Born 1984 in Xi'an, China
Lives and works in Paris and Heidelberg

Study

1974–1978
Study of paper mounting, folk-art and traditional Chinese painting at the Foshan Folk Art Institute, Guangdong, CN

1982
Graduated from the Chinese Painting department of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou, CN

Teaching

1982–1988
Teacher at the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou, CN

2005
Visiting artist at Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, USA

2008 Sterling visiting Professorship at the Stanford University Medical School, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford, California, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
The Last Tree, French May, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, HK
Beneath the Golden Antlers, Quail, Palo Alta US
Hundred Layers of Ink, M+, Hong Kong, HK

2023
Hundred Layers of Ink, SETAREH, Berlin, DE
The Quill is Mightier Than The Sword: Liang Shaoji and Yang Jiechang, Wuzhong Museum, Suzhou, CN

2022
Carte Blanche à Yang Jiechang, Musée Guimet, Paris, FR
NFT Drop with Aika and LaCollection, Non-Fungible Conference, Lisbon, PT

2021
Tale of the 11th day, Galerie de Sèvres, Paris, FR

2020
3 Souls 7 Spirits, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CN

2019
3 Souls 7 Spirits, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
From Heaven to Hell, Beyond Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan
Dark Writings, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FR

2018
Yang Jiechang. sehr romantisch, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, DE
Six Two Zen, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, CN
Presence and Absence – Mustard Seed Garden, Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, CN

2017
The Whip, Chambers Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
This is Still Bird and Flower Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, HK
Mustard Seed Garden – Mayland Lake, Art House, Guangzhou, CN
Yang Jiechang: Earth Roots, Ink Studio, Beijing, CN

2016
Like in Heaven So on Earth, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FR

2015
Good Morning Hong Kong, French May, Alisan Fine Arts, Central

2014
Yang Jiechang – Die Rechnung, bitte, Galerie Arndt, Berlin, DE
Yang Jiechang – These are still Landscapes, Ink Studio, Beijing, CN

2012
King of Canton – Yang Jiechang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Tale of the 11th Day, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, CN

2011
Stranger than Paradise, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, FR
Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR

2010
Yang Jiechang, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, DE
Underground Flowers, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Rouen, FR

2009
On Ascension, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR
Territoria, special project, Associazione Culturale Cantiere d’Arte Alberto Moretti-Galleria Schema, Prato, IT

2008
No–Shadow Kick, Duolum Museum, Shanghai, CN
Venice Biennale, Tibetan Pavilion, Edicola Notte, Rome, IT
In God We Trust, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California ,USA

2007
The Most Beautiful Country of China, HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK

2006
Tomorrow Cloudy Sky, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Idylls, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, CH

2005
Memorandums, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, Shenzhen Painting Institute, CN
Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d’Arte, Milan, IT

2003
Lookchat, Centre A, Vancouver, CA
For Emily, 4A Gallery, Sydney, AU

2002
Der längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen, DE

2001
Enlightened Blackness (French May), Hong Kong University,
Museum/Alice King Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Double View, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
100 Layers of Ink, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, TW

1999
Another Turn of the Screw, Gallery of Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing, CN
Rebuild Dong Cunrui, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, TW

1998
Your Customs – Our Customs, Altes Zollamt, Frankfurt, DE

1996
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR

1995
Gallery Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, CA
Gallery Alice Pauli, Lausanne, CH

1994
Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Espace d‘Art Contemporain Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, FR

1993
Rencontres dans un couloir, private appartment of Hou Hanru, Paris, FR

1992
Troisième demeure mondiale, Frankfurt, DE
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Gallery Turbulences, New York, NY, USA

1991
Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, GB

1990
Salon de Mars, booth of the Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Voyage au Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX

1988
Milky Way Exhibition No 9, Central Park Gallery, Canton
Artists 4 Association, Canton, CN
Library, Hong Kong, HK

2014
Yang Jiechang – Die Rechnung, bitte, Galerie Arndt, Berlin, DE
Yang Jiechang – These are still Landscapes, Ink Studio, Beijing, CN

2012
King of Canton – Yang Jiechang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Tale of the 11th Day, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, CN

2011
Stranger than Paradise, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, FR
Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR

2010
Yang Jiechang, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, DE
Underground Flowers, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Rouen, FR

2009
On Ascension, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR
Territoria, special project, Associazione Culturale Cantiere d’Arte Alberto Moretti-Galleria Schema, Prato, IT

2008
No–Shadow Kick, Duolum Museum, Shanghai, CN
Venice Biennale, Tibetan Pavilion, Edicola Notte, Rome, IT
In God We Trust, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California ,USA

2007
The Most Beautiful Country of China, HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK

2006
Tomorrow Cloudy Sky, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Idylls, Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, CH

2005
Memorandums, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, Shenzhen Painting Institute, CN
Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d’Arte, Milan, IT

2003
Lookchat, Centre A, Vancouver, CA
For Emily, 4A Gallery, Sydney, AU

2002
Der längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen, DE

2001
Enlightened Blackness (French May), Hong Kong University,
Museum/Alice King Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Double View, Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
100 Layers of Ink, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, TW

1999
Another Turn of the Screw, Gallery of Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing, CN
Rebuild Dong Cunrui, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, TW

1998
Your Customs – Our Customs, Altes Zollamt, Frankfurt, DE

1996
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR

1995
Gallery Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, CA
Gallery Alice Pauli, Lausanne, CH

1994
Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Espace d‘Art Contemporain Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, FR

1993
Rencontres dans un couloir, private appartment of Hou Hanru, Paris, FR

1992
Troisième demeure mondiale, Frankfurt, DE
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Gallery Turbulences, New York, NY, USA

1991
Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, GB

1990
Salon de Mars, booth of the Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Gallery Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR
Voyage au Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX

1988
Milky Way Exhibition No 9, Central Park Gallery, Canton
Artists 4 Association, Canton, CN

Group Exhibitions

2024
Shifting Surfaces, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, GER
Sourthern Stories, He Meshuguan, Guangdong, CN
Delight in the Invisible, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+, Hong Kong, HK

2023
Minimalism in Asian Art, Museum for Asian Art, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, DE
Opening, Star Museum, Shanghai, CN

2022
Encre et Mouvement, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, FR
Star Museum, Shanghai, CN
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, CN
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

2021
Ink City, Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, HK
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Lisbon by Design, Gomes Freire Palace, Lisbon, PRT

2020
Longing for Nature. Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, CH
Surge and Riverberation, Zhongjian Museum, Beijing, CN
Waves and Echoes: A Process of Re-contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987 Revisited, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN
Art Cologne at the Gallery: From Minimal to Expressionism, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, DE
Heaven and Earth in One Stroke, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, DE

2019
A Fairy Tale in Red Times. Works from the White Rabbit Collection, NGV International, Melbourne, AU
China Landscape. Selection from the Taikang Collection, TaiKang MOCA, Beijing, CN
La Rue, Où le monde se crée, La Panacée, MOCO Montpellier, France
Images de Canton, Centre Culturel de la Chine, Paris, France
3 Souls and 7 Spirits, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, ES
Sprachgefühl, Parasite, Hong Kong, HK
Splendors of the Sun and Moon, Museo Querinei Stampalia Fondazione, Venice, IT
Beyond the Scenery, OCT Loft exhibition, Shenzhen, CN

2017
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Passion de l‘art, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, FR
BRICS Conference, Xiamen, CN

2016
Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Carambolages, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Ink and the Mind, Ink Studio, Beijing, CN
Question de peinture, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FR

2015
La Chine ardente. Sculptures monumentales contemporaines. Mons – European Cultural Capital, Le Abbattoires, Mons, BE
Harmony and Transition. Chinese Landscapes in Contemporary Art, MARTA Herford, Herford, DE
Quinte-Essence, air, water, earth, fire, ether, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FR

2014
Advance through Retreat, Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
China‘s Changing Landscape, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, SE

2013
Zizhiqu/Autonomous Regions, Times Museum Guangzhou, Guangzhou, CN
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
Yuandao, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Ink Art, Past as
Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2012
Reactivation – Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN
Sehnsucht, Castel Gaasbeeck, Gaasbeeck, BE
Clouds, The Museum of Sketches – Archives of Public Art, Lund, SE

2011
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Fondation F. Pinault, Venice, IT
Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Tracing the Milky Way, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, CN

2010
Hareng Saur: Ensor et l’art contemporain, MSK and S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
L’Océan, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, FR
Le Jardin Emprunté, Jardin du Palais-Royal, Paris, FR
Thirty years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, CN

2009
Against Exclusion – 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage, Moscow, RU
Lyon Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lyon, FR
Qui a peur des artistes? Une sélection d’oeuvres de la Fondation
François Pinault, Musée de Dinard, Dinard, FR
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming..., Heidelberg, DE

2008
Onda Anomala – Manifesta 7, Trento, IT
Too early for vacation, RV&A, Limerick, IE
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Our future, special project, UCCA, Beijing, CN
Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR

2007
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
Metamorphosis – The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, FI
New Wave ’85, UCCA, Beijing, CN

2006
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, GB
Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La Force de l’Art – 1st Paris
Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
La revoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Center, Milan, IT
Micro-Macro Politics, Macau Art Museum, Macao, CN
Taste, 5th Shenzheng International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzheng, CN
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni, Rome, IT
Infiltration – Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, CN

2005
Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guanzhou, CN
Layered Landscapes, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Biennial of Emergency, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Experimental Ink, Museum of the University of Science, Taipei and Taichung, TW
Quinte-Essence, air, water, earth, fire, ether, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, FR

2014
Advance through Retreat, Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
China‘s Changing Landscape, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, SE

2013
Zizhiqu/Autonomous Regions, Times Museum Guangzhou, Guangzhou, CN
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
Yuandao, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Ink Art, Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2012
Reactivation – Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN
Sehnsucht, Castel Gaasbeeck, Gaasbeeck, BE
Clouds, The Museum of Sketches – Archives of Public Art, Lund, SE

2011 The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Fondation F. Pinault, Venice, IT
Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Tracing the Milky Way, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, CN
2010 Hareng Saur: Ensor et l’art contemporain, MSK and S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
L’Océan, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, FR
Le Jardin Emprunté, Jardin du Palais-Royal, Paris, FR
Thirty years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, CN

2009
Against Exclusion – 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage, Moscow, RU
Lyon Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lyon, FR
Qui a peur des artistes? Une sélection d’oeuvres de la Fondation François Pinault, Musée de Dinard, Dinard, FR
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming..., Heidelberg, DE

2008
Onda Anomala – Manifesta 7, Trento, IT
Too early for vacation, RV&A, Limerick, IE
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Our future, special project, UCCA, Beijing, CN
Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, FR

2007
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
Metamorphosis – The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, FI
New Wave ’85, UCCA, Beijing, CN

2006
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, GB
Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La Force de l’Art – 1st Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
La revoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Center, Milan, IT
Micro-Macro Politics, Macau Art Museum, Macao, CN
Taste, 5th Shenzheng International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzheng, CN
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni, Rome, IT
Infiltration – Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, CN

2005
Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guanzhou, CN
Layered Landscapes, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Biennial of Emergency, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Experimental Ink, Museum of the University of Science, Taipei and Taichung, TW

2004
La Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
Stop over Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Le moine et le démon, Musée d‘Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR
A l’est du sud de l’ouest, Villa Arson, Nice/Credac Sète, FR
Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, CN
All Under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerpen, BE

2003
Zone of Urgency, 50th Venice Biennial, Venice, IT
Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen Painting Institute, CN
The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, CN

2002
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, CN
Pause – Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, KR

2001
20 Main Chinese Painters, National Gallery Beijing, Beijing/Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN

2000
Paris pour Escale, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
Continental Shift, Musée d’art Moderne et d’art Contemporain, Liège, BE
A Portrait, Agnès B. Gallery, New York, USA
Fuori Uso – The bridges, Pescara, IT

1999
Art in March – Legend 99, Nantou, TW
Asiart 99 – Biennale d’arte contemporanea, Museum of Contemporary Art Genova, Genova, IT

1998
Les magiciens de la terre, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
2nd International Biennial Shanghai, Shanghai, CN

1997
In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, KR
Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, CA

1996
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE

1995
West-östliche Kontakte – Yang Jiechang, Young-Hyang Lee,
Teruko Hiramatsu, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE

1994
Out of the Centre, Museum of Modern Art, Pori, FI, US

1993
Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, GB
Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB
Construction in Process Nr. 4 – My Home is your Home, The Artists‘ Museum, Lodz, PL
Mao‘s Untamed Children, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, DE

1992
The Artists‘ Museum, Lodz, PL
History of the Rocket, The Tree of Life – A Journey to Asian Contemporary Art, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, JP

1991
Exceptional Passage, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, JP

1990
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
Chine demain pour hier, Pourrières, FR

1989
China/Avantgarde, National Gallery, Beijing, CN
Les magiciens de la terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Today, Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo, JP

Awards

2003
Residency at Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE, supported by the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA)

1990
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA

Collections

Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
AAA Collection, Hong Kong/ NY
Annie Wong Art Foundation, Vancouver, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Cantor Arts Centre, Stanford, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Cherngping Collection, Taiwan
Daewoo Collection Museum, Kyongju, Korea
Deutsche Bank Stiftung, Berlin, DE
Eslite Inc., TW
Fondation Pinault, FR
FRAC Fondation National d'Art Contemporain, FR
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, JP
Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, HK
Hong Kong University Museum, Hong Kong, HK
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
Musée Cernuschi, Paris, FR
Musée Guimet, Paris, FR
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
M+, Hong Kong, HK
Minsheng Museum, Beijing, CN
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Hamburg, DE
Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, CN
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, DE
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
Ullens Foundation, Belgium, BE
Sonjie Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, KR
Swatch Collection, Switzerland
The World Bank, Washington, USA
Xing Museum, Shanghai, CN
Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Shenzhen OCT, CN
Shenzhen Painting Institute, Shenzhen, CN
Swatch Collection, CH
Taikang Museum, Beijing, CN
White Rabbit, Australia
Yuz Collection, Shanghai, CN
K11 Hong Kong, HK
Collection Alice King, Hong Kong, HK
Jeanne Bucher Collection, Paris, FR
gdcollection (Collection Gérard et Dora Cognie), Switzerland
Fondation INK Collection
DSL Collection, Paris, FR
Collection Jane Debevoise, New York, USAJMD Collection, Hong Kong
Modern Media Collection, Shenzhen, CN
Collection Jean-Pierre Moueix, Bordeaux, FR
Collection Johnson Chang
Collection Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tang Polo, Beijing, CN
Yang Ziyuan Collection, USA
Yageo Art Foundation, TW