Yue Minjun
1985 Studied in the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University
1962 Born in the Town of Daqing, Heilongjiang
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 The Archeological Discovery in AD3009, ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
2010 The Spirit Scenes from Time Past: Yue Minjun Solo Exhibition of Paintings Series “Landscapes with No One”, Shanghai Gallery of Art , Shanghai
2009 The Archeological Discovery in AD 3009, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2007 Yue Minjun and the Symbolic Smile, Queens Museum, New York
2007 Yue Minjun: Looking for Art, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2007 Yue Minjun: I Love Laughing, Asia Society Art Museum, New York
2006 Yue Minjun: Manipulation Series, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris
2006 The Reproduction of Idols: Yue Minjun 2004-
2006 Looking for Terrorists, Beijing Commune, Beijing
2005 Post Auratic: Self Portrayal of Yue Minjun, CP Foundation, Jakarta
2004 Yue Minjun: Sculptures & Paintings, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2000 Red Ocean: Yue Min Jun, Chinese Contemporary, London
2003 Yue Minjun, Meile Gallery, Bern
2003 Yue Minjun: Beijing Ironicals, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin
2002 Soaking In Silly Laughter: One of Art Singapore 2002, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
2002 Yue Minjun: Manipulation, One World Art Center, Beijing
2000 Red Ocean—Yue Minjun, Chinese Contemporary, London
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2010 Pure Views: New Painting from China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London
2010 Made in Popland, Korea National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
2010 Transition: Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Seven Art Center, Wenzhou
2009 Beijing-
2009 A Gift to Marco Polo: A Collateral Event for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice International University, Venice
2009 Colossal: Art, Fact, Fiction—2000 years Varus Battle, Varus Battle in Osnabrücker Land Archeological Museum and Park in Bramsche-
2009 In-
2009 2009 Art Changsha, Hunan Provincial Museum, China
2008 Facing Reality—Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2008 Half-
2008 Mahjong—Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Museo de la Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain; Berkeley Art Museum & the Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco
2008 Beijing-
2008 Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2008 Our Future: Collection of UCCA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2007 China—Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
2007 Post Martial Laws vs Post 89: the Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing
2007 Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Huston
2007 We are Your Future—Special Project in Moscow Biennale 2007, Central House of Artist, Moscow
2007 Living in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing
2006 Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
2006 Radar—Selections from the Collection of Vicky and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver
2006 Art in Motion, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2006 Shu: Reinventing Book in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York
2006 China Now: Fascination of a Changing World, Essl Museum Contemporary Art, Vienna
2006 Mahjong—Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger
2005 Sky of Fate—Invited Exhibition of Chinese Paintings 2005, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
2005 Xianfeng—Chinese Avant-
2005 Open 2005—International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Lido, Venice
2005 Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Gallery, Beijing
2005 Mahjong: Sigg Collection of Modern Chinese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern
2005 Conceptual Art—Exhibit of Contemporary Paintings from China, Tap Seac Gallery, Macau; Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
2005 Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, Kwandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2005 Dress Up in Art: Theme Exhibition on Traditional Chinese Operas, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2004 Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2004 Art on the Beach: Sculptures, Enrico Navarra Gallery / Pampelonne Beach, Ramatuelle
2004 Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2004 China, The Body Everywhere?, Marseille Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille
2004 Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju
2004 20 Years of HanArt TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
2003 CP Open Biennale 2003, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta
2003 Moving on, NUS Museum, Singapore
2003 From China with Art, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta
2003 The Rest of the World, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens
2003 5 Chinese Avant-
2003 People and People: Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art Collections of GDMA, Guangdong Museum of Art (GDMA), Guangzhou
2003 Living Conditions: Selections from the GDMA Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art, GDMA, Guangzhou
2002 Chinese Contemporary Art, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou,
2002 Golden Harvest: Chinese Contemporary Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2002 Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition: Red Land, China, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju
2002 Korea and Chinese Painting—2002 New Expression, Seoul Culture & Art Center, Seoul
2002 A Point in Time: Changsha, Beauty Art Museum, Changsha
2002 Inaugural Exhibition: Contemporary Terracotta Warriors, The Esplanade, Singapore
2001 Towards a New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Art Museum, Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
2001 Hotpot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2001 Ornament and Abstraction, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
2001 Songzhuang, Stadtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen & Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2000 Portraits of Chinese Contemporaries, the Culture Centre of Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux
2000 Between, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu
2000 Our Friends, Bauhaus University Art Gallery, Weimar
1999 Open Boundary: the 48th Venice Biennale, Venice
1998 5000+10, Chinese Contemporary Art (London), Bibao
1998 The First Exhibition of Upriver Gallery Collection, He Xiangning Art Gallery, Shenzhen
1997 Red and Grey: 8 Avant-
1996 China!, Bonn Art Museum; Kuenstlerhaus, Wien
1995 Vision of China: Contemporary Chinese Painting by Chinese Masters, Pacific City Club, Bangkok
1995 Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition: From Realism to Post-
1994 Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Works of Yue Min Jun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong.
1992 Yuan Ming Yuan Artists Exhibition, Yuan Ming Yuan Imperial Garden, Beijing
1991 Contemporary Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing Friendship Guest House
1987 "S" Art Exhibition, Hebei Museum, Shijiazhuang