Evelyn Taocheng Wang

Evelyn Taocheng Wang (born 1981) is a Chinese contemporary artist whose work spans multiple disciplines and is known for mapping "how language, custom and culture shape identity."

Life

Wang was born in 1981 in Chengdu, China, where in high school she studied Soviet Realism, the Russian avant-garde, and European modernism. Wang later attended Nanjing Normal University, where she studied Chinese classical literature, calligraphy, and landscape painting. "As students, we visited museums and copied paintings," she said, "but I struggled with the fact that everyone could interpret artworks differently. My suspicion was personal. There was no standard. Where was the master? I felt I was teaching myself, and already at a young age, I enjoyed thinking about who is the amateur and who is the master."

Work

Wang's art spans multiple disciplines including painting, performance, calligraphy and fashion, and has been described by Frieze as mapping "how language, custom and culture shape identity."

In 2025, Wang won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Wang presented her new art series "Do Not Agree with Agnes Martin All the Time," which appropriated Martin's style while also "subverting motifs from classical Chinese painting."

Awards 2016 Dorothea von Stetten Art Award 2016 2019 ABN AMRO Art Award 2025 Wolfgang Hahn Prize