Born in Zhejiang, China, 1981, Wang Zhibo currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from the China Academy of Art Oil Painting Department. Wang creates oil on canvas paintings that confound our notions of time and space. Transcending traditionalism through the subject matter depicted, which is both curious and challenging, Wang channels her painting to represent the variances of our visual experiences, similar to the reflection on the surface of water: capable of capturing the multiple manifolds of a subject. Through the subtle consideration and rendition of the ordinary, Wang’s practice achieves to flesh out the limits of our understanding and extend, through time and space, our conceptual and visual boundaries.

Wang Zhibo rose to prominence after being awarded the prestigious national Luo Zhongli Scholarship in 2008. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Wang Zhibo” (Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, 2024), “He No Longer Looks Human” (Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai, 2018), “There is a place with four suns in the sky—red, white, blue and yellow” (Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016), “Standing Wave” (Armory Show, New York, 2013). Her works have also been exhibited at Frieze London (2020), Times Art Center, Berlin (2019), Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2017), Times Art Center, Guangdong (2017), Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing (2015), Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney (2014), Today Art Museum, Beijing (2008), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2008), Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2007).