“I love poetry. Poetry can touch my soul, and I often feel that some poets are extraordinary painters. I try to create paintings that can be seen through the heart, just like poetry.”
Haijie’s practice is driven by the body, intuition, and emotion rather than by knowledge, concepts, or ideology. She believes that in the face of sensation and personal mystery, common sense and logic fail.
Her work reveals the solitude and melancholy of a rapidly changing world, attending to human emotion and existence. Haijie carries her heart, seeing life: empty urban scenes, insignificant individuals, unremarkable objects… everything becomes more than the familiar, transfigured into affect.
HAIJIE WANG 王海杰
Born in China, 1981
Based in London, UK
Education
2025 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006 MFA Printmaking, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
Solo Exhibition
2024 Somewhere Else, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition, Gallery 8, London, UK
Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2025 Traces of Home, Ubicua Gallery, London, UK
The Bird Has Flown, A/W Space, Nanjing, China
RA Summer Exhibition 2025, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2022 Fold and Cover, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Awards
The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award, Royal College of Art, London, UK