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

2021

Wang Bing – L’Œil qui marche, LE BAL, Paris

2019

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

2018

Wang Bing, Kunsthalle Zürich, 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, Germany

2016

Wang Bing: Three Portraits, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California

2014

Film Retrospective and Video/Photography Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Film Retrospective and Video/Photography Exhibition, Cinematek, Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels

2022

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

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, 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, Shanghai

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)