Wan Liya
1963, Qingdao, China
Council Member-China Representative of International Academy of Ceramics UNESCO (IAC)
Wan Liya is one of the Chinese artists who started the creation of modern and contemporary ceramic art earlier.
Since the establishment of his personal pottery studio in 1989, Wan Liya has personally witnessed and experienced the whole modernity process of Chinese ceramic art for 30 years and played an active role in it.
Wan Liya and five other Chinese ceramic artists participated in the Ceramic Millennium andConference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1999.
He participated in the "The Hague Under The Heaven" Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition held in The Hague, The Netherlands 2011. Princess Maxima of the Netherlands opened the work of Wan Liya to show the opening of the exhibition.
He won the Silver Award of "Gyeonggi International Ceramic Art Biennale and Competition" sponsored by Korea National Ceramics Foundation in 2011. Wan Liya is one of China's artists who has won the highest international ceramic art award and plaied a positive role in the international influence of Chinese ceramic art.
+ Education
- Wan Liya’s more than thirty years of ceramic work can be roughly divided into the following three stages:
- The first stage: research and experiment on ceramic technology and materials.
- The second stage: Starting from traditional ceramics, strive to find meaningful associations and clues in the conversion process of traditional and modern Chinese ceramics.
- The third stage: to return to the inherent characteristics of the ceramic itself, and to explore and experience the personal spiritual state.
- Wan Liya has planned three international ceramic art exhibitions in China. It aims to explore the current status of contemporary ceramic art in the world and the modernity of Chinese ceramic art through curatorial way.
+ Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
- 2021 Officine Saffi Award exhibition in Milan Italy
- 2020 LET IT BE Wan Liya’s ceramic exhibition 12WYK GALLERY Antwerp Belgium
- 2019 LET IT BE Wan Liya’s ceramic exhibition PULS GALLERY Brussels Belgium
- 2017 THE TRACE Wan Liya’s porcelain exhibition Jingdezhen international Studio Gallery
- 2017 THE DUST Wan Liya’s solo exhibition on ART LIMA PERU Galeria-IMPAKTO
Group Exhibition
- 2020 BLAZING ELEMENT An+Art & Design Center Shenzhen China
- 2019 Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2019 Korea
- 2019 COLLECT ART FAIR Saatchi Gallery London UK
- 2018 Qingdao International Ceramic Exhibition Qingdao Art Museum
- 2017 《JIE SHANG》CHINA CERAMIC EXHIBITION Shandong Museum
- 2017 AFTER A PERIOD OF ABSENCE The UNESCO International Ceramic Academy IAC Chinese member Exhibition CAFA Museum of Ceramic Institute
+ Awards
- 2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2011.International Competition Silver Prize
+ Collections
- 2020 The Pulse of The Earth-2020 Louis Vuitton Collection
- 2019 Thousands Kilometers Landscape-2015, by British Museum
- 2019 New Longshan 2019-09-group4 Louis Vuitton Collection
- 2019 New Bronze Age Series, by Arctic Ceramic Center , POSIO, FINLAND
- 2016 “The Pulse of The Earth” ceramic sculpture by HENAN MUSEUM China
- 2015 Bird’s Twitter and Fragrance of Flowers, by Bristol Museum & Art Gallery UK
- 2014 “Thousands Kilometers Landscape”,”TIAN AN MEN” porcelain works by China National Academy of painting
