AWARDS & HONORS
2003 Residency at Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany, supported by the French Association for
Artistic Action (AFAA)
1990 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Yang Jiechang: Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie de Sèvres, Paris, France
2019 3 Souls 7 Spirits, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
From Heaven to Hell, Beyond Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Six Two Zen, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Seed Garden, Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China
Presence and Absence: Nature in French Landscape Garden and Chinese Garden, Boxes
Art Museum, Shunde, China
2017 Mustard Seed Garden — Mayland Lake, Art House, Guangzhou, China
Earth Roots: Yang Jiechang Paintings, 1985-1999, INK studio, Beijing, China
Yang Jiechang: This is still Bird and Flower Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
Yang Jiechang: The Whip, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2016 On Earth as in Heaven, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France
2015 Underground Flowers — Yang Jiechang, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris,
France
Good Morning Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong, China
2014 Yang Jiechang — I often do bad things, Deichtorhallen/Phoenixhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Yang Jiechang: Die Rechnung bitte, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Yang Jiechang: This Is Still Landscape Painting, INK studio, Beijing, China
2012 King of Canton — Yang Jiechang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Tale of the 11th Day, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2011 Stranger than Paradise, La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Rennes, France
Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
Tale of the 11th Day, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2010 New Ink Art by Yang Jiechang, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center, Hong Kong,
China
Yang Jiechang, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Underground Flowers, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen, Festival Automne en
Normandie, Rouen, France
2009 On Ascension, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
Territoria, special project, Associazione Culturale Cantiere d'Arte Alberto Moretti-Galleria
Schema, Prato, Italy
2008 No–Shadow Kick, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
In God We Trust, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University
Medical School, Stanford, Palo Alto, USA
2007 The Most Beautiful Country of China: New Works by Yang Jiechang, Hanart TZ Gallery,
Hong Kong, China
2006 Idylls, Grace Li Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2005 Black – Extreme – Vigorous – Figurative, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China
Memorandums, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d'Arte, Milan, Italy
2003 Lohkchat!, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
For Emily, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
2002 Der längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen, Germany
2001 Enlightened Blackness: Ink Paintings by Yang Jiechang, Alisan Fine Arts; University
Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Double View, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
100 Layers of Ink, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 You – Double View, Project Room, ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain
1999 Another Turn of the Screw, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Recreate "Dong Cun Rui", Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Your Customs – Our Customs, Altes Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany
1996 Chinese ink painting on paper, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
1995 Solo exhibition, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
Solo exhibition, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
1994 Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Le Faubourg - l'espace d'art contemporain, Strasbourg,
France
1993 Rencontres dans un couloir, Private apartment of Hou Hanru, Paris, France
1992 Troisième demeure mondiale, Frankfurt, Germany
Solo exhibition, Gallery Turbulences, New York, USA
Solo exhibition, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
1991 Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
1990 Salon de Mars, booth of the Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
Solo exhibition, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
Voyage au Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1988 Exhibition of Star No. 9, Central Park Gallery, Canton Artists Association, Guangzhou,
China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Imagerie de Lingnan, After Hill Art Center, Guangdong, China
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, USA
Ink City, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
2020 Ink Sky: Exhibition of Chinese Ink Art Year Book 2020, An Art Museum, Beijing, China
Waves and Echoes: A Process of Re-contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987
Revisited, Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition: Arts of Asia Gallery Reopen, Brooklyn Museum,
New York, USA
10th International Ink Art Biennial of Shenzhen: Ink at Current, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute,
Shenzhen, China
5th Collector's Contemporary Collaboration, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2018 New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Sprachgefuhl, Parasite, Hong Kong, China
Splendors of the Sun and Moon, Museo Querinei Stampalia Fondazione, Venice, Italy
Beyond the Scenery, OCT Loft exhibition, Shenzhen, China
Approach Spirits, N3 Contemporary, Beijing, China
Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2017 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, the Guggenheim Museum, New York,
USA
PASSION DE L'ART: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Haeger depuis 1925, Musée Granet, Aix-en
Provence, France
Corps et Ames – Un regard prospectif/Body and Spirit — A prospective gaze, Galerie
Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France
China Now: New Literati Art, INK studio at ART100, New York, U.S.A
2016 Ink and the Mind, INK studio, Beijing, China
Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Carambolages, Grand Palais, Paris, France
About Painting, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France
2015 Fragmentary Narratives, Changsha Museum, Changsha, China
A Hundreds Years of Shame — Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nation,
Para Site, Hongkong, China
2014 Advance through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
China's Changing Landscape, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Sweden
Ink and the Body, INK studio, Beijing, China
2013 Zizhiqu / Autonomous Regions, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Origin of Dao: New Dimension in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, Hong Kong, China
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, USA
2012 Reactivation: The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Clouds, The Museum of Sketches for Public Art, Lund, Sweden
Sehnsucht, Castel Gaasbeeck, Belgium
2011 Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Fondation F. Pinault, Venice, Italy
Tracing the Milky Way, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2010 Le Jardin Emprunté, Jardin du Palais-Royal, Paris, France
Hareng Saur: Ensor et l'art contemporain, MSK and S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
L'Océan, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France
Grande Veillée d'Automne en Normandie, Rouen, France
30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art for the World: The Expo-The City of Forking Paths, Expo Boulevard, Shanghai, China
2009 Against Exclusion: 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia
10th Lyon Biennale: The Spectacle of the Everyday, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon,
Lyon, France
Qui a peur des artistes ? Une sélection d'œuvres de la Fondation François Pinault, Musée
de Dinard, France
Time Versus Fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nuremberg, Germany
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming..., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm: New Aspects of Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, China
Broadsheet Notations: Epilogue, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Hong Kong, China
2008 Onda Anomala — Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, special project, UCCA,
Beijing, China
OPEN/ INVITED e v+ a 2008: Too Early For Vacation, RV&A, Limerick City, Ireland
The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond, The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
2007 The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul,
Turkey
'85 New Wave Movement: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing, China
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere
Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Yan Pei-Ming, Gu Dexin, Yang Jiechang, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Made in China, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Who Do You Think You Are?, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2006 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Laboratoire pour un avenir incertain, La force de l'art: 1st Paris Triennial, Grand Palais,
Paris, France
La revoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Capolavoro, Palazzo Primavera, Terni, Italy
Infifiltration – Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Surplus Value, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
The 5th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen: Taste, Guan Shanyue Art Museum,
Shenzhen, China
Accumulation: Canton Express Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Microcosm, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
2005 Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Layered Landscapes, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Emergency Biennial, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Grozny, Chechen Republic
Experimental Ink, Museum of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan, China
Beyond Boundaries: Shanghai Gallery of Art 04'-05', Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai,
China
2004 Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Stopover Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Le moine et le démon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
A l'est du sud de l'ouest, Villa Arson, Nice/Credac Sète, Nice, France
Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
All under Heaven, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
GAP, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberger, Germany
The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Art Museum; Guan
Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Open: The Inaugural Exhibition of Grace Alexander Contemporary Art, Grace Alexander
Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 Zone of Urgency: 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Fifth System: 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, China
Playing at Home/Playing Away: The Maze of Reality, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou,
China
2002 Pause: Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, South Korea
The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 3rd International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen: Metropolis Ink Painting, Guan
Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Paris-Pékin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2001 Chengdu Biennale 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Towards New Image: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Museum of
China, Bejing, China; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Sichuan Art Museum,
Chengdu, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
1st Space for Contemporary Ink Work — China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment 1980-2001,
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Centre de Refuge, Centre International de Poesie, Marseille, France
2000 Paris pour Escale, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Continental Shift, Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Liège, Belgium
A Portrait, Agnès B. Gallery, New York, USA
Fuori Uso 2000: the Bridges, Pescara, Italy
The 2rd International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum,
Shenzhen, China
1999 Art in March-Legend 99, Nantou, Taiwan, China
ASIART 99, Biennale d'arte contemporanea, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Villa
Croce, Genova, Italy
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas: Works on Paper, IT Park Gallery , Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Les magiciens de la terre, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
4696/1998: Contemporary Art from China, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
Shanghai Biennale 1998, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The 1st International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum,
Shenzhen, China
1997 In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea
Between the Sky and the Earth: Five Contemporary Chinese Artists around the World,
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Chinois Contemporain, Espace Belleville, Paris, France
1996 East–West, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1995 West–Östliche Kontakte–Yang Jiechang, Young-Hyang Lee, Teruko Hiramatsu,
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Über Höderlin, Hölderlinturm, Tübingen, Germany
1994 Out of the Centre, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
China Avant-Garde: Counter-Currents in Art and Culture, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Berlin, Germany; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1993 Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Silent Energy: New Art from China, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Oxford, UK
Mao's Untamed Children, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 My Home Is Your Home, The International Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland
Looking for the Tree of Life — Journey to the Asian Contemporary Art, Saitama Museum of
Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1991 Exceptional Passage, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
1990 Chine demain pour hier, Pourrières, France
1989 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Les magiciens de la terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Today, Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
The World Bank, Washington, USA
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Ministry of Culture, France
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany
Annie Wong Art Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
Swatch Collection, Switzerland
François Pinault Foundation, France
Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
Yageo Art Foundation, Taiwan
Eslite Inc., Taiwan
