Zhan Wang (born 1962, Beijing) graduated from the Beijing Industrial Arts College in 1981. Later, he studied at the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing, and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1996. He works in installation, photography, video, and sculpture; his practice expresses relationships with his own cultural heritage while challenging ideas of landscape and environment in the context of the urban and rural. Zhan lives and works in Beijing.