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Huang Yong Ping

 
HUANG YONG PING
Born 1954 Xiamen, China
Died 2019 Paris, France
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Education
1989
Fine Arts Academy of Zhejiang, Zhejiang, China
Solo Exhibitions
2018
"Huang Yong Ping," Gladstone Gallery, New York
2017
“Hong Kong Feet” (with Shen Yuan), Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2016
“Empires,” Monumenta 16, Grand Palais, Paris
"Wolfgang Hahn Prize,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
“Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left,” Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2015
“Huang Yong Ping: Bâton Serpent II,” Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
2014
“Les Mues,” HAB Galerie – Hangar à Bananes, Nantes, France
“Huang Yong Ping: Bâton Serpent,” MAXXI, Rome
2013
“Amoy/Xiamen,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
“Abbottabad,” Hôtel de Gallifet, Aix-en-Provence, France
2012
“Circus,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Bugarach,” Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
“Lille 3000, Fantastic,” Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France
2011
“Huang Yong Ping,” Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
2010
“Huang Yong Ping: Wu Zei,” Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
“Garofalo” (with Shen Yuan), Edicola Notte, Rome
“Inkstone,” Vierhuizen Churchyard, Groningen, The Netherlands
2009
"Huang Yong Ping: Arche 2009,” Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
“Huang Yong Ping: Tower Snake,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Huang Yong Ping: Caverne,” Kamel Mennour, Paris
2008
“Frolic,” The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
“Ping Pong,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
“Ping Pong,” Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
“House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective,” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2007
“Huang Yong Ping: From C to P,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006
“Pantheon,” Centre International d'art et du Paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, l’ile de Vassiviere, France
“Les Mains de Bouddha,” Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
“House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospetive,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
2005
“House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [traveled to: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (2006); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2007)]
2003
“Un Cane Italiano,” Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, France
“Huang Yong Ping,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
“Huang Yong Ping,” Beacon Project Space, Beacon, New York
“Huang Yong Ping,” Fundacion NMAC, Cadiz, Spain
“Huang Yong Ping,” Groningen, The Netherlands
“Huang Yong Ping,” Musée Dominique Vivant Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
2002
“Xian Wu,” Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2001
“Om Mani Padme Hum,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2000
“Taigong fishing, Willing to Bite the Bait,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1999
“Crane's legs, Deer's tracks,” Project Gallery at Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
1997
“HUANG Yong-Ping,” de Appel, Amsterdam
“Pharmacie,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
“Da Xian-The Doomsday,” Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
“Le sage suivant l'exemple de l'araignée qui tisse sa toile,” Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg, France
“Péril de Mouton,” Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
1996
“Trois Pas, Neuf Traces,” Atelier d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France
1995
“Pharmacie,” Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
1994
“Kearny Street: An Installation by Huang Yong Ping,” Capp Street Project, San Francisco
“Chinese Hand Laundry,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1993
“1 & 108,” Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1992
“La maison d'augures,” Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
1991
“Réapparation de la Croix-Rouge,” Hôpital Ephémère, Paris
“Nous devons encore construire une grande cathédral,” Galerie Fenster, Frankfurt, Germany
1990
“Sacrifice au feu, (Cézanne, Saint-Victoire 1990),” Ecole d’Art d'Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence, France
“Huang Yong Ping,” L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon, France
Group Exhibitions
2021
“From Revolution to Globalisation,” M+, Hong Kong
“Trees,” Power Station of Art,” Shanghai, China
“Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2020
“The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China,” co-presented at Smart Museum and Wrightwood 659, Chicago
"Collection of Contemporary Art: John Dewey, Who?” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2019
“Awakenings: Art in Society and Asian 1960s – 1990s,” National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
“The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100,” Garage Museum, Moscow
“Coordinates: THEATER - 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture,” Qiaotou Community, Shenzhen, China
2018
“Bangkok Art Biennale,” Wat Pho, Bangkok
“MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art,” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
“Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, A Beautiful Elsewhere,” Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
“Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions,” The Getty Villa, Los Angeles
“Art and China after 1989 : Theater of the World,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
“Five plus Five: Sculpture from China and Great Britain in Hainan,” Haikou, China
2017
“We Are Here,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“What Absence Is Made Of,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
“Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” Guggenheim Museum, New York [traveled to: Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (2018)]
"Chinese Summer," Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
“Connection: Movement in Space,” Minsheng Matou, Shanghai, China
2016
“M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art,” Mobile M+, Hong Kong
“The Collection: A Selection of Chinese Works,” Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
“What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China,” curated by Cai Guo-Qiang, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar
“Hybridizing Earth Discussing Multitude,” Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, South Korea
Hubei International Lacquer Triennial, Hibeu Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
2015
“Imply Reply: Huang Yong Ping and Sakarin Krue-on,” Bangkok Art Center, Bangkok
2014
“Tatort Paderborn, Phänomen Fußgängerzone,” Paderborn, Germany
2013
"Ink Art: Past as Present in Chinese Contemporary Painting," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"28 Chinese," Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami [traveled to: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2014); San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (2015)]
“L’Amour Atomique,” Palais des Arts et du Festival de Dinard, Dinard, France
“Nuit Blanche 2013,” Multi-site exhibition by the Ville de Paris, Paris
“Les Aventures de la Vérité,” Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
“Marseille-Provence 2013,” Aix-en-Provence, France
2012
“Shanghai! La Tentation de l’Occident,” Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Hotel Labottiere, Bordeaux, France
“Estuaire Nantes – Saint-Nazaire,” Nantes & Saint-Nazaire, France
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“Reactivation,” The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
2011
“Chinese Artists in Paris: form Lin Fengmian to Zao Wou-ki,” Musée Cernuschi, Paris
“L’etoffe du temps,” Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Hotel Labottiere, Bordeaux, France
“Musee mobile,” Musee itinerant in France, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Benin, and Senegal
“The World Belongs to You,” Palazzo Grassi, Venice
“Tracing the Milky Way,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
“The Couple Show,” Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2010
“10,000 Lives,” The 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009,” CNCC, Beijing, China
“Le Jardin emprunte,” Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris
“Yan Pei-Ming, Destinies & Huang Yong Ping,” Carlson Gallery, London
2009
“Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection,” Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
“Fare Mondi / Making Worlds,” 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice
3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
“Le spectacle du quotidian,” 10th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2008
“Traces du sacré,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Traces du sacré,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
“Medium Religion,” ZKM | Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Artseason,” The China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
“Gods & Goods,” Villa Manin Centre d’Art Contemporanea, Italy
“China Power Station III,” Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
“Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
“Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
“Our Future: The Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection,” UCCA, Beijing
2007
“SkulpturProjekteMunster07,” Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
“The Yan Pei-Ming Show,” Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
"Airs de Paris," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“85’ New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art,” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
“Global Multitude,” European Capital of Culture 2007, Luxembourg
“Not Only Possible, but Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War,” 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
2006
“Ovunque andiamo Wherever We Go,” Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
“China Power Station: Part 1,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“The Unhomely,” 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain
“Uitnodiging,” Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Holland
“Biennale Internationnale de Ceramique,” Contemporaine Vallauris, Vallauris, France
“La force de l’Art,” grand Palais 2006, Paris
2005
“On the Edge,” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
“Mahjong,” Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
“Contrepoint de l’objet d’art a la sculpture,” Louvre, Paris
Biennal de Chine, Montpelier, France
“Wall,” The China Millennium Altar, Beijing
2004
“Lingchi: YanPeiMing et Huang Yong Ping,” Musée Denon, Chalon-sur-Saone
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg, France
“Odyssee 2004,” Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
Sao Paulo Biennial 26, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
“Le Moine et Le Demone,” Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
“A l’ouest du sud d ‘est/A l’est du sud de l’ouest,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
“All under heaven: Ancient and contemporary Chinese art, The Collection of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation,” MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerp, Belgium
“This much is certain,” Royal College of Art, London
2003
“Capp Street project Alumnae,” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art, Beaufort, Belgium
“Z.O.U.: Zone of Urgency,” La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
Groningen, The Netherlands
“Arte y naturaleza II,” Fundacion NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo, Cadiz, Spain
“New Zone Chinese Art,” The Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Prague
“Edges of the Earth,” China Academy, Hang Zhou, China
“Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England,” MASS MOCA, Massachusetts 
2002
“Reinterpretation: A decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000),” First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
“Art Unlimited,” Art 33 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
“Recolt,” Museum of Agriculture, Beijing, China
“Iconoclash,” Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001
“Transplanted Site: Fourth Sculpture Exhibition,” OCT Ecology Plaza, Shenzhen, China
“Huang Yong Ping & Shen Yuan,” Centre d'art Contemporain, Quebec, Canada
“International Triennial of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2001,” Yokohama, Japan
“Re-Configuration: Work on Paper,” The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing and Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
“Made in Asia?” Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
“Troubler l'écho du temps,” œuvre de la collection, Lyon, France
2000
“Paris pour escale,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
“Voilà, le monde dans la tête,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
“Unnatural Science,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
“3 Räume-3 Flüsse,” Hann, Münden, Germany
“La beauté,” Le Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
“Continental shift,” Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Liège, Belgium
“Over the Edges,” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
“Parcou,” Saint-Germain-des-prés, Maison de la Chine, Paris
1999
“Zeitwenden,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
“Kunstwelten im Dialog,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
“Sultan's Pool,” Israel Festival, Jerusalem“Passage: New French Art,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
“Flashes,” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
“V O C, Handle with care: Huang Yong Ping & Yang Mao-Lin,” Ateneo San Basso, Venice, Italy
La Biennale di Venezia, French Pavilion, Venice, Italy
“Passage,” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950 – 1980,” Queens Museum of Art,
New York
“Unfinished History,” Museum of Modern Art, Chicago
“Inside out: New Chinese Art,” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
“Cities on the move 4,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1998
“Gare de l'Est,” Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, France
“Inside out: New Chinese Art,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society,
New York
“Cities on the move 3,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
“Unfinished History,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Hugo Boss Prize 1998,” The Guggenheim Museum, New York
“êtrenature,” Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
“Cites on the move 2,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
“Huang Yong Ping and Xu Bing,” Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
1997
“Cities on the move,” Secession, Vienna
“Trade Routes: History and Geography: Hong Kong,” Johannesburg Biennial 97, Johannesburg, South Africa
Open Air Sculpture Symposium, Tongyeoung, Korea
“Gwangju Biennial 97: Unmapping the Earth, Becoming/Earth,” Gwangju, Korea
“TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
“In Between Limits,” Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
“Verpachtetes Erbe,” Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany
“Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997,” Münster, Germany
“Parisien(en)s,” Camden Arts Centre, London
“Promenade in Asia 2,” Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
1996
“Face à l'Histoire,” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Linien & Zeichen,” Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
“Steirischer Herbst 96: Inklusion-Exklusion,” Reinighaus, Graz, Austria
“Manifesta 1,” Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995
“Unser Jahrhundert, Menschenbilder-Bilderwelten,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne,   Germany
“Galerie des 5 Continents,” Musée National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris
“Ripple Across the Water,” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Triennial Febach 1995,” Museum Moderne Kunst, Stitfung Ludwig, Vienna
“Des del país del Centro: avantguardes artistiques xineses,” Centro d’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona
1994
“Heart of Darkness,” Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
“Hors-Limites, (L'Art et La Vie 1952/1994),” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“A collection,” Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
“Huang Yong Ping et Matej Kren,” Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
“Out of the Center,” Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
“5 Internationale Biennal der Papierkunst,” Eopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
“Hommages à Marcel Duchamp,” Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
1993
“Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
“Rendez(-)vous,” Museum van Hedendaagse, Ghent, Belgium
“Silent Energy,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
“Coalition,” Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
“Intervention dans Collection,” Musée de l'Assistance Publique, Paris
“China Avant-Garde,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
1992
“Parcours Privés 1992,” Paris
“Résistance,” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Small Medium Large: Lifesize,” Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
1991
“Carnegie International 1991,” The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Exceptional Passage,” Fukuoka, Japan
“Carte Blanche à André Magnin,” Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
1990
“Rencontres Internationales Architecture Textile,” Nimes, France
“Chine demain pour hier,” Pourrières, France
1989
“Métissage, Croisement,” Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Marseilles, France
“Magiciens de la Terre,” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou and Grande Halle, La Ville, Paris
“Chine/Avant-Garde,” China National Art Gallery, Beijing
1986
“Events,” Museum of Fine Arts of Fujian, Fujian, China
“Xiamen Dada,” Cultural Palace of Xiamen, Xiamen, China
1983
“Exhibition of Five Artists,” Cultural Palace of Xiamen, Xiamen, China