Yang Zhenzhong 杨振中
Born
in
in Hangzhou, China
1990 Graduated from the Fashion Design
Department of the Zhejiang Institute of Silk Textile
Oil painting department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, China
Works and lives in China
2008
Yang Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition , Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo)
Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art , The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
The World of Other’s: A Contemporary Art Exhibition , Museum of Contemportary Art, Shanghai, China
LIAF-Lofoten International Art Festival , Svolvaer, Norway
Shanghai Kaleidoscope , Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toranto, Canada
An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art , Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Prague, Czech Republic
Like Animals (Comme des betes) , Musee cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
Building Code Violations II , Long March Space, Beijing
Shanghype!-Portrait of the City from Dawn to Dusk , FUTURA Centre For Contemporary Art + Events, Prague, Czech Republic
21st Century China. Art between Identity and Transformation , Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
FRECHEIT/FREIHEIT , Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Selected , ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2007
Counterpoint , Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai
Artissima Cinema, Shanghype!-Portrait of the City from Dawn to Dusk , Mirafiori Motor Village, Turin, Italy
China- Facing Reality , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria
Energy-Spirit . Body . Material , Today Art Museum,Beijing
2007 Wuhan 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts- Forms of Concepts: The Reform of Concepts of Chinese Contemporary Art 1987-2007－The New Generation and Bad Art , Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
Video_Dumbo-11 Video Art Festival , Dumbo Art Center, New York, USA
Rejected Collection-More the 40 Chinese Artists /Over 60 Rejected Proposals, , Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai
Red Hot-Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Individual Position 2 , ShanghART Gallery H-Space, Shanghai, China
Global Cities , Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
La Biennale di Venezia 52 Espositione Internationale d’Arte: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind , Venice, Italy
Chinese Contemporary Photo&Video Now -The 7th Photo Festival , Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Transpacific: An Encounter in Santiago , La Moneda Palace Cultural Center (LMPCC), Santiago, Chile
NoNo-Self-curated Exhibitin of latest artworks by 11 individual artists , Long March Space, Beijing, China
DEAF07/DEAF07: Interact or Die , Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2007, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Zhuyi! Contemporary Chinese Photography , ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Three Viewpoints to Asian Contemporary Art , the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma/The Finnish National Gallery
Of Beast and Man (Des bêtes et des hommes) , Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France
2006
Foreplay , Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China (Solo)
Yang Zhenzhong, IKON Gallery , Birmingham, UK (Solo)
China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture , Netherlands Architecture Institute
Humor Me , Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.
Solo Exhibition , 2577 Creative Garden, Shanghai, China
China Power Station: Part I. , co-organised by the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art , Battersea Power Station, London, UK
Bêtes de Style , MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
City in Progress / Live from Zhang Jiang , Zhang Jiang High-Tech Park, Shanghai, China
ALLLOOKSAME? ArtChinaKoreaJapanArt , Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, TORINO, Italy
The 5th Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) , the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Everyday People , curated by Jason Waite, Festival of Creativity, Fortezza di Basso - Florence, Italy
It’s all right , New Media Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Co-organized with Shanghai BizArt Art Center, China
2005
Do it , the book project organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Let Some Ideas be Seen , Hangzhou, China
CP Open Biennale 2005 , Urban/Culture, Jakarta, Indonesia
Biennale! International Artist Film & Video , BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
Biennale! Artist Film and Video , TEMPORARYCONTEMPORARY, London, UK
Shanghai Constructions , Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
The Second Guangzhou Triennial - BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization , Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China , Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Yoko Ono Horizontal Memories - (Yoko Ono’s Water Event 2005) , Astrup FearnleyAstrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Follow Me! , Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
True to Life , Top Space Gallery, Beijing, China
Art Star 2: Video Art Biennial 2005 , Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection , Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Experimenta Vanishing Point , New Media Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, International, Melbourne, Australia
Zooming into Focus NAMOC - Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection , National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2005 - Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now: Asian Art Now, 2005 , Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Something is Happening! , Maple-poplar Woods - In Orioles Singing in the Willows Park, Hangzhou, China
Magic, the Heart of Art Center , Luoyang, China
HOMEWORKS III , Masrah Al Madina, Masrah Al Madina, Beirut, Lebanon
VIDEOZOOM: Chinese video artists - The city: mirage and reflection, Galeria Sala 1 , Centro Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2004
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China , Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
A I’Ouest du Sud de l’Est - L’annee de la Chine , CRAC centre regional d'art contemporain, Nice, France
Shanghai Surprise , lothringer dreizehn, Munich, Germany
Rogue Nations: Cuban & Chinese Artists , MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana.), San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Light as Fuck! Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004 , the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
China Now, Alles onder de hemel, Chinese Contemporary Artworks from the Guy & Myriam Ullens Collection , Muhka, Antwerpen, Belgium
Le Moine et Le Demon , Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
At the Still Point of the Turning World , FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Centre in Liverpool, U.K.
The Logbook: An Art-Project about Communication and Cultural Exchange , Longmarchfoundation, Beijing, China
Is It Art? - Black Show , Noanoa Center, Xi’an, China
Dial 62761232: Express Art Exhibition , Shanghai, China
Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists , Shanghai, China
Zooming into Focus (Singapore) - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection , LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Die Chinesen: Fotografie und Video aus China , Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Shanghai Modern , Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
China Now , MOMA Film at the Gramercy Theater, New York, USA
Zooming into Focus (Tijuana) - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection , Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China , ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum, V&A, London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin)
Concrete Horizons - Contemporary art from China , Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Zooming into Focus (SAM) - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection , Shanghai Art Museum, China
China: Generation Video , Mep-Maison Europeene de la photographie, Paris, France
2003
White Tower Mountain Exhibition , Hangzhou, China
Out of the Red: La generation emergente , Trevi Flash Art Museum, Milan, Italy
Un Bestiaire Fabuleux , Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Korea
Second Hand Reality Contemporary Art Exhibition , Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Nasty: Painting , BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 , Short Video festival, Japan
The Skyline at Work , New York, USA
City Net Asia 2003 , Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Ok. Video, Jakarta Video Art Festival 2003 , Jakarta, Indonesia
Games , Hartware Medien Kunst Verein , Dortmund, Germany
Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art , Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1st Prague Biennale - Project: Chinese Art Today , National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority , BizArt Art Center, Shanghai China
50th Biennale di Venezia-Z.O.U , Venezia Italy
Zooming into Focus (San Diego) - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection , San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, CA, U.S.A.
Department - Contemporary art exhibition , Hangzhou, China,
Chinese Maximalism , Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
Fabricated Paradises , Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Pau, France
+System, Short videos from the world 2002-2003 , BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
Open Sky - Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art , Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Spring Story - (part of Siemens Art Program “What are they doing here?” , Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communication Ltd. Shanghai, China
Urbanart 2003 , City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Alors la Chine? , Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002
Light as Fuck , Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China (Solo)
Quick Look! - Shanghai Zhejiang Jiangsu Anhui Contemporary Art Exhibition , Consulate General of Switzerland, Shanghai, China
Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu , Jin Shajiang Rd., Shanghai, China
VideoROM 2.0 , Giancarla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
Fantasia , East Art Center, Beijing, China
Cover Asia , National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman Island
Phenomena and Image, Le Fresnoy - c’est pas du cinema , Le Fresnoy, Studio national d'arts contemporains, France,
4th Gwangju Biennial , South Korea
Art in General - 4th Annual Video Marathon, 12 hour screening , New York, USA
Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennale , Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition , Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000) , Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
”THEATERFORMEN 2002″ international theater festival , Hannover/ Braunschweig, Germany
2001
Fantasia , Temporary Space, Artsonje, Seoul, Korea
ARCO - Asian Party , Global Game (curated by Hou Hanru), Madrid, Spain
Homeport , Fuxing Park, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China
China - Germany New Media Art Week , Beijing, China
I will Die , - B Space of KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS 2001, Brussels, Belgium
The First Valencia Biennale , Valencia, Spain
Red Hot , Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Living in Time - Contemporary Artists from China , the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Germany
Mantic Ecstasy - Photography & Video , Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
2000
2000 China Internet Video and Photo Art , China
Video-Circle , Hong Kong, China/Berlin, Germany
La Photographie Traversee , Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie , Arles, France
Our Chinese Friends , Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
nertia & Mask: Works on Paper , Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China
Home - CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION , Yuexing Furniture Plaza, Shanghai, China
BIG Torino 2000 , Torino, Italy
Useful Life , Temporary Space, Dong Daming Rd, Shanghai, China
1999
Idea & Concepts , Shanghai, China
BM99, Bienal da Maya , Maya, Portugal
Art for Sale , Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai
The Same but also Changed - Photography Exhibition , 859 Tian Yao Qiao Road, Shanghai, China
Xchange , Paris, France
1998
Jin Yuan Lu, Jin Yuan Lu 310 , Shanghai, China
Jiangnan / Yang Zhenzhong , Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997
Demonstration of Video Art’97 China , Beijing
Chinese Video and Photography , Max Protech Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Contemporary Photo Art from China , NBK / Berlin, Darmstad, Germany
1996
Image and Phenomena: Exhibition of video works by 15 artists , Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1995
4×100sqm, Group Activity , Hangzhou, China
45 Degrees as a Reason , Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing, Artist’s Private Home, China
1994
The Date 26 Nov. 1994 as a Reason: Conceptual collaboration work organized by Geng Jianyi with artists from Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing , Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
1992
The First Guangzhou Biennale of Art , Guangzhou, China