Jason Chia Chi Wang was born in 1961 in Keelung City, Taiwan. He received an undergraduate degree in English literature from Fu Jen Catholic University (1984), a master’s degree in art history from the Chinese Culture University Graduate Institute of Art, and a master’s degree in Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as the executive director of the Dimension Endowment of Art (DEOA), and as the lecturer at Department of Art and Art education of the National Taipei Teaches College.

In addition to researching Chinese and Western art history, Jason Wang also engages in modern and contemporary art criticism and exhibition curatorship. In 1995 he won the first DEOA Art Criticism Award for his essay “Art in Politics Left and Right.” His major pieces of art criticism include: “Revisiting Childhood” (2001), “From Iconoclasm to Neo-Iconolatry – Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Post Martial Law Era” (2001), “Chang Yu: The First Wave of Twentieth Century Chinese Modernist Art” (2001), and “Tradition and its Uses in Twentieth Century Taiwanese Art” (1999). Wang has also curated several major exhibitions, such as: “Revisiting Childhood” (2001-2002) at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei, and “From Iconoclasm to Neo-Iconolatry” (2001) at the Eslite Gallery. This latter exhibition was presented between September 7 and October 19 of the same year at the Taipei Gallery in New York City, established by the Council for Cultural Affairs, and at Manhattanville College in New York City. Other exhibitions include “Homeland: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of the Eslite Gallery,” and the Dimension Endowment of Art’s “Broadening the Vision of Contemporary Ink Art” (1998).