Yuqi Wang

b 1958

 

Wang photo   

 

"What draws me, as an artist, to put brush to canvas is at once both  public and private. The world I reveal is a blend of both the ‘Occident’ and the ‘Orient’, my passion for both Classic European portraiture, and the Pre-Raphaelite movement is gently kissed by my Chinese heritage.

I find the classic styles to be timeless, with a warmth and honesty not offered any more with modern movements."


Wang book

Yuqi Wang Book


Yuqi Wang's painting is acquired by the Shandong Art Museum

Yuqi Wang won FIRST PLACE in the 2018 International Portrait Competition

Fine Art Connoisseur "Portrait of a Portrartist"

Photos of Yuqi at Gallery

 


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Full Moon

 

Full Moon

(available)

Mary

 

Mary

(available)

Blood Moon

 

Blood Moon

(available)

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    Good Morning Sarasota

 

    Good Morning Sarasota

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Mars

 

Mars

(available)

    Meltable Ocean II

 

Meltable Ocean II

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Wind

Wind
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Music

Music
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Don Quixote

Don Quixote
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The Noon in Red Hook

The Noon In Red Hook
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Miss-Yan-Wearing-Cap

Miss Yan Wearing Cap
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Sarasota Series

Seven each 14" x 11"
Oil on Canvas

"intensely personal and intriguing"


Article by art critic Kevin Costello
in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, June 26, 2005.


Be Stranded

Sarasota #1
Be Stranded
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The Gate of Life

Sarasota #2
The Gate Of Life

The Other Side of the Gate

Sarasota #3
Other Side Of Gate

Shape Changing

Sarasota #4
Shape Changing
Little Deity

Sarasota #5
Little Deity
Superimposition

Sarasota #6
Superimposition
Narrow Gate

Sarasota #7
Narrow Gate

Résumé

Yuqi Wang was trained in China and the US and is now based in New York. Among others, he is a member of The American Society of Portrait Artists, The Portrait Society of America and The Oil Painter Association of China and has exhibited extensively across China and America.

His work hangs in public collections in China and the collection of the Japanese Royal Family.

The influence of Rossetti and Burne-Jones is unmistakable, and in the tradition of the Pre-Raphaelites Yuqi manages to create work which is as sensitive as it is powerful.

Education

Tiianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Central Academy of Fine Arts

Awards

Grand Prize – Portrait Society of America Inc, Washington DC
Best Portfolio – American Society of Portrait Artists, MOMA, NY
Award of the Third Exhibition for Illustration of China
Silver Award – International Youth Year, Beijing
Metal Award – Sixth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, China

Selected Commissions

Peter J. Gomes, Harvard University, Camridge, Massachusetts
Henry Louis Gates Jr., National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University, Camridge, Massachusetts
China National Gallery
China International Exhibition Agency
Private collection of the Royal Family of Japan
Mrs Fiona Willmot-Sitwell

Group Exhibitions

2001 – The Royal Society of Portraiture, The Mall Galleries, London
1999 – Tao Gallery, Cape-cod, MA
1998 – Ringling School of Fine Art, Florida
1997 – International Artexpo, Florida
1995 – New Continental Gallery, China
1994 – Shenzhen Museum, China
1994 – Selected Oil Painting Exhibition of China, Hong Kong
1993 – China Daily Gallery
1992 – Second International Exhibit of Fine Arts
1992 – United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations
1991 – The Great Wall Festival of Art, China
1991 – Beijing Music Hall Gallery, China
1990 – Modern Art of China, Turkey