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Victor Sheng 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 sunflower plant motifs representing memories from his rural upbringing.

Educated as an artist, Wang left China for the US in 1987 after working in agricultural labor in his native country, where he was confined by Maoist's Cultural Revolution. Based in St. Louis, MO, his art has been exhibited in cities in the US and beyond

Wang has produced the books Memoir of Sunflower (2009) and Three Major Traditional Techniques of Oil Painting.

Early life and education
Wang was born in Qiqihar, China. He completed high school in Qiqihar, excelling in visual creativity. He was sent by the government 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 was a visiting scholar at the school of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He started a graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis but later transferred to Fontbonne University where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2011, he received the Professional Achievement Award which is a way for Fontbonne to honor select alumni.

Career
He is professor of arts at Fontbonne University.

Critique
Articles for deletion/Victor Wang

" The spaces Victor Wang invents with paint are full of light and life, and in his large Celebration of Life, you feel the breeze that is making the flames of the candles flicker. This celebration is a metaphorical one: It is not the sort of scene we associate with the occasions of joy, but rather is an account of a performance of some sort where two characters wear masks and everyone is clothed in ambiguity." Duffy, Robert W. (1996-09-19). "Go Figure" St. Louis Post-Dispatch.https://web.archive.org/web/20220725074106/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106267900/st-louis-post-dispatch/

The article notes: "Victor Wang explores fields of opposites in paintings and drawings on display in the Garret Gallery. In both painterly and metaphorical terms, his art probes harmony and conflict. Wang, an artist from China who teaches at Fontbonne College, possesses a remarkable foundation in European naturalism and realism, learned while studying for his master's degree in Manchuria at the Lu Xun College of Fine Arts. He is fluent in the use of chiaroscuro, in which pigments and layers of transparent varnishes are built up on the canvas, intimating dimension as well as deep and variegated gradients of shadow and light. Pondering his large oil paintings of nudes, it's just about impossible to assign to it any overtly Oriental gestures. Technically, Wang's work brings to mind the European masters." Harris, Paul A. (1991-08-13). St. Louis Post-Dispatch. https://web.archive.org/web/20220725074359/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106267922/st-louis-post-dispatch/

The article notes: "His process - Large scale paintings - His dramatic figure subjects present engaging and enigmatic experiences for viewers. The large scale painterly pieces include small, subtle collage references to Wang's Chinese heritage." Deer, Karen (2007-07-28). "Bring Local Art Into" https://web.archive.org/web/20220725075306/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106268035/st-louis-post-dispatch/

Books

 * Memoir of Sunflower. 2009. ISBN 9781607432272.
 * Three Major Traditional Techniques of Oil Painting. Taiwan: National Museum of History.