Biography

Landscape is a way for me to reason things out; landscape is proof that I can use objects to unburden my feelings; landscape is a place where my soul is at peace; landscape is an abode in which my mortal body can reside; landscape is a release for my Buddhist ideas. I am a man who paints landscape; I am a member of the avant-garde literati who paints landscape on the body. In the midst of a big city teeming with human life, in the humble room where I lead a secluded life, I am not a swordsman; I am not a gambler, still less am I a blind person. There are times when, like flowers fallen into a stream, I forget both the material world and myself, and I just paint landscapes; I just pain on the body with wild strokes and haphazard smears. This is enough, it's a state of mind that I get into; I believe in intuition; I believe in landscape, I while away the time amid these landscapes...

C.V.

PROFILE
1966		Born in Jilin, Jilin Province
1987		Graduated from the Changchun Normal Academy
EXHIBITIONS
2004		Between Past and Future: New photography and video from China, ICP New York (traveling show).
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
2002-03		1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
2001-02		Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
2001		Red Hot, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing Virtual Future, Art Museum of Guangdong Province Charming China, Space Contemporary Art, Bangkok Hot Pot, Kunstnemes Hus, Oslo
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
2000		Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong Focus, Chinese Contemporary, London Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai Portrait, Figures, Couples and Groups, Shanghai Fiction and Reality, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing Everyday Attitude, Upriver Gallery, Changdu China's Charming, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai Invention and Space, Yunfeng Gallery, Beijing
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
1999		The Traditional Visual Image, Shanghai Unusual Way of Writing, Art Academy of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Truths to Open, Bangkok University, Bangkok & Beatus Gallery, Vancouver Media Interruption, Art Commune, Hong Kong
		Poetry Art, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang
1998		0431 Video and Computer Art, Changchun Traditional and Anti-traditional Art, German Embassy, Beijing Image Telling Stories, Shanghai Obstinate Art Show, Beijing The Best of Chinese Contemporary Art, Proud Galleries, London Contemporary Art of China, Helsingborg, Sweden Chinese, New York Seven New Artists from NE China, Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang
1997		New Image, Beijing Theatre, Beijing
1996		Carving a Chair, Proper Art Gallery

1994		Post '89, New Art of China, Marlborough Gallery, London
		Photographs and Prints by Huang Yan and 8 other artists, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
1993		Contemporary Oil Painting from NE China, Liaoning Art Museum, Liaoning
1992		First Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Art in the 1990s, Guangzhou Image of Object, Shenzhen, Hong Kong
1991		Beijing Xi-san-huan: Chinese Art Documentaries, Beijing
1988		Image of Object, Art Gallery of NE Normal University, Changchun