Wang Wenting: Mastering Fire
2025.12.26-2026.1.31
Hive | Shanghai
Burning Your Boats
2024.5.22-2024.6.22
Hive|Beijing
Wang Wenting: Spectra of Being
2023.4.9-2023.6.6
Hive | Beijing
Wang Wenting: Zosimos’s Fantasy
2022.3.19 – 2022.5.4
Shape of Lovers
2020.12.5-2021.1.26

Wang Wenting
Wang Wenting (b. 1985) was born near the Miaowan archaeological site in Luoyang, Henan—a region at the heart of the Yangshao and Erlitou cultural systems. Growing up amid the juxtaposition of ancient cultural remains and modern industry, she developed an early sensitivity to prehistoric artifacts and stratified earth layers, which informed her initial understanding of materiality and historical depth. Her simultaneous upbringing around metal-casting factories introduced a distinctly modern set of experiences: the intensity of fire, the multiplicity of metallic properties, and the rhythmic logic of industrial structures.
1985 Born in Luoyang, Henan Province
2018 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts school of experimental art with a Master’s Degree
Now works and lives in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Wang Wenting: Mastering Fire, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2023 Wang Wenting: Spectra of Being, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2022 Wang Wenting: Zosimos’s fantasy, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2025 Mirroring, Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China
2024 Incarnation, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China
Burning Your Boats, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2023 Reinvention, Artium, Genesis Beijing, Beijing, China
Dreamscape Estuary, Unit London, London, UK
Silouette of Splendors, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Annular Vacuum Chamber, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022 The Tale of Tales, G Museum, Nanjing, China
Wizard, Craftsman and Time Traveler, Yi Art Institute, Hefei, China
2021 Story of Painting, Yongle Space, Beijing, China
2020 Shape of Lover, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Breeze and the man-made, Hongkun Museum of fine art, Beijing, China
2019 Various Paper Works Exhibition: Henan Art Museum, Zhengzhou; XAFA, Xi’an, China
2018 Exhibition Expressive Painting, China Academy of Oil painting, Beijing, China
2016 Experimental Art Materials And Language Works Exhibition, Jun An Experimental Arts Education Center, Beijing, China
Ivy Art: Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists in 2016, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
John Moore Painting Award (China) 2016, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Asian young artists Nomination Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Exhibition of Expressive Painting, China Oil Painting Academy, Beijing, China