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