王功新1960年生于中国北京,1978年考入首都师范大学美术学院,1982年毕业后留校任教。1987年作为访问学者赴美国纽约州立大学,硕士研究生学习。2002至2007年在中央美术学院担任客座教授。2013年获英国伦敦“奥利弗”戏剧金像奖最佳影像设计大奖提名。2014年获得纽约州立大学荣誉博士。现生活创作在北京与纽约。
王功新的作品曾在圣保罗双年展、台北双年展、上海双年展、日本越后妻有三年展、日本和多利美术馆、东京森美术馆、旧金山现代美术馆、纽约MOMA PS1、伦敦V&A美术馆、纽约皇后美术馆、德国ZKM媒体艺术中心、柏林世界文化宫、英国泰特利物普美术馆、澳洲NGV国家美术馆、古根海姆美术馆、柏林汉堡火车站国家美术馆、白立方画廊、日本福岗美术馆、伦敦ICA当代艺术中心、纽约布朗美术馆、上海当代美术馆、OCAT上海馆、尤伦斯艺术中心及中国美术馆等地展出。
Wang Gongxin (*1960 Beijing, China) lives and works in Beijing and New York. Wang was admitted to the Capital Normal University Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, and taught there upon graduation in 1982. In 1987, he went to State University of New York (SUNY) as a visiting scholar to study a master’s degree. In 2013, Wang nominated for the Olivier Award’s XL Video Award for Best Set Design. In 2014, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree at SUNY.
Wang Gongxin has exhibited widely around the world, including major exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennial, and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, and has exhibited in institutions such as the Tokyo Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; MOMA PS1, New York, USA; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Victoria and Albert Art Museum, London, UK; Fukuoka art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art,Karlsruhe, Germany; SF Moma, San Francisco, USA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Contemporary Arts, London; The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA; White Cube Gallery, Hong Kong, China; OCAT Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; and National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.