Biography:

Wang Huangsheng (b.1956 in Shantou, Guangdong Province) is a critic and curator, and Director of the Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he also teaches in the School of Chinese Painting.

Wang received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Nanjing Arts Institute in 1990 and 2006, respectively. Between 2000 and 2009 Wang acted as director of the Guangdong Museum of Art and promoted large-scale events such as the Guangzhou Triennial and the Guangzhou Photo Biennial.

Interested in traditional Chinese painting and contemporary art, Wang has provided editorial support for publications such as Museum of Arts without Walls (2004), Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1990–2000 (2002) and 1^st Space for Contemporary Ink Work — China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment 1980–2001 (Diyijie dangdai shuimo kongjian: zhongguo shuimo shiyan ershinian) (2001).