Yan Shanchun
Yan was born in Hang Zhou in 1957, graduated with his B.A. from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1983 and began teaching at Hubei Fine Art Institute. He is currently deputy director and a first class artist of Shenzhen Fine Art Institute and the curator of Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale.
Yan Shanchun’s paintings explore “contradiction”. His paintings are simultaneously extemporaneous and narrative, but never without refrain. In terms of style, he pursues elegance while retaining a touch of rawness and rusticity – “immature and delicate” in his own words. His recent works draw inspiration from memories of his childhood visual experience and his hometown, the West Lake, using ink, acrylic and fresco.
Yan Shanchun
Born in Hang Zhou in 1957
1982 Graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts)
1982 Allocated to Hubei Province, graduated from Academy of Fine Arts
1993 Transferred to the Shenzhen Art
Currently a professional artist of Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, a first class artist of the State, and the Executive Curator of the Shenzhen International Ink Art Biennale
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Exhibition of Yan Shanchun’s Works, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006
Exhibition of Yan Shanchun’s Works, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005
The West Lake in my Dream: Yan Shanchun’s Works 2004-2005, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2004
The West Lake in my Dream: Yan Shanchun‘s Works on Paper 2004, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
International Print Exhibition Tokyo 2012,Japan
SELF-ESSENCE NATURALISM, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China,
2011
China Abstract Painting Now, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany,
Visible Soul -The Fourth Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery,Beijing, China
Slipping Transmission, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Reshaping History Chinart from 2000 to 2009, Beijing, China
Water Colour as a Reason, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
An Array of Nothing – Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Abstract Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan，China
2009
Where the Spirit Lives: Exhibition on Occasion of 100th Anniversary of Abstract, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong & Yan Shanchun, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China
2008
Liang Quan and Yan Shanchun Group Exhibition, Osage Shanghai, Shanghai, China
From Idea Essence Reythm – New Aspects of Comtemporary East Asian Ink Painting，Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China
Weixiang•Chenghuai Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Exhibition, Daxiang Art Space, Taichung, China
2007
Traces and Temperament: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2006
Du – Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting, Tianjin Museum, Tianjin, China
‘Tu’ Ink – Inviting Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Painting, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
