Born 1956 in Foshan, Guangdong Province, PR China.
Lives and works in Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany since 1988.
1974 – 1978 study of paper mounting, folk art, calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting at
the Foshan Folk Art Institute, Foshan, Canton.
1978 – 1982 study of traditional Chinese painting at the Fine Arts Academy of Canton.
1982 – 1989 teaching at the Fine Arts Academy of Canton.
1984 – 1986 study of the Tao with Master Huangtao at Mount Luofu, Canton and study of
Zen Buddhism at Guangxiao Temple, Canton.
1992 – 1993 Fellowship of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York.
2003 – Residency at the Kunst Werke in Berlin, sponsored by French AFAA and German
government.
2005 – Visiting artist at Stanford University (February)
2008 – Sterling visiting professorship at Stanford University, California, USA.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Yang Jiechang – On Ascension, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
Territoria, special project, Associazione Culturale Cantiere d’Arte Alberto Moretti-Galleria Schema, Prato, Italy
2008 Tibetan Pavilion, Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy
No Shadow Kick, Duolun Museum of Modern ART, Shanghai
2007 The Most Beautiful Country of China, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong.
2006 Tomorrow Cloudy Sky HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong.
Idylls, Grace Li Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
2005 Memorandums, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris.
Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, Shenzhen Painting Institute, PR China.
Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d’arte, Milano, Italy.
2003 Lookchat, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
For Emily, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2002 Der längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany.
2001 French May, Hong Kong University Museum, Hong Kong.
Enlightened Blackness, Alice King Gallery, Hong Kong.
Double View, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
100 Layers of Ink, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan.
Institut Français, Institut Français, Frankfurt, Germany.
2000 You – Double View, Project Room, ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain.
1999 Another Turn of the Screw, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, PR China.
Rebuild Dong Cunrui, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipeh, Taiwan.
1998 Your Customs – Our Customs, Altes Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany.
1996 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
1995 Ostwestliche Kontakte, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany.
Galerie Samuel Lallouze, Montreal, Canada.
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Swiss.
Art Cologne, booth of Galerie Jeanne Bucher.
1994 Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Espace d’art contemporain Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, France.
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
1993 Rencontres dans un Couloir, private flat of Hou Hanru, Paris, France.
Galerie Lauter, Mannheim , Germany.
1992 Testament, Dritte Welt Haus, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
Gallery Turbulences, New York, USA.
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
1991 Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, England.
1990 Salon de mars, booth of the Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.
Voyage en Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.
1988 Milky Way Exhibition N°9, Gallery of the Central Park, Canton Artists4 Association, Canton, PR China.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia
Lyon Biennial, Lyon Musuem of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Qui a peur des artistes? Une sélection d'oeuvres de la François Pinault Foundation, Musée de Dinard, France
time versus fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany
Becoming Intense – Becoming Animal – Becoming, University and City of Heidelberg
2008 Onda Anomala – Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy
Our Future, Special project, UCCA, Beijing
Too Early For Vacation, ev&a 2008, Limmerick, Ireland
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, PR Ch
Eurasia, SHcontemporary, special project, with santomatteo, Shanghai
2007 New Wave ’85, UCCA, Ullens Foundation, Beijing, PR CHina
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Metamorphosis: The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
Made in China, Louisianna Museum, Kopenhagen Denmark.
Gu Dexin, Yan Pei-Ming, Yang Jiechang, Red Mansions Foundation, London, UK
2006 Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
La rivoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Centre, Milano, Italy.
Micro-Macro Politics, Macao Art Museum, Macao.
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni, Rome, Italy.
Infiltration – Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, PR China.
Surplus Value, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, PR China.
Accumulation, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, PR China.
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.
Taste 5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen. PR China.
2005 Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guanzhou, PR China.
Layered Landscapes: Yan Lei and Yang Jjiechang, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA.
Biennial of Emergency, Palais de Tokyo, Paris/ Grozny.
Experimental Ink, Museum of the University of Science, Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan.
2004 Stop Over Hong Kong, HanartTz Gallery, Hong Kong.
Le moine et le démon, Museé d’art contemporain, Lyon, France.
A l’est du sud de l’ouest, Villa Arson/Credac Sète, France.
GAP, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany.
Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, PR China.
All Under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerpen, Belgium.
La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France.
2003 Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.
Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen Painting Institute, PR China.
The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, PR China.
2002 Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, PR China.
Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea.
Variations of Ink, Chambers Fine Arts, New York.
First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, PR China.
2001 20 Main Chinese Painters, National Gallery Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Chengdu Art Museum, Canton Art Museum, PR China.
China:20 Years of Ink Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, 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, Gallery agnès b., New York, USA.
Fuori Uso- The Bridges, Pescara, Italy.
1999 Art in March : Legend 99, Nantou, Taiwan.
Asiart 99 Biennale d’arte contempranea, Museum of Contemporary Art Genova, Italy.
1998 Les magiciens de la terre, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA.
2nd International Biennial‘98 Shanghai, Shanghai, PR China.
1997 In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea.
Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1996 West-östliche Kontakte, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany.
1995 Über Hölderlin, Hölderlin Museum Tübingen, Germany.
1994 Out of the Centre, Museum of Modern Art, Pori, Finland.
1993 Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Scotland.
Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England.
1992 Chinese Museum Project, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland.
1991 Exceptional Passage, City Museum Project, Fukuoka, Japan.
1990 Chine Demain Pour Hier, Les Domaines de l’art, Pourrières, France.
1989 Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre d’art moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
China/Avantgarde, National Gallery, Beijing, PR China.