Wang Wusheng Explained

Wang Wusheng (; 1945 – 7 April 2018) was a Chinese photographer known for his black-and-white photographs of Mount Huangshan.

Biography

Wang Wusheng was born 1945 in Wuhu. Anhui, China and graduated from the Department of Physics of Anhui University.[1]

Beginning in 1973, Wang worked as a photographer for a news magazine in Anhui Province, Anhui Newsphoto and Pictorial. In 1974, he started shooting Mounts Huangshan in Anhui.[2]

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. During these years he met and married an American exchange student studying at The University of Tokyo. Beginning in 1986, he studied for three years at the Tokyo Arts University.[3]

In 1990, he moved to the U.S, spent a year in New York City 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.[4] 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'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.[5]

Wang died in Shanghai on 7 April 2018, at the age of 73.[6]

Group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Publications

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wusheng . Wang . Wang Wusheng ND Magazine . 2023-04-18 . ndmagazine.net . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2015-11-14 . Biography: Landscape photographer Wang Wusheng MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine . 2023-04-18 . en-GB.
  3. China Institute, Art of the Mountain Exhibition, http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?isbn=0789208679
  4. Web site: 2013-01-27 . Between Sky And Earth . 2023-04-18 . HuffPost . en.
  5. La Galerie, Paris 1839, Hong-Kong, Wang Wusheng, http://www.lagalerie.hk/about-wang-wusheng
  6. Web site: 摄影师汪芜生辞世，一生执着于"黑白黄山". Zong He 宗和. 2018-04-12. The Paper. 2018-12-06.
  7. The Japan-China Association, http://www.wangwusheng.com/english/nichu/prosess/process.html
  8. Katonah Museum of Art, http://www.katonahmuseum.org/gedownload!/KMA_Annual%20Report%202012.pdf?item_id=1577664
  9. Web site: San Jose Museum of Art to showcase contemporary Chinese photography in new exhibition . 2023-04-18 . artdaily.com.
  10. Web site: 2013-01-27 . Between Sky And Earth . 2023-04-18 . HuffPost . en.
  11. Abbeville Press, Celestial Realm : The Yellow Mountains of China, http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?isbn=0789208679

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