Wang Yani (; 1975) is a

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ist who began painting at the age of two-and-a-half. Her work was exhibited in China when she was four, appeared on a

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when she was eight, and she had a solo exhibition at a museum in

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when she was fourteen, and soon after, at the

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at the

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, in a traveling exhibit organized by the

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in Kansas City, Missouri. The Sackler exhibit included a painting done when she was three entitled "Kitty."Wai-Ching Ho, ''Yani: The Brush of Innocence'', By the time she was sixteen, six different books had been written about Wang Yani. They told the story of an innocent girl who loved to paint monkeys, baboons, and cats, and who grew into a world-famous young teen who painted as curators of the Smithsonian watched her create beautiful birds and flowers with her dancing brush.Christian Science monitor article
/ref> Wang Yani also exhibited in Germany and grew to love that country in her middle teen years. Studying the German language and winning a scholarship to study art in Germany, in 1996 began to study art at the

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. She has had many exhibitions in Germany since 1996, including at Galerie Jaspers.Jaspers Galerie
/ref> She is married to photographer Wu Min-an.

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Wang Yani
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Yani Artists from Guangxi Living people 1975 births Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni People from Guilin Child artists