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Mao Yan
1968 Born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China
1991   Graduated from Oil Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Currently working and living in Nanjing, China
     
SOLO EXHIBITION
2000   Maoyan, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1997   Maoyan, Pinge Art Guild Nanjing, China
1992   The Drawing Works of Maoyan, Nanjing , China
     
GROUP EXHIBITION
2008   Semiosis, ChinaSquare, New York
2007  

Art changsha, HuNan Provincial Museum
Portrait’s zero -The Painting of Xia Xiaowan & Mao Yan, AYE Gallery, Beijing
The form of emotion, Beijing Danish art centre; Transparent situation, Tibet Museum
New painting-Anti-formal, Shanghai art museum

2006   Flower?, Beijing Songzhuang art Museum
2005   The Second Triennal Of Chinese Contemporary Arts, Nanjing Museum
2004   he Painting Show of MaoYan and HeDuolin, China Blue Gallery, Beijing
The Metamorphosis—The Painting Show of MaoYan and LiuYe, DiYa Gallery, Taiwan
Poisonous—The Inviting Exhibition of Free Communication Book Store, Free Communication Book Store, Beijing
Portrayal, Shanghai Yibo Gallery, Shanghai
2003   The Different Same, DUOLUN Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
New Generation And Post-Revolution, China Blue Gallery, Beijing
The Exhibition of New Paintings, YiBo Gallery, Shanghai China
2002   The First Triennal Of Chinese Arts,Guangzhou Art Museum
The Exhibition Of Contemporary Artists,Beijing Schoeni Art Gallery
On The Edge Of The Millennium—New Art From China ,Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Paris—Beijing Art Collection Exhibition,Asia Art Centre,Paris
Face To Face—Chinese Portrait Art Exhibition,Shanghai Jingwen Art Centre,Shanghai
The Image Of Idea, Shenzheng Art Museum
2001   Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum
ABBILD, LANDES Art Museum, Austa *Poster Exhibition of Chinese Avent-garde, Beijing,Shanghai,Chengdu,Guangzhou, China; Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France
Institute and Non-institute, YiBo Gallery, Shanghai, China
The New Image—The Latest 20 Years Painting in China, Beijing Art Museum/ Shanghai Art Museum/ Sichuan Province Art Museum/ Guangdong Province Art Museum, China
2000   Collection Works Exhibition for the Completion of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Maoyan and Liu ye, Contemporary China, London, UK
Chinese Oil Painting in 20th Century, Touring show in Beijing and Shanghai, China
Phantom, YiBo Gallery, Shanghai, China
1999   1999 China Art, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Gate of the Century: 1979—1999 The Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Modoern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
The First Exhibition of Dong Yu Art Museum, Shenyang, China
Gaze of a New Generation, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing, China
Fifty Tears of Chinese Oil Painting , International Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
International Art Fair Shanghai, China
The Exhibition of Upriver Gallery’s Collection, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenyang, China
1998   East Meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
The First Exhibition of Upriver Gallery’s Collection, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Mao Yan and Zhou Yiqing, Creation Salon Co., Ltd., Suzhou , China
1997   The Portrait of Chinese Oil Painting in the Last 100 years, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Nature of Potraiture, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Chinese Modern Art Works, Hong Kong Meeting and Exhibition Centre , Hong Kong
Beijing Art Fair, International Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China * Shanghai Art Fair, World Trade Centre, Shanghai, China
1996.1997  

1996.1997 The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Beijing, China/ Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong

1996   96’ Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
1995  

The Situation of Chinese Oil Painting Feng Pingshan Museum Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China
Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Kubo Art Celebration New York, USA Overseas Modern Newspaper Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA

1994   The Second Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition, Nation Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Modern Oil Painting , Chinese-Japanese Friendship Guild Hall Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Second China Art Exposition, Guangzhou, China
The Annual Exhibition of Works of the Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
1993  

The Second Annual China Oil Painting exhibition National Art Museum, Beijing, China
93’Nanjing Modern Art Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The First Asia Art Fair, Hong Kong, China

1992   The First 90’s Guangzhou Biennale, Exhibition Centre of the Centreal Hotel, Guangzhou, China
     
PUBLIC COLLECTION
   

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Dong Yu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Feng Pingshan Museum, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Shenzheng Art Museum, Shenzheng, China