CV

Yu Youhan
1943	Born in Shanghai, China
1973	Graduated from the Central Academy of Art & Design (Present Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University), Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
2020	Cycle · Freedom: Yu Youhan’s Abstract Works in the 2010s, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2018	The Representational and the Abstract, The Long Museum, Chongqing
2017	Yu Youhan: The Representational and The Abstract, ShanghART, Shanghai YU YOU HAN, C+Gallery, Tomson Riviera, Shanghai
2016	Yu Youhan Retrospective, Power Station of Art, Shanghai YU YOUHAN 1973-1988, Long Museum(West Bund), Shanghai
2013	Yu Youhan: Yībān, Yuan Space, Beijing
2012	Yu Youhan: Home, Bi-Cities, Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou
2011	Yu Youhan’s Paintings, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2008	Yu Youhan: New Abstract Paintings, Shanghai Art Fair-Outstanding Artists Section, Shanghai
2004	Yu Youhan, Landscape of Yi Meng Shan, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
1999	Ah! Us, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai
1998	Yu Youhan, Gallery Sonne, Berlin, Germany
1996	Yu Youhan, Maison de la Chine, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018	From 1978 to 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai Shanghai Beat – The Dynamism of Contemporary Art Scene in Shanghai, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2017	Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
2015	Garden Splendors, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou
2014	Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Re-View, Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai
2013	Hui Aggregation: Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exchange, Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai; Cheng Shiu University Art Center, Kaohsiung; Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan County, Taoyuan; Luodong Cultural Working House of Cultural Affairs Bureau of Yilan County, Luodong The 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition, Independent Chinese Art Exhibition: Voice of the Unseen, Venice, Italy Four Quarters-3553, Exhibition Cycle of Chinese Contemporary Artists, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou Branch, Wenzhou
2012	In the Prime of Vitality, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2010	Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
2009	Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany The China Project—Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2008	Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007	85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2005	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004	Chine, le corps partout? (China, the body everywhere?), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
2003	Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi, Beijing
2002	Paris-Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
1997	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990′, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
1996	Reckoning with the Past, Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1994	22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993	45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia China Avant-garde, Touring Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K. China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1989	China/Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988	Exhibition of Today’s Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1986	First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai
Selected Public Collections
Guggenheim Museum-Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates Pacific Asia Museum at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Long Museum, Shanghai; Chongqing, China M+Collection, Hong Kong Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Hammer Museum, Gift of the Haudenschild Collection, Los Angeles, USA Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland