Qian Wu 吳謙

Born in Xiamen, China. He graduated from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and received master degree from the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. From 2011 to 2016, he studied at the Art Students League of New York. He completed the first advanced research class on abstract art at Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2020, and he served as a visiting scholar at the China National Academy of Painting from 2021 to 2022. He has held solo exhibitions in cities such as New York, London, Venice and Milan.

 

Qian Wu has received the 17th Arte Laguna Prize-Emerging Artists Award, the 10^th Most Achieved Chinese Awards (MACA), the 3^rd Anren Biennale Young Artist Award, the 3^rd Powerlong Art Recognition Award, the 13^th Top Ten Outstanding Chinese American Youth Award. He was selected for Forbes China·Global 100 Outstanding Chinese (2022), Forbes 30 Under 30 China list (2021), the 1^st “Outstanding Youth of Sustainable Development”, the Annual Young Artist of the “Robb Report Best of the Best” (2020).