Wang Wusheng is a Chinese artist and photographer born in 1945 from Anhui Province in China. He is known for his black-and-white photographs of Mt Huangshan. He currently works in Shanghai and Tokyo.
Wang Wusheng was born in the city of Wuhu in China's Anhui Province and was graduated from Anhui University's School of Physics. Beginning in 1973, Wusheng worked as a photographer for a news magazine in Anhui Province, The Anhui Newsphoto and Pictorial.
In 1974, he started shooting Mounts Huangshan in Anhui.
In 1981 he moved to Japan. He became a research member at the Japan Foundation in 1983. He studied at the Art Institute of Nihon University in Japan as he won grant from the Japan Foundation’s endowment for Japanese art studies. Beginning in 1986, he studied for three years at the Tokyo Arts University.
In 1990, he moved to the U.S, spent a year in New York and in the 90s his career blossomed at last. In 1998, Wang Wusheng held a solo exhibition titled "Himmelsberge" at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It was the first exhibition of photography and the first solo exhibition for a living artist at the museum. Then in 2005, the Permanent Missions of China and Japan to the United Nations presented Spirit of the East a two-person exhibition of Wang Wusheng’s photographs along with paintings by the late Japanese master artist Kaii Higashiyama, in the United Nations General Assembly’s Visitor’s Lobby. This exhibition was held in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations.
Wang Wusheng’s photographs are represented in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Kunsthalle Krems in Austria, in Russia, United States, and Ukraine.
Group exhibitions
1997 : The Gravity of the Mountains: Mountains and Inner Worlds from the Romantics to the Present at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2001 : The Photo Exhibition of National Treasure Ganjinwajo at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
2003 : Ganjinwajo: The Fine Art Photography Exhibition of 10 International Masters at the Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China
2008 : Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape, (showed the Chinese landscape paintings of the 17th century and the 18th century, and the photography of Wang Wusheng), at The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. USA
2012 : Contemporary Chinese Photography Rising Dragon, at the Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
2012 : Contemporary Chinese Photography Rising Dragon, at Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA
2013 : Contemporary Chinese Photography Rising Dragon, at The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2015 : Chinese Photography : Twentieth Century and Beyond, at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2016 : Celestian Realm, Mt. Huangshang at La Galerie, Hong-Kong
Solo exhibitions
2014 : Celestial Realm at Brucie Collections Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2013 : Celestial Realm at Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, USA
2010 : Hometown at Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China
2008 : Yellow Mountains at Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA
2006 : Spirit of the East (with Kaii Higashiyama), Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall, Ichikawa, Japan
2005 : Spirit of the East (with Kaii Higashiyama), United Nations, New York, USA
2002 : Mount Huangshan, Gallery epSITE, Tokyo, Japan
2000 : Celestial Mountains at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1998 : Himmelsberge, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
1996 : Verve of Mt. Huangshan at Asakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 : Verve of Mt. Huangshan at Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1994 : Verve of Mt. Huangshan at Galleria Prova, Tokyo; Oxy Gallery, Osaka; Isetan Art Hall, Niigata; Iwataya Art Gallery, Fukuoka; National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1993 : Verve of Mt. Huangshan, at Mitsukoshi Main Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988 : Visions of the Tranquility of Mount Huangshan, at Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Press
1981 : Mt. Huangshan: Works of Wang Wusheng, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing, China
1988 : Visions of the Tranquility of Mount Huangshan, Kodansha Ltd. Publisher, Tokyo, Japan 2011
1993 : Verve of Mt. Huangshan, Kodansha Ltd. Publisher, Tokyo, Japan, Hometown, Anhui, China
1994 : Artistic Interpretation of the Huangshan Mountain, Kodansha Ltd. Publisher, Tokyo, Japon & China Youth Publishing House, Beijing, China
1998 : Himmelsberge Catalog, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria & Skira Editore Publisher, Milan, Italy
2000 : Celestial Mountains Catalog, Japan-China Association, Tokyo, Japon
2005 : Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China, Abbeville Press Publisher, New York, USA/London, UK
2006 : Huangshan, Montagnes Célestes, Imprimerie Nationale Publisher, Paris, France
Collections
China Art Museum, Beijing, China
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
