Yanyin Chen
Born in Shanghai, China, 1958
Lives and works in Sydney and Shanghai
EDUCATION
2000 Graduated with Master Degree from Visual Arts in Sydney College of Arts
1988 Graduated from China National Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department
EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Files, So Far So Close, Shanghai
2015 Files – So Far So Close, Chen Yanyin Solo Exhibition, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai
2014 Illustration of Sutra of Meditation on Amitabha Buddha, Shanghai
2000 Diary, The art gallery of Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
1994 Box Series, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Then, White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale, Australia
2016 The Three-Person Exhibition, Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2015 Rhodri Jones & Chen Yanyin, Mo Space, Zhengzhou
2014 Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
2014 Oltre La Materia, International Art Exhibition, Mo Space, Zhengzhou
2014 The Twelfth National Art Exhibition, Tianjin
2012 Meet Taipei, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2011 2011 Datong International Sculpture Biennale, Enlightenment, Heyang Art Museum, Datong
2011 Contemporary Art Exhibition Documentation Project II:” Let’s Talk about Money–1st International Fax Art Exhibition in Shanghai 1996″, ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai
2008 Heading with Times Group Exhibition of Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Reforming and Opening up Policy in the Yangtze River Delta Area, 1978-2008, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai
2008 It is I Too, Self Portraits By 21 Chinese Artists, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
2007 Contemporary Present, Shanghai Wu Jiaochang 800 Art Space Opening Exhibition, Wu Jiaochang 800 Art Space, Shanghai
2006 Art exhibition by female artists from Norway and China, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2003 Junction-Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art, Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai
2002 4th Shanghai Biennale, Urban Creation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2000 Extraordinary Fragrance of Rose, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore
1998 Internal Document Show, Kassel
1998 Half of the Sky, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1998 Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art form South of the Yangzi River, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997 Another Long March, Chinese Conceptual Art in the 1990′, Chasse Kazerne, Fundament Foundation, Breda, The Netherlands
1996 Shanghai Fax: Let’s Talk about Money, International Fax Art Exhibition, Shanghai Huashan Professional School of Art Gallery, Shanghai
1996 European Cultural Festival, Denmark
1996 The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
1995 45 Degrees as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work Organized by Geng Jianyi with Artists from 1995 Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing, Artist`s Private Home, Shanghai; Beijing; Hangzhou
1994 Agreed to the Date 26 Nov.1994 as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work with Artists from Hangzhou-1994 Shanghai-Beijing, Artist Apartment, Shanghai; Hangzhou; Beijing
1990 The Sea Line in Shanghai, Shanghai
1989 The Sixth National Art Exhibition, Beijing
1986 The First National Sports Art Exhibition, Beijing
AWARDS
2009 The 11th National Art Exhibition, the Third Prize
2008 “China Sculpture Grand Prize” from the First Chinese Pose – China Sculpture Exhibition
1992 The Second Prize of Shanghai Art Exhibition
1991 The Encouragement Prize of Shanghai Art Exhibition
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHY
2016 Chen Yanyin: Files, So Far So Close, ShanghART Gallery
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2017 The Artist as Curator; An Anthology (Elena Filipovic), Mousse Publishing Koenig Books
2014 A History of Exhibition: Shanghai 1979-2006 (Biljana Ciric), Centre for Chinese Contemporary, U.K.
2010 History in Making 1979-2009: Artists Interviews & Works Archives (Biljana Ciric), Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House
2008 Contemporary Presentation: Shanghai “Wu Jiao Chang 800” Art Space Opening Exhibition, Shanghai “Wu Jiao Chang 800” Art Space
2006 Poetic Realism: A Rinterpretation of Jiangnan (SUN Jianchun and ZUO Jing), RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
2006 China Avant-Garde Art 1979-2004 (Lu Hong), Hebei Fine Arts Publisher, Shijiazhuang
2006 Post Nora (Ingvill HENMO and Baoju WANG), Beijing Today Art Museum,Beijing
2005 Shanghai Modern 1919-1945 (Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Ken Lum, Zheng Shengtian), Museum Villa Stuck /Hatje Cantz
2002 Junction: Architectural Experiment of Chinese Contemporary Art (AI Weiwei, ZHANG Qing, WEI Ping and ZHAO Jianping), China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing
2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000 (Chinese version)(Chris BERRY, Britta ERICKSON, Yi Ying, PI Li, WU Hung, etc), Macao Publishing House, Macao
2002 The State of Chinese Avant-Grade Art: A Compilation of Interviews on Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Gao Brothers
2000 Shanghai Biennale 2000 (HOU Hanru, Toshio SHIMIZU and ZHANG Qing), Shanghai Fine Arts Publishers
1999 Contemporary Chinese Art Criticism Series: A Study on Women’s Art in China (LIAO Wen and ZHANG Xiaoling), Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House
1999 The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia (John CLARK, Nicholas JOSE and Gene SHERMAN), Sherman Galleries,Australia
1998 Die Halfte des Himmels: Chinesische Kunstlerinnen (Hrsg. Chris Werner, QIU Ping and Marianne Pitzen), Frauen Museum, Bonn
1998 Jiangnan: Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River (Hank Bull), Annie Wong Foundation /Western Front Society, Canada
1997 Another Long March: Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties (Marianne Brouwer, Fei Dawei, Hou Hanru, Tang Di, Chris Driessen and Heidi van Mierlo), Fundament Foundation, Breda, Poland
1997 ART AsiaPacific 15 (Geremie R. BARME, David CLARKE, Susan DEWAR etc.), Fine Arts Press, Sydney
1996 Shanghai Fax: Let’s Talk about Money (Hank Bull, Ding Yi, SHI Yong and ZHOU Tiehai), Hua Shan Fine Arts College, Shanghai
1996 The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Brisbane Australia 1996: Present Encounters – Papers from the conference (Soyeon AHN, Deepak ANANTH and Chumpon APISUK), Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
1995 45 Degree As a Reason
1995 Art and Asia Pacific 1995.2 – Women (Jane CHIA, Ellen P. CONANT, Ana P. LABRADOR), Fine Arts Press, Sydney
1994 Art and Asia Pacific (Vol. 1, No. 2) (John CLARK and Christina DAVIDSON), Fine Arts Press, Sydney
