Born in 1967 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China

1992 Photography Department in Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang
1995 Film Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy

2025

“The Weight of the Invisible – Part I & II,” Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2021

“Wang Bing: Retrospective,” Cinémathèque Française, Paris
“Wang Bing – L’Œil qui marche,” LE BAL, Paris; Centre de la photographie de Genève

2019

“Wang Bing,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Rassenge Immagini segrete dalla Cina. Omaggio a Wang Bing,” Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin

2018

“Wang Bing,” Kunsthalle Zürich
“Dispossessed Lives. Resilient Lives,” Museo Reina Sofía/Filmoteca Española, Madrid
“Traces, Tate Modern Weekend Film Series,” Tate Modern, London
“Wang Bing: The Weight of Experience,” Film Society, Lincoln Center, New York

2017

“documenta 14, Kassel: Retrospective,” Gloria Kino, Kassel

2016

“Wang Bing: Three Portraits,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

2014

“Film Retrospective and Video/Photography Exhibition,” Cinematek, Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels

2024

“Vertigo: Visual Stories & Studies of Rapid Changes,” Fondazione MAST, Bologna

2023

“Critical Consumption,” MAK – the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

2022

Okayama Art Summit 2022, “Do we dream under the same sky”

2020

“China⇋Africa: Crossing the world color line,” Centre Pompidou, Paris

2019

“Circular Flow,” Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel

2018

“Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing, EYE Art & Film Prize,” EYE Filmmusuem, Amsterdam

2017

documenta 14, “Learning from Athens,” EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2016

“Chinese Video Art since the 1980s” (as part of “Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition”), C.A.F.A. Art Museum, Beijing; Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou

2014

10th Shanghai Biennale, “Social Factory”

2021

CHANEL Next Prize

2019

Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan – Dead Souls (2018)

2017

Golden Leopard Award, Concorso Internazionale of 70th Locarno Festival, Switzerland – Mrs. Fang (2017)

2016

Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay, 73rd Venice International Film Festival, Venice – Bitter Moneys (2016)

2014

Best Film (Grand Prize), Lisbon International Documentary Festival, Lisbon – Father and Sons (2014)

2013

Mongolfière d’argent, Festival des trois continents, Nantes – Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Critic Prize, Black Movie Festival, Geneva – Alone (2012)

2012

Orizzonti Award for Best Film, 69th Venice International Film Festival, Venice – Three Sisters (2012)

2011

Prix Spécial du Jury, Festival Ânûû-rû âboro, Pwêêdi-Wiimîâ, Kanaky-New-Caledonia – Man with No Name (2009)

2010

Jury Prize, Prize of the Spirit of the Mirror, Andrei Terovsky International Film Festival “Zerkalo,” Ivanovo, Russia – The Ditch (2010)

2007

Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan – Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)

2006

French National Order of Merit (Légion d’honneur)

2004

Grand Prize of the Documentary Jury, Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal, Montréal
– West of the Tracks (1999 – 2003)