Wang first won recognition as a painter in the mid-1990s through his membership in the Gaudy Art group, a movement influenced by the work of Jeff Koons and championed by China’s most influential art critic, Li Xianting. Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang has created compelling works that convey an ironic vision of 21st-century China’s encounter with global consumer culture. Working in the man ...