Born in Shanghai in 1963, Wang graduated from the Shanghai Art and Design Academy and worked for advertising agency until 1992 when he became a full time painter. Noted for his "political pop" paintings as featured in China's New Art Post-1989 exhibition (Hong-Kong, 1993), he began to paint the Mao series of portraits. His works have been exhibited in: "46th Biennale di Venezia Italy " (Italy, 1993), "Des del Pais de Centre, Chinese Avant-Garde Artists" (Spain, 1995), "Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom (Gallerie Rudolfinum and National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic), "Mao and New China: Art from the Era of Mao and the 90s" (Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong, 1997), "Asian Avant-Garde" (Christie's London, 1998), "From Icon to Irony" (Victoria & Albert Museum London, 1999).