BIOGRAPHY

Yang Yongliang is a Shanghai-born artist living in New York. Raised in the 1980s in Old Town Jiading, he studied Chinese painting since childhood. In the early 2000s, he graduated from China Academy of Art and began experimenting in multidisciplinary art.

Yang’s digital Chinese landscapes have redefined traditional landscape paintings, featuring a massive amount of urban images reconstructed and recomposed. Poetic and quaint as it appears to be when seen from a distance, it unfolds a fable of modern civilization upon closer inspection. His works have been exhibited internationally and collected by public institutions worldwide, including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the British Museum in London, Paris Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

AWARDS

  • Asia Society - Asia Arts Game Changer Awards NORTH AMERICA - Awarded (2020)

  • Asia Society - Asia Arts Game Changer Awards INDIA - Awarded  (2019)

  • Prix Pictet -  The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability - Nominated (2019)

  • 40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d'Arles - Discovery Prize - Nominated (2009)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Vanishing Mountains, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China

2024 Parallel Metropolis, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne, Australia
            Imagined Landscapes, L’Abbaye Espace d’Art Contemporain, Annecy, France
            Parallel Metropolis, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne, Australia
            Vanishing Shore, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2023  Vanishing Landscape, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
            Glows in the Arctic, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden 
            Imagined Landscape, PARIS-B, Paris, France           

2022 Imagined Landscape, Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

2021 Journey to the Dark II, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
            Imagined Landscape, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
            Imagined Landscape, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China

2019 OCMAEXPAND: Eternal Landscape, Orange County Art Museum, Santa Ana, USA
            Artificial Wonderland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
            Views of Water, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong, China
            Eternal Landscape, HdM Gallery, London, UK

2018 Salt 14: Yang Yongliang, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, USA
            Journey to the Dark, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
            Journey to the Dark, Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Time Immemorial, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
            Time Immemorial, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China

2016 Time Immemorial, SHIBUNKAKU, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Kyoto, Japan
            Fall into Oblivion, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore

2015     YAN, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
            Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Review, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2013 Moonlit Metropolis, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
            Silent Valley, MC2 Gallery, Milano, Italy
            The Moonlight, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France

2012 The Moonlight, Magda Danysz Galleries, Shanghai, China

2011 The Peach Blossom Colony, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China

2010 Views from China: Yang Yongliang and The Modern Metropolis, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
            Artistic Conception: Landscape, My Humble House, Taipei, Taiwan
            Heavenly City, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
            Yang Yongliang Solo, Melbourne Intercultural Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Yang Yongliang Photographic Works, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA             City of Phantom Visions, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China

2008 Heavenly City & On the Quiet Water, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China

2006 Phantom Landscape, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China

  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025  ENNOVA Art Biennale, Ennova Art Museum, Langfang, China                         Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, USA             Travelers Mirror Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

2024  Babel Heureuse, Luxembourg City Museum, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg             Gmunden Photo, Stadtgarten Gmunden & Kunsthaus Blaue Butter, Gmunden, Austria             Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Nasher Museum of Art, NC, USA.             Your Light, My Light, Chinese Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania             Timeless Masterpieces, New Art Museum, Singapore             Where Mountains Meet the Sea, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.             Shan Shui Reboot, China Institute, New York, NY, USA                         Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA             Rebirth of the Dragon, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA                         Year of Dragon, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia

2023  Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy             Summoning Memories: Art beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society, Houston, TX, USA             Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, deCordova, Boston, MA, USA             L.E.V. Festival, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain             METro-BIOSIS, 5th Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai, China             Reconstructing Light and Shadow, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou,             China             We Love Singapore, Whitestone Gallery, Singapore             We Love China, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China             We Love Korea, Whitestone Gallery, Seoul, Korea             Sailing: Contemporary Echo of Maritime Silk Road, Zhangjiagang, China 

2022 The Big Picture, Nassau County Art Museum, Long Island, NY, USA             A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France             Beyond the Mountain, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA              Summer Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia             Between Shan Shui, Thames City 1974 Club, London UK

2021 The Earth as A Legacy, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France                         Landscapes of the Soul, Asian Arts Museum, Nice, France             Glow Shenzhen International Arts Festival, Shenzhen, China             Thousand Mirages, The Mixc, Shenzhen, China                         Digital Art Fair Asia, Asia Standard Tower, Hong Kong, China             What Happened Here?, Appetite, Singapore             Grand Opening, Meta ZiWU, Shanghai, China

2020   Longing for Nature, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland             Scenery in Mock-up, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan             Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA             Immaterial/Re-material, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China             Les Flots Écoulés, Abbaye de Jumièges, Jumièges, France             Out of the Shadows, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, USA

2019 Diversity for Peace, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Venice, Italy                         A Fairy Tale in Red Times, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia             Cannes XR, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France             Art of the Mountain, China Institute, New York, USA             Pal(ate)/ette/, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China             Hua Yuan, MGM COTAI Theater, Macau, China

2018 Endangered Species, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, USA              Photo Brussels Festival 03, Hangar Art Center, Ixelles, Belgium             2050. A Brief History of the Future, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium and National Taiwan             Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan             Trompe-L’Oeil, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore             Inside Outside: A Century of East Asian Landscape 1900s-2000s, Samuel P. Harm Museum of Art,             University of Florida, Gainesville, USA                         Shanghai Beat, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan             Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan             Worlds Apart, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA             Photography Biennale, Museum for Art and Visual Culture, Odense, Denmark             I Object, The British Museum, London, UK             Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA             Rebuild Utopia, OCT Art & Design, Shenzhen, China             Beyond Brush and Ink: The Multiplicity of Eastern Aesthetic, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China             Mountains and Streams, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden           Art of the Mountain, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA           Inky Bytes, Museum of Arts and Crafts - MKG Hamburg, Germany

2017 The Digital Showcase, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore             Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,             New York, USA             The Roads of Translation, Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland             Digital Matters, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK             Digital – The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Victoria, Australia             Art is Science, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan             40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing,             China             China in Motion, Annecy Museum, Annecy, France              Energy Filed, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China             The Five Moons, Return of the Nameless and Unknown, PyeongChang Biennale, Pyeongchang,             Korea             Prix Pictet: Disorder, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA             Land and People, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia             Behold Land, People: People and Land in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Geological Museum             and the City Gallery, Ramat Hasharon, Israel

2016 Jimei Arles Photography Festival, Xiamen, China             Après Babel, Traduire, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France             Beijing Independent Film Festival, Li Space, Beijing, China                         Humanistic Nature and Society (Shan Shui), Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China             Ink Remix: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Museum of Brisban, Brisbane,             Australia             Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China             Grain and Pixel – 150 Years of Chinese Photography, China Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium             Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China             Prix Pictet: Disorder, Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece; Somerest House, London, UK             Ink Remix: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia

2015 Prix Pictet: Disorder, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France             Grain and Pixel, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China             Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China             Shanghai Ever, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China                         Bizzarreland – Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Dadi Art Museum, Hefei, China;             Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany             Shan Shui – An Insight into the Future, Palazzo Flangini, Venice, Italy             China8 – Contemporary Art from China, Foundation for Arts and Culture, Bonn, Germany                         Aandacht! Aandacht! – Stormopkomst Festival, De Warande, Turnhout, Belguim                         State of Play, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia             Ink Remix: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Canberra Museum and Gallery,             Canberra, Australia                         Dislocation: Urban Experience in Contemporary East Asian Photography, Smith College Museum of             Art, Northampton, USA             2050. A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Brussels; The Louvre, Paris,             France

2014 Art & Arcade, MU Strijp-S, Eindhoven, Netherlands             Outside the Lines - New Art From China, RH Contemporary Art, New York, USA                         30th International Festival of Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Greece             Aura of Poetry, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China                         1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, China             Phantom City, Rotorua Museum, Rotorua, New Zealand                         5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan             5th Daegu Photo Biennale, Culture&Arts Center, Daegu, South Korea             Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China             China’s Changing Landscape, Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden                         4th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore Art Science Museum, Singapore             Babel, destiny of a myth, Libraries of Pantin, Pantin, France             Staging Encounters – Ten Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography 2005-2014, Lianzhou Foto,             Lianzhou, China             High Mountains, Flowing Waters, China Cultural Center, Berlin, Germany

2013 Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA                         Insightful Charisma, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China             DE LEUR TEMPS, Hangar à Bananes Art Center, Nantes, France             Images Festival: How far away is the horizon?, Holbæk, Denmark             Occupy Utopia, Copenhagen, Denmark             Seven sunsets, waiting dawns, all in one. How to kill a wondrous time…not wanting a thousand             hours, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China             Space-time: 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia              1,2,3,b4, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki - SMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece              New Ink, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong, China             City in Picture, Picture of a City, City Museum Zwolle, Zwolle, Netherlands             Winds of the East, Al Blu Gallery in Prussia, Naples, Italy                          Dreamers: AlexandFelix / Alessandro Lupi / Yang Yongliang, Palazzo Tagliaferro Contemporary             Culture Center, Milano, Italy                         Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK

2012 A Sprinkle of Salt: Shi Zhiying / Yang Yongliang, MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
            Printed Image in China: From the 8th - 21th Centuries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
            Conceptual Renewal - Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, SiShang Art             Museum, Beijing, China
            Creators Project: Beijing 2012, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
            Babel, Museum of Fine Arts of Lille, Lille, France
            Time Catcher, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2011 One Hundred flowers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
            Metropolis / City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht International Photo festival, Groningen,                         Netherlands
            The Eye Is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, 4th edition of the Fotofestival, Mannheim /                         Ludwigshafen / Heidbelberg, Germany
            Shan Shui - Poetry without sound, Chinese contemporary landscapes from the Sigg Collection,             Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

2009 Drama / Stage, Urban Photography in Shanghai, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
            2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
            Discovery Award, 40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
            Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA

2008 Two Points: 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy
            Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Street to Monument and Skyscraper, Bates College Museum of             Art, Maine, USA
            Material Link, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
            Group Exhibition, Urban Public, Hamburg, Germany
            Mixed Maze, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK

2007 Art Now 2007, Danwon Arts Festival, Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
            Five, Pingyao Internatioanl Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

COLLECTIONS

  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Ohio, USA)

  • Arendt Art Collection (Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg)

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

  • Bates College Museum of Art (Maine, USA)

  • The British Museum (London, UK)

  • Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA)

  • Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Davis Museum at Wellesley College （Massachusetts, USA）

  • Deutsche Bank (Hong Kong, China)

  • DSL Collection (Paris, France)

  • Fidelity Investment Corp. Collection (USA)

  • Franks-Suss Collection (London, UK)

  • How Art Museum (Shanghai, China)

  • HSBC Hong Kong (Shanghai, China)

  • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon (Oregon, USA)

  • M+ Sigg Collection (Hong Kong, China)

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)

  • Middlebury College Museum of Art (Vermont, USA)

  • Museum of Arts and Crafts (Hamburg, Germany)

  • Museum of Modern Art (Paris, France)

  • Museum of Mankind (Paris, France)

  • Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)

  • Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, USA)

  • The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)

  • Nevada Art Museum (Nevada, USA)

  • The Rare Books Department of the National Library of France (Paris, France)

  • Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Florida, USA)

  • San Francisco Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, USA)

  • The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (USA)

  • Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (Kansas, USA)

  • Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art - University of Salford (Manchester, UK)

  • White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Sydney, Australia)