王鲁炎，1956年生，是中国现当代艺术发展史中重要的参与者，曾经先后参加过1979年在中国美术馆外小公园栅栏上举办的《星星画展》和1989年在中国美术馆内举办的《中国现代艺术大展》。王鲁炎于1988年与顾德新合作创作了《触觉艺术》；1988-1995年与顾德新、陈少平组成 “新刻度小组”，小组于1991年参加在日本福冈举办的《中国前卫艺术家展（非常口）》；1993年参加英国牛津现代美术馆举办的《沉默的力量》；1995年与德国零小组艺术家约克尔（Guenther Uecker）合作在德国新柏林艺术协会（NBK）举办《约克尔与 “新刻度小组” 的对话》展。1995年新刻度小组解散后，王鲁炎以独立艺术家的身份继续创作。1996年他参加在澳大利亚昆士兰美术馆举办的《第二届亚太当代艺术三年展》；1998年参加在美国纽约亚洲协会P.S.1当代艺术中心举办的《开放的本体》展；2002年参加在中国广东美术馆举办的《重新解读：中国实验艺术十年（1990–2000）》首届广州当代艺术三年展；2007年在中国深圳OCAT当代艺术中心举办个人展览《被锯的锯?》；2010年在韩国首尔整体美术馆举办个人展览《王鲁炎》；2013年在中国北京芳草地美术馆举办个人展览《王鲁炎：图 * 寓言》；2014年在法国圣埃蒂安现当代美术馆举办个人展览《王鲁炎》；2015年在中国国家体育馆北京鸟巢艺术中心举办个人展览《行》，同年他的大型装置作品《网》在摩纳哥海洋博物馆展出，他的大型装置作品《被向下的向上体》于2015年在俄罗斯莫斯科叶卡列尼娜基金会与中国国家博物馆巡回展出；2016年在外交公寓12号空间展出其个人展览《交流》；2018年个展《2017-2018王鲁炎》在中国丹东鸭绿江现当代美术馆展出。
Wang Luyan was born in 1956, and he has been a major participant in the developmental history of Chinese modern and contemporary art. He was a part of the historic Stars Art Exhibition, held along the fence outside of the National Art Museum of China in 1979, and the China / Avant-Garde Exhibition, held inside the National Art Museum of China in 1989. In 1988, together with Gu Dexin, he created Tactile Sensation. Between 1988 and 1995, he was a member of the New Measurement Group, together with Gu Dexin and Chen Shaoping. He has been featured in many important exhibitions over the years, including: Exceptional Passage—China Avant-garde Artists Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991; Silent Energy: New Art from China, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 1993; Uecker Sends a Letter to Beijing (a collaborative exhibition with Group Zeroartist GüntherUecker), New Berlin Art Society (NBK), Berlin, 1995; the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,1996; Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 1998; The First Guangzhou Triennial—Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2002; the solo exhibition Sawing or BeingSawed?, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2007; Wang Luyan, Total Museum, Seoul, 2010; Wang Luyan: Diagramming Allegory, Parkview Green Exhibition Hall, Beijing, 2013; Wang Luyan, Muséed’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, 2014; and Walking, Beijing National Stadium Bird’s Nest Art Center, 2015.That same year, his work Net was exhibited at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, while Downward Force on Upward Moving Objects was presented at the Ekaterina Foundation in Moscow and the National Museum of China. In 2016, his solo exhibition Communication was presented in the Space of DRC No.12 in Beijing. In 2018, his solo exhibition 2017-2018 Wang Luyan was shown in the Yalu River Art Museum in Dandong.
