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Huang Yan    (Chinese, 1966)

  Huang Yan - Absolut (Ceramics) h: 22 x d: 8 in / h: 55.9 x d: 20.3 cm
Huang Yan
Absolut 2006
 
  Huang Yan - Four Seasons (eyes closed/eyes open) (Photographs) h: 150 x w: 120 cm / h: 59.1 x w: 47.2 in
Huang Yan
Four Seasons (eyes closed/eyes open) 2005
 
  Huang Yan - Mao Zedong portrait (Ceramics)
Huang Yan
Mao Zedong portrait 2006
 
  Huang Yan - Worker Landscape (Photographs)
Huang Yan
Worker Landscape 2005
 
  

Biography
1966 Born in Jilin Province
1987 Changchun Normal Academy
Presently lectures at Changchun University
He is particularly known for his series of landscape on body works which are classical paintings directly painted on the body or face of the artist.

Exhibitions
2007 Huang Yan Solo exhibitionCHotel Eden Rock, Saint Barth Island
2007 Contemporary China: Codes, visions and representations of the contemporary Chinese art, Rome Italy
2006 Zen Painting, Must Be Art Center, Beijing (solo)
2006 Xin Dong Cheng International Art Studio, Beijing (solo)
2006 VIPS International Art Galleries, Holland Cotter (solo)
2006 Shanghai gFeng Shuih artistic activity, Zendai Mandarin Palace Villa Distric, Shanghai
2006 Northeast Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong
2006 Post Electronic Image, Must Be Art Center, Beijing
2006 Relic, Irrawaddy Art City, Chicago
2006 Old and Well-known Family from Photography: Father, Son and I, Must Be Art Center, Beijing
2006 Boundless Pause, Must Be Art Center, Beijing
2006 Soldiers at the Gates-China/Chai-na, Architecture Art Exhibition, 706 East Space, Beijing China
2006 Chinafs Cutting Edge: New Video Art from Shanghai and Beijing, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2005 Critical-2, Zero Field, Beijing
2005 The Other End: Contemporary Experimental Art and Design Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Musuem, Shenzhen, China
2005 Post Factory-Come and Gone, Beijing
2005 100 International Artists in Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
2005 Out of the Red-II: The Photographic Session, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
2005 Percipience, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (solo)
2005 Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London (solo)
2005 Marella Gallery, Beijing (solo)
2005 Between Past and Future, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Victoria and Albert Museum, Chicago
2005 Forge the Fable, Li Xiangqun Studio, Beijing
2005 Ceramics, Must Be Art Center, Beijing
2005 Post Calligraphy, Must Be Art Center, Beijing
2004 Marella Space Project, Como (solo)
2004 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou Museum of Art Guangzhou, China
2004 The Body Everywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
2004 Officinal Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
2004 Between Past and Future: New photography and video from China, ICP New York (traveling show).
2003 Imaging China and Huang Yan, New York
2003 China / Israeli Image Art Exhibition, Israeli Embassy, Beijing
2003 Go Marketing, Beijing Shangrila Art Commune
2003 Distance Measuring, Shenzhen Video Art Festival
2003 Polish International Video Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2003 Italy International Video Art Festival, Rome
2003 Ceramic Art Exhibition on Elongation & Breakthrough, Guangdong Art Gallery
2003 Prague Biennial, Prague
2003 Mirage Heaven, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 4th Annual International Behaviour Art Exhibition, Changchun
2003 Red Gate Gallery (solo)
2002 3rd World Art Exhibition, Milan (solo)
2002 Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai (solo)
2000 Reflecting on Tradition, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
2000 Ideal Image of Huang Yan, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery (solo)
1999 Huang Yan 1998. Post Art Exhibition, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery (solo)
1999 Conceptual Image of Huang Yan, Proper Art Gallery (solo)
1998 Postal Art of Huang Yan, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery (solo)
1997 Poetry Art of Huang Yan, Proper Art Gallery (solo)
1996 Carving a Chair, Proper Art Gallery, Shenyang (solo)
1994 Photographs and Prints by Huang Yan and Eight Other Artists, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
1992 First Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Art in the 1990s, Guangzhou
1991 Beijing Xi-san-huan: Chinese Art Documentaries, Beijing
Collections
Shanghai Art Gallery, Beijing, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, Germany, and Belize.

Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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