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Huang Yan
Biography
| 1966 |
Born in Jilin, Jilin Province, China |
| 1987 |
Graduated from the Changchun Normal Academy, Jilin Province
Currently: Lives and Works between Changchun and Beijing |
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 landscapes 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 where, like flowers fallen into a stream, I forget both the material world and myself, and I just paint landscapes; I just paint 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 believein landscape; I while away the time amid these landscapes...
Solo Exhibitions
2007 |
Huang Yan Solo exhibition, Hotel Eden Rock, Saint Barth Island |
| 2006 |
Zen painting, Must Be Art Center, 798 / Beijing
Huang Yan Solo exhibition, Xin Dong Cheng international art studio, Beijing
Huang Yan Solo exhibition, VIPS International Art Galleries, Holland |
| 2005 |
Percipience, Red Gate Gallery
Huang Yan, Marella Gallery, Beijing
Huang Yan, Chinese Contemporary, Londres |
2004 |
Marella Space Project, Como |
Group Exhibitions
2006 |
Red Gate Gallery’s 15th Anniversary
Post Electronic Image, Must Be Art Center |
2005 |
Observing the Sense, Red Gate Gallery
Body Scape, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne; Red Gate Gallery
Critical - 2 Zero Field, Beijing
Post Factory–Come and Gone, Beijing
100 International Artists, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
Out of the Red-II The Photographic Session, Marella Gallery, Como, Italia
Between the Past and Future, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago
Forge the Fable, Li Xiangqun Studio, Beijing
Ceramics, Must Be Art Gallery
Post Calligraphy, Must Be Art Gallery |
2004 |
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China,
Center of Photography, New-York City (traveling show)
International China, the Body Everywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille
Officinal Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna |
The Institute for Contemporary Art
- The National and International Studio Program 1995-1996
- Asian Cultural Council Grant, New York
- Fondation Cartier pour l' art contemporain, Paris, 1993
Awards:
- CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, USA, 2001
- The Venice Biennial International Prize-Golden Lion, Italy, 1999
- Oribe Awards, Gifu, Japan, 1997
- Benesse Prize of Transculture Exhibition, 46th Venice Biennial, Italy, 1995
- Japan Cultural Design Prize, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
- International Association of Art Critics United States Section, Best Monograph Show and Best Installation in a Museum for Inopportune, Paris, France, 2005
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Country
China |
| Artistic Movements
Contemporary Art |
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| Related Artworks |
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Solo Exhibitions and Projects |
2008 |
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
2007 |
Light Passage, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 |
Concept and Visual Director, Wind Shadow, collaboration with Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
Head On, Deutsche Giggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
Curator: DMoCA, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan
Long Scroll, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada (cat.)
Curator of Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Education Panel, Yan'an, China
Transparent Monument, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Stage, Galleria Continua, Colle di Val d'elsa, Tuscany. Italy
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Inopportune, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2005 |
Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Curator of UMoCA exhibition by Jennifer Wen Ma: Aeolian Garden, Arte all'Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy
Life Beneath the Shadow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (cat.).
Paradise, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
Curator of Virgin Garden: Emersion, China Pavilion, 51st Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Black Rainbow, Institut Valencia d'rt Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.) |
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On Black Fireworks, Institut Valencia d'rt Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.) |
2004 |
Curated BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan
Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler, Freer & Sackler and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
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| Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune, MASS MoCA, North Adam, USA |
2003 |
Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky: Kite Project for Siwa, Egypt, Siwa, Egypt (video)
Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, Creative Time, New York, USA (video)
Explosion Event: Light Cycle Over Central Park, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA (cat.)
Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium.
Cai Guo-Qiang: For Your Pleasure Matrix 204, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA.
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| Pause: DMoCA Inaugural Exhibition with Kiki Smith, Niigata, Japan (cat.) |
2002 |
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ethereal Flowers, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy (cat.)
Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang's CHADO Pavilion-Homage to Tenshin Okakura, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan (cat.)
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| Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.) |
2001 |
An Arbitrary History, Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (cat.)
Artistic Direction for APEC Cityscape Fireworks, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, China (video)
UMoCA, Arte all' Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy (cat.)
Performing Chinese Ink Painting, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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| Impression Oil Drawings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
2000 |
Ascending a Staircase. 69th Regiment Armory, New York, USA (video)
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| Project for Projects. Fondation Cartier pour l' art Contemporain, Paris, France (cat.) |
1999 |
I Am the Y2K Bug, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.) |
1998 |
No Construction, No Destruction: Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan (cat., video, CD-ROM)
Daydreaming, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.) |
1997 |
Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Flying Dragon in the Heavens, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark (cat., video) |
1996 |
The Century with Mushroom Clouds - Projects for the 20th Century, Nevada, Nuclear Test Site, |
| Salt Lake, New York, USA |
1994 |
Chaos, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Concerning Flame, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
The Horizon from the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan (brochure and video)
From the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan (cat.)
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| Calendar of Life, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) |
1993 |
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, Jiayuguan City, China (book)
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| Long Mai (The Dragon Meridian), P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (brochure) |
1992 |
Wailing Wall-From the Engine of Four Hundred Cars, IBM Kawasaki City Galley, Kawasaki, |
| Japan (cat.) |
1991 |
Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) |
1990 |
Works 1988/89, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (brochure) |
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