B.1982

Graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, with further studies at the University of Southampton (UK) and Griffith University (Australia). Currently based in Beijing.

Mengsha Wang is a Chinese contemporary ink artist whose practice delicately balances the refined elegance of classical literati painting with the symbolic overflow of popular culture, feminine desire, and visual play. Born of a generation navigating between inherited tradition and personal reinvention, Wang’s work offers an intimate, layered world where courtly romance coexists with urban pop sensibilities, and literati landscapes bloom into kaleidoscopic gardens of pleasure, memory, and longing. Her compositions—often shaped like fans, altarpieces, or circular talismans—are brimming with an exquisite visual density. Amid pink peonies and scholar’s rocks, one finds animated figures, mythic animals, auspicious fruits, erotic gestures, and fragments of manga, advertisements, and childhood toys. 

These elements do not clash; instead, they fold into one another with the fluidity of ink, reflecting the hybrid emotional world of contemporary Chinese femininity. Rather than deconstructing tradition, Wang allows it to bloom anew. Her work is less a critique than a quiet re-enchantment: a space where qing (sentiment) and meng (dream) remain legitimate ways of knowing and being. The artist herself inhabits this threshold—equal parts classical literatus and modern urban dreamer—crafting visual narratives that are as playful as they are profound. 

Wang’s unique vision has found growing international resonance. Her works have been enthusiastically received at numerous global art fairs, including Art Basel Hong Kong, where her presentation in 2025 was sold out during VIP preview. Her pieces have since entered major private and institutional collections across Asia and Europe, affirming her position as a leading voice in the new generation of Chinese ink artists. Through her art, Mengsha Wang invites us to step into a world where tenderness resists irony, and the poetic remains a viable language for the present.

《彼岸花》03 纸本设色 60x73.5cm 2016

《不要想读懂我的诗 04》纸本设色综合77x54cm 2017