Evelyn Taocheng Wang
Born 1981, Chengdu, CN Lives and works in Rotterdam, NL
Education Ateliers, Amsterdam (2012-2014) Städelschule, Frankfurt (2010-2012) Nanjing Normail University, Fine Art Department, Chinese traditional art, Chinese Classical Literature & Visual Communication (2002-2006)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
'Reflection Paper‘, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL 'Heart of Eyeshadows’, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN 'Reflection Paper', Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
‘Sour Gnossiennes’, museumverein Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, De ‘Als ich sie entlang des Flusses suchte, stand sie mitten im Wasser (When I sought her along the river, she stood in the middle of the water)’ KevinSpace, Vienna, AT 'Het bloemblaadje, dat tijdens het ochtendkrieken was gevallen, paktte ik op in de avondschemering' (ABN AMRO Art Award), Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL Short Summer Solo, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
'Spreading Elegance', FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR 'Sensitive Attitude', Friends of the S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 'No Blood in the Afternoon', Carlos Ishikawa, London, UK
'What is he afraid of?', Company Gallery, New York, USA 'What is he afraid of?', KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
'Four Season of Women Tragedy', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL 'Embarrassed Person is Always Difficult to Avoid Embarrassed Things', Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK 'A Home made Travel MV Series', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, NL 'Heatweave Wrinkle', Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA 'Allegory of Transience', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
'Note to Self', Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘The Endless Garment’, X Museum, Beijing, CN ‘To Be Like Water’, TENT, Rotterdam, NL 'It's Just a Phase', curated by Rhae Dall and Ingar Dragset, K-U-K, Trondheim, NO 'In the Midst Of It All' G Museum of Art, Nanjing, CN 'Shaking the Habitual', Huidenclub, Rotterdam, NL 'After All, A Collection Is Only Human', George Vandenbussche house (in collaboration with Museum Dhondt Dhaenens), Tielt, BE ‘Something about us', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL 'In their shoes 2’, Kayokoyuki, Tokyo, JP ‘INK-City’, Tai Kwun Art Center, Hong Kong, HK 'She spins the thread, she measures the thread, she cuts the thread', NEST, Den Haag, NL
'Frequencies of Tradition', Guangzhou Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN 'Risquons-Tout', WIELS, Brussels, BE 'Beating around the bush #6', Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL 'In the Presence of Absense, Proposal for the Museum Collection', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL 'Globale Resistance', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR 'Other.Worldly', Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
'Jahresgabe', Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' ,De 'Jahresgabe', Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, De 'Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation des Bonner Kunstvereins, Kölnischen Kunstvereins und des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf' DE 'Neither Black/Red/Yellow nor Woman', Times Art Center, Berlin, DE Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN 'Top Floor. Artists choose from the collection', Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL 'Longan', House of Egorn, Berlin, DE
'Dolf Henkes Prize', TENT Rotterdam, NL 'Department of Love', SAFA Art Gallery, Shanghai, CN 'Transpersonal, instructions', Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila, PH 'Hollandse Nieuwe', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL 'Nothing is Permanent', Manifesta In House Exhibition, Amsterdam, NL 'Who Are We Again?', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT 'Show Personality, Not Personal Items', Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Prizes
ABN AMRO Art Award
Dolf Henkes Award
De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs
Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis
Evelyn Taocheng Wang Autumn Walk, 2017 Ink, acrylic on paper, agnes b winter coat 97 x 180 cm