BACKGROUND

1997    The School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia: BFA (Painting)
1985    Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, China: BFA (Education)
1981    Sub-High School, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, China: Certificate

ARTISTIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014    Speaker, Australian Culture and Commerce Association, Sydney, Australia
2014    Speaker, Australian School, Singapore
2014    Participant, Paint Face, The Australia Council for the Arts Presentation and Promotion Grant
2014    Inclusion, A Thousand Living Painters, New Masters 2014-Verfhond’s List, Meristem, Holland
2013    Residency, Shang Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013    Residency, Shang Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013    Attendance to Time-Space-Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2013    Project co-ordinater, MoCA West Lake, Hang Zhou, China and style Art Affairs Foundations, Venice
2013    Speaker, Dialogue with Jason Yeap, Trustee of National Gallery of Victoria, Mapping Melbourne
2013    Inclusion, A Thousand Living Painters, New Masters 2013-Verfhond’s List, Meristem, Holland
2012    Donation, Members’ Travel Draw, The Art Gallery Sociality of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2012    Print Editions, Sequoia Tees, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012    Acceptance to Time-Space-Existence2, Venice Biennale 2013, style Art Affairs Foundations, Netherlands
2012    Participant, Made in China Australia, The Australia Council for the Art Grant
2011    Representation, Tyche-Tyche, London, UK
2011    Representation, Pearl Lam Fine Art, Shanghai, China
2011    Speaker, Asian Art Forum, Contempo, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2010    Representation, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne Australia
2010    Represetation, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2010    Representation, Tally Beck Contemporary, North America, Europe, Asia
2010    Virtual Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009    Representation, Galerie Trajectoire, France
2009    Representation, EL Projected, New York, USA
2009    Presentation, Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain
2009    Australian Government Foreign Affair and Trade EMDG Grant, Australia
2008    Presentation, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2008    Presentation, White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
2008    Representation, Vis-à-vis Art Lab, 798, Beijing, China
2008    Representation, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008    Representation, Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong, China
2008    Australian-China Council Grant, Australia
2008    Arts Tasmania Grant, Australia
2008    Tasmanian Premier Grant, Australia
2008    Red Gate Gallery Residency, Beijing, China
2008    Guardian Auction, Guangzhou, China
2008    Winner, ‘Side By Side’ Art Competition, UK
2005    The Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale, Australia
2005    Representation, Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2005    Representation, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2003    Co-Curator, ‘Out of China’, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Australia
2003    Co- Curator, ‘Tasmanian Vision’, Shantou University Gallery, China
2002    Member of the Art Sub-committee, Salamanca Arts Centre, Australia, until 2005
2002-   Representation, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2001-   Member of Contemporary Art Tasmania, Australia
2000    Guest Speaker, Printmaking Dept. The School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia, until 2001
1997    Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1997    Resident artist, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
1989-   Member of Chinese Artists Association, China
1986    Member of Shantou Painting Society, China, until 1990
1985    Assistant Lecturer,Shantou University, Guangdong, China, until 1990

EXHIBITIONS

2014    Zen Flies Over, Solo Show, Singapore High Commission, Singapore
2014    Seeking – Australian Chinese Artists, Group Show, Australia China Culture Council, Sydney, Australia
2014    Paint Face, Group Show, Constance ARI, Hobart, Australia
2014    Art Wall, Judges’ Chambers, Supreme Court Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
2014    Group Show, Poly International Auction(China), Sydney, Australia
2014    Unseen Mountain, Solo Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2014    Made in China Australia, National Touring Exhibition, Australia
2014    Group Show, Beyond Colours Gallery, Singapore
2014    Artmrkt, San Francisco2014, Tally Beck Contemporary New York, San Francisco, USA
2013    AES+F, Dale Frank, Yushitaka Amano, Chen Ping, Group Show, Art Statements & Gaffer, Hong Kong
2013    Time-Space-Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Group Show, Personal Structures, Venice, Italy
2013    International Artists Exchange Program, Group Show, Shuanyun Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013    Flying with Birds, Solo Show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2013    Falling Leaves, Solo Show, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia
2013    Waking up the Sky, Shaking the Land, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2012    Los Angeles Art Show, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary New York, Los Angeles, USA
2012    Man and Universe are One, Gaffer, Hong Kong
2012    Creation of Phoenix, Solo Show, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York, USA
2012    The Myth of Dragon and Phoenix, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2012    Phoenix, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2012    Art Platform, Represented by Gaffer Hong Kong, Los Angeles, USA
2012    Artmrkt Hamptons 2012, group show, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York, USA
2011    Broken Hearted, solo show, Melbourne International Fine Art, Australia
2011    Los Angeles Art Show2011, China Today, Represented by Gaffer, Hong Kong
2011    Scope New York art fair 2011, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary
2011    Hong Kong Art 2011, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary
2011    New Paintings, solo show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2011    New Paintings, solo show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2011    Artmrkt2011,  San Francisco, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, USA
2011    SCOPE Basel, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York
2011    Next, Art Chicago 2011
2011    Group Show, Pearl Lam Fine Art Shanghai, China
2011    Artmrkt Hamptons 2011, group show, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York, USA
2011    Artmrkt, Texas Contemporary, Represented by Tally Beck Contemporary New York, Houston, USA
2011    Art Asia Miami，presented by Tally Beck Contemporary New York, Miami, USA
2010    ‘Three Australian Painters’, Australian Consulate General, New York, USA
2010    Group Show, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
2010    ‘Ancient Dreams’, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2010    ‘Other’, solo show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2010    It’s Song, It’s Dream, Solo Virtual Project, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010    Beijing International Art Fair, Presented by Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010    Asian Art 2010, group show, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York, Mobile and San Francisco, USA
2010    Sydney Art2010, Art Equity, Sydney Australia
2010    Annual Show, Melbourne International Fine Art, Australia
2010    Confucius, Other Realities. Solo Show, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York.
2009    ‘Melting Human’, Studio Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
2009    ‘Girl in City’, Solo Show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2009    ‘Australian Contemporary Art’, Group Show, Gaffer Studio&Koru Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2009    ‘Still Life’, Solo Show, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2009    ‘Coming Home’, Group Show(Australian Art Council), Linda Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
2009    Singapore International Art Fair, Presented by Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong
2009    Melbourne Art Fair, Presented by The Salamanca Collection, Australia
2009    ‘Digital Art Expo International In Downtown Los Angeles’, Participant of Davis Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA
2009    ‘One World One Home’, Group Show, Chinese Government Ministry of Culture, Qing Tong Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
2008    ‘Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists’, Guangdong Museum of Art , Guangzhou, China
2008    ‘China’s Exhibition Preview’, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2008    ‘Her Dreams’, Solo Show(opened by Michael Edwards, Director of Contemporary Art Tasmania), The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2008    ‘Ruins’, Solo Show, Vis-à-Vis Art Lab, 798, Beijing, China
2008    ‘International Artist Residency Exhibition’, Group Show, Red Gate Gallery, China
2008    Singapore International Art Fair, Presented by Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong
2008    ‘Try to Remember’, Group Show, Osage SoHo Gallery, Hong Kong
2007    ‘Figure Paintings Launch’, Solo Show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2007    ‘Figurative Language’, Solo Show(opened by Rosemary Miller, Director of Salamanca Arts Centre), The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2007    ‘Island Symphony’, Solo Show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2007    ‘Living Artist’s Surviving Human’, Solo Show, Tasmanian Living Artists’ Week, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, Australia
2006    ‘If Turner Was Here’, Solo Show, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2006    ‘Landscape Paintings Launch’. Solo Show, Art Equity, Sydney, Australia
2005    ‘Raphaelite Now’, Solo Show, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2005    ‘The Glover Prize’, John Clover Society, Evandale, Tasmania, Australia
2005    ‘They Are Figures’, Solo Show, Northern Exposure Festival, Melbourne
2005    Sydney Art Fair, Represented by Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2004    ‘Figure Out’, Solo Show, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2003    ‘Life is Beautiful’ Solo Show (opened by David Hanson, Senior Curator of Tasmania Museum and Gallery), The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2003    ‘Living Artists Week’, Hobart, Australia
2003    ‘Trio’, Loft Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
2003    ‘Trio’, Shantou University Gallery, China
2002    ‘Still Time’, Solo Show, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart, Australia
2002    ‘Fingering Glover’, Group Show, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2002    ‘The Charcoal Grilled She’, Foyer Installation Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2001    ‘Drawing into the Square’, Solo Show, Loft gallery, Hobart, Australia
2001    ‘Shadowing the Paper’, Solo Show, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
2001    ‘No Escape’, Solo Show, Kelly’s Garden, Salamanca Arts Centre, Australia
2000    ‘Box – viewpoint’, Solo Show, Foyer Installation Gallery, Australia
2000    ‘Converge’, Group Show, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1997    ‘Hue’s Hue’, Entrepot Gallery, The School of Art, Hobart, Australia
1997    ‘Affinity’, Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
1997    ‘Beaching the Whale’, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1997    ‘International Art Exhibition of Chaoshan Origin’, Gallery of Shantou Institute of Art, China
1997    ‘Hutchins Art Awards’, Long Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1990    ‘East Sydney Scenes’, The Watercolour Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1989    ‘Shantou University Teachers’ Exhibition’, Gallery of Shantou Institute of Art, China
1987    ‘Annual Member Exhibition’, Shantou Painting Society, Shantou Museum, China
1986    ‘Teachers’ Exhibition’, Shantou University Gallery, China
1985    ‘Graduation Exhibition-Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art’, Gallery of Culture Park, Guangzhou, China

GRANTS

Australia Council, Australia-China Council, Art Tasmania, Tasmanian Premier

COLLECTIONS

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madam Peng Liyuan
Will Hodgman Premier of Tasmania
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Tasmanian Museum and Art gallery, Australia
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, China
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
Davis Museum
Popov private collection, Moscow, Russia
Privates and Organizations- USA, Switzerland, Austria, England, Ireland, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Denmark, Hong Kong, Australia
Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China

PUBLICATIONS

2014    Style Arts Foundation, Catalogue 2, Time-Space-Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014    Australia China Culture Council, Seeking – Australian Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
2013    Personal Structures, Time-Space-Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2012    MacMillan Dist, Chen Ping Painting, Mini Books (Australian Artists Series), Palgrave MacMillan, Australia
2011    MIFA, Metaphysics, Chen Ping’s Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
2011    Tim Phelan, Amazon, 50 Contemporary Artists, USA
2010    Broadway Gallery, ‘Three Australia Painters’, New York, USA
2009    Vis-à-Vis Art Lab, ‘Chen Ping Painting’, Beijing, China
2008    Australian Art Collector, Issue 45, ‘Her Dreams’, Australia
2008    Guangdong Museum of Art, International Exchange Series, ‘Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists’, Guangdong, China
2007    Australian Art Collector, Issue 41, ‘Figurative Language’, Australia
2005    Australian Art Collector, Issue 32, ‘Raphaelite Now’, Australia
1985    Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art , ‘Artworks by Students of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art’, National Art Schools Series, China
1987    Chen Ping, ‘Village’, Shantou Daily, China
1986    Chen Ping, Illustration, Overseas Chinese Literature Magazine, Shantou University, China

REVIEWS

Australia: Peter Timms, John McDonald, Ralph Hobbs, James Arvanitakis, Micheal Edwards
International: Ian Findlay, Rajath Suri, Michael Corbin, Tally Beck, Wang Huangsheng