| 1945 | Born in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China |
| 1966 | BA, Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China |
| 1981 | MA in Fine Art, Calligraphy Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, China |
| Currently | Lives and Works in Hangzhou, China Professor of Calligraphy Department of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Director of Contemporary Calligraphy Research Centre of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China |
| 2023 | Ink.Space.Time, Downing College Cambridge, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2021 | From Inception: Wang Dongling 60 years of Caligraphy, Zhejiang Art Museum, China | |
| 2020 | THE WAY - A Aolo Exhibition by Wang Dongling, iPreciation, Singapore The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA | |
| 2018 | Wang Dongling: Poetry and Painting, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA | |
| 2017 | Wang Dongling: The Bamboo Path, OCAT, Shenzhen, China | |
| 2016 | Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Vancouver Art Gallery; Library and Archives Canada, Vancouver, Canada | |
| Between Heaven and Heart: Wang Dongling's Calligraphy, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China | ||
| Public performance of calligraphy, Guiyang Confuclus Academy, Guiyang, China | ||
| Wang Dongling: A Performance of Calligraphy, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand | ||
| Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, British Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | ||
| Public performance of chaos-script (luanshu) calligraphy, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China | ||
| 2015 | Wang Dongling: New Works, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA | |
| 2014 | Wang Dongling: Beside the Ancient Road, Jinwan Faculty of Humanities of Tianjin Water Park, Tianjin, China The Moon Over the River on a Spring Night: The Art of Calligraphy by Wang Dongling, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2013 | The Moon over the River, Wang Dongling Public Performance of Calligraphy, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2012 | Decanter Ink: Hangzhou Cross-year Exhibition-Wang Dongling solo, Sanshang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China | |
| 2011 | Wang Dongling: The Daoism of Calligraphy, Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China | |
| 2007 | Share the Peripateticism: Calligraphy Exhibition by Wang Dongling, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 2006 | Calligraphy Performance: Linhe Xu, Lanting International Calligraphy Festival, Shaoxing, China | |
| 2003 | Wang Dongling Calligraphy Exhibition, Yilanzhai Art Museum, Nanjing, China Wang Dongling Calligraphy Exhibition, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2002 | Works of Wang Dongling, Goedhuis Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2001 | Calligraphy and non-Calligraphy, Flower and non-Flower, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA Wang Dongling Calligraphy Exhibition, Lanting International Calligraphy Festival, Shaoxing, China | |
| 1999 | Wang Dongling Calligraphy Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| 1998 | D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, USA Muthesius Hochschule & Poly-technic School for Art, Kiel, Germany | |
| 1997 | Nagoya Zie Mien Gallery, Nagoya, Japan | |
| 1994 | Wang Dongling Calligraphy & Paintings Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 1993 | International Press, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1992 | Minnesota State Exhibition Center, Minneapolis, USA D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, USA | |
| 1991 | University of California, Santa Cruz, USA North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA | |
| 1990 | University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, USA Montreal University, Montreal, Canada | |
| 1989 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Macalester Gallery, St. Paul, USA University of Kansas, Kansas, USA University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA Art School of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA | |
| 1987 | China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Wang Dongling Calligraphy Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2023 | The Rabbit Project, Chambers Fine Art, New York 2023 Chengdu Biennale: Time Gravity, Chengdu, China |
| 2022-21 | Mickey: The True Original & Ever Curious Exhibition - China Tour, Yuz Museum, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li, MIXC WORLD, 798 Art Center, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing |
| 2021 | Flying Ink, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taiwan |
| 2020 | Landscape and Books, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Illustrated Word: Artwork Inspired by Calligraphy, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2019 | In Ink: Current Trends of Ink Art, NanHai Art, San Francisco, USA Great Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: One Belt — One Road exhibition, World Calligraphy Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 | New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Mind Temple, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China Boundary of Freedom, Fifth Found—Chinese Contemporary Ink Wold Tour, Taihe Art Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing，China |
| The Unusual West Lake: The First Art Scene of West Lake Photo Exhibition, CAA Art Museums, Hangzhou, China | |
| 2016 | Open Books: International Artists Explore the Chinese Folding Book, Library and Archives Canada, Vancouver, Canada |
| Shan Shui a Manifesta, Gong Wang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China | |
| Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Light Writers 2016, Light Gallery, Hangzhou, China | |
| 2015 | 10th World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju, Korea |
| China 8 - Contemporary Art from China at Rhine & Ruhr, Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany | |
| Ink Studio at Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China | |
| 2014 | Kochi-Murizis Biennale - Collateral Project "Janela-Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods", Mill Hall Compound, Kochi, India Orchid Pavilion Calligraphy Biennial, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Guanshan Gathering: Works by Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Ink and the Body, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Beyond Black and White: Chinese Abstract Ink, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China Strokes in Dialogue, Wang Dongling and Samir Al Sayegh Joint Exhibition, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Guanshan Gathering: Works by Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2012 | Art Stage Singapore, Pearl Lam Galleries, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Work by Wang Dongling, Qiu Zhenzhong and Xu Bing>, He Xiangning Art Museum Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China |
| 2011 | Wu Ming, Form is Formless: Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China Wiesbaden International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany; Belgium |
| 2010 | Lanting Pavilion Review: China Calligraphy Exhibition, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Beauty of Chinese Character: China Calligraphy Exhibition, Paris, France Trace and Qualitative Leap — Beijing Film Academy’s 60th anniversary exhibition, Beijing Film Academy 4 ° Space Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Ink Painting, Calligraphy: The Third Abstraction, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China Calligraphy and non-Calligraphy: 2010 Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Hangzhou, China In the Hand of Paper, Art Academy of Roma, Rome, Italy The First Linzhou Ink Brush Biennale (International), Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China The Orchid Pavilion: The Art of Writing in China, Royal Art Museum of Belgium, Belgium Asian Ink Masters, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Seoul Biennial Calligraphy Art Exhibition, Seoul, KoreaA |
| 2007 | Solo Happiness & Group Happiness-Public Art Exhibition of China Academy of Art, Sino-Japanese Friendship Museum, Tokyo, Japan Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China Opening Fun-International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan Made in China-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Louisiana Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2006 | Calligraphy Night on the Christmas Eve, Hangzhou, China Brush and Ink – The Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA International Calligraphy Exhibition in Memory of the 300th Issue of Calligraphy Magazine, Seoul, South Korea The Young Mandarins 2006, Goedhuis Contemporary at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami, Florida, USA A Yellow Box in Qingpu - Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese space, Xiao Ximen (Minor West Gate), Qingpu Town, Shanghai, China |
| 2005 | Word Is Not Word: The Open Calligraphy Space - International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Hangzhou, China The 1st International Cursive Script Exhibition, Hangzhou, China International Calligraphy Exhibition, World Exposition, Nagoya, Japan The 1st Nomination Exhibition of The Works of Contemporary Celebrities, China Art Museum, Beijing, China National Nomination Exhibition of The Works of Chinese Celebrities, Museum of The Forbidden City, Beijing, China Inside & Outside-Calligraphy Exhibition of Chinese and American Artists, Shenzhen, China Spread of Ink- Seoul Calligraphy Biennial 2005, Seoul, South Korea INK, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA Contemporary Art from Greater China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA; London, United Kingdom |
| 2004 | Maze - The 2nd National Media Art Exhibition, Hangzhou, China International Invitation Exhibition of the Ink Color in The E-era, Taiwan, China; Berlin, Germany The 8th National Calligraphy and Seal Exhibition, Xi’an, China Invitation Exhibition of The Works of Contemporary Chinese Artists, Nanjing, China |
| 2003 | Edge of The Earth- Asian Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Hangzhou, China Calligraphy Exhibition, Sydney, Australia International Modern Ink Color Exhibition, Xi’an, China International Calligraphy Biennial, Chonju, South Korea The 1st Exhibition of The Works of Chinese Leading Calligraphers, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Silent Music - Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, London, UK Sino-Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan & Beijing, China Modern Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Denver, USA Brushes with Surprise: The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China, British Museum, London, UK Music without Sound: Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK |
| 2001 | Exhibition of The Works of Contemporary Chinese Artists, Shanghai, China Exchange Exhibition of Calligraphy between Mainland China and Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan Borderless China-Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, New York, USA Spirit of Ink & Brush-Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea International Exhibition of Abstract Ink Color, Xi’an, China |
| 2000 | Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Hong Kong, China Gate of The Century - Invitation Exhibition of Art, Chengdu, China |
| 1999 | 46 Contemporary Chinese Artists Works Exhibition, Shanghai, China; Melbourne, Australia Grand Exhibition of Chinese Calligraphy in The 20th Century, Tokyo, Japan Exhibition of Modern Words Art, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1998 | Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Paris, France Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy & Paintings, Konsthall Gallery, Malmo, Sweden Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, Columbia University, NY, USA Exhibition of Chinese Art & Civilization of Five Thousand Years, Guggenheim Museum, NY, USA |
| 1997 | Calligraphy Exhibition of The 21st Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| 1995 | International Modern Calligraphy Biennial, Hangzhou, China |
| 1994 | Modern Calligraphy Exploration Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| 1993 | Chinese Seal Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, USA |
| 1992 | The 2nd International Art Exposition, Miami, USA |
| 1991 | Chinese Art and the West-Chinese Art Exhibition, San Diego, USA |
| 1990 | Brush Dancing & Ink Singing-Exhibition of the Paintings Collected by British Museum, Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
| 1988 | Paper Art from Hangzhou, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1987 | Lanting Sino-Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition, Shaoxing, China Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy, Taipei, Taiwan |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| British Museum, London, UK |
| Asia Society New York, USA |
| The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA |
| North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, USA |
| National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| The Palace Museum, Beijing, China |
| Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Beijing, China |
| Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China |
| National Library of China, Beijing, China |
| University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
| Yale University, Connecticut, USA |
| Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA |
| Peking University, Beijing, China |
| Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA |