Yehan Wang

“Yehan Wang's work is refreshingly different and he is becoming an increasingly important artist on the Chinese contemporary and international scene. The popularity of his work at home and abroad with both private and corporate collectors shows the scope of his appeal.” ------ Chao-Lee, founder and director of GalerieHuit

Yehan Wang explores abstraction through his work in painting and photography. Through the systematic application of repetitive brushstrokes, Wang addresses abstraction in terms of painterly application and how paint becomes the subject of the work. Devoid of the colors that identify the markings made on the painted canvas, Wang’s manipulated photographs take the angles, lines, and textures of mundane bicycles and tubing, abstracting the content through the form, and its repetition.
Loyalty to the formalist approach is evoked in the meticulous treatment of color, line, shape, and texture in the practice of artist Yehan Wang. This formalism is rendered through his treatment of the material and the dual reliance between content and form. Influenced by the practices of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, Wang has developed a practice rooted in abstraction and its relation to the spiritual.
Yehan Wang was born in Sha...

12/1996 Completed Computer Graphics Design/Art Courses at George Brown College.
10/1991 Graduated from Shanghai University, Fine Art College. (BA Degree)
04/1984 Completed two-year courses of Art Design in Shanghai JiaoTong University.

Solo Exhibition

2016 “Form is Emptiness” – Yehan Wang Painting and Porcelain Solo Exhibition in FEEFAN’s Art Centre, Beijing, China

2016 “Table Manner” – Yehan Wang Photography Solo Exhibition in Wu Tong Museum, Shanghai, China

2016 “In Red” – Yehan Wang Painting & Photography Solo Exhibition in Evergreen Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Local Government Art Program Funding Award)

2015 “Metamorphosis” – Yehan Wang Solo Exhibition co-hosted by Julius Baer Group in the Rotunda Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

2015 “Galerie Huit Inaugural Show” – Yehan Wang Painting and Photography Solo Exhibition in Galerie Huit, Hong Kong

2014 “Abstract @ Contemporary“– Yehan Wang Solo Exhibition in the Gulf of Huangpu Greentown & Shanghai Sinan Mansion, Shanghai, China

2013 “Connected Urbanity” – Yehan Wang Solo Painting Exhibition in Linkbridge, Lincoln House, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong

2012 “Metropolis-Pixel” – Yehan Wang Solo Exhibition supported by Julius Baer Group in the Rotunda Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

2011 “Metropolis-Pixel” – Yehan Wang Solo Exhibition in Today Art Museum, Beijing China

2007 "The True Condition - Yehan Wang 2007" - Solo Exhibition in Jindu Art Centre, Beijing Chin...