Yan Lei

 

1965 Born in Hebei, China

1991 Graduated from China Academy of Art

Currently lives and works in Beijing and Hong Kong

 

 Solo Exhibitions：

 

2008 Sparkling Aspen, Aspen Art Museum, USA

           Sparkling Yan lei Artworks, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing 

2007 Yanlei Solo Exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

           Dogzstar Project, Gallery Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

           Support, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

2006 Super Lights- Hong Kong, HK Art Centre , Hong Kong

2005 Super Lights, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

2003 Climbing Space, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland

2002 Yan Lei Solo Exhibition, Galerie Loft, Paris

2001 International Scenery, China Art Archives & Warehouse, Beijing

1999 At the Frontiers of Capitalism, Museum of Site, Hong Kong

1995 Invasion, Beijing Junior Art Theatre, Beijing

 

Group Exhibitions：

 

2009

Music to eyes Art show , Today Art Museum, beijing

2008

Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, UCCA, Beijing

2008 Living Zhangjiang, Shanghai Exhibition of Shanghai Biennale 2008, Z-art Center, Shanghai

Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing

Where Are We? Beijing Center For The Art, Beijing

Community of Tastes, The Inaugural Exhibition of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

 2007

12 Documenta Kassel , Germany

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, San Gimigniano Italy

 2006

Art in Motion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

First MOCA Biennale, Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

A Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing

One Work: Hong Hao and Yan Lei, Taikang Top Space, Beijing

On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
2005

The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

Out of Sight, De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam

Mahjong - Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford            University, California, USA

2004

A l'Est du Sud de l'Ouest, Villa Arson, Nice and Crac - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, SÀte, France

Beyond Boundaries, Three on the Bund, Shanghai

Open Sky, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

 2003

50th Biennale di Venezia, Zones of Urgency, Italy

Alors, la Chine, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Left Wing, Left Bank Community, Beijing

The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of Post-Planning, 5th Shenzhen Contemporary Sculpture

Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

 2002

25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Cidades, Brazil

Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai 

The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

The Fourth Gwangju Biennale, Pause, Korea

 2001

Polypolis: Contemporary Art from South East Asia, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

City Slang: The First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art from the Pearl River Delta, Artist Commune, Hong Kong

1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, China

 2000

Unusual & Usual Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yuangong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai

 1999

The Contemporary Art Exhibition China, Korea and Japan, Museum of Pusan University, Korea

Fast Forward - Video Art Exhibition from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Macau Contemporary Art Centre, Macau

Unveiled Reality, Contemporary Chinese Photography, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

China Maze, Gallery OTSO, Espoo, Finland

 1998

Images Telling Stories (Beautiful like Materialism), Shanghai University Art Museum

It's Me, Tai Temple of the Forbidden City, Beijing

 1997

New Asia, New City, New Art '97, China - Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum

 1996

Phenomenon and Image, Gallery of Zhejing Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China

 1995

China's New Art: Post ' 89, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

 1994

Exhibition of Contemporary Photography from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong Arts Centre

 1993

China's New Art: Post ' 89, Hong Kong Arts Centre

 1989

China/Avant-Garde, China Art Museum, Beijing