Beyond Darkness

Born in Chengdu, China

Currently lives and works in Beijing

1978 -1982 Bachelor’s Degree of Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts  Institute  Chongqing  China.

1985 -1988 Master’s Degree of Fine Arts   University of Florida   USA.

SOLO EXHIBITION (Selected)

2024    
Boxes Art museum “Beyond Darkness”  Foshan

Yuandian art museum “Color- Light”  Beijing

2017-18
White Box Art Center  “The Wind through Beijing”  Beijing

2017    
Sanya Museum of Contemporary Art  “Trace”  Sanya

2016    
Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu “Walking-Village of Zeng  Family” Chengdu

2014    
T Museum “Walking-YANG QIAN ”  Hangzhou

2012   
 Feizi Gallery “Fragment” Brussels  Belgium

Tianren Heyi Art Center “Rebirth-YANG QIAN” Hangzhou

Art Stage-Singapore/Fang Gallery “Fragment and Illusion”   Singapore

2010    
Eli Klein Fine Art “Yang Qian Paintings”   New York

White Box Museum of Art “Art is Poison-Yang Qian’s Installation Work”  Beijing

Suzhou Art Museum “Shredded Maze-Yang Qian’s New Painting”  Suzhou

2009
Shanghai Z Art Center “Media  Made-Yang Qian's New Works”   Shanghai

Today Art Museum“Trans mundane -Yang Qian’s  New Paintings and Installations”  Beijing

2008
Red Mansion Foundation “Painting After Painting-Yang Qian’s New work”  London  UK

2007
Zengda Museum of Modern Art “Over Lapping - New Work by Yang Qian”    Shanghai

2006
Today Art Museum “Neo-Painting  Yang Qian”   Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION (Selected)

2024   
Tianjin Art Museum“Origin And Innovation”(CHINA) Western Art Biennale  Tianjin

Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute “Symphony Of Coexistence-Chinese And

Southeast Asian Art Invitational Exhibition”    Chongqing    Sichuan

Jupiter Museum of Art“Effective Acceleration-2140”  Shenzhen

KWM art center “Self-Transcendence”  Beijing

2023    
Duolun Art Museum “Twenty Years of Iteration”  Shanghai

Riverside Art center “A Tale of Odyssey”  Chongqing

Lanzhou Yuerwan Contemporary Art Museum - The 5th Lanzhou International Photography and Video Biennale   Lanzhou

Xinjiang Art Museum The 3rd China Xinjiang International Art Biennial-
“Harmonious Symbiosis”   Xinjiang

2022    
Metaverse Art Museum Wuxi Studio “My Metaverse  - An Exhibition of Digital Art” Wuxi

Yuelai Art Museum “Trice and  Presence ”- Contemporary  Art International Exhibition Chongqing

2021    
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art  Beyond The Anthropocene - An Exhibition of Future Science & Art   Beijing

Busan Metropolitan City Exhibition Hall - 19th Asian International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition” Busan  Korea

Yellow-Box Art Museum  International Public Sculpture Exhibition    Qingdao

Chengdu Biennale  “Super Fusion”   Chengdu Art Park    Chengdu

Yuandian Art Museum “CARRY-ON”(Part 3)    Beijing

2020    
Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum "80th Anniversary Exhibition of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts"  Chongqing

Yuan art museum  (Wuqing Museum) "Yidong"    Tianjin

Tsinghua University Art Museum "30 Years of Looking East and West"  Beijing

The Firstst Public Art Exhibition in Nanhai  “Extended Theatre”   Foshan

2019    
Xian Art Museum  “Beyond The Wall - Special Invitational  Exhibition for 10th  Xian

The 10th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen “Ink at Current”   Shenzhen

Chengdu Museum “Resonating with the Time”- Sichuan Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition  Chengdu

Beijing Nine Museum  “Step-Exhibition of Contemporary Art”    Beijing

 Tongling Country Public Art Festival      Anhui   

2018    
Guangan Field Art Biennale “Heimat”   Sichuan    

Beijing Minsheng Museum of Modern Art “ The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2017”   Beijing

 Xian Art Museum  “Redefining the City with Context-The Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Xian 2018”    Xian

Dongguan Sculpture and Installation Art Festival 2018 “Extending Space” Shenzhen

Museum of Academy of Arts & Design Qinghua University “Sketching”   Beijing   

2017    
China Fine Art Museum “Time Texture- Sichuan Art Institute     Beijing

Maritime Museum  “Sharks and Humanity”    Hang Kong

Kunsthalle Darmstadt “Zoom-in Chongqing - Painting and Video” Germany

Art Museum of Sichuan University “Uncertain-Contemporary Art  Exhibition”Chengdu

Shanshui Art Museum  “Scanning-Exhibition of Contemporary Art”  Beijing

Jianghong Art Museum “Mixture World - Exhibition of Contemporary Art   Hangzhou

2016    
Shanghai Himalayas Museum “Humanistic Nature And Society (Shan-Shui,）- An Insight Into The Future”   Shanghai

Today Art Museum “False Garden”    Beijing

Changwon International Sculpture Biennale  Changwon  Korea

Suncheong Bay Eco- Environmental Art Festival   Suncheong   Korea

Nanjing Baijiahu Art Museum  3rd Nanjing International Art Exhibition  “HistoriCode- Scarcly & Supply”  Nanjing

4th Biennale China - Italia  “Metamorphosis”   Beijing

2015    
National Museum of China “On Sharks & Humanity”    Beijing

Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum “Inframince Mindscape” Shanghai

Museum Angerlehner  “Confronting Anitya - Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art”,Wels  Austria

Museum of Salagon “Confronting Anitya - Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art”Forcalquier  France

Bonn Center for Contemporary Art “Post-Calligraphy in Chinese Contemporary Art ”Germany

2014    
Today Art Museum “Yixiang Tiankai - The New Chinese Painting”  Beijing

United Art Museum “Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition ”  Wuhan

Carlshuette Art Center “Confronting Anitya- Oriental Experience in Contemporary 
Art Buedelsdorf Germany

Gallery Loop “Digital Tri-angle” Seoul  South Korea

T Museum “Fusion Convergence” the Official Opening Exhibition of T Museum    Hangzhou

OCA Exhibition Center “China Art e Brazil”  St .Paul Brazil

Bonn Center for Contemporary Art “Confronting Anitya-Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art”  Germany

National  Museum of History “Rural, Scar, and Southwestern Soul- Works of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute”   Taiwan

2013    
The First China-Asian Biennale “Exchange and Integration”  Nanjing

Debrecen MODEM Art Center“Spectacle Reconstruction- Chinese Contemporary Art” Hungry

Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum “Portrait of the Time- 30 years in contemporary art”Shanghai

Shanghai Himalaya Art Museum  “Imagery” Shanghai

55 Venice Biennale /International Art Exhibition“Collateral Event Voice of the Unseen” Venice  Italy                          

Art Santa Monica “Pure Views - Chinese New Painting” Barcelona, Spain

2012    
9th Shanghai Biennale Zhongshan Park Project “On the Way Home”- Exhibition at Pudong  International Airport  Shanghai

Iberia Art Center “Looking Awry”- Invitational Contemporary Art Exhibition   Beijing

Hannover Messe  Jet-lag-Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China and Germany   Hannover    Germany.

The lst project Exhibition of the 4th Guangzhou Triennial De-Fascinating the China Imagination   Guangzhou

China National Art Museum,20 Years in Sichuan - Art Collection Exhibition  Beijing

2011    
Asia Art Museum “Pure Views-Contemporary Chinese New Paintings”  San Francisco  

Xian Art Museum  “First Chinese Contemporary Art Seminar and Exhibition”    Xian

Chengdu Biennale Special Exhibition “The Continuing  Flow Chengdu Blue Roof Museum of Art  Chengdu

Up-Lake Art Museum “in Move Come and Go”    Beijing

2010    
First Nanjing International Biennale And Writers  Jiangsu Art Museum   Nanjing

Today Art Museum, “Today’s Documents-Negotiation”   Beijing

National Conference Center “Reshaping History - Chinart from 2000-2009   Beijing

Zhenda Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall  “San Sheng Wan Wu”    Shanghai  

Today Art Museum  “Museum Collection Exhibition”    Beijing

2009
Czech National Art Museum “Open Vision-Contemporary Art from China” Prague   Czechoslovakia

Cuba National Museum of Fine Art “ New Art Revolution-Chinese Contemporary Art in Cuba” Havana  Cuba    

Suzhou Art Museum “Embracing Suzhou-Invitational Contemporary Art Exhibition” Suzhou

Taiwan National Museum of Art “Speak and Describing - Chinese Contemporary Art”  Taiwan 

Travelling to National Art Museum of China       Beijing

Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei “Spectacle-To Each His Own” Taiwan

2008
Today Art Museum “The Love of Art-Collecting Contemporary Art in China  Beijing

Seville Biennale  “Youniverse”   Seville  Spain

Busan Biennale  “Expenditure” Busan Museum of Modern Art   Busan   Korea

Nanjing Triennial “Reflexive Asia”  Nanjing Museum   Nanjing   

Poznan Biennale “Mediation”   Poznan   Poland

Singapore Art Museum “Accelerate-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”  Singapore

Zengdai Museum of Modern Art “Involving Project, Shanghai

Belvue Museum “Today’s China”  Brussels   Belgium

National Museum of Indonesia “Sichuan Painters” Jarkata   Indonesia

2007  
Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM“Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves Karlsruhe Germany  

Beijing Today Art Museum “Today’s Documents 2007-Energy”  Beijing

National Museum of Contemporary Art “Floating-New Generation of Art in China” Seoul Korea       

Guang Dong art Museum “Departure from Southwest-Contemporary Art from Southwest of  China”  Guangzhou

PAN-Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli   La Cina e’vicina, Napoli  Italy

Kwangju City Museum of Art“New Style From Beijing-Chinese Contemporary Art” Korea

2006
6th Shanghai Biennale “Hyper Design”  Shanghai Art Museum  Shanghai

Taibei Art Museum“The Expansion in Realism-Paintings in China since 1978”  Taiwan

He Xiangning Art Museum-Contemporary Art Center“One Time Consumption” Shenzhen

China Art Museum“Cross Culture-Four Artists Show”  Beijing

China Millennium Art Museum“First Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”  Beijing

2005
Prague Biennale 2 “Expanded Painting” Prague   Czech

Chengdu Biennale“Landscape- Century and Paradise”Chengdu Museum of Modern Art   Chengdu

COLLECTION (Selected)

Hong Kong M Plus Museum

China National Museum of Art
Korea Changwon Cultural Foundation

K21 Museum for Contemporary Art Germany

Guang Dong Art Museum

Beijing Today Art Museum

Shanghai Zhengda Museum of Modern Art

Suzhou Art Museum

Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

Franck Cohn Museum of Contemporary Art  UK

Red Mansion Foundation

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio  Bologna  Italy

Uli Sigg Collection

Annie Wong Art Foundation

YUZ Foundation

PUBLICATION OF PERSONAL LITERATURE AND PICTURE ALBUMS 

2018  《MASTER-ORIENTAL ART YANG QIAN》  Oriental Art

2012  《YANG QIAN - FRAGMENT AND ILLUSION》  Fang Gallery

          《YANG QIAN -REBIRTH》  TCA Museum

2010  《CHINESE ARTISTS OF TODAY-YANG QIAN 》 Sichuan Publishing Group & Sichuan Arts Publishing House

2009  《YANG QIAN -MEDIA MADE》  Z-art Center

          《QIAN YANG -TRANS MUNDANE》  Today Art Museum

2008  《YANG QIAN -PAINTING OFTER PAINTING 》  Red Mansion Foundation

2007  《YANG QIAN’S NEW WORK》 Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art & Tang Contemporary Art

2006  《YANG QIAN - MIRROR-IMAGE》  Ming Art Gallery

          《NEO-PAINTING  YANG QIAN 》  Beijing Today Art Museum

          《YANG QIAN -ILLUSION OF REFLECTION》Marella Gallery

2005  《YANG QIAN - PAINTINGS (2002-2005) 》  Michael Berger Gallery

1998  《 FAMOUS SELECTIONS - YANG QIAN OIL PAINTING OF THE HUMAN BODY》  Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House

1993  《YANG QIAN -REALITY AND ILLUSION》  Jamaica Arts Center

AWARDS (Selected)

First Prize in Art, University of Florida, USA

Second prize at the Tomkings Art Festival New York， USA

First Place Award: The Leslie & Frances Posey Foundation， USA

Third prize of the 2nd National Youth Art Exhibition， China