Yu Youhan (Chinese, –2023)

Timeline

1943
Born in Shanghai, China
1970
Graduated from the Central Academy of Art & Design, Beijing
1973
Taught at the Shanghai Institute of Industrial Arts, China
1985
After visited a Zao Wou-ki exhibition in Hangzhou and an abstract art exhibition organized by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in China, he began painting abstract art in the 1980s
2012
For the first time in his illustrious career, he took up the challenge of extending his artistic expression to lithography
Now working and living in Shanghai

Exhibitions

2013
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibiiton Centre, Hong Kong
2012
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Shanghart Beijing Group Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
ShanghART Group Exhibition in Summer, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Helbling in Shanghai, IG Halle, Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland
ShanghART Group Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
“Important Contemporary Chinese Artists”, ART HK 2012, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibiiton Centre, Hong Kong
“Cultural Shanghai- A Return Oriented Towards the Future”, Shanghai Gallery Alliance,Shanghai, China
2011
(Solo) Yu Youhan's Paintings, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
ShanghART Gallery Autumn Group Show, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Growing Up, Exhibition celebrating SWFC 3rd & ShanghART Gallery 15th Anniversary, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
2010
San Sheng Wan Wu, Opening Program of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
Portrait, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2009
Yi Pai - Century Thinking A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
2008
Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Speed of the Flows, Invited Artists Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artworks, Shanghai Yuandian Gallery, Shanghai
Hybrid , ShanghART, Shanghai
Five Years of Duolun: Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
(Solo) Art Fairs ShanghaiMART, Shanghai
2007
"Abstracts, early work on paper and canvas, 1986 - 1991", ChinaToday, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2006
Yu Youhan - Mao Series, ChinaToday Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2005
"Study Practice" Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2004
"Yu Youhan-Landscape of Yi Meng Shan" Shanghart H-Space, Shanghai
2004
"Chine le Corps Partout?" Museum d'Art contemporain, France
2004
"Chine, le corps partout?" (China, the body everywhere?) Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles
2003
"Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes" Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi, Beijing
2002
"Paris-Pekin" Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2001
"Made by Chinese #3. Chinese Pop" Galerie Navarra, Paris, France
2001
"Shanghai Star" Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
1999
"Ah! Us" SHANGHART
1998
"Yu Youhan" Gallery Sonne, Berlin, Germany
1997
"15 Contemporary Chinese Artists" National Art Association, Portugal
1997
"Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom-Chinese Art of the 1990'" Galerie Rudolfini, Prague, Czech Republic
1996
"Reckoning with the Past" Contemporary Chinese Painting Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
1996
"Yu Youhan" Maison de la Chine , Paris, France
1995
"Des Pais del Centre" Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses , Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
1995
"Change - Chinese Contemporary Art" Konsthallen Goetaplatsen, Goeteborg, Sveden
1994
22nd International Biennial of S?o Paolo , Brazil
1993
"China's New Art Post 1989" (Touring Exhibition)
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