Jian Wang is a contemporary Chinese

Chinese people

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 painter.

Early life

Born in the city of Dalian in 1958, Wang studied social realism in school, but his work privately earned him a space in the Dalian Youth Palace Arts. There, he was taught English. In 1986, Wang went to the United States

United States

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, where he studied with the American artist Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate...

, sculptor Manuel Neri

Manuel Neri

Manuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...

, and painter

Painting

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 David Hollowell.

Recent

Wang had a gallery from October-November 2002, where he had a 104-page book

Book

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published of his work.

External links

• http://www.sdgallery.com/catalogs/wang/index.htm