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Yang Shaobin Born 1963 in Tangshan, China Yang Shaobin Born 1963 in Tangshan, China. Lives and works in Beijing. EDUCATION 1983 B.F.A., Hebei Light Industry College, Tangshan, China SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Yang Shaobin: … Since 1999​, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin Yang Shaobin: Blue Room, ​Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 Yang Shaobin: Blue Room, ​UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2009 Yang Shaobin: First Steps - Last Words​, Museu de Artes de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2008 Yang Shaobin: Silence, ​Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin Yang Shaobin: X - Blind Spot, ​Long March Space, Beijing 2007 Yang Shaobin, ​National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Yang Shaobin: Immaculata Conceptio, ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin 2006 Yang Shaobin: Red Traumata, ​Alexander Ochs Private, St. Matthaeus Church, Berlin Yang Shaobin: 800 Meters Under, ​Long March Space, Beijing Yang Shaobin: On the Path to Deconstructing Menace, ​Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong 2005 Yang Shaobin: Vibrations, ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin 2004 Yang Shaobin, ​Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing 2003 Yang Shaobin, ​Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin Yang Shaobin: Grey Paintings, ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin 398 West Street, New York, NY 10014 | T: +1.212.255.4388 | [email protected] | www.galleryek.com 2002 Yang Shaobin, ​Loft Gallery, Paris 2001 Yang Shaobin, ​Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 They Rise When Vernal Breezes Blow, ​Make Room, Los Angeles 2018 The Road of Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art Exhibition, ​Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, China Praise of the Hand: Contemporary Famous Artists Collections Exhibition, ​Artcloud Art Center, Shenzhen, China 2017 What’s Art, ​Beijing Qiaoqi Art Museum, Beijing 2016 Sugar Spin, ​Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Harmony - International Contemporary Art Exhibition, ​Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China Scarcity & Supply - The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, ​Baijiahu Art Museum, Nanjing, China Re-Portrait: A Figure Research - On What is Expressed or Develops to Express at Present, ​Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing All Rivers Run to the Sea, One Thousand Cliff Stand Still Tall, ​East Region International Modern Art Center, Beijing 2015 China 8 - Contemporary Art from China along the Rhine and Ruhr, ​MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany The Civil Power, ​Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing The 5th Art Changsha Parallel Exhibition - Fragments of Narrative, ​Changsha Museum, Changsha, China Pantheon - From Yuanmingyuan to Songzhuang, ​Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing Art Historical Flashbacks - Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, ​Elion Art Gallery, Beijing 2014 Myth / History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, ​Yuz Museum, Shanghai Focus Beijing - The De Heus-Zomer Collection, ​Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1199 People, ​Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai Re-View: Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, ​Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai 2013 Portrait of the Times - 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, ​Power Station of Art, Shanghai We, ​Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing Chinese Expressionism, ​How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China Sharjah Biennial 11, ​Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 2012 Chinese Expressionism, ​Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Face, ​Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Re-Coding - Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narration, ​World Art Museum, Beijing Magnanimity - Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists, ​Whitebox Art Center, Beijing Examples to Follow! - Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability, ​Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2011 I Believe That - Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, ​Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing New Dream 2011 - Contemporary Art New Works, ​Guangzhou Press Center, Guangzhou, China Coal + Ice, ​Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing Heribert C. Ottersbach, Yang Shaobin, Radek Szlaga, ​Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin Prints from Contemporary Masterpieces, ​K Gallery, Chengdu, China 2010 Thirty Years of Contemporary Chinese Art: 1979-2009, ​Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Research Representational Painting, ​Times Art Museum, Beijing Reshaping History: ChinArt from 2000-2009 - A Spectacle of the Ordinary, ​China National Convention Center, Today Art Museum, and Arario Gallery Beijing, Beijing Classics Remade, ​Gallery Yang, Beijing Six + Six: Passion-Energy,​ Yang Gallery, Beijing CHINESE *, ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin Again Print, ​Dialogue Space, Beijing Exhibition of Master Prints, ​NUOART Gallery, Beijing Passing Territories: Chinese and Foreign Masters Fine Print Exhibition, ​798 Art Bridge Gallery, Beijing 2009 Real Emergency, ​Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial, ​Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Red Storm, ​Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands Beijing-Havana: New Contemporary Chinese Art Revolution, ​Cuba Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Intempéries, ​Ibirapuera Auditorium, São Paulo, Brazil Chinamania, ​Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Chasing Flames - 15 Chinese Contemporary Artists, ​Eli Klein Fine Art, New York 19 Games, ​T ART Center, Beijing HUB - DUMONT EDITIONS​, HUB@White Space, Beijing Body, ​Shangdong Center of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China China - Ein Anderer Blick, ​Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany The 2nd Biennial of the End of the World, ​Ushuaia, Argentina EIN BILD IST EIN BILD - The WUNDERkammer (higgledy piggledy), ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin In Print, ​Dialogue Space, Beijing Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery Opening Exhibition, ​Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing On Love? On War?, ​Stux Gallery, New York Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, ​Proud Gallery, Beijing Surprise: Contemporary Art Exhibition, ​Proud Gallery, Beijing WIAC Opening Exhibition, ​Wansheng International Art Center, Beijing Rotational Summer Exhibition 2009, ​Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong Works on Paper, ​SHINE Art Space, Shanghai 2008 People-History - Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, ​Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, ​San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Facing China, ​Akureyri Museum, Akureyri, Iceland; Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, ​Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain China Gold: Chinese Contemporary Art, ​Maillol Museum, Paris Trans Local Motion: The 7th Shanghai Biennale, ​Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Enclaves: New Contemporary Paintings of China, ​Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China China macht Druck: Zeitgenössische chinesische Druckgrafik, ​Karlsruhe Municipal Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany Hypallage - The Postmodern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, ​Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Black White Grey - A Conscious Cultural Stance, ​Tang Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing Collective Conscience: Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, ​The Carlton Studios, Melbourne, Australia Encounters, ​Pace Gallery Beijing, Beijing Under the Sky, ​White Space Beijing, Beijing Transcendental 100% - Pristine decade Songzhuang Art Exhibition, ​Leiyuan Gallery, Beijing This is Asia?, ​Andrew James Art, Shanghai Who Will Be The Limited Edition Today?, ​Red Space Gallery, Beijing Under the Sky - International Positions in Contemporary Art, ​White Space Beijing, Beijing Sky, ​Red Space Gallery, Beijing Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon - Works on Paper, ​F2 Gallery, Beijing New Covenant: Exhibition of Early Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists, ​Triumph Art Space, Beijing Regular Exhibition of Tangsheng Gallery, ​Tangsheng Art Salon, Beijing 2007 Chinese Contemporary Sotsart, ​The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, ​Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom China - Facing Reality, ​Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria China Now - Wiedergeburt des Mystischen, ​Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands Arrogance and Romance, ​Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China Strategy on Paper: Works on Paper Invitational, ​Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China Emotion Aesthetics, ​The Danish Art Exchange (dARTex), Beijing Balance! Art in Heiligendamm, ​Doberan Minster, Bad Doberan; Heiligendamm, Germany The Supplemental History, ​Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, ​Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Departure from Songzhuang: Travelling Exhibition of Songzhuang Contemporary Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Huantie Times Art Space, Beijing One Sleep for Ten, ​He Jing Yuan Art Museum, Beijing Re-collection A Retrospective Look at 15 years of Art and Vision, ​Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong Inferno in Paradise: 10 Years Alexander Ochs Gallery Berlin, ​Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin Chinese Relativity: Part 2, ​Stux Gallery, New York Almost Images II, ​Arario Gallery, New York Triumph: the Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, ​Triumph Art Space, Beijing Exhibition of Collection of Contemporary Prints from Li’s Print Studio, ​Beijing Ban Ku Art Center, Beijing Now-Shanghai, ​Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai Collecting Editions, ​Aura Gallery, Shanghai 2006 Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, ​Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany China
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