• "Evelyn Taocheng Wang"
  Karen Archey, Artforum, 2021
• "Equivocal Contrast: Scott Roben on Evelyn Taocheng Wang at The Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf"
  Texte Zur Kunst, 2021
• "Evelyn Taocheng Wang, 'Spreading Elegance' at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims"
  Mousse, 2019
• "Four Women"
  H. Folkerts, Mousse, 2018
• "Review: Evelyn Taocheng Wang, De Hallen Haarlem"
  Amy Sherlock, Frieze, 2017
• "Critics' Pick: Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Carlos/Ishikawa"
  Eliel Jones, Artforum, 2017
• "Review: Taocheng Wang, Galerie Fons Welters"
  Hans den Hartog Jager, Artforum, 2015

• Evelyn Taocheng Wang: I.M.PERSONALLY
  Monograph, Published by Kunstverein Dusseldorf & Dancing Foxes Press, 2023
• Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Six Months of Sour Gnossiennes
  Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Abteiberg, published in collaboration with the Mönchengladbach Board of Culture, 2020
• Evelyn Taocheng Wang: ABN Amro Art Prize
  Exhibition Catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam, 2020
• Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Unintended Experience: a job in Amsterdam
  After 8 Books, 2017

• Taocheng Wang: Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis
  Exhibtion Catalogue, With texts by Bart van der Heide, 2016

b. 1981, Chengdu, China
Lives and works in Rotterdam

2012-2014 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2010-2012 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2002-2006 Nanjing Normail University, Fine Art Department, Chinese traditional art, Chinese Classical Literature & Visual Communication, Nanjing, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano

2025
Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2025, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Spreading Elegance, Fons Welters, Amsterdam

2024
Patternmaster, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2024
An Organic Day, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo

2023
Het Licht is Rond (The Light is Round), Dordrechts Museum, Dordrechts, The Netherlands
An Equivocal Contrast, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai

2022
Horizons, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum for East-Asian Arts), Cologne
Norwegian Music in Dutch Window, Kayokoyuki, Tokyo

2021
Reflection Paper, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Heart of Eyeshadows, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Reflection Paper, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

2020
Sour Gnossiennes, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Het bloemblaadje, dat tijdens het ochtendkrieken was gevallen…, Hermitage Museum Amsterdam, as winner of the ABN AMRO Art Prize, Amsterdam
Photosynthesis, Circl.ART, ABN AMRO Art Collection, as winner of the ABN AMRO Art Prize, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
When I sought her along the river, she stood in the middle of the water, Kevin Space, Vienna

2019
Spreading Elegance, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
No Blood in the Afternoon, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Sensitive Attitude, Friends of the S.M.A.K. – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent

2018
What is he afraid of?, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
What is he afraid of?, Company, New York

2017
For An Embarrassed Person It is Always Very Difficult To Avoid Embarrassing Things, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Four Season Of Women Tragedy, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Heatweave Wrinkle, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
'Allegory of Transience', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands
'A Home made Travel MV Series', Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2015
Massage Near Me, Company Gallery, New York
A Home Made Travel MV Series, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Two Sights of the Elegant Mysterious Unearthly Princess Kaguya & Her Beggarly Nurtured Aristocratic Life Before She Flies
Forest, A Man, A Baby & Aristocratic Life, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam


2014
Someone who lives in great comfort is completely enjoying it but still prays for even more fortune, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö

2013
Action...Cut!, Jakarta Yuz Museum, Jakarta

2012
What is Revealed by the Tide, OV Gallery, Shanghai

2010
Sensitive Attitude, Platform China, Beijing

2008
Intervention, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
Private Party, Vierterstock-Berlin, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Between the Shadow and the Highlight, Antenna Space, Beijing
Love Unknown, G Museum, Nanjing, China
No Boundaries, National Museum of Art, Osaka
The Life of Things, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2024
Queer Histories, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
Written on Water, Matthew Marks, Los Angeles
Dream on, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Maastricht
True Colors: the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Burning Down The House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Venice
One And All: New Artistic Styles of Contemporary Painting, The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing
No other cure none other than words in talking, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Dream Time, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2023
Clandestine Knowledge: Collection 1980s – Present, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood, São Paulo

2022
Beijing Biennial, Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image, Friendship Art Community, Beijing
Autofiction, Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Busan Biennial: We, on the Rising Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
Note to Self, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
Dancing Forward, Looking Backward, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent
Alice in Wonderland, 69 Campus Art Center, Beijing
Fashion Show: Clothing, Art and Activism, The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland

2021
To Be Like Water, TENT, Rotterdam
The Endless Garment, X Museum, Beijing
Frequencies of Tradition, Incheon Art Platform (IAP), Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, South Korea
It’s Just A Phase, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (KUK), Trondheim, Norway
After All, a Collection is Only Human, Villa Vandenbussche, in collaboration with Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
In The Midst of It All, G Museum, Nanjing, China
Something About Us, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Ink City, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong

2020
She spins the thread, she measures the thread, she cuts the thread (3-person show with Mila Lanfermeije & Ana Navas), NEST, The Hague
Frequencies of Tradition, Times Museum, Guangzhou
Risquons-Tout, Wiels, Brussels
In the Presence of Absence. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Beating Around The Bush #6: Scenes From The Anthropocene, Bonnefanten, Maastricht

2019
Neither Black/Red/Yellow Nor Woman, Times Arts Center, Berlin
Maskulinitäten, Eine Kooperation des Bonner Kunstvereins, Kölnischen Kunstvereins und des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
In my room, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Longan, House of Egorn, Berlin

2018
Dolf Henkes Prize, TENT, Rotterdam
Transpersonal, instructions, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila, Philippines
Department of Love, SAFA Art Gallery, Shanghai
Nothing is Permanent, Manifesta in House Exhibition, Amsterdam
Hollandse Nieuwe, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Who Are We Again?, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
PSST...A Play on Gossip, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
Show Personality, Not Personal Items, Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

2017
It's Get Better V, ICA, London
Humble, Garage, Rotterdam
Public program, Documenta14, Kassel
What "Everybody Knows", Jenny's, Los Angeles
Barbaren & Wijsgeren: Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

2016
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Manifesta 11, Zurich
Dorothea von Stetten Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, curated by Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, The Kitchen, New York
Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
Un certain regard, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

2015
Greene Naftali, New York
Other Sights, OCCII, Amsterdam
Up Close and Personal, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2014
It's Get Better, curated by Stewart Uoo, Artists Space, New York
Reflections, Model Project Space, Vancouver
Conversation, with Luca Francesconi at Gallery Fluxia, Milan
Offspring 2014, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
Finissage - An evening in three acts, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Old Oxen Chew Young Grass, Eric Sidner & Taocheng Wang, Duck, Berlin
I love you, Me either, Project Native Informant, London

2013
Reading, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai­
Living Room, Shanghai Goethe Institute, Shanghai
AMNUA Drawing Show Series, Art Museum of Nanjing, China University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
How are you otherwise, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
I will be your mirror, OV gallery, Shanghai
Max Brand+Taocheng Wang at Library+, London
Winter Screening, Almanac Projects, London

2012
Limbodrome, Capital A, Amsterdam
Tender Buttons, September Gallery, Berlin
Art Taipei 2012, Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan
Reactivation - The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Art Stage Singapore 2012, Marina Bay Sands Convention & Exhibition Center, Singapore

2011
Städelschule Rundgang 2011, Frankfurt am Main
Learning from the Literati 2, OV Gallery, Shanghai

2010
Absolute Distance, White Space Gallery, Beijing

2008
Anonymous Drawings N°9., Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Jahresgaben 2008, Halle fuer Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany


2007
Fremd Gehen, Shanghai Goethe Institut, Shanghai

Selected Performances

2024
Layers of Vocalization, Yesibu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

2022
Layers of Vocalization, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Every Ocean Hughes A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (with costumes and no practice), 2011/2022, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Group collaborative performance)

2015
Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Two Sights of the Elegant Mysterious Unearthly Princess Kaguya & Her Beggarly Nurtured Aristocratic Life Before She Flies Away With a Shining Ship, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Selected Awards

2025 Wolfgang Hahn Prize
2019 ABN Amro Art Award
2018 Dolf Henkes Award
2016 De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs
2016 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis

Selected Collections

ABN AMRO collection, Amsterdam
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Centre Pompidou, Paris
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
G Museum, Nanjing, China
Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
NOG Collection/Stichting Beheer SNS REAAL, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Museum Abteiberg Collection, Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
The Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, China
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands