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.
Works
Face Painting — Bamboo
SHAN SHUI TATTO SKULL
Chinese Shan Shui Tatto Series : Back
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.
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.
Exhibitions
Career
SOLO 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
Move No.4, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Zodiac – Huang Yan’s Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings, San Shang Art Space, Beijing, China
2007
Move No.3, Must Be Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
Move No.2, Open Realization Art Center, Beijing, China
Move No.1, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Hotel Eden Rock, Saint Barth Islands
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
Galerie Marella, Beijing, China
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
Conceptual Images, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang, 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
1998
Poetry Art (1992–1998), 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 (SELECTION)
2018
2nd Visual Art Biennale of China, Guanyao Museum of Contemporary Art, Guanyao, China
Assembling, chi K11 Art Space, Shenyang, China
2017
Partnerships: MoCA Beijing 10th Anniversary Nomination Exhibition, MoCA Beijing, Beijing, China
2nd Hainan Art Fair, Beauty Crown Art Center, Sanya, China
2016
The Memory of the City: China Rubbings of Culture and Art, multiple venues, China
2015
China–Australia International Art Biennale, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Group exhibition with Zhang Tiemei, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
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, Havana, Cuba
2008
4th China Songzhuang Culture Art Festival, Beijing, China
China Contemporary Art International Tour Exhibition, Beijing; Tokyo; Hong Kong
VERSION: Chang Chun Ne Art Movement of the 1980s, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Free Zone: China Spazio in BSI, Lugano, Switzerland
Art Paris 2008, Grand Palais, Paris, France
China… Forward!, TSUM, Moscow, Russia
Body Art Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Colorado Springs, USA
Interactive Field of Vision, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Critical Mass, Huang Yan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2007
The Power of the Universe, Beijing, China
“Made in Beijing” Academic Exhibition, Hong IK University Modern Fine Arts Museum, Seoul, South Korea
BSA Contemporary Museum Nomination Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Contemporary China: Codes, Visions and Representations, Rome, Italy
New Chinese Porcelain Art, Helsinki, Finland
Venice Biennale – P.P.P Performative Paper Project, Venice, Italy
Zhuyi! China! Contemporary Photography from China, Madrid, Spain
We Are Your Future, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2006
Shanghai “Feng Shui” Artistic Activity, Shanghai, China
Northeast Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Post-Electronic Image, Must Be Art Center, Beijing, China
Relic, Irrawaddy Art City, Chicago, USA
Father, Son, and I, Must Be Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
Boundless Pause Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing, China
Soldiers at the Gates, 706 East Space, Beijing, China
China Cutting Edge: New Video Art, 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, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Body Scape, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A Strange Heaven, Helsinki, Finland
51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
100 International Artists, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
Out of the Red, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Post Factory, Beijing, China
Forge the Fable, Beijing, China
Ceramics, Must Be Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
Post Calligraphy, Must Be Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China
2004
China 04 – La nuova fotografia cinese, Bologna, Italy
Between Past and Future, International Center of Photography & Asia Society, New York, USA
1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Body Everywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
Officinal Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
2003
Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
Paolo Image Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
China–Israel Image Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
International Video Art Festival, Rome, Italy
Polish International Video Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Shenzhen Video Art Festival, Shenzhen, China
2002
1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Paris–Beijing, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Israeli International Image Biennale, Tel Aviv, Israel
Adelaide International Art Festival, Adelaide, Australia
2001
Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hot Pot Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000
Focus, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK
Fiction and Reality, Beijing, China
Future Way of Life, Guangxi, China
1999
Truths to Open, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand; Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998
Traditional and Anti-traditional Art, German Embassy, Beijing, China
The Best of Chinese Contemporary Art, Proud Galleries, London, UK
1997
New Image, Beijing Theatre, Beijing, China
1994
China’s New Art, Post ’89, Hong Kong Arts Center; Vancouver Art Gallery; Chicago Cultural Center; San Jose Museum of Art; Marlborough Gallery, London
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
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 Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China