| 1953 | Born in Chengdu |
| 1982 | Bachelor degree and graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting of Sichuan Fine Art Institute |
| 2018 | Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition: Unlimited, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition – The Box, X Gallery, Beijing |
| 2017 | Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition – Forms of Line, Galerie Du Monde, Hong Kong |
| 2016 | Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition Phase One – The Survivor, Linbart Gallery, Shanghai Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition Phase Two – Significant Forms, Linbart Gallery, Shanghai Ink-Well, Lelege Art, Beijing |
| 2015 | Early Works by Wang Chuan, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Always Going Home: The Recent Paintings of Wang Chuan, PIFO Gallery, Beijing |
| 2014 | Wang Chuan - Grid, PIN Art, Beijing |
| 2013 | Locus - Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu |
| 2012 | Wang Chuan’s Ink Painting Exhibition, Galerie 99 Aschaffenburg, Germany The Elements of Chinese Ink Art: Wang Chuan Solo Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
| 2010 | Wang Chuan's Oil Painting Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing |
| 2007 | Wangchuan’s Oil Painting, the Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Waking of Graffiti - Wang Chuan’s New Oil Painting, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen Chinese Abstract (Oil Painting), Zhu Qizhan Museum of Art, Shanghai |
| 2001 | Trace of Life - A Retrospective Exhibition of Art Paintings by Wang Chuan, He Xiang Ning Museum of Art, Shenzhen |
| 2000 | Diary of a Reflective Life - Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 1999 | Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, Alisan Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, Shenzhen Fine Arts Institute, Shenzhen |
| 1998 | Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, Gallery 456, Soho, New York, USA |
| 1990 | Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, Hanart TZ Gallery, New York, USA The Life Index, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong The Life Index, Hanart TZ Gallery, Taipei Blackness - Wang Chuan’s Solo Exhibition, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen |
| 1988 | Wang Chuan’s Ink Paintings, China Museum of Art, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, The Museum of Fine Arts, Stanford |
| 2017 | The Polars: New Ink Wash Painting Series Exhibition, Autumn Water Space, Hong Kong A Thousand Plateous: Exhibition for the Tenth Anniversary, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu Bent and Straight: The logic of Abstract, Hi Art Center, Beijing Boundless: Ongoing-Chinese Ink Art 2017, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing Spring X Discovery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu |
| 2016 | Since the Abstract – The Tour Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai About Painting Too, OCAT, Xi’an Retrace of the world, Renke Gallery, Hangzhou Abstract China 2016, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting 2015-2016, Today Art Museum, Beijing Poetic Community, The Art Space of the Comprehensive Cultural Platform in the Bonded Area, Xiamen Poétique – The 9th Annual Exhibition of Abstract Art, PIFO Gallery, Beijing China Line – School Art Contemporary Research Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2015 | Off the Beaten Track- Revisit Four Individual Cases of 1990s, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu Today Art Museum, Beijing, China About Painting too, OCAT, Xi’an Inward - The Eighth Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Post-Calligraphy in Chinese Contemporary Art, Foundation for art and Culture Bonn, Berlin, Germany Living in Chengdu, Contemporary Museum, Chengdu |
| 2014 | Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei Changing – Abstracts in China, Lelege Art Gallery, Beijing Cosmos: Opening Exhibition of Shanghai 21st Century, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 2014’-The Seventh Abstract Art Exhibition, PIFO Gallery, Beijing “Original Home” An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Jia Pingwa Cultural Museum of Art, Xi'an Opening Ceremony of Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai Hanart T Z Gallery 30years, Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong |
| 2013 | The Parallel show of the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy RE-INK Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting, Hubei Museum of Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing Mind and Hand in Accord: the 6th Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Boundary of freedom, Fourth round, Chinese Contemporary Ink Towards Basel,Miami Nina Torres Art Gallery: the Branch of Taihe Art Gallery in America |
| 2012 | Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany Undoing Shuimo, Internationational Contemporary Shuimo Invitational Exhibition, Shanghai DuoLun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Attitude - About Abstract Art, Shanghai Suzhou River Art Center, Shanghai Art· Frontier, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing Art Beijing, China Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing Self-essence Naturalism, Today Art Museum, Beijing First Round of The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial Project Exhibition – Disenchantment of Chinese Imagination Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou |
| 2011 | I Believe That: Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing Visible Soul: The Forth Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Not Absence from Attendance, Chengdu Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu |
| 2010 | Pai - Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing Geneva International Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland Open Flexibility: Innovative Contemporary Ink Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Abstract Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979 - 2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2009 | Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art: Return to the Modern, Hangzhou Museum of Arts, Hangzhou Space for Perspective, Chang Art, Beijing Where the Spirit Lives: Exhibition on Occasion of 100th Anniversary of Abstract, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2008 | Qi Yun - International Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, China Square, New York, USA Going to Post-abstract, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Critics, Space of Saint, Beijing Yi Pai · 30 Years of Chinese Abstract Art, LaCaixa Form Art Museum Madrid, Spain |
| 2007 | Start from Southwest -- Southwest Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Line -- Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art Exhibition, Creek Art, Shanghai Ink Had Five Colours, PIFO Gallery, Beijing QI YUN: International Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen / Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing |
| 2006 | Chinese Ink Documentary Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, Jiangsu Wang Chuan, Yan Shanchun Double Show, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Create History: Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen |
| 2005 | Retrospection of Experimental Ink & Wash 1985 - 2000, Shenzhen Gallery Korean - Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea Gift for Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong |
| 2004 | The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan ShanYue Museum of Art, Shenzhen |
| 2002 | Review Today's Works of 77', 78', Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing |
| 2001 | Urban Slang - Chinese Contemporary Art of Zhujiang Delta, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen |
| 2000 | New Chinese Painting Grand Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Liuhaisu Art Museum, Jiangsu/Shanghai The 2nd International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan ShanYue Museum of Art, Shenzhen China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou |
| 1999 | The Gusto of Ink & Wash, German Herrenh of Mussbach Art Museum, Germany Exhibition of the Two Artists, Goldstrom Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Looking Eastern - Three Artists, Goldstrom Gallery, New York, USA The First Shenzhen International Ink and Wash Biennale, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen |
| 1997 | Chinese Abstraction and Beyond, Alsan Fine Arts, Hongkong Art Center, Hong Kong Chinese Art Grand Exhibition -- Ink and Wash Exhibition, Shanghai Library, Shanghai |
| 1996 | Returning to Homeland, Gallery on the RIM, San Francisco, USA The Aesthetic of Abstract, Alsan Fine Arts, Shanghai Museum, Hongkong/Shanghai |
| 1994 | The Aesthetic of Abstract, Alsan Fine Arts, Hongkong |
| 1993 | Post 89 of Chinese New Art, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong Chinese Art of 90s -- Chinese Experience, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu New Art from China: Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong |
| 1992 | 90s First Chinese Art Biennale, Guangzhou |
| 1991 | Chinese After 89’ Contemporary Art Documentary Exhibition, Beijing |
| 1990 | Metamorphosis -- Chinese Modern Ink and Wash, Hongkong Art Center, Hong Kong Singapore 90’ National Exhibition, Singapore |
| 1989 | China Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
| 1988 | Aspetti Della Pittura Chinese Contemporanea, Ferrara Arts Museum, Italy |
| 1986 | National 85’ Art New Wave Slide-show Seminar, Zhuhai |
| 1983 | Beijing National Employee Art Exhibition, First Prize of Oil Painting, China Art Museum, Beijing Beijing National Employee Art Exhibition, First Prize of Oil Painting, China Art Sichuan Oil Painting Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong |
| 1981 | Sichuan Art Institute Oil Painting Exhibition in Beijing, China Art Museum, Beijing Award of The Second National Youth Art Exhibition, Beijing Oil on Canvas “Goodbye! Road”, Ministry of Culture Honorable Mention Beijing The Second National Youth Art Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing |