Yang Shaobin     杨少斌

1963 born in Tangshan, Hebei province
1983 graduated from the Polytechnical university, Hebei
1991- 96 lived and worked in the artist village Yuanminyuan, Beijing
Lives and works as independent artist in Beijing
 

Exibitions (selected list) :

2008

“X-Blind Spot, Long March Space, Beijing (Solo)

7th Shanghai Biennale – Translocomotion, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2007
Dramas of Violence, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (Solo)

800 Meters Under, Long March Space, Beijing
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, UK
Chinese Contemporary Sotsart, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

“Now·Shanghai”, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Zurück zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart”, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

2006

 800 Meters Under, Long March Space, Beijing(Solo)

News, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Jianghu - New Art from China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Building Code Violations, Long March Space, Beijing
Hermann Nitsch and Yang Shaobin, White Space, Beijing
Absolute Images – Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery

2005

From Pilipala to International Politics, Kai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong (Solo)
Vibrations, White Space, Beijing (Solo)
Alexander Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Solo)

Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
International Biennale of Contemporary Art Prague, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Always to the Front, Kuanda Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Avant – Garde, The Hague Sculpture, Sculpture Museum of The Hague, Netherlands
The Gravity of the Immaterial, Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2004

Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China (Solo)
“China: Bodies Everywhere”, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
“Forbidden Senses”, Sarlat, France
“Me! Self-portraits of the 20th Century”, Museum of Luxembourg, Paris, France
“Bridge”, Siemens Forum, Munich, Germany

China, Potenza Museum, Italy
The Group, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Pain, Michel Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA.
China-Cuba, Macla Movimiento de Arte y Culturad Latino San Jose, California, USA

2003
Yang Shaobin - Grey Paintings, PRÜSS & OCHS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002
De Waan - The Delusion, Stichting Odapark, Center for Contemporary Art, Venray, The Netherlands
The 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
Song Zhuang, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen Abbild, Graz Museum, Austria
Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Museum Oslo, Norway
The 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2000
Yang Shaobin and Zeng Hao Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milano, Italy
Futuro - Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre (CACOM), Macao
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups - from the MCAF collection, BizArt, Shanghai, China
Chinese Muren - Chinese Walls, Nederlandse Gasunie, Groningen, The Netherlands
Our Chinese Friends, ACC- Galerie Weimar, Germany Skin & Space, Contemporary Art Center Milano, Italy
Basic Needs - Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Contemporary Chinese Portrait, Centre Culturel Francois Mitterand, Périgueux, France
New Works from Beijing, PRÜSS & OCHS Gallery, Berlin
Art Koln, PRÜSS & OCHS Gallery, Berlin
1999
The 48th Venice Biennale, Veniezia, Italy
The Collection of Upriver Gallery in Chengdu, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
China Passage, Dongyu Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998
China Now, Littmann Kunstprojekte, Japan
It is Me, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
China Personal Touch, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
1997
8+8-1 - Selected Paintings by 15 contemporary Chinese Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong; Vierte Etage Galerie, Berlin, Germany
China Now, Kulturprojekte Basel, Switzerland
1996
China - Zeitgenoessische, Malerei Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Elevensie's - The Avant-Garde Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
China! - Zeitgenössische Malerei, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
China!, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1995
5+5 Voices from Russia and China, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
New Trends '95, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Vision of China: Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Chinese Masters, Bangkok, Thailand
The Magnificient Duo - Recent Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
History of Chinese Oil Painting - From Realism to Post-Modernism, Galerie Theoremes, Brussels, Belgium
1994
8+8 -1 , Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Contemporary Russian and Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
New Trends `94, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain - Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobing, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1993
The 1st Chinese Professional Art Exhibition, Akuna Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Contemporary Modern Art, Beijing Friendship Guesthouse, China
China Modern Art, Beijing University, China