1963     Born in Handan, China

1989     BFA Printmaking, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing

Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017     This All Too Human World, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

2016     Alternative Survival: Research Exhibition of Fang Lijun’s Manuscripts, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China

2015     Fang Lijun Document into University, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China; North China University 

             of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China

             Fang Lijun’s Work, Springs Center of Art, Beijing 

2014     Great success – Fang Lijun, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China

             The New Body of Work by Mr. Fang Lijun 1963, Art & Public Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 

             Fang Lijun Document into University, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China; Nanjing University, Nanjing, 

             China

2013     55th Venice Biennale – Fang Lijun: A Cautionary Vision, Palazzo Marcello, Venice, Italy

             Fang Lijun 2013, Springs Center of Art, Beijing

             Fang Lijun, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

             Fang Lijun Document into University, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China

2012     The Breakthrough, CP Foundation, Jakarta

             Fang Lijun: Documenta, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

             Fang Lijun: The Precipice Over the Clouds, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

             Fang Lijun Document Into University, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China; Qinghai University for 

             Nationalities, Xining, China; Beifang University Of Nationalities, Yinchuan, China

2011     From Symbol to Analysis, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, China

             Fang Lijun Document into University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China; Xi’an

             University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, China; Jilin College of the Arts, Changchun, China; Guangxi 

             Art Institute, Nanning, China

2010     Fang Lijun, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2009     Endlessness of Life: 25 Years Retrospect of Fang Lijun, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

             Sea and Sky, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

             Thread of Time, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2008     Fang Lijun, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague

2007     Fang Lijun, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China

             Fang Lijun, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Fang Lijun Print, The Danish Art Exchange, Beijing

2006     Woodcuts and Drawings, Berlin State Museums, Berlin

             Life is Now, CP Foundation, Jakarta

             Today!, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2002     Fang Lijun, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

1998     Fang Lijun, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1996     Human Images in an Uncertain Age, Japan Foundation, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions  

2016     Shin Hak-Chul, Fang Lijun: Monumental Body-Scapes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

             The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary art of China 2015, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

             Inference and Derivation: China Contemporary Ceramic Academic Inventinal Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art 

             Museum of CAFA, Jingdezhen, China

             Re-portiait Figure Research on What is Expressed or Develops to Express at Present, Songzhuang Art 

             Center, Beijing

             Clue 3, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

             Harmony – International Contemporary Art 2016, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin

             Models: The Visual Experience and Cultural Identity of Chinese Modernity, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing

             Zao Hua – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart; 204 Art Space, Melbourne, Australia; 

             China Cultural Center, Sydney, Australia

             M+SIGG Collection – Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, Artis Tree, Hong Kong

             Image Spirit – 2016 Collection Exhibition of Famous Artistic Works Small Size, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

2015     Open Minds – Works on Paper 2015, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

             Breaking the Image – Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists from China, Sishang Art 

             Museum, Beijing

             The Civil Power, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

             Art Historical Flashbacks: Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing

             The Garden of Forking Paths: Tracks and Intersections of 15 Artists, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

2014     Se-Context: 1984, 37.8 Art Lab, Beijing

             Chinese New Expressionism: 1980-2014, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Academic New Art Season 1, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 

             Re-modernization: The 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

             1960, Springs Center of Art, Beijing

             8+1 – A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2013     Re-Link: Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing

             Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices, Today Art Museum, Beijing

             Evolution, Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China

             Dust and Glory, Eastation Gallery, Hong Kong

             Portrait of the Times – 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

             Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.

             Re-Portrait, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

2012     2nd Western China International Art Biennale, Tianye Art Museum, Yinchuan, China

             Through All Ages, Long Museum, Shanghai, China 

             Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Omen 2012 – New Chinese Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Re-Link: Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

             1st Xinjiang Biennale, Xinjiang Art Center, Urumqi, China

             Go Figure!: Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Sherman Contemporary 

             Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia

2011     Pure Views – New Paintings from China, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.

             54th Venice Biennale – Future Pass, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venice, Italy 

             Image, History, Existence – Taikang Life Art Collection 15th Anniversary, National Art Museum of China, 

             Beijing

             A New Horizon – Contemporary Chinese Art, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

2010     Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art: Painting (1979-2009), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Reshaping History – China Art 2000-2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing

             Construction Dimension – 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

             Clouds: Power of Asian Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing

             1st Western China International Art Biennale, Yinchuan, China

             Negotiations, Today Art Museum, Beijing

             Pure Views – New Paintings from China, Louise and Blouin Foundation, London

2009     53rd Venice Biennale – To See a World in a Grain of Sand, Venetian Arsenal, Venice, Italy

             53rd Venice Biennale – A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice International University, Venice, Italy

             1st Academic Contemporary China Engraving, Today Art Museum, Beijing

             The Contemporary Art Achievement Exhibition in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Anniversary 

             of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing Hotel, Beijing

             Open Vision – Contemporary Chinese Art, Prague National Gallery, Prague

             Collision – Cases of Contemporary China Art Experiment, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

             Chinamania, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

             Embrace Suzhou, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China

             The Face of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

2008     1st Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

             The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London

             Beijing-Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

             Facing China, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland

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

             Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.

             Chen Guangwu – Fang Lijun – Liu Wentao, Museum of Asian Art, Berlin

             3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

             Avant-garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

             China 21st Century – Art Between Identity and Transformation, Palace of Exhibitions, Rome

             Encounter, Pace Gallery, Beijing

2007     Chinese Contemporary Sots Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

             Post-Martial Law vs. Post ’89-The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, National Taiwan Museum of Fine 

             Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

             China – Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna

             Inferno in Paradise, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin

             Black White Gray, Today Art Museum, Beijing

             Red Hot, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.

             The Power of the Universe, Asia Art Center, Beijing

2006     A Point in Time – Wuhan, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China

             Change, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

             China Coup, Red Mansion Foundation, London

2005     Future Archaeology: Chinese Art Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China

             New Work / New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.

             2nd CP Biennale, CP Foundation, Jakarta

             Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCAT Institute, Beijing

             The Big River – Chinese Oil Painting in New Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

             Always to the Front – China Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

             Mahjong, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland

             The Scenes – Child’s Play, Gross Leuthen Castle, Spreewald, Germany

             Clues – Fang Lijun, Wang Yin, Xiao Yu, Yang Maoyuan, White Space, Beijing

             Sky of Lot, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2004     China, the Body Everywhere?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France

             Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

             China Now, Tang Gallery, Bangkok

             Face to Face – China, Now, Taiwan, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

2003     From China with Art, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta

             What About China?, Pompidou Center, Paris

             An Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

             Chinese Printmaking Today, British Library, London

             1st CP Foundation Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta

2002     A Point in Time – Changsha, Meilun Museum of Art, Changsha, China

             1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

             Fang Lijun & Jörg Immendorff, Shanghai Contemporary, Shanghai, China

2001     China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

             3rd Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil

             1st Chengdu Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China

             Dream, Red Mansion Foundation, London

             Woodcut – Dürer, Gauguin, Penck and Others, Bochum Art Museum, Bochum, Germany 

2000     Visage: Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

             Between, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China

             The Collection of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

             3rd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             Contemporary Chinese Portraits, Cultural Space Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux, France

1999     5th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan       

             48th Venice Biennale – Aperto, Venice, Italy

             Open Channels, Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

             New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, 

             Limn Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A

1998     It’s Me!, Forbidden City, Beijing

             Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.

             China!, House of World Cultures, Berlin 

1997     China!, Bonn Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, Germany

             2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

             The Other Modern, House of World Cultures, Berlin

             Chinese Walls, Gasunie Art Committee, Groningen, Netherlands

             Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1996     Beijing No, No Soap Opera? (curated by Alexander Ochs), Marstall, Munich, Germany

             Encounters with China, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

1995     Visions of Happiness- 10 Asian Contemporary Artists, Japan Foundation, Tokyo

             Couplet 4, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

             Our Century, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

             Avant-garde Artistic Chinese, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

             1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

1994     4th Asian Art Show, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

             World Morality: Ideas on Morality in Art Today, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

             22nd San Paulo Biennale – Chinese Contemporary Art at San Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil

1993     China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

             45th Venice Biennale – Passage to the East, Giardini di Castello, Venice, Italy

             Mao Goes Pop: China Post-1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

1992     New Art from China: Post-Mao Product, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;

             Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia; Canberra

             School of Art Gallery, Canberra

             China Avant-Garde, House of World Cultures, Berlin; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands;

             Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K; Brandts, Odense, Denmark

1989     China Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

1984     6th National Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China

Collections 

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Asia Society, New York

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, U.S.A.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, U.S.A.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Berlin State Museums, Berlin

Hoffmann Collection, Berlin

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

Collection of the City of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo

The Muban Foundation, London

CP Foundation, Jakarta

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

Liang Jiehua Art Foundation, Hong Kong

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

OCT Contemporary Art Terminal(OCAT), Shenzhen, China

Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Today Art Museum, Beijing

CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

Taida Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China

Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China

Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China

Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China

Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China