YIN Zhaoyang
Yin Zhaoyang, born in 1970 in Nanyang, Henan Province, China. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. He currently lives and works in Beijing.
Represented by Yin Zhaoyang and other artists, “Cruelty of Youth Paintings” in the late 1990s have added to this category an experimental dimension and enhanced its depth of thinking in terms of narrativity, pictorial concept and aesthetic taste, constituting a major tendency in avant-garde painting of a decade. In his later series of works such as “Myth”, “Utopia”, “Facade”, through in-depth internal inquiry and complex yet profound language exploration, he completed the transformation from experiencing the sensitive youth to a deeper spiritual world, and became an important representative of China's "new painting". Since 2011, Yin Zhaoyang has turned to a "spiritual landscape" with a strong personal temperament, a keen contemporary perspective, and a profound tradition. With a magnificent and pure painting language, he has developed a new scope of painting that includes both personal and social, historical and present landscape.
Yin Zhaoyang’s recent solo exhibitions include: “A Vast History: Yin Zhaoyang”(Long Museum（West Bund）, Shanghai, China, 2021),“Yin Zhaoyang at Song Shan”(Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, 2017),“Branches in Chill and Sparrows in Thrill”(AMNUA, Nanjing, China, 2015),“Cold Mountain”(Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2013),“Yin Zhaoyang’s works 1992-2011”(Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China, 2011),“Master”(Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2010),“Facade” (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2010),“Yin Zhaoyang: Ten Years”(Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2008),“Yin Zhaoyang 1997—2007”(Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2008),“Utopia”(CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2004),“Utopia VS Youth Story”(Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, 2004),“Myth”(Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2001), etc.
His works have been exhibited in Bern Art Gallery (Switzerland), Castel Sant'Elmo (Italy), State Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), MAC (Chile), National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba (Cuba), Technopolis (Greece), Seoul Museum of Art (Korea), Tahiti Museum of Art (Tahiti), Long Art Museum (Shanghai), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai), West Bund Art Center Hall (Shanghai), Powerlong Museum (Shanghai), SPSI Art Museum (Shanghai), The Museum of Shanghai University (Shanghai), Taimiao Art Museum (Beijing), National Agricultural Exhibition Center (Beijing), Beijing Exhibition Hall (Beijing), Song Art Museum (Beijing), Times Art Museum (Beijing), Yanhuang Art Museum (Beijing), Songzhuang Art Center (Beijing), Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou), Ningbo Museum of Art, Nanjing Museum, Jinling Art Museum (Nanjing), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou), Shenzhen Art Museum, Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen), Chengdu Modern Art Museum, 3G Museum (Chongqing), Big House Contemporary Art Center (Wuhan), Horizon Art Center (Hefei), etc.