Biography

Jove Wang was born in 1962 in Jilin, north east China. At age of seven he began studying drawing and watercolor and acrylic with the renowned master artist, Guo Gang, who was trained in the 19th century Russian art tradition. From 1979 to 1982 Wang studied at the Jilin School of Art. From 1984 to 1988, he studied at the China Academy of Fine Arts, the most prestigious art institute of China and now named The China Academy of Art, where he also served as Chairman of the Student Body from 1986 to 1988. In addition, Wang received professional training from The Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts. In 1988, he graduated with honors from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, in 1989 Wang worked at the International Art Exposition in Beijing, China where he designed the Spanish Expo Building  in time for the 1992 opening.

In 1990 Jove Wang immigrated to the United States where he soon met with success, the beginning of a career that has garnered him national recognition. In 1997 Jove Wang was honored with Best of Show at the California Art Club’s 88th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, and the following year he took First Place in the figure category in the California Art Club’s 89th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. In 1999 he earned Best of Show at the 8th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Oil Painters of America. In 2000 he took First Place at the prestigious Viewpoint 2000 Cincinnati Art Club Exhibition. That same year he also won three prizes at the Plein Air Tucson 2000 Exhibit in Tucson (Grand Prize, Best of Mission, and Best Design/Architecture). In 2001 he won the Best of Show and the Artists’ Choice Award at the 2001 Carmel Art Festival. In March 2008, Jove’s portrait “Young Man” won the Gold Medal Award by Japan Artist Association at the Tokyo National Museum.

In 2003 Wang published a book of his paintings, entitled “Instinct and Feeling.”

From 1999 to 2006, Jove Wang was invited to present his works for solo exhibitions in many galleries and museums. California museums that have shown his paintings include the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Pasadena Historical Museum, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Paintings by Jove Wang have also been exhibited at the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah, and the Phippen Museum in Arizona.

In addition, paintings by Jove Wang are in the permanent collections of several important California art collections including those of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the art collection of Mission San Juan Capistrano, as well as in the art collection of the Museum of Jilin, China.

Interviews with Jove Wang and reproductions of his paintings have appeared in various magazines including Southwest Art, American Art Collector, Workshop and American Artist.

Jove Wang is a Signature Member of the California Art Club.