WANG Wen-Ping 王文平

王文平（b.1960）生於台北，1983年畢業於中國文化大學美術系，1989年取得美國紐約長島大學藝術碩士。1977年即摘下「雄獅新人獎」，早年憑藉精湛寫實功力嶄露頭角，並於1980年代台灣當代藝術轉型期，逐步開拓多元且具實驗性的創作脈絡。

WANG Wen-Ping (b.1960) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University in 1983 and received an MFA from Long Island University in New York in 1989. Recognized by the Lion Art New Artist Award in 1977, Wang first emerged through his strong command of realist painting and later developed a diverse, experimental practice during a formative period of Taiwanese contemporary art in the 1980s.

創作跨越單一媒材與形式。從寫實到抽象，從平面繪畫延伸至裝置與立體造型，王文平反覆探問藝術與感官、慾望及生存處境的關聯。作品常於日常場景置入曖昧、緊繃的姿態，藉由壓縮空間、局部軀體與壓抑色調，將現代人內在的孤寂、躁動與渴望，具象化為幽微的心理景觀。

Wang’s practice is not confined to a single medium or fixed form. Moving from realist painting to abstraction, from canvas to installation and three-dimensional work, he has continually explored how art may respond to perception, desire, and the condition of existence. His works often place ambiguous, tense bodily gestures within everyday settings. Through compressed space, fragmented bodies, and subdued tonalities, the inner unease, isolation, and desire of modern life are transformed into visible psychological landscapes.

重要個展包括：2011年國立台灣美術館「讀我的唇」、2003年台北市立美術館「熱浪」、1995年台北市立美術館「94–95個展」、1992年愛力根畫廊「逃離都市」。重要聯展見於「Face in the Book」（高美館，2011）、「台灣具象繪畫大展」（北美館，2005）及「開新－八〇年代台灣美術發展」（北美館，2004）。此外，曾任高雄市立美術館典藏委員及台北市立美術館評議委員。

Wang’s major solo exhibitions include “Read My Lips: WANG Wen-Ping Solo Exhibition” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2011, “Heat Wave: WANG Wen-Ping Solo Exhibition” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2003, “1994–1995 Solo Exhibition” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995, “Escape from the City” at Eslite Gallery in 1992, and a solo exhibition at HUTCHINS Gallery in New York in 1989. Important group exhibitions include “Face in the Book” at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2011, “The Great Exhibition of Taiwanese Figurative Painting” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2005, and “The New Wave: Development of Taiwanese Art in the 1980s” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2004. He has also served as a collection committee member of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and an advisory committee member of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

《浴》將浴室框限為封閉私密的場域，人物錯落於鏡面、牆體與背影之間。凝視視角讓觀者游走於場外客觀與場內緊繃的心理邊界。王文平將日常沐浴片刻，昇華為關於視線、軀體與自我意識的繪畫敘事。

In In the Bath, the bathroom becomes a closed and intimate space. The figures are placed between mirror, wall, and bodily silhouette. The viewpoint positions the viewer both outside the scene and uncomfortably near its psychological tension. Wang transforms a moment of everyday bathing into a pictorial narrative about looking, the body, and self-consciousness.