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, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

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-Havana: New Contemporary Chinese Art Revolution, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Havana

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-Kalkriese

2009 In-Transtion: Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011, Morton Park, Vancouver, Canada

2009 2009 Art Changsha, Hunan Provincial Museum, China

2008 Facing Reality—Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2008 Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

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-Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis, Athens

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-garde Sculpture, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Hague

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-garde Artists, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Schaffausen

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-garde Artists of China, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore

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-Modernism, Theoremes Gallery, Brussels

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