Wang Jian is a Chinese-American artist born in 1958 in Dalian, China. In 1986, he went to the Sacramento City College, where he studied with Fred Dalkey, and later he attended the University of California, Davis, to study with Wayne Thiebaud and many great modern masters. In 1994, Jian got the California State University Master of Arts degree under the direction of Oliver Jackson. Since 1987, Jian Wang have held over 60 solo exhibitions in many cities in the United States and China, such as Sacramento, San Francisco, New York City, Washington DC, Beijing, Wuhan, and Dalian. In 2007, he had a retrospective show at California State University, Sacramento called ""Jian Wang, Two Decades in America. In 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, the Director of the National Art Museum of China, Fan Di An, curated Jian's solo exhibition, ""Return journey - the Art of Jian Wang's Oil Paintings.