Yang Xinguang 
Born 1980 in Changsha, China. Lives and works in Beijing. 

 

EDUCATION 

2007
B.F.A., Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023     
Yang Xinguang: Winds of Spring, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

2021
Monumental Botanics–Solo Exhibition of Yang Xinguang, OCAT, Shanghai

2019
Yang Xinguang: Above the Soil, Beijing Commune, Beijing 
Yang Xinguang: Kneading Soil, Nan Shan She, Xi’an, China 

2018
Yang Xinguang: Bad Soil, Beijing Commune, Beijing

2017
Yang Xinguang: The Unknown Depth of the Woods, Beijing Commune, Beijing 

2016
Yang Xinguang: Annealing | Glass Intestine, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai

2015
Yang Xinguang, Beijing Commune, Beijing

2014
Yang Xinguang: Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy

2013
Yang Xinguang: Superfluous Things No. 8, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Yang Xinguang: Immeasurably Fair, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2012
Yang Xinguang: Violence without Mercy, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

2011
Yang Xinguang: There Are Some Stones Below, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2010
Yang Xinguang: ArtStatement, Art 41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Yang Xinguang: Trail, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

2008
Yang Xinguang: Consumed, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Dormant Landscape, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing 
Multiple Sights: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai
Communication Through Art—2022 Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan
Painting: Feel The Pulse of The Time,  Artron Art Center, Shenzhen

2020
Worldly Scenery, He Art Museum, Foshan, China 
Theme Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of 33 Contemporary Art Center - Materials, 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China 

2019
2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture - Coordinates: Theater, Shenzhen, China 
Reconstructing Utopia Architecture and Art Exhibition, Putian Art Museum, Putian, China 
The Curation Workshop - Exhibition Curation and Design, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China 
Out of Cement, Zapbeijing, Beijing

2018
Material and Charting, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 
Heimat: The 2018 Guang’an Field Art Biennale, Guang’an, China 
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing 
After Nature: UCCA Dune Opening Exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Dune, Aranya Gold Coast, China
Becoming, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Beyond the Scenery - 2018 OCT-LOFT Public Art Exhibition, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China
After Sunset, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris

2017
Social Theater, Participation and Sharing - The 5th Chongqing Biennale, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China 
Forty Years of Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE), Shenzhen, China 
Future Forest Children Lab, T80 Technology Culture International Community, Nanjing, China
Longli International New Media Art Season, Longli Historic City Eco-Museum, Longli, China 
All Happens After Sunset…, Museum of Contemporary Art Pavilion, Shanghai
Among Friends, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing 
Bound Volumes of Self-Selection, Cheng Project, Beijing
Everything You Need To Know About The FY Foundation, You Space, Shenzhen, China 

2016
Everyday Legend, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 
The Third Today’s Documents - The Jumble of Growth, Today Art Museum, Beijing 

2015
The 2nd ‘CAFAM Future’ Exhibition - Observer-Creator, The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The System of Objects, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Editing The Spectacle - The Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing 
The Cabinet of Wonder, The Cabinet of Wonder, Heiqiao Art District, Beijing 

2014
Confronting Anitya - Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing
Simple Life is Interesting!, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
The Third Criticism Art Language, Times Art Museum, Beijing
Ministry of Truth II - The Factitious and its Realm, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
The Ways of Object Being Named, Mao Space, Shanghai
Hazing Kyoto Invitational Group Exhibition, Star Gallery, Beijing
The Sociology of Oneself, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Summer Discovery 2014, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
Present-ing Recital Louder Than Paint, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
A Room Not of One's Own, Space Station, Beijing       
Nature, NUOART Gallery, Beijing

2013
O’clock Time Design, Design Time, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
ON | OFF, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
@me Visibility, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Hebei, China
Datong International Sculpture Biennale, Heyang Art Museum, Datong, China
Groundwork Community, Taikang Space, Beijing
Post Generation, Yallay Space, Hong Kong
Contemporary Art in China 1990-2012, Zhong Gallery, Berlin
The Portrait of Space, Parkview Green Art Gallery, Beijing 
Nature of Speed, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 

2012
CAFAM-Future: Sub-Phenomena: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The 1st Xinjiang Contemporary Art Biennale, Xinjiang Art Centre, Urumqi, China
Diversion of Contemporary Art Value Paradigm, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
El Gran Sur, The 1st Montevideo Biennale, Banco de le República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Creator in Residence 2012, Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Japan
Seven Point Five Percent, Soka Art Center, Beijing

2011
Super Organism: CAFAM Biennale, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Be Natural, Be Yourself, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
2011 Changwon Asian Art Festival: Self-Camera Repositioning Modern Self, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, South Korea 
APBF Signature Art Prize Finalists Exhibition 2011, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Water Stains on the Wall, The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang, China
Start At The Horizon: Chinese Contemporary Sculpture from 1978, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing
New Generation of Chinese Artists, Museum Do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
One Man Theater - Works by Post-80s Artists, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Relations, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing 
XXX - Next 10 Year of Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing  
Something Will Inevitably Happen, Wuhan K11 Art Village, Wuhan, China 
Exhibition, Taikang Space, Beijing 
Alibi, Linda Gallery, Beijing 
Extract: The 3rd Stall Keeper Show, C5 Art Gallery, Beijing 
Games: Young Chinese Artists, White Box Art Center, Beijing 

2010
Solo Theater, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Butterfly Effect - An Artistic Communication Project of Cross-Strait Four Regions, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Post Traditions: Enlarge The Carve, The 4th Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum Of Modern Art, Shanghai 
Sculpture - Sui Jianguo And His Students, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
AND Writers, The 1st Nanjing Biennale Exhibition, Jiangsu Province Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The Second Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The Big Bang, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation, Iberia Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Third Party - An Exhibition In Three Acts: Act 2, Platform China, Beijing
Dragon Fountain Bathhouse, Forget Art, Beijing
Commit: The 2nd Stall Keeper Show, C5 Art Gallery, Beijing 
Traces, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing 

2009
Warm Up, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Yipai - Century, Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Live, Chongqing 501 Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Touch, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Transformational Hexagram, Art Channel, Beijing
Feeling, Art Channel, Beijing
Energy of Time, Chang Art, Beijing
Stall, Shangbao Art Museum, Beijing
Scattered Times Contemporary Art Exhibition Invitation, Shanghai Times Square, Shanghai

2008
Page 22, 58th Street Branch New York Public Library, New York
Happiness Side, Xiao Pu Station Art Center, Beijing
The Sixth Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: A Vista Of Perspectives, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China
Thinghood: Object-related Themes in Contemporary Art, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing
Poorism, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Updating, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
Hidden Life: Apartment Diary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing
Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing

2007
The Bounds of Reason, New York Art, Beijing 

2006
How Far From Art, Rain Gallery, Beijing

 

AWARDS

2018
“National Art” Tsinghua University Art Magazine Golden Star Award

2015
HUGO BOSS ASIA Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia