Jove Wang was born and raised in the town of Jilin in northeastern China, and, interested in art from a very young age, spent much of his childhood looking at art and spending time in artists' studios, watching the artist work every afternoon after school. He studied at the Jilin Academy for three years and later at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art near Shanghai. The Academy also sent him as an exchange student to study for six months at the prestigious Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts.

After school, Wang worked for the Chinese government, designing exhibition pavilions for trade shows traveling extensively. In 1990, he moved to California with only $40 in his pocket and was turned down for the first job he applied for - a restaurant dishwasher - due to a lack of experience. Perseverance, and a deep involvement in the Chinese-American art community, helped to establish his art career, initially as a portrait painter. His reputation as a artist is now well established and he is an extremely versatile artist, creating landscapes, street scenes, and still-lifes as well as extraordinary figurative work. Jove's style combines precise rendering with a freedom of brushwork more typical of abstract art. For him, the most important elements for a successful painting are composition, then color and value, and finally, mood and subject matter.

Today, Jove divides his time between producing paintings, traveling and painting on location all over the world, and teaching. He has won a number of prestigious awards including Best of Show at the California Art Club (1998); best of Show at Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition (1999); Grand Prize at the Plein Air Tucson event (2000); and First Place and Artists' Choice award at the 2001 Carmel Art Festival. He has been featured in both American Artist magazine and Southwest Art magazine.