Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China, 1989
1995 Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Photography Department, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
1996 Film Academy, Photography Department, Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Walking Eye, Photographic Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
Wang Bing à la trace, curator: Antony Fiant, Galerie Art et Essai Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France

2021
The Walking Eye, LE BAL, Paris, France

2020
Wang Bing à la trace, Galerie Art et Essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France

2019
Wang Bing, Take Ninagawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Rassenge Immagini segrete dalla Cina. Omaggio a Wang Bing, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy

2018
Wang Bing, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Germany
Wang Bing, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Dispossessed Lives. Resilient Lives. – Wang Bing’s complete film restrospective, co-organized by Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca, Madrid, Spain
Traces, Tate Modern Weekend Film Series, Tate Modern, London, UK
Solo Exhibition of Video works, Eye Museum, Amsterdam

2017
Experience and Poverty, Magician Space, Beijing, China

2016
Wang Bing: Three Portraits, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
Special Focus at Kerala Film Festival, India
Special focus at Hambourg Filmwoche, Germany

2015
Film Retrospective at Geneva Black Movies Film Festival, Switzerland

2014
Fathers and Sons, Galerie PARIS-B, Paris, France
Fathers and Sons, Galerie PARIS-B, Brussels, Belgium
Wang Bing Retrospective, Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Wang Bing/Jaime Rosales, Cinéastes en correspondance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Film Retrospective at Pacific Meridian Film Festival, Russia
Special Focus at AV Film Festival, UK

2013
Wang Bing, Institut de l’Image, Aix-en-Provence, France

2011
Special Focus at Cinema South Festival, Israel

2010
Film Retrospective at Milano Filmmaker Film Festival, Italy

2009
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Photography exhibition at Shanghai Photofairs

2020
China – Africa : Crossing the world color line, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2019
Circular Flow, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, Germany
Fast Fashion/Slow Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; George Washington
University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

2018
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing, EYE Art & Film Prize, EYE Filmmusuem, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017
Learning from documenta, Centre Culturel de Strombeek, Brussels, Belgium
Documenta 14, Kassel: Retrospective, Gloria Kino, Kassel, Germany
Documenta 14, Athens, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2016
Chinese Video Art since the 1980s, Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, Beijing CAFA Museum, Beijing, China

2015
Video Retrospective and Photography Exhibition, Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea

2014
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

FILMOGRAPHY

2018
Dead Souls (Si Linghun), documentary, 496 minutes
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Special Screening

2017
Mrs. Fang (Fang Xiuying), documentary, 86 minutes
Premiered at Locarno Film Festival, International Competition – Golden Leopard

2016
Bitter Money (Ku Qian), documentary, 152 minutes
Premiered at Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti Competition – Best Screenplay Prize, Human Rights Special Award
TA’ANG: documentary, 147 minutes
Premiered at Berlin Film Festival, Forum, Nuremberg Human Rights Festival 2017 – Human Rights Award

2013
‘Til Madness Do Us Part (FENG AI), documentary. 227 minutes
Nantes Three Continents Film Festival – Montgolfière d’Argent prize
Venice 70: Future Reloaded, short film
Curated and premiered at Venice Film Festival

2012
Alone, documentary, 89 minutes.
Geneva Black Film Festival – Jury Prize
Three Sisters (SAN ZIMEI): documentary, 153 minutes.
Venice Film Festival, Premiere – Best Film in “Orizzonti”
Fribourg International Film Festival – Best Film (Grand Prize), Ecumenical Jury Award
Young Critics Award, Audience Award,
Nantes Three Continents Film Festival – Best Film (Grand Prize), Audience Award
Dubai International Film Festival – Best Director prize

2010
THE DITCH (JIA BIAN GOU): fiction, 119 minutes.
Venice Film Festival – International Competition, Premiere
ANDREI TARKOVSKY International Film Festival “ZERKALO” (THE MIRROR),
Jury Prize, Prize of Spirit of the Mirror.
Top 10 Foreign Movies, Kinema Junpo 2011, Japan – best foreign film director

2009
Happy Valley (XI YANG TANG), documentary short film, 19 minutes
A project of “The Complete Letters, Filmed Correspondence”, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Coal Money (TONG DAO): documentary, 52 minutes.
Cinema Du Réel, International Competition
Documenta Madrid – 2nd Jury Prize.

2007
Fengming, A Chinese Memoir (HE FENGMING), documentary, 186 minutes
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, Premiere
Yamagata Documentary Film Festival – Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
Marseille International Documentary Film Festival – Georges de Beauregard Prize
Cinema Digital Seoul – Young Critics Award
Lisbon International Documentary Festival – IPJ University Prize
Fribourg International Film Festival – Ecumenical Jury Award
Brutality Factory (BAOLI GONGCHANG): short film, fiction, 15 minutes.
Cannes Film Festival, Director’s Fortnight, Premiere

2003
West of the Tracks (TIE XI QU), documentary, final cut, 554 minutes
Rotterdam Film Festival, Premiere
Marseille International Documentary Film Festival — Grand Prize
Yamagata Documentary Film Festival — Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
Nantes 3 Continents Film Festival (Documentary Section) — Golden Montgolfier (Grand Prize)
Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, Best Documentary Prize
Festival du film de Montréal, Best Documentary Prize

2002
West of the Tracks (TIE XI QU), documentary (5 hours cut)
Berlin International Film Festival, Premiere
Lisbon International Documentary Festival — Grand Prize
All the films have also been shown at other film festivals, including:
Toronto International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Documentary
Fortnight at the New York Museum of Modern Art, Jeonju International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Jihlava
International Documentary Film Festival, Taipei International Film Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, TOKYO FILMeX
International Film Festival, INDIE Festival, Sao Paulo, Hongkong Film Festival, Digital Cinema Seoul, Los Angeles Film Festival etc.

VIDEO ART AND PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS

2020
Scenes (Chang Jing), Video Art, 54 min
Premiered at the group exhibition Chine Afrique in Centre Pompidou.

2018
Beauty Lives in Freedom-Gao Ertai (Mei Zai Zi You-Gao Ertai) Video Art, 295 min
Premiered at Museo Reina Sofía and Filmoteca Española

2017
“15 Hours” (SHIWU XIAOSHI), video installation, 15h50min,
Documenta 14, Athens, National Museum of Contempory Art and
Kino Gloria, Kassel, collection of CNAP, France

2014
Man with No Name (WUMINGZHE), Father and Sons (FU YU ZI)
Trace (YI ZHI) Photography
Trace (YI ZHI): Video Art, shot in 35mm, 29 minutes
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, Collection of M+ Museum Hong Kong
Father and Sons (FU YU ZI): Video Art, 87 minutes
Lisbon International Documentary Festival – Best Film (Grand Prize)

2009
Father and Sons (FU YU ZI): Video Art, 87 minutes
Lisbon International Documentary Festival – Best Film (Grand Prize)
Crude Oil” (YUAN YOU): Video Installation, 14 hours
Premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival 2008 – Special Mention Prize
Man with No Name (WUMINGZHE): Video Art, 96 minutes
Fengming, A Chinese Memoir (HE FENGMING): Video Art, 226 minutes

HONOURS

2021
Winner of Chanel Next Prize

2018/2019
Masterclass at School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences(EHESS), Paris
Guest professor at Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains

2017
Winner of Eye Art & Film Prize, Netherland

2016
Jury member at International Competition of Locarno International Film Festival
Invited to join the Oscar Masterclass

2015
Jury member at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

2014
President of Jury at Marseille International Film Festival, France

2012
Jury member at Digital Seoul Film Festival
Honorary doctorate degrees from University of Paris 8, France

2010
Jury member at Doc Madrid

2007
Jury member at Hong Kong Film Festival

2006
Awarded the French National Order of Merit (Légion d’honneur)

2004
Residency at Ciné-fondation of Cannes Film Festival

MEDIA

2004
West of the Tracks rated one of the 10 best films of 2004 by Cahiers du Cinéma

2010
West of the Tracks rated one of the 10 best films made between 2001 and 2010, by Cahiers du Cinéma

2012
West of the Tracks rated as one of the Top 250 greatest films of all time by Sight and Sound Magazine

2014
West of the Tracks rated as one of the Top 50 greatest documentary films of all time by Sight and Sound Magazine,
the only Chinese film in the Top 50

2014
Three Sisters selected as one of Top 10 Foreign Movies by Kinema Junpo 2013, Japan

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2021
“Wang Bing’s Filmmaking of the China Dream“ by Elena Pollachi, Published by Amsterdam University Press.
“Wang Bing – L’oeil qui marche“, Published by Le Bal and Delpire & Co
“The Walking Eye“, Published by Le BAL and Roma (English version)

2020
“Wang Bing – un geste documentaire de notre temps“ by Antony Fiant, Published by WARM Publications

2015
“Wang Bing A Filmmaker in China Today“, Monograph, Published by Publications de l’Université de Provence, France
(English version)

2014
“Wang Bing : Un cinéaste en Chine aujourd’hui“, Monograph, Published by Publications de l’Université de Provence,
France (French version)
“Alors, la Chine” (Interviews with Wang Bing), Published by Les Prairies Ordinaires, France (in French)

2012
“Epilogue de l’homme sans nom” : article by Georges Didi-Huberman, in « Peuples exposés, peuples figurants », published
by Les Éditions de Minuit, France (in French)

2010
“Wang Bing”, publication (in Italian) by Milano Film Makers Film Festival