“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
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
Academic Appointments
2023-2024 Visiting Scholar, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK
2006-2024 Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
Solo Exhibition
2024 Somewhere Else, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK.
RWA 173rd Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK.
Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition, Gallery 8, London, UK.
2025
Traces of Home, Ubicua Gallery, London, UK.
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
Awards
2024 The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award, Royal College of Art, London, UK