhiteBox, New York, United States<ref>{{cite web| url=http://whiteboxnyc.org/2018/exhibitions/jizi-journey-of-the-spirit/ | title=Jizi: Journey of the Spirit | publisher=WhiteBox | location=New York City, USA | date=2018 | accessdate=24 April 2022 }}</ref>
;2019 * ''The Gaze of History: Revisiting Contemporary Chinese Art'', Jupiter Art Museum, Shenzhen * ''Ink and Object: The Second Wuhan Ink and Wash Biennale'', Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan * ''Anish Kapoor'', first solo exhibition in China, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing * ''Photography in China 180 Years'', exhibition of contemporary photography, Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, Yinchuan * ''Jizi: Spiritual Journey'', solo exhibition, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang * ''Pop-up Biennale – Beijing Art District Studio History Document Exhibition'', Nine Art District Art Museum, Beijing * ''Huang Zhiyang: Hun Sheng Solo Exhibition'', White Box Art Museum, Beijing * ''The Passion of Color: The Art of Tang Chenghua'', Tianjin Binhai Art Museum, Tianjin * ''The Logical Line of Painting – Invitation Exhibition of the Generation and Significance of Contemporary Painting'', Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China * ''Marc Quinn – Under the Skin'', Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing
;2020 * ''In Thought – The History and Methodology of Chinese Contemporary Art'', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
;2021 * ''Liao Bangming: Hardcore Tackling the Tough'', Baiyu Art Space, Beijing
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chunchen-wang-a5b90017/ Wang Chunchen] on LinkedIn * {{Twitter|chunchenwang}}
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