YANG YONGLIANG

Born 1980; , Lives and works in Shanghai, China

EDUCATION

2003 Bachelor of Visual Communication, , Shanghai, China

COLLECTIONS

AiLing Foundation, Shanghai, China Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, USA Arendt Art Collection, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg Art Gallery of New South Wales, , Australia Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Deutsche Bank, DSL Collection, , France Fidelity Investment Corp Collection, USA Franks-Suss Collection, , UK How Art Museum, Shanghai, China HSBC Hong Kong Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Oregon, USA M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, China Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, USA Musée de L'homme, Paris, France Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Nevada Art Museum, USA PAE ART Collection, Switzerland Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA San Francisco Asian Art Museum, USA Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA The , London, UK The National Gallery of Victoria, , Australia The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Artificial Wonderland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand 2018 Salt 14 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, USA (forthcoming) 2018 Journey to the Dark, Sullivsn+Strumpf Sydney, Australia 2017 Time Immemorial, Galerie Paris-, Paris, France 2017 Time Immemorial, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China 2016 Time Immemorial, SHIBUNKAKU, , Fukuoka and Kyoto, Japan 2016 Fall into Oblivion, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore 2015 YAN, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China 2015 Review with Yongliang Film Screening, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2014 Solo Exhibition, Sophie Maree Gallery, Den Haag, Netherland 2013 Moonlit Metropolis, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2013 Silent Valley, MC2 Gallery, Milano, Italy 2013 The Moonlight, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 2012 The Moonlight, Galleries, Shanghai, China 2011 The Peach Colony, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China 2011 The Peach Blossom Colony, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2011 Window 70th: Yang Yongliang, Gallery Jinsun, , Korea 2010 Heavenly City, MC2 Gallery, , Italy 2010 Views from China: Yang Yongliang and The Modern Metropolis, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA 2010 Artistic Conception: Landscape, My Humble House, , Taiwan 2010 Heavenly City, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 2010 Artificial Wonderland, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2010 Yang Yongliang Solo, Melbourne Intercultural Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia 2009 Yang Yongliang Photographic Works, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2009 City of Phantom Visions, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China 2009 On the Quiet Water, 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2008 Heavenly City & On the Quiet Water, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China 2006 Phantom Landscape, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney 2019 Future Past, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Centre, Hong Kong, China 2019 Annual Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2018 Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2018 Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens, China Institute Gallery, New York 2018 Rebuild Utopia, OCT Art & Design, Shenzhen, China 2018 Worlds Apart: Nature and Humanity Under Deconstruction, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA 2018 Photography Biennale 2018: Photography to End All Photography Brandts – Museum for Art and Visual Culture, Odense, Denmark 2018 Inky Bytes: Traces of Ink in the Digital Era Museum of Arts and Crafts - MKG , Germany 2018 I Object, The British Museum, London, UK 2018 Altering Home – Culture City of East Asia, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 2018 Trompe-L’oeil, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, Singapore 2018 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China 2017 The Roads of Translation, Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland 2017 Digital Matters – The Earth behind the Screen, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK 2017 UK Digital – The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Victoria, Australia 2017 Art is Science, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan 2017 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China 2017 China in Motion, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy Museum, Annecy, France 2017 Energy Filed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2017 The Five Moons, Return of the Nameless and Unknown, PyeongChang Biennale, Pyeongchang, Korea 2017 Prix Pictet: Disorder, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA 2017 Land and People, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2017 Behold Land, People: People and Land in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Geological Museum and the City Gallery, Ramat Hasharon, Israel 2016 Jimei Arles Photography Festival, Xiamen, China 2016 Après Babel, Traduire, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France 2016 Beijing Independent Film Festival, Li Space, Beijing, China 2016 Humanistic Nature and Society (Shan Shui) – An Insight to the Future, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China 2016 Ink Remix: Contemporary Art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia 2016 Art-On Cascina, Festival di Arte Pubblica, Cascina, Italy 2016 Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2016 China: Grain and Pixel – 150 Years of Chinese Photography, China Cultural Center, , Belgium 2016 Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China 2016 Prix Pictet: Disorder, Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece; Somerest House, London, UK 2016 Ink Remix: Contemporary Art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2015 Prix Pictet: Disorder, Musée d’Art Moderne da la Ville, Paris, France 2015 Grain and Pixel, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China 2015 Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 2015 Shanghai Ever, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2015 Bizzarreland – Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Dadi Art Museum, Hefei, China 2015 Bizzarreland – Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography , Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany 2015 Humanistic Nature and Society – An Insight into the Future, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Viennale di Venezia, Palazzo Flangini, Venice, Italy 2015 China8 – Contemporary Art from China, für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn, Germany 2015 Aandacht! Aandacht! – Stormopkomst Festival, De Warande, Turnhout, Belguim 2015 1st Overclock Festival, Espace Nova-Velaux, Velaux, France 2015 State of Play, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2015 Ink Remix: Contemporary Art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Museum and Gallery, Canberra, Australia 2015 Dislocation: Urban Experience in Contemporary East Asian Photography, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA 2015 2050. A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Brussels 2015 2050. A Brief History of the Future, The , Paris, France 2014 Human Landscape, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2014 Art & Arcade, MU Strijp-S, Eindhoven, Netherlands 2014 Outside the Lines - New Art From China, RH Contemporary Art, New York, USA 2014 Tradition-Reversal, “Sarajevo Winter” the 30th International Festival of Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Greece 2014 Aura of Poetry, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2014 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, China 2014 Phantom City, Rotorua Museum, Rotorua, New Zealand

2014 In the absence of Avant-garde reading, 798 Art Factory, Beijing, China 2014 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2014 Origins, Memories and Parodies – 5th Daegu Photo Biennale, Culture&Arts Center, Daegu, South Korea

2014 Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2014 China’s Changing Landscape, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden 2014 4th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore ArtScience Museum, Singapore 2014 Babel, destiny of a myth, Bibliothèques de Pantin, France 2014 Staging Encounters – Ten Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography 2005-2014, Lianzhou Foto, Lianzhou, China 2014 Hohe Berge, fließendes, Chinesischen Kulturezentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2013 Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2013 Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2013 DE LEUR TEMPS, Hangar à Bananes Art Center, Nantes, France 2013 Images Festival: How far away is the horizon?, Holbæk, Denmark 2013 Occupy Utopia, , Denmark 2013 Seven sunsets, waiting dawns, all in one. How to kill a wondrous time...not wanting a thousand hours, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

2013 Space-time: 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2013 1,2,3,b4, donation of Biennale of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki - SMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece 2013 New Ink: An Exhibition of Ink Art by Post-1970 Artists from the Yiqingzhai Collection, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2013 Et la Chine s’est éveillée..., Espace d’art contemporain Thonon-Les-Bains, Thonon- les-bains, France 2013 Stad in Beeld, Beeld van een Stad, Stedelijk Museum , Zwolle, Netherlands 2013 Venti d'oriente, Galleria Al Blu di Prussia, Naples, Italy 2013 Dreamers: AlexandFelix / Alessandro Lupi / Yang Yongliang, Palazzo Tagliaferro Contemporary Culture Center, Milano, Italy 2013 Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK 2012 A Sprinkle of Salt: Shi Zhiying / Yang Yongliang, MOT ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

2012 Printed Image in China 8th – 12th Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2012 Conceptual Renewal - Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, SiShang Art Museum, Beijing, China 2012 Creators Project: Beijing 2012, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2012 Damaged Heritage: Jiangnan in Contemporary Photography, Bottega Veneta Art Space, Shanghai, China 2012 Babel, Museum of Fine Arts of Lille, Lille, France 2012 Time Catcher, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 2011 Contemporary Photography in China, Bangalore / Delhi / Mumbai / Kolkata / Ahmedebad, India 2011 One Hundred Flowers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2011 Metropolis / City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht International Photo festival, , Netherlands 2011 The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind, 4th edition of the Fotofestival, Mannheim / / Heidbelberg, Germany 2011 Shan Shui - Poetry without sound, Chinese contemporary landscapes from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland 2011 Words and Dreams: Where technology meets dreams and vice versa, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2010 China’s Soul: Maleonn / Yang Yongliang / , Magda Danysz Galleries, Paris, France 2010 Digital Generation, Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery, Beijing, China 2010 Urban Utopia, Charly Bailly Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland 2009 China Avant Garde - Landscape in Transit, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2009 Drama / Stage, Urban Photography in Shanghai, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece 2009 Discovery Award, 40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France 2009 Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monument and Skyscraper, Project Walls, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA 2008 Two Points: 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy 2008 Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Street to Monument and Skyscraper, Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA 2008 Artificial Nature, MOCA Art Lab, Shanghai, China 2008 Material Link - A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, MOCA, Shanghai, China and Athens 2008 Group Exhibition, Urban Public, Hamburg, Germany 2008 Mixed Maze, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK 2007 Art Now 2007, Danwon Arts Festival - Contemporary Art Festival, Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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