FANG Lijun
方力鈞works in Beijing (b. 1963, Handan)
Fang Lijun was born in Handan, Hebei province in 1963, and graduated from the Printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1989. Soon after, Fang became a key member of the Yuanmingyuan artists’ village in Beijing, a centre for experimental art in the early 1990s. Fang’s stylized paintings of disaffected Beijing youth became iconic symbols of the so-called Cynical Realist movement of the early to mid-1990s, and gained him international attention early in his artistic career. Since that time, his creative work has continued to evolve with a strong element of social critique. In 1993, Fang was one of the youngest artists to participate in the seminal international travelling exhibition ‘China’s New Art, Post-1989’.
Fang Lijun has held upwards of 40 solo exhibitions in major art institutions both East and West, and his work has been featured at major international art platforms, including the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Biennial, as well as important gallery and museum shows in China and abroad, most recently in the major survey exhibition ‘Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His works have been collected by The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Centre de G. Pompidou (Paris, France), The National Gallery of Australia (Australia), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany), CP Foundation (Indonesia), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Shanghai Art Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum (China), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), to name a few, and are in a number of important private collections.
| 1963 | Born in Handan, Hebei Province, China |
| 1989 | Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and became a professional artist after graduation |
| 2009 | Elected Fellow of Contemporary Art Institute, Chinese National Academy of Arts |
| 2012 | Appointed as the Ambassador of Peace for the Peace and Development Foundation (PDF), the official partner of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China |
| 2013 | Appointed as the Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, China National Academy of Painting, China |
| 2019 | Honored with the 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer Award by Asia Society |
| 2004–2023 | Honored by 23 University and art institutions as Honorary Professor and Graduate Supervisor |
| Present | Currently lives and works in Beijing, China |
Selected Solo Exhibition
| 2026 | Panning For Gold: Fang Lijun Art Exhibition, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China |
| Fang Lijun: Keen Time On Becoming a “Waste Artist”, KW Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2025 | Art History of Fang Lijun II, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China |
| 2024 | Look on, Near and Far, Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2023 | Fang Lijun: Portraits and Porcelain, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK |
| Between Perfection and Destruction: Fang Lijun Porcelain Sculpture, Eskenazi, London, UK | |
| Fang Lijun Ceramic Works Exhibition, Sand Gallery, Macau, China | |
| Fang Lijun: The Light of Dust (A Luz Poeirenta), Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China | |
| 2022 | Wonderland – FANG LIJUN Ink painting, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China |
| 2021 | Fang Lijun, Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China |
| Fang Lijun’s Woodcuts, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China | |
| 2020 | Fang Lijun Ceramics, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China |
| Fang Lijun & Ren Rong, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany | |
| Hotspot – Songzhuang: Ren Rong & Fang Lijun, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2019 | Works of Fang Lijun in the Autumn of 2019, Trealm Culture, Guangzhou, China |
| Fang Lijun, Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2018 | Zhou Chunya and Fang Lijun’s Joint Solo Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China |
| 2017 | Li Luming: Publish Time & The Manuscript of Fang Lijun 2012-2017, Meilun Art Gallery, Changsha, China |
| This All Too Human World, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China | |
| Art History of Fang Lijun, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2016 | Re-sensing: The work of Fang Lijun, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China |
| Fang Lijun: Forbidden Areas, Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Fang Lijun Documentary Exhibition, Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| Alternative Survival: Research Exhibition of Fang Lijun’s Manuscripts, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| 2015 | Fang Lijun 2015, Springs Center of Art, Beijing, China |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Beijing Chinese Museum of Finance, Beijing, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China | |
| 2014 | Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China |
| Fang Lijun: The New Body of Work by Mr. Fang Lijun 1963, Art & Public-Cabinet P.H, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China | |
| Fang Lijun’s Small Paintings Exhibition, West Road Art Salon, Changsha, China | |
| Great Success: Fang Lijun Exhibition, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2013 | Fang Lijun, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| Pigment: Fang Lijun Solo exhibition, Huayu Resort & SPA at Yalong Bay Sanya, Sanya, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institude, Jingdezhen, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China | |
| Fang Lijun 2013, Springs Center of Art, Beijing, China | |
| Fang Lijun: A Cautionary Vision, Palazzo Marcello, Venice, Italy | |
| 2012 | Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Beifang University of Nationalities, Yinchuan, China |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Qinghai Nationalities University, Xining, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China | |
| The Precipice Over the Clouds, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM), Turin, Italy | |
| Fang Lijun: Living Multitudes, Time Square, Hong Kong, China | |
| Fang Lijun Documenta, Singapore Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Singapore | |
| Breakthrough: Fang Lijun’s Solo Exhibtion, CP Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| 2011 | Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Guangxi Arts Institute Art Museum, Nanning, China |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, Fine Arts Campus Art Museum of Jilin College of the Arts, Changchun, China | |
| Fang Lijun: From Symbol to Analysis, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China | |
| Time Line Documents Exhibition of Fang Lijun, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Into University Documenta, School of Art and Communication, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China | |
| 2010 | Fang Lijun: An Accidental Myth, Tank Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China |
| Fang Lijun, Art Museum of Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China | |
| Fang Lijun, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2009 | Fang Lijun: Thread of Time, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| Fang Lijun: Sea and Sky, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany | |
| Endlessness of life: 25 Years Retrospect of Fang Lijun; Living Like A Wild Dog 1963-2008 Fang Lijun’s Archive, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China | |
| 2008 | Fang Lijun, Arario Gallery New York, New York, USA |
| Chinese Painting: Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun and Feng Mengbo, The Galerie Rudolfnum, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| 2007 | Fang Lijun Print Exhibition, dARTex (The Danish Art Exchange), Beijing, China; The Kastrupgaard Collection Denmark; The Art Gallery of the Faroe Island The Art Gallery of Vendsyssel, Kastrup, Faroe Islands, Denmark |
| Fang Lijun Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Fang Lijun, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Places to Places to Places, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany | |
| Fang Lijun: Heads, the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, Denver, USA | |
| 2006 | Fang Lijun: Today, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| Life Is Now: Solo Exhibition by Fang Lijun, CP Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| Life Is Now: Solo Exhibition by Fang Lijun, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| From My Hand: Sculptures & Woodcuts by Fang Lijun, Mickael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA | |
| Fang Lijun: Holzschnitte und Zeichnungen, SMB Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2004 | Fang Lijun: gravures sur bois, Galerie de France, Paris, France |
| Fang Lijun, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2002 | Fang Lijun, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| Fang Lijun, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China | |
| Fang Lijun: Between Beijing & Dali, Woodcuts & Paintings 1989-2002, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, Aachen, Germany | |
| 2001 | Fang Lijun, New Woodcuts & Paintings, Prüss & Ochs Gallery (former Asian Fine Arts), Berlin, Germany |
| 2000 | Fang Lijun, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore |
| 1998 | Fang Lijun, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA |
| Fang Lijun, Galerie Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Fang Lijun, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 1996 | Fang Lijun, Human Images in an Uncertain Age, the Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1995 | Fang Lijun, Galerie Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Fang Lijun, Galerie Bellefroid, Paris, France |
| Selected Joint Exhibition | |
| 2026 | 1985-2025 Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| The Framework of Perception, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| COLORS! Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2025 | M+ Sigg Collection: Inner Worlds, M+, Hong Kong, China |
| Reflexion Archive: A Trilogy of Disordered Becoming, Soka Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2024 | Substitute & clone – Genetic Research Exhibition of Printmaking, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing, China |
| Thinking on paper – Chinese Contemporary Artists Manuscript Invitational Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| 2023 | Trio – Fang Lijun and his students, XIN ART SPACE, Shanghai, China |
| SONATA FORM #2023, TRIUMPH GALLERY, Beijing, China | |
| The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum Westbund, Shanghai, China | |
| M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China | |
| MOT Collection Membrane of the Time/Breathing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |
| POSTWAR, Fukouka Asian Art Museum, Fukouka, Japan | |
| START, Start Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Off the Beaten Track, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China | |
| 2022 | Rhythm and Refrain, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| Wuhan Biennale 2022, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai), Wuhan, China | |
| 2021 | Local Individuals, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China |
| Redefining Ink: Wash Painting: Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China | |
| Origin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seogwipo Art Center, Seogwipo City, Korea | |
| Paper works exhibition, Wanjiang No.1 Art Museum, Dongguan, China | |
| Among all Essence: 2021 China European Art Invitation Exhibition, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Boshan Ceramics Biennial, the ancient town of Yan Shen, Zibo, China | |
| The Realm of Existence: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| A Journey Through Printmaking: International Printmaking Art Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Bi Wu Wang Xia: Catalogue of Modern Paintings – Samples of Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Dingyuan International Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| Fang Lijun & Guo Wei: Woodcuts Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China | |
| Alchemy: Paths of Transformation, Sanya Museum of Contemporary Art, Sanya, China | |
| Indistinct Boundary, Huzhou Art Museum, Huzhou, China | |
| 2020 | Essl Collection Exhibition, Albertina, Vienna, Austria |
| Art Beijing-Discovery, Lixingxing Center, Beijing, China | |
| The Logic of Painting, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China | |
| 2020 Ink Painting Art Experimental Research Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Circle of Friends, Mountain & Sea Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Asia Digital Art Exhibiton 2020, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Chinese Ink Yearbook 2020, An Art Museum, New Everbright Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2nd Luxun Print Exhibition, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| Shamian Public Art Season, Shamian, Guangzhou, China | |
| Ink Painting on Going: 2000-2019, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| Shanghai Waves: Historical Archives and Works of Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| 2019 | Beyond the Wall: Special Invited Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of Xi’an Art Museum in 2019 & Literature Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China |
| Paper & Ink Language: Nanjing Ink Art Biennale 2019, Art Museum School of Fine Arts Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China | |
| The Gaze of History: Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China | |
| Blessing of Art, Feast: The Creator of Time, Sisye Art Space, Longfu Mansion, Beijing, China | |
| Cheongju International Craft Biennaie 2019, Culture Factory C, Cheongju, Korea | |
| Crafts and Art, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Beijing Flash Biennale: The Evolution of Beijing’s Art Districts & Studios, Beijing 9 Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Dimensionalities from Eyes, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China | |
| The 10th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenznen, OCAT, Shenzhen, China | |
| With Nature, Soka Art Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| Neo-Materiality: Contemporary Chinese Ceramics, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| Dynamics: Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings Research Exhibition, Bonn Contemporary, Bonn, Germany | |
| Developing: Contemporary Art Exhibition, K Space, Chengdu, China | |
| 2018 | Future Progress: Invitational Exhibition of China Contemporary Art, Zinitang Art Center, Guangzhou, China |
| New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Change of Ink: Invitational Exhibition on Artworks of Experimental Ink Painting, Art Museum of School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China | |
| Tramp over the Mountains & Rivers: Zhangzhou Invitational Exhibition on Contemporary Painting, Zhangzhou Museum, Zhangzhou, China | |
| 40×40: From 1978 to 2018 – Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Power Long Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| The Garden of Forking Path, ArtDepot Center, Chongqing, China | |
| The Road of Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| The Second IAPA Invitational Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China | |
| History Reality: 2018 China (Ningbo) Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China | |
| Unbounded: Appoaching the History of Chinese Contemporary Art, Sea Art Museum, Weihai, China | |
| New Historical Drama, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| China Contemporary Artists Manuscript Invitation Exhibition, South China Normal University, School of Fine Art Museum, Guangzhou, China | |
| Practice and Exchange: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2017 | East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale, Wuhan, China |
| The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Master’s Manuscript China (First Chapter), Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Anren Biennale: Today’s Yesterday, Anren, Chengdu, China | |
| A City in Dialogue with the World – ‘JINGPIAO’ International Exhibition, Jingdezhen China Ceramic Museum, Jingdezhen, China | |
| Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art: City as Museum, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China | |
| The Model of the World: Zhangzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhangzhou Museum, Zhangzhou, China | |
| Fusion: Contemporary Oil Painting Language Research Exhibition, Today Art Museum, China | |
| Recommended Exhibition by the Council & Academic Committee of the National Archives of Contemporary Art, National Archives of Contemporary Art Council, Beijing, China | |
| Escape by Crafty Scheme, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China | |
| Unbounded, La Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy | |
| Echo of Civilization, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Free Realm, Beijing 798 Guiyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guiyang 798 Art Center, Guiyang, China | |
| My Name is Woodcut, Guangzhou Opera House Art Place, Guangzhou, China | |
| 2016 | South of the Mountains: 11 Contemporary Chinese Artists, Sanyu Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China |
| All Rivers Run to the Sea, One Thousand Cliffs Stand Tall: The Songzhuang Artistic Spirit as a Community of Values, Songzhuang East Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| The 1st International Academic Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Busan Biennale: Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan, Korea | |
| Shin Hak-Chul and Fang Lijun: Monumental Body-Scapes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| The Exhibition of Annual Contemporary Art of China 2015, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Inference & Derivation: China Contemporary Ceramic Academic Invitational Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen, China | |
| Re-Portrait: A Figure Research on What is Expressed or Develops to Express at Present, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Clues-3, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Harmony: International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tianjin Museum, Tianjin, China | |
| Models: The Visual Experience and Cultural Identity of Chinese Modernity, Ellion Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Zao Hua: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cs Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| Zao Hua: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, 204 Art Space, Melbourne, Australia | |
| M+Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China | |
| Zao Hua: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia | |
| Image Spirit: 2016 Collection Exhibition of Famous Artists Works of Small Size, K Gallery, Chengdu, China | |
| 2015 | Fragmentary Narratives Exhibition, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA |
| Freehand China: 2015 Annual Exhibition of China National Academy of Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Model China: The First Master Star Invitational Exhibition, Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing, China | |
| Taiyuan International Sculpture Biennial, Taiyuan Museum, Taiyuan, China | |
| The Vivid Spirit: Chinese contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Confucius Temple of Anxi, Quanzhou, China | |
| Fragmentary Narratives, Changsha museum, Changsha, China | |
| Pantheon: From Yuanmingyuan to Songzhuang, Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive (2F&3F), Beijing, China | |
| Art Historical Flashbacks: Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| The Garden of Forking Paths: Tracks and Intersections of 15 Artists, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Biography: Chinese Contemporary Art on Light Shelf, Gaea Gallery, Guangzhou, China | |
| The Civil Power: Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Beyond the Boundary, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China | |
| China 8: Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany | |
| Breaking the Image: Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists from China, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Open Minds: Works on Paper 2015, K Gallery, Chengdu, China | |
| 2014 | Se-Context_1984, 37.8 Art Lab, Beijing, China |
| Freehand China: 2014 Annual Exhibition of China National Academy of Painting, Opening at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| 8+1 Experimental Art Case, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China | |
| Cosmos, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| 2014 First China Printmaking Exhibition, Guanlan Print Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| West Says East Says: Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| Social: The Landscape Narration in Chinese Contemporary Painting as well as Its Cultural Concept Changes, Chengdu, China | |
| Xiangjiang River Running North: Tan Guobin and Chinese Contemporary Art, Hunan Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China | |
| 1199 People Collection from Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| By the Name of Dailiness: Chinese Contemporary Art Everyday Discourse and Generate Ideas, Chengdu Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts Re-Modernization, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China | |
| 1960, Springs Center of Art, Beijing, China | |
| China New Expression: Exhibition 1980-2014, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Songzhuang Times: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art Masters in Celebration of the 93th Anniversary of Chinese Communist Party, Art East Exhibition Center of Xiaobao Village, Songzhuang, Beijing, China | |
| Academic New Art Season I, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Art Contemporary Jiangxi: Jiangxi Huadian Invitation Exhibition, Jiangxi Huadian, Nanchang, China | |
| The First China Czech Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Czech Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2013 | Re-Portrait: No.1 Sanguandian Art Exhibition 2013, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China |
| The First China – ASEAN Biennale, AICC ASEAN International Cultural Plaza, Nanning, China | |
| Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
| Appreciation of Contemporary Art Classics and International Forum on Culture and Finance, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Museum of Culture and History, Beijing, China | |
| The Floating Art Academy, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Graubunden, Switzerland | |
| Portrait of The Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Outside/Inside: The Form and Phantom of Concepts, Tong Space, Beijing, China | |
| Trend Setting Pioneer Tribute to the Classic: Esquire 80th Anniversary the Cover Art Exhibition, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, China | |
| Individual Growth: Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China | |
| Re-ink: 2013 Chengdu Invitation Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China | |
| Blueroof Art Community Exhibition, Blue Roof Museum of Art, Chengdu, China | |
| Dust and Glory: a Joint Exhibition of Fang Lijun and Yin Zhaoyang, Art One Foyer, Hong Kong, China | |
| Evolvement, Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China | |
| Contemporary Art and Process of the Society, Circle Art Centre, Shenzhen, China | |
| Those Leading Contemporary Art Practices: A Juried Invitational Exhibition of AAC (the Award of Art China), Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Re-Ink: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2012 | Re-Ink: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China |
| Through All Ages: Long Museum Opening Series Exhibitions, Long Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Asked in Tao: Ma Yiping Arts Education 50th Anniversary-Teacher-Student and Colleagues Art Exhibition, Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| Future Pass World Exhibition: Today Beijing Station, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2012 Western China International Art Biennale, Tianye Art Museum, Yinchuan, China | |
| Culture Shanghai: A Return Oriented Towards the Future, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| Art-Frontier: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Looking Away, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia | |
| Omen 2012: Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| China-Xinjiang: The 1st Contemporary Art Biennale, Xinjiang Art Center, Urumqi, China | |
| Re-History: Contemporary Chinese Art Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Vision: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhangjiang Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Face, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Beijing 798 Time Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, China | |
| Excellent Prints Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Masters, K Space, Chengdu, China | |
| 2011 | Flowing Clouds: New Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, China |
| Gallery Hotel Art Project, Gallery Hotel, Beijing, China | |
| I Believe that…: Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Chengdu Music Park, Chengdu, China | |
| A New Horizon: Contemporary Chinese Art 1949 to 2009, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia | |
| Image History Existence: Taikang Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| The Second Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Prints: Print-Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Surrealist Pop, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China | |
| Four People Four Ways, Pin Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Collecting History: China New Art, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu, China | |
| Future Pass Collateral Event of the 54th Venice Biennial, Abbey of San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana, Venice, Italy | |
| Bad Exhibition, Pin Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Pure Views: New Painting from China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA | |
| A Schema for Printmaking, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2010 | Shanghai Expo Prints Exhibition (Shanghai), Shun Art Gallery (11,8-30), Wellside Gallery, Levant Art Gallery, Ming Liu Arts Institution, MADA s.p.a.m., Shanghai, China |
| Shanghai Expo Prints Exhibition (Tokyo), Gallery Furuya, BLD Gallery, Art Complex Center, Satelites Art Lab, 360° Graphics, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Six+Six: Energy, Pass on, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China | |
| Pure Views: New Paintings from China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK | |
| Negotiations: The Second Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Western China International Art Biennale, Yinchuan City Art & Culture Centre, Yinchuan, China | |
| Picture Consumption: Research Representational Painting, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| The Constructed Dimension: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Reshaping History: China Art 2000-2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China | |
| Clouds: Power of Asian Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art: Painting (1979-2009), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| 2009 | The Home Court: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China |
| Collision: Cases of Contemporary China Art Experiment, Central Academy of Arts Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Open Vision: Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| The Contemporary Art Achievement Exhibition in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China | |
| The Face of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA | |
| Embrace Suzhou Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Arts, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| The First Academic Contemporary China Engraving Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| CHINAMANIA, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| The Chinese Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale – See a World in Grain of Sand, Giardini, Arsenale, Venice, Italy | |
| A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy | |
| Arrange of the Journey: Zhang Yichun Teacher & Students Join Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Body, ShangDong Center of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China | |
| China’s ReVision, the Opening of Aye Eastation Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Paperwork, DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2008 | The Revolution Continues: New Art from China, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |
| ‘1st, 12’ Taida Contemporary Art Museum Collection Exhibition, Taida Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China | |
| 2008 Kunadu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China | |
| 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| Living in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Encounter, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Museum für Asiatische Kunst Exhibition, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany | |
| Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA | |
| Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| Artists in Art History Curator, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| Academic and Un-academic II, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| Facing China, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland | |
| Beijing – Athens, Contemporary Art from China, National Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece | |
| Feidi: China Contemporary New Painting, Nanjing Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| New Convenant Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Artists, Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China | |
| 2007 China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Qiao Art Museum, Gehua Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Cina XXI secolo, Arte fra identità e trasformazione, the Palazzo delle Esposizionz, Rome, Italy | |
| 2007 | The Power of the Universe: Exhibition of Frontier, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China |
| On Ink and Wash: A Dialogue between Contemporary Artists, Tank Loft -Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China | |
| China – Facing Reality, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria | |
| Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China | |
| Red Hot, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Huston, USA | |
| Black White Gray, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Disembeding, Qiangaoyuan Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Inferno in Paradise: 10 Years Alexander Ochs Galleries, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany | |
| Post-Martial Law vs Post- ’89: The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, China | |
| Chinese Contemporary Society’, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia | |
| We Are Your Future: Contemporary Art from Latin America and China Special Project for the 2nd Moscow Biennale, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia | |
| 2006 | Best Asia, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| Images of Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario, Cheonan, Korea | |
| The Sacred and the Profane, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin I Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| Change, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China | |
| Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting, Huitai Art Center, Tianjin, China | |
| A Point in Time – In Wuhan, Fine Arts Literature, Wuhan City Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China | |
| China Coup, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK | |
| Red, Diya Art, Tainan, China | |
| 2005 | Beautiful Cynicism: Arario Beijing Opening Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China |
| Land of Warmth: The Opening Exhibition of Red Bridge Gallery, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| Sky of Lot, 2005 Chinese Contemporary Easel Painting (Oil Painting) Invitational Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Conspire: The 1st Exhibition of TS1 Contemporary Art Center, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| History of River: The Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition In New Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Artforum Berlin, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany | |
| Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen, Beijing, China | |
| Clues-Fang Lijun, Wang Yin, Xiao Yu, Yang Maoyuan, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| CP Biennale II 2005, CP Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of modern Art, New York, USA | |
| Kinderszenen – Child’s play, Wasserschloss Gross Luthen, Brandenburg, Germany | |
| Mahjong, Bern Museum, Bern, Switzerland | |
| China Contemporary Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| New Works of Fang Lijun, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| The Languages of Nature: Franz Gertsch+Fang Lijun, White Space Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei University of the Arts, Taipei, China | |
| 2004 | Twenty-four Living Artists in China, Alexander Ochs | White Space, Beijing, China |
| Stone Face: China Art Now First Group Printing Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Stone Face: China Art Now First Group Printing Exhibition, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland | |
| East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Commemorate ‘Art Literature’ 10 Years Anniversary, Art Literature Newsroom, Wuhan, China | |
| The Group Exhibition Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing Presents Artworks of Fang Lijun, Ik-Joong Kang, John Young, Kyungwoo Chun, Ling Jian, Qiu Shihua, Xu Bing, Yin Xiuzhen, Yoo, Jung Hyun, Yue Min Jun, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany | |
| Painting and Sculpture Exhibition ‘Faces of Illusion’ by Fang Lijun, Ye Yongqing and Yun Minjun, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Face to Face, Robert & Art Gallery, Tainan, China | |
| Dafeng, Motif International Design Organization, Beijing, China | |
| Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China | |
| China, The Body Everywhere?, Marseilles Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France | |
| China Now, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| 2003 | Zuoyi China Modern Art Fair, Beijing Zuo’an Commune, Beijing, China |
| Surpass Infinitude, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Chinese Printmaking Today, British Library& Muban Foundation, British Library, London, UK | |
| 3 Faces + 3 Colors, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| CP Foundation Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| An Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Alors, la Chine, Pompidou Center, Paris, France | |
| Der Rest der Welt, Neuffer Am Park, Pirmasens, Germany | |
| From China with Art, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| New Painting, Shanghai Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2002 | A Point in Time, Changsha, Meilun Museum, Changsha, China |
| Guangzhou Triennial 2002, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| Fang Lijun & Jörg Immendorff, Shanghai Contemporary Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| Image is Power: Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang, Fang Lijun, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Künstler helfen alten und neuen Meistern, Auktion, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2001 | It’s Me: Exhibition of Works by Fang Lijun, Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, France Art Gallery, Paris, France |
| …Between…, Shanghe Art Gallery, Chengdu, China | |
| In Holz Geschnitten: Dürer, Gauguin, Penck und die Anderen, Bochum Art Museum, Bochum, Germany | |
| Dream, Red Mansion, London, UK | |
| Shanghai International Print Invitation Exhibition, Er Dong Qiang Print Centre, Shanghai, China | |
| Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| Mercosur Biennial of Visual Arts, Porto Alegre, Rio, Brazil | |
| Towards a New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China | |
| Painting Genius: Academic and Un-academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| China Art Now!, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| Song Zhuang, Top Space, Beijing, China; Städtische Gallery, Bremen, Germany | |
| 2000 | Portrait of China Contemporaries, Espace Culture Francois Mitterrand, Paris, France |
| Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Chinese Walls, Gasunie Kunstkomitee, Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| The 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| The Collection of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Between, Upriver Residence, Kunming, China | |
| Visage: Painting and The Human Face in 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1999 | New Modernism for a New Millennium, Limm Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| APERTO, The 48th Venice Bennial, Venice, Italy | |
| Open Channels, Dong Yu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China | |
| The 5th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| 1998 | 5000+10, Chinese Contemporary, Bilbao, Spain |
| Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK | |
| China!, Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin, Germany | |
| Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, USA | |
| It’s Me, Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China | |
| 1997 | Four intersection points, French Art Gallery, Paris, France |
| New Collection of Commissioned Works on the Theme ‘Hiroshima’, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Chinese Walls, Gasunie’s Kunstkomitee, Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| Die anderen Modernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany | |
| Kwangju Art Biennial, Kwangju, Korea | |
| China!, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany | |
| 1996 | Great Art Exhibition: A Special Exhibition of Experimental Prints, Home of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany |
| Begegnungen mit China, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany | |
| Beijing No, No Soap Opera, Curated by Alexander Ochs, Marstall Theatre, Munich, Germany | |
| 1995 | The 1st Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea |
| Avantguardes Artistiques Xinesse, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Couplet 4, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Unser Jahrhunder, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | |
| Visions of Happiness: Ten Asian Contemporary Artists, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1994 | Biennale Contemporary Art at São Paulo, 22nd International Biennale of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Welt – Moral, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland | |
| New Chinese Art, Hanart TZ Gallery, Taipei, China | |
| The 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| 1993 | Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia |
| New Art from China, Post’1989, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK | |
| Passagio ad Oriente, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China | |
| 1992 | China Avant-Garde, toured Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Kunsthallen Brandts Kicedefabrik, Odense, Denmark |
| New Art from China / Post-Mao Product, toured the Art Gallery of New South Sales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat; Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia | |
| Fang Lijun and Liu Wei Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 1991 | Fang Lijun and Liu Wei Private Exhibition, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 1989 | China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| 1984 | 6th National Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China |
