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, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2008 Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstraction, La Caixa Forum Museum of Parma, Italy; Barcelona, Madrid, Spain
Inside, Outside Images: The Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings, Yu Xin Art Museum, Singapore The Third Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2D and 3D, Negotiating Visual Languages, PMK Gallery, Beijing, China
Hypallage - The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Ink Not Ink: Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pursuing Source and Doctrine: Oil Painting Research Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Grit Between The Stones, A Meeting Between Swedish and Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden 2007 The Scenery of Desire-Shang Yang and His Students Art Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing; Museum of Contemporary Art Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, China Opening China, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Green Landscape: Traveling Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese and German Artists, Lübeck Art Gallery, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer Germany
Scenery - Nature·Heart, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland On Ink and Wash- A Dialogue between Contemporary Artists, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Awakening from a Ten-Year Sleep, HJY Art Center, Beijing, China
Contemporary Cultural Venation - China Version Comprehensive Art Exhibition，Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Expanding Realism: Chinese Mainland Oil Painting from 1978, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, China
Today China Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2005 Nature and Human: The Second Contemporary China Landscape Painting (Oil Landscape Painting) Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Up and Down the Great River: A Retrospection of New Era’s Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2004 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, France and Korea, International Art Gallery, Beijing, China Baishi/Youji, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai; Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 2003 An Opening Era, Celebration Exhibition of 40th Anniversary of Founding of China National Museum of Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Premieres Lueurs sur L'Orient -- L'aventure de la peinture chinoise au 20ème siècle, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France
Praising Spirit - New Expressionism Oil Painting of Chinese Master, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Third Exhibition of Fine Pieces of Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Century Demeanor, Exhibition of China’s Contemporary Art Masters, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing; The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Concept Image: 2002, China Modern Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 2001 Science, Technology and Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu International Conference Center, Chengdu, China 2000 The Gate of Century – Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Chengdu International Conference Center, Chengdu, China The 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China The Chinese Art Contemporary Exhibition, Bulayda Art Museum, Padua, Italy
The Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
The Chinese Ideology and Performance of Art Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999 The Chinese Culture and Contemporary Art Exhibition, Lehman Institute Art Museum, U.S.A. The Joint Exhibition of Chinese and Italian Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
1998 The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Young Museum of Palazzo, Mantova, Italy
The 50-Year Chinese Painting Exhibition, Sino-Japanese Hall of Friendship, Tokyo, Japan Twenty-year Revelation of Chinese Contemporary Art, Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China ‘98 Asia- Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fuzhou Art Museum, Fuzhou, China
1997 The Twelfth Asian Art Exhibition, Museu de Art de Macau, Macau, China The Chinese Art Exhibition, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1994 Post- ’89 Chinese New Art Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, London, U.K. Exhibition of Art Critics Nomination of the Year, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Post-89 Chinese New Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; Sydney Contemporary Art Museum, Sydney, Australia
1993 The International Summer Art Festival in Heimbach, Heimbach, Germany The Sino-Japanese Modern Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1991 The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gontsu Art Gallery, Yamanashi, Japan
1989 The Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Sino-Japanese Hall of Friendship, Tokyo, Japan
The 7th National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Eight Artists' Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1987 Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Tokyo and 9 other cities, Japan The First China Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
1986 The Third Contemporary World Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India The Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 1964 National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Awards
2013 The seventh Award of Art China, Lifetime Achievement Award, The Palace Museum, Beijing, China
2010 Honored with Wu Zuoren Plastic Arts Award, Wu Zuoren International Fine Arts Foundation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2009 The Third Annual Forum of Chinese Critics, Honored with the Award of Artist, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2006 Chinese Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Honored with the Award of Literature, The China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China
1997 The First Academy Invitational Art Exhibition, Honored with the Award of Dedication, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong
1992 The First 1990’s Biennial Art Fair, Honored with the Academic Award, Guangzhou International Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China
1991 The First Annual of Chinese Oil Painting, Honored with the Award of Distinction, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
1984 The Sixth National Art Exhibition, honored with the Award of Excellent Works, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China