Victor Wang (born 1956) is a Chinese American realist painter and Professor of Arts at Fontbonne University, where he received the Joan Goostree Stevens Excellence in Teaching Award, which recognizes the "outstanding teachers who contribute to Fontbonne's learning environment."
He is best known for his blend of luminous color and buttery texture that evoke the enigmatic environment where moments of meditation originate. He uses profusely colored, thickly texturized, monumental portraits of expressive western women invariably accompanied by sunflower plant motifs representing memories from his rural upbringing.
Wang was born and completed high school in Qiqihar, excelling in visual creativity.
Victor Wang was forcibly confined by the Maoist's Cultural Revolution to the northernmost region of Manchuria to cultivate sunflower fields for two and a half years, after which he was admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (Shenyang, Liaoning province) where he graduated in 1983.
Four years later, he won a scholarship as a visiting scholar at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by a similar position at Washington University in St. Louis, while undertaking an MFA degree at Fontbonne University (1990).
At Fontbonne he received the Professional Achievement Award in 2011, advancing his academic career to full professorship.
Long based in St. Louis, Missouri, his art has been exhibited for over two decades in many cities in the US and beyond, being welcomed by reviewers in specialized art media.
Wang has produced the books "Memoir of Sunflower" (2009) and "Three Major Traditional Techniques of Oil Painting".
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