Wang Tiande | Artist | East West Bank Art Program

Wang Tiande is a celebrated contemporary artist best known for his burned landscapes. Consisting of a painted underlayer coupled with an overlayer burned with cigarettes or incense sticks, his unique take on traditional Chinese art fuses the fleeting and timeless, meditating on creation and destruction simultaneously. Well versed in classical aesthetics and literati idealism, his experimental approach to calligraphy and classical ink drawings brings new energy and modern expression to familiar scenes. Inspired by ancient calligraphy, ink paintings and stone tablets, his audacious and bold artistic practice synthesizes the new and old, the technical and the spiritual, legacy and potential. Having graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1988, Wang later obtained his doctoral degree from its Department of Calligraphy. He is currently a professor at the Fudan University in Shanghai.

Wang has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Chambers Fine Art, New York; Alisan Fine Art, Hong Kong; the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas; the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou; the Today Art Museum, Beijing; the Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou;  and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, among others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago, and many others. Read more