Wu Hongliang is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Director of the Beijing Fine Art Academy, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Theory and Curatorial Committee of the China Artists Association, Vice Chairman of the Beijing Artists Association, and Curator of the China Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
 
Mr. Wu is an expert on the artist Qi Baishi and 20th-century art history. He has curated exhibitions of Qi Baishi’s work around the world and has helped organize academic initiatives, including the Curating in China forum and the International Forum on the Art of Qi Baishi. Under his leadership, the Art Museum of the Beijing Fine Art Academy was named one of the first nine National Key Art Museums. The research outputs and exhibitions produced by the Academy have received over a dozen national-level awards from institutions.
 
In 2008, Mr. Wu participated in the public art projects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2022, he served as Chair of the steering committee for the global open call for public art for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. He served as the art curator for the China Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka World Expo. In recent years, Mr. Wu has also been involved in curating the Guangzhou Triennial, Chengdu Biennale, Wuhan Biennale, Art Changsha series, and Zi (Self/Nature) series. He has published numerous papers in professional journals and is the author of the monograph Knowing Autumn from a Single Leaf (Yi Ye Zhi Qiu).