Born in 1956, Wang Luyan is a prominent Chinese conceptual artist who has been actively involved in the country’s avant-garde art movement since its inception. He has participated in several significant exhibitions in and out of the country, including the 1979 Stars Painting Society exhibition and the 1989 China/Avant Garde.
Wang collaborated with Gu Dexin on a conceptual and sensory art project in 1988. Following that, between 1988 and 1995, he joined forces with Chen Shaoping and Gu Dexin to start the New Scale group that focused on non-objectives art using systematic and logical processes and experiments to transcend the influence of sensibility on their works. Wang’s artistic expressions mainly revolve around the relationships between objects. The paradoxical context found in his works brings about multiple interpretations of the work itself and negates the existing judgments by subsequent ones that are bound to arise.