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1987 Born in Tianjin
2002 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree
2008 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree
Currently works and lives in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION
2012 Thousands of Years New Age Gallery | Taiwan
2010 Emptiness and Existence J · Art Gallery | Shanghai
2008 Lost in the Shade New Age Gallery | Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION
2012 Art Beijing Art Fair National Agriculture Exhibition Center | Beijing
2011 Redefinitions: the Questioning Spirit in the Art of the 1970s Generation Today Art Museum | Beijing
2008 Frieze London Exposition | London
2008 Art Singapore Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center | Suntec Singapore
2007 Joys and Sorrows in Generation Mannheim Art Museum | Berlin

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Wang Jie: Whether in the East or West, we express the body's form is a focus of art, and how we understand human experience. It is not a question about "life's existence" or the "location of the spirit". Given this, I erase the visible "body" in my works. If the history of human art is also the history of portraiture and the human body, then I choose to go against this. Faces and bodies are "absent" from the beings in my work. For me, "absence" and "presence" are two ways to express the same thing.
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