Dr. Sophia Xinman Wang
Dr. Wang is an international eco-artist, educator, and nonprofit leader whose work is dedicated to advancing biodiversity conservation and environmental awareness through art. She currently serves as an International Ambassador and Board Member of the UNESCO International Academy of Young Artists (IMAJ), and is the Founder & CEO of Nature and Art Alliance, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in New York.
Wang’s works have been permanently collected by institutions including the French National Museum of Natural History, the Italian Center for Contemporary Art, the New York Public Library, and departments of the United Nations. She has participated in more than 30 international exhibitions, including exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Louvre Autumn Festival. In 2023 she received the Italian International Artist Award in recognition of her contributions to global eco-art. In 2025, the received the New York Masters International Award, USA.
Across diverse mediums—including mixed-media works, installation art, participatory projects, and public art actions—Wang’s artistic practice advocates for environmental protection and wildlife preservation. Her projects explore themes of animal protection, ecological empathy, and human–nature relationships, transforming visual art into a catalyst for public awareness and collective action.
Her global initiatives—including public-space exhibitions, interactive art events, children’s art festivals, community workshops, and international youth art competitions—aim to inspire communities to respond to biodiversity loss, climate change, and the shared responsibility of protecting life on Earth.
“In her paintings, Xinman Wang explores the intersection of Western For Western viewers, her painting is in the style of or influenced by the French Impressionist painter Henri Matisse. But for me, I can also see some cultural elements of the Yunnan School of Heavy Color Painting which was started more than 30 years ago when a group artists working in Yunnan to celebrate the customs and lives of the ethnic minorities who inhabit China's subtropical southwestern province of Yunnan. The ceaseless efforts of this group artists’ artistic exploration soon gave rise to an entire school of painting which came to be known as the Yunnan School of Painting. Since then the Yunnan School of Painting has gained critical international acclaim and established itself firmly in Chinese art history. Its stylistic vocabulary and topical themes are characterized by uniformity in line work, bold usage of colors, a love for overlapping geometric design, a daring combination of both traditional Chinese form and Western abstract art, depicting subjects that centered on the indigenous ethnic people, culture and myths of the Yunnan province."
Dr. Ian Wang
Curator of the Spurlock Museum of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign