HUANG YAN

Born in 1966 in Jilin, China. Living in Beijing, China. Huang Yan graduated from the Changchun Teachers Academy in 1987. Since 1994, he has recorded his ideas and behavioral art through oil painting and photography. In 1999, Huang Yan began a series of landscape paintings on the human body entitled “Chinese Landscapes”, in which he tatooes his own body to reference a heritage that is inherent in Chinese culture, these traditional landscape paintings which have become the embodiment of Chinese art.

Biography

Born in 1966 in Jilin, China. Living in Beijing, China. Huang Yan graduated from the Changchun Teachers Academy in 1987. Since 1994, he has recorded his ideas and behavioral art through oil painting and photography.
In 1999, Huang Yan began a series of landscape paintings on the human body entitled “Chinese Landscapes”, in which he tatooes his own body to reference a heritage that is inherent in Chinese culture, these traditional landscape paintings which have become the embodiment of Chinese art. This work has been remarked by famous curators and by Ai Wei Wei himself, who included it into his exhibition Fuck Off in 2000.

Huang Yan has had solo exhibitions in worldwide capitals and frequently participates to group manifestations. His works are collected by many important art museums around the world, such as National Centre of the Performing Art in China, The National Art Museum of China, The British Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Victoria &Albert Museum, The International Center of Photography New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.Huang Yan graduated from the Changchun Teachers Academy in 1987. Since 1994, he has recorded his ideas and behavioral art through oil painting and photography.

Career

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018
The Shan-shui Worldview, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Tattoo Utopia, Leo Gallery, Hong Kong

2016
HDM Gallery, Hangzhou, China

2014
Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

2012
Picturesque Landscape, Leo Gallery, Beijing, China

2011
New China, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

2010
Huang Yan Retrospective, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
Faces, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

2009
Michelle Mosko Fine Art, Denver, USA

2008
Chinese Zodiac - Huang Yan’s Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings, San Shang Art Space, Beijing, China

2006
Zen Painting, Must Be Art Center, Beijing, China
Xin Dong Cheng International Art Studio, Beijing, China
Body Scape, V!P's International Art Galleries in cooperation with China Art Trade, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery, London, UK

2004
Chinese Landscape, Marella Project Space 1, Como, Italy

2002
3rd World Art Exhibition, Milan, Italy
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

2000
Reflecting on Tradition, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
The Ideal Image of Huang Yan, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

1999
The Ideal Image of Huang Yan, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
Huang Yan 1998 – Post Art Exhibition, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China

1997
Poetry Art of Huang Yan, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
Postal Art of Huang Yan, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China

1996
Carving a Chair, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
2nd Visual Art Biennale of China, Guanyao Museum of Contemporary Art, Guanyao, China

2016
The Memory of the City: China Rubbings of Culture and Art, multiples venues, China

2015
China - Australia International Art Biennale, Melbourne, Australia

2013
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA

2012
Areochine & Huang Yan, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
The Armory Show, New York, USA
Body Scape 2012, V!P's International Art Galleries, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2011
Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
The New China, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

2009
Asian Ink Masters, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Beijing - La Havana, New Contemporary Chinese Art Revolution, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Havana, Cuba

2008
Free Zone: China Spazio in BSI, Via Magatti 2, Lugano, Switzerland
Art Paris 2008, Grand Palais, Paris, France
China... Forward!, TSUM, Moscow, Russia

2006
Post-Electronic Image, Must Be Art Center, Beijing, China
Relic, Irrawaddy Art City, Chicago, USA
China Cutting Edge: New Video Art from Shanghai and Beijing, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

2005
Expo. 05 - Photo Chinoise, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK ; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA ; Museum of Contemporary Art, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago,USA
Body Scape, Contemporary Chinese Photography and Performance Documentation, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese photography, Tennis Palace City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italiy
100 International Artists, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria, Italy
Out of the Red, the photographic session, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2004
China 04 - La nuova fotografia cinese, Metropolis Photogallery, Bologna, Italy

2003
Prague Biennale, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic
International Video Art Festival, Rome, Italy

2002
1st Guangdong Triennal, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Paris-Pékin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

2001
Polypolis, Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hot Pot, Hunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Red Hot, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Charming China, Space Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

2000
Focus, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Fiction and Reality, Wan Fung Gallery, Pékin, China
Everyday Attitude, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Future Way of Life, Xieyang Sland Performance Art Festival, Guanxi, China
Invention and Space, Yunfeng Gallery, Beijing, China

1998
Traditional and Anti-traditional Art, German Embassy, Beijing, China
Seven New Artists from NE China, Art Gallery of the Luxun, China
The Best of Chinese Contemporary Art, Proud Galleries, London, UK
Contemporary Art of China, Helsingborg, Sweden

1997
New Image, Beijing Theatre, Beijing, China

1994
China’s New Art, Post ’89, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada ; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA ; San Jose Museum Of Art, USA ; Marlborough Gallery, London, UK, etc...
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Photographs and Prints by Huang Yan and 8 other artists, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China

1993
Contemporary Oil Painting from China, Liaoning Art Museum, Liaoning, China

1992
1st Biennial of Chinese Art, Guangzhou, China

1991
Beijing Xi-san-huan: Chinese Art Documentaries, Beijing, China

1988
Image of Object, Art Gallery of NE Normal University, Changchun, China