TANG Zhigang

唐志岡

works in Yunnan (b. 1959, Kunming)

Tang Zhigang is a celebrated oil painter, a professor at Yunnan Arts University and President of the Yunnan Oil Painters Association.

1959	Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
1976	Graduated from secondary school and enlisted in the army
1989	Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Art Institute of The People’s Liberation Army
1996-2019	Professor at Department of Fine Arts, Yunnan Arts University
Currently lives and works in Yunnan province, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023	Tang Zhigang: Fake Trick, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai
2018	History of A Rebellious Child — New Works and Documents, CGK Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Kunming, China
	By The Tips Of His Fingers works on paper, Brenda Art, Kunming
2015	Worldplay: New Paintings by Tang Zhigang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2008	Never Grow Up — Tang Zhigang 1977-2007, gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2007	Never Grow Up — Tang Zhigang 1977-2007, doART CHINA-gallery, Hyundai company, Beijing, China
2005	China Festival: Chinese Fairy Tale, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Chinese Fairy Tale, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
	Chinese Fairy Tale: Tang Zhigang Solo Exhibition, TCG Nordica, Kunming, China
2004	Meeting in Painting, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
2002	Half of a Soldier’s Life, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2000	Children in Meeting, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1994	The Life of Soldiers, Yunnan Arts University, Kunming, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021	Urban Humanities: Art Cluster in Southwest, Upriver Loft Art Community, Kunming, China
2019	Constellation – Yunnan Oil Painting 1978 – 2019, CGK Contemporary Gallery, Kunming, China
	Lucid Sky and Sea III, CGK Contemporary Gallery, Kunming, China
2017	Dawn of Chinese Civilization – Chinese Art Exhibition, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
	The 3rd Yunnan Oil Society Exhibition, IWE Art Museum, Kunming, China
2016	China. South Asia. Southeast Asia International Art Exhibition (oil painting), Yunnan Art Gallery, Kunming, China
	Elephant, the Symbol and Source of Life: Ten Artists’ Vision of India, 2016 China-South Asia and Southeast Asia Art Week, Yuan Xiaocen Arts Center, Kunming, China
	Lucid Sky and Sea – Painting Trip for Yunnan Oil Painters, Upriver Loft Art Community, Kunming, China
2015	Slices of Thought: Invitational Exhibition of Yunnan Artists’ Manuscripts, 108 Loft Complex, Kunming, China
	Kunstaustausch Zwischen Deutschland und China: Zwei Zustände der Kunst, Yuan Xiaocen Arts Center, Kunming, China; Neues Schloss der Eremitage Bayreuth, Germany; Kunstmuseum Erlangen, Germany
	Post-objectivity, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei， Taiwan，China
2014	3 Edition 4 Face Exhibition: Chengdu Blue Roof Art Festival Exhibition, Four-Face Space Art Centre, Chengdu, China
	Scenery on Paper: Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Artists, Yuan Xiaocen Arts Center, Kunming, China
	Run with the Dream: Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Yuan Xiaocen Arts Center, Kunming, China
	Above the Scenery, Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, China
	Nothing of Him that Doth fade But Doth Suffer a Sea Change, Jingya Gallery, Kunming, China
2013	DAS Biennale 2013: Yunnan Landscape Oil Painting Exhibition, Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, China
	Fertile Southwest: My Soil & My People Oil Paintings Invitational Exhibition, Guangxi Art Museum, Nanning, China
	Color Of The Heart, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China
	Beijing – Sofia: New Sights In Chinese Contemporary Art, Bulgarian National Telecommunications Museum Art Center, Sofia, Bulgarian
	Beijing – Bucharest: New Sights In Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum Of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
	Beijing – Prague: New Sights In Chinese Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2012	Latitude/Attitude: Twenty Years of Schoeni Art Gallery, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
	Modern And Contemporary Oil Painting of Yunnan, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2011	Surrealist POP, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2010	On Yunnan–A Branch of Contemporary Art Since the 1990s, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
	13^th Beijing International Art Exposition, Beijing China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
	RESHAPING HISTORY: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Arario Gallery (Beijing), Beijing, China
2009	Freedom of Choice: New Chinese Art, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Louisiana, USA
2008	SH Contemporary 2008, National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai),Shanghai, China
	Today’s China–Contemporary Art from China, Belvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium
	BEIJING-ATHENS: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Athens, Greece
	Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Centre, Beijing,China
	New interface IV: Here Comes Spring, H&H space, Hongqiao Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007	Departure from the South-West, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
	3L4D – 3rd Life 4th Dimension, National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
	Adidas: Sport in Art Exhibition, MOCA, Shanghai, China
	ShContemporary 2007, National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), Shanghai, China
	New Interface 3: Searching the Future of Chinese Contemporary Art, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
	Thermocline of Art, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Word of Mouth: Guiyang Biennial, Guiyang, China
	Chinese Contemporary Social Art Exhibition, National Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
	Overlook 2007, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
	From New Figurative to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
	Yunnan Contemporary Art Invitational, Nanjing Square Gallery, Nanjing, China
	Back to Guishan, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
2006	Made in China, Opera Gallery, London, U.K
	Chinese Fairy Tale, 2006, Shanghai Hongqiao Gallery, Shanghai, China
	Yunnan Creation: Seven Person Exhibition, Kunming, China
	Beijing International Art Exposition, Beijing, China
	Melbourne International Art Exposition, Melbourne, Australia
2005	Conspire: 1st Exhibition of T.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, T.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
	Warmness, Hongqiao Gallery, Shanghai, China
	Celestial Affinity, Shenzhen Art Museum Shenzhen, China
	Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Dream Producers: The Imaginary of Chinese Contemporary Art, Xin-Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2003	Five: Five Artists from Kunming, Örebro Art Gallery, Örebro ,Sweden
	Guiyang Biennial, Guiyang, China
	From China with Art, National Gallery of Jakarta, Indonesia
	Collection of LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
2002	The 17th World Cup, France
	China Pop, Sydney, Australia
	The First Guangzhou Triennial — Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangzhou, China
	Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2001	Basel international Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
	Boys and GirlsUpriver Loft, Kunming, China; Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
	VASL International Artists Workshop, Karachi, Pakistan
2000	Tales of Two Cities, Asia Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
	Chinese Avant-garde Exhibition, De La Villette Museum, Paris, France
1999	Three Artists from Kunming, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
	Chinese Avant-garde Exhibition, Saint-Benin Art Centre, Italy; Musee Granet, Provence, France
	China 46, Art Sans Frontieres Gallery, Shanghai, China; Melbourne, Australia
	Open in All Directions, Kunming Upriver Club, Kunming, China
	Moment: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, University of Chicago Art Center, Chicago, USA
1997	Urban Personality, Kunming, China
1996	Life Style, Yunnan University Science Center, Kunming, China
1995	Current State (Organized by the Cultural Exchange Center of f Columbia University, United States), Kunming, China
1994	The 8th National Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
1993	The 2nd China Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing, China
1989	The 7th National Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China
1986	National Art Exhibition Celebrating the 60^th Anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China