Biography
A successor of Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun, Wang Yan Cheng is a master of lyrical abstraction.
Wang graduated in 1985 from Shandong Academy of Fine Arts, where he became an Assistant Professor in 1986. In 1989, he arrived in France, and from 1991 to 1993 studied plastic arts at the université de Saint-Étienne. Obtaining tenure in 1992, he has been Visiting Professor at the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts since 1995.
His work having attracted attention in 1996 at the Salon d’automne in Paris, Wang Yan Cheng was invited to hold an exhibition at the Fondation Prince Albert II in Monaco, where he was awarded the Grand Prix Prince Albert II.
Since 1993, Wang Yan Cheng has participated in Art Basel, FIAC, Frieze, TEFAF, Art Paris... In 2007, he produces a monumental work, entitled “Music in nature”, for the Beijing Opera.
In 2011–12, 2014 and 2019, Wang Yan Cheng was represented by the Gallery Louis Carré; since 2019, he has been represented by Galerie Lelong. Following a series of exhibitions in China, Korea and Japan, he showed his work at Gallery Acquavella in New York in 2019, and in Rome and Florence in 2020. In 2025, a solo exhibition of Wang Yan Cheng’s work was held at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.
