Yang Yanping Biography







			Yang Yanping’s Paintings are held in numerous important public and private collections in the United States, France, England, Japan, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and China. Her many honors include the prestigious Zanders Art Presentation Calender, in honor of the United Nations 50th Anniversary (1995, selected by Professor Wolfgang Becker; Director of Ludwig Forum and Director of the Hedendaagse Art Museum in Gent, Belgium) and “World Artists at the Millennium” (1999), an international art exhibition by the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts with the cooperation of the United Nations. Both U.N. events selected the exclusive honorees from artists from over 30 countries BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Nanjing, China 1958 Graduated in architecture from Tsinghua University 1966 Transferred to the Art Designing Section at the Beijing Art Company 1968 Entered the Oil Painting Section at Beijing Art Company - Independent study o fChinese painting 1975 Chinese History Museum, Fine Arts department, Beijing 1980 Artist of the Beijing Art Academy 1986 Awarded a fellowship for culture and education exchange with China at SUNY at Stony Brook, New York ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2008 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, USA 2007 Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA 2004 Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA 2003 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, USA 2001 Goedhuis Contemporary at Dickinson Roundell, New York, USA 1999 Michael Goedhuis, Beverly Hills International Art and Antique Fair, USA 1998 Michael Goedhuis in association with Beadleston Gallery, New York, USA 1997 Michael Goedhuis, London, England 1995 Godfrey Far Eastern Art Gallery, London, England 1994 Mikimoto Art Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Fine Art Center, Roperhof Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 1993 BAWAG Foundation Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria Alisan Fine Arts Gallery Ltd., Hong Kong 1992 Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1991 Davidson Gallery, Seattle, USA Alisan Fine Arts Gallery Ltd., Hong Kong 1990 Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan World Bank Art Society, Washington DC, USA Hsiung Shih Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 1989 Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hsiung Shih Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 1987 Gallery Beer-Sheba, Tokyo, Japan 1985 Chinese National Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA The British Museum, London, England Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Bank Sal. Oppenheimer & Cie., Switzerland BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria Krannert Art Museum, Urbana – Champaign, Illinois, USA The National Historical Museum, Beijing, China Kasser Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria Olenska Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Citibank, London, England Julius Baer Bank, Vienna, Austria The Estella Collection, New York, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Beijng Artists Association, Beijing, China The Chinese Museum of Geology, Beijing, China Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, U.K. Singapore Beijing Artists Association, Beijing, China Art Department; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY SELECTED ARTICLES: James Cahill, Michael Sullivan, Lucy Lim, Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Chinese Painting, Sari Francisco, USA Michael Sullivan, 'Contemporary Chinese Painting', Orientations Lucy Lim, 'Contemporary Chinese Painting', Art International. Cover illustration: Towering Mountain, Yang Yanping Michael Sullivan, 'The Calligraphic Works of Yang Yanping', Apollo Cohen & Cohen, China Today, New York, Abrams Joan Lebold Cohen, The New Chinese Painting (1949-1986), New York, Abrams Haruki Yaegashi, The Lotus Paintings of Yang Yanping, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Japan Ann Farrer, Yang Yanping Ink Water-colour, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan James Cahill, The Painting of Yang Yanping, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taiwan Landscape Lotus: The Paintings of Yang Yanping, Hsiung Shih Art Books Company, Taiwan Jessica Rawson, Collecting the Twentieth Century, The British Museum Press Jessica Rawson, British Museum Magazine Lucy Um, Six Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, USA