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Shang Yang 1942 Born in Hubei Province; Kai County, Sichuan Province by Origin 1960 Graduated from the Attached Middle School of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts 1965 Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of Fine Art Department of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Art editor of Hubei People’s Press 1981 Graduated with M.A. in Oil Painting Department from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts 1985 Trustee of Chinese Artists Association.1987 Professor of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts 1989 Vice President of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts 1993 Professor of South China Normal University, Director of the Art Institute of South China Normal University 1995 Vice-Chairman of Chinese Oil Painting Association 1997 Professor in Fine Arts Academy of Capital Normal University 2009 China Artists Association, Vice-Director of the Oil Painting Department 2010 Community member of China National Academy of Painting 2011 Researcher of China National Academy of Painting Solo Exhibitions 2018 Shang Yang: Decayed Landscape and Cataract, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A. 2013 Shang Yang's Art in Suzhou, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China 2012 Shang Yang: Diaries and Scripts, VA Center, Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2009 Shang Yang: Dong Qichang Project, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China Group Exhibitions 2019 Art World in Painting Screen, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China China Landscape: Selections from Taikang Collection, Beijing, China Painting and Existence: Chinese, Japanese and Korean Abstract Painting Travelling Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong; Whitestone Gallery, Taiwan; Karuizawa New Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2018 New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Breaking the Barrier: 2018 Xi’an Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China Risonanza Cinese, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy Art History 40 x 40: Viewing Contemporary Chinese Art since 1978 by 40 Artists, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China Eastern Peach - Blossom Source: Inheriting, Responding to Traditional Aesthetics and Developing Chinese Contemporary Art, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei Art Zone, Leipzig, Germany A State of Mind, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Approach Spirits, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China United Art Museum Collection Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China 2017 Memory & Contemporary: The 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia Official · Parallel Exhibition of China, Venice, Italy Tracing the Past and Shaping the Future: Powerlong Inaugural Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China Crisscrossing East and West: The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia，Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China Image of the Mind: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, U.S.A. Boundless Realities, Multiple Nows: Contemporary Art from Hubei as a Sample, Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan, China Song Art Museum The First Exhibition: From Vincent Willem Van Gogh to Chinese Contemporary Art, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China Aura and Vitality: 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China South of The Mountains: 11 Contemporary Chinese Artists, Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy Biennale China - Italia, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy 2016 Too Loud a Solitude: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Flat and Distant: China/Slovenia - Contemporary Art, Maribor Art Museum, Slovenia; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Arte de China, Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City, Mexico Resonance Chinoise, Exposition itinerante internationale de la peinture à l'huile chinoise, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France Beyond Image: The Oil Paintings from China, China Cultural Center, Stockholm, Sweden Significant Presence: The Third Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Unexpected Encounter: Chinese Imagery Oil Painting by Five Artists, New Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China Image Pool, Ginkgo Art Center, Beijing, China Experimenting China in Peru - APEC "Human and Nature" Art Exhibition, Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru, Lima, Peru The Transformation of Chinese Freehand into Contemporary Art, Museo Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico 2015 The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China The Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Confronting Anitya: Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Austria 2nd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China Revolution in Tradition, China’s Post - Ink Painting Era, Natani·Ovadia Gallery, Paris, France Cultural Context: Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Castiglia Art Center, Saluzzo, Italy; Arts Center of Athens, Athens, Greece Three and One Thirds: Shang Yang × Xu Bing × Liang Shaoji, Kylin Contemporary Center of Art, Beijing, China 2014 In Silence - China Contemporary Art, Sydney City Hall, Australia Chinese New Expressionism: Special Invitation Exhibition 1980 - 2014, Shanghai, China The Edge of Vision, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China The Immortal Scenery, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Experience China - Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and France: Invitational Exhibition of 50 Chinese Artists, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France 2013 Visibility - 2013 SPSI Art Museum Invitational Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China Infinity: Zhan Zhou International 2013 Invitational Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China 2012 Social Scenery: 2012 Suzhou Jin Ji Hu Biennale, Basel Contemporary Art Museum, Suzhou, China The Natural Temperament: The Chinese Painting of Tomorrow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The Form of Formless: The Art Exhibition of Chinese Culture Year 2012, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Hamburg, Germany Opening and Fusing: Chinese Contemporary Art, Hungarian National Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2012 China Contemporary Art Exhibition, London Olympic Art Center, London, U.K. Scene 2012 - China New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Re - Ink, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China 2012 Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Through All Ages: Long Museum Opening Series Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China 2011 Shanshui - Poetry without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland Remote from Streams and Mountains: New Painting from China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, U.S.A. Percorso: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Monreale, Palermo, Italy New Realm, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Australia, Sydney, Australia East Dawning: Exhibition on the 30th Anniversary of China Art Gallery, National Museum of China, Beijing, China Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Eastern Music Park, Chengdu, China 2010 The State of Things: Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Reshaping History: China New Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979 - 2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Third Abstract: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, China Reconstruction: The Top Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Percorso: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Old City Art Gallery, Spoleto, Italy Oil Painting Art and Modern Social - Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China New Wave of Chinese Contemporary Art, California State University, Sacramento, U.S.A. Pure Views: Remote Form, Streams and Mountains, Chinese New Painting Exhibition, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, U.K. The Seventh Shenzhen International Ink Art Biennale, Shenzhen Painting College, Shenzhen, China 2009 Ink not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Drexel University Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Ink not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Warsaw Royal Castle, Poland; Hungarian Agricultural Museum, Budapest, Hungary; The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania; Sculpture Museum of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Croatia Yi School: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Trends in Hubei and Hunan: Chinese Contemporary in Hubei & Hunan 1985 - 2009, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China New Image: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Paper Art Exhibition, Belarus National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus Open sight: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Czech National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic State of Affairs: Europalia, China Art Festival Exhibition, Belgian Royal Palace of Fine Arts, Belgium Traditional Easter, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Basis Space, Frankfurt, Germany Collision: 27 Cases of Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Context: Spiritual Elite - Chinese Version of the Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Qinghe Art Gallery, Nanjing; Beijing Art America Fund, Beijing, China New Chinese Art 60 Years,
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