YU YOUHAN 余友涵 Biography

Basic

1943	Born in Shanghai

Education

1973	Graduated from the Central Academy of Art & Design (now Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University), Beijing

Solo Exhibitions

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2022	YU Youhan: Eternal and Ever-changing, G Museum, Nanjing
2020	Cycle · Freedom: Yu Youhan’s Abstract Works in the 2010s, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2018	The Representational and The Abstract, The Long Museum, Chongqing
2017	Yu Youhan: The Representational and The Abstract, ShanghART, Shanghai
2016	Yu Youhan, PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	Yu Youhan 1973-1988, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai
2013	Yu Youhan: Yī Bān, Yuan Space, Beijing
2012	YU Youhan: Home, Bi-Cities: Solo Exhibitions of Chinese New Painting, Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou
2011	Yu Youhan's Paintings, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2004	Yu Youhan, Landscape of Yi Meng Shan, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
1999	Yu Youhan: Ah, Us!, ShanghART Fuxing Park, Shanghai
1998	Yu Youhan, Gallery Sonne, Berlin, Germany
1996	Yu Youhan, Maison de la Chine, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

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2022	Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai
2021	City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
2020	Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai
2018	From 1978 To 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
	Shanghai Beat - The Dynamism of Contemporary Art Scene in Shanghai, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2017	Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
2015	Garden Splendors, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou
2014	Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names, UCCA, Beijing; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	Re-View, Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
2013	The 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition, Independent Chinese Art Exhibition: Voice of the Unseen, Venice, Italy
	Four Quarters-3553, Exhibition Cycle of Chinese Contemporary Artists, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou Branch, Wenzhou
2012	Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2010	Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
	Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
2009	Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
	The China Project - Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2008	Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007	'85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing
2005	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004	Chine, le corps partout? (China, the body everywhere?), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
2003	Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi, Beijing
2002	Paris - Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
1997	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
1996	Reckoning with the Past, Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
1994	22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993	45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
	The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
	China Avant-garde, (Touring exhibition) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
	China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1989	China / Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988	Exhibition of Today's Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1986	First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai

Projects

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Collections

	G Museum, Nanjing
	Guggenheim Museum-Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates
	Pacific Asia Museum at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Long Museum, Shanghai; Chongqing,
	Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	M+ Collection, Hong Kong
	Denver Art Museum, Denver, U.S.A.
	Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
	Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.
	Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
	Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	Hammer Museum, Gift of the Haudenschild Collection, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland

2024	Song of Soul, Soul Art Center, Beijing
	Where Autumn Waters Meet the Eternal Sky, Yit Art Space, Hangzhou
	The Third Yit Online Arts and Design Fair, online
	Splendors of the Sun and Moon, Jiuzhi Art Museum, Shanghai
	Line 2024: Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, 3723 Art Museum, Shanghai
	Eastern Sentiment with Western Charm, Aman Yangyun, Shanghai
	Growth in Motion, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
	These Men are from the Moon, An Examination toward Cultural Gender Subjectivity, Dongyi No.6 Space of Art, Beijing
	Getting Along With It, Space & Gallery Association, Shanghai
	Two Sides of One Coin: Reflections and Transformations, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing
	The Way to Vipassanā - 11th Anniversary Exhibition, Ying Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
	Mountain Water, Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai
	Great Flux, 1979 Gallery, Shenzhen
	The Imagery Between Lines and Paper, ShanghART, Shanghai
2023	Portraits, The 10th Anniversary of The Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai
	Delight in the Invisible: Abstract Narrative of Momentary, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai
	Face the Scene: Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism Exhibition of the 90s (Shanghai), Being Art Museum, Shanghai
	Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing
	Romantic Wandering, Bund Art Center, Shanghai
	Perception and Imagery, Shanghai Contemporary Art Group Exhibition, Saisen Art, Shanghai
	Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
	A Leisurely Stroll: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai
	Beyond 2003-2023, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai
2022	Start, Inaugural Exhibition, Start Museum, Shanghai
	Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai
	Worship and Faith, Shanghai Style Abstract Art Research Exhibition, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai
2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
	Among All Essence, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai
	Time and Space, Yangyun Aman, Shanghai
	Affirmation: Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai FTZ International Artwork Exchange Center, Shanghai
	Street of Eternal Happiness, Ying Space, Beijing
	It's not a wave..., Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
	City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
	Psychedelic, Urban Landscape and Abstraction II, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai
2020	Waves and Echoes, A Process of Re-contemporarization in Chinese Art Circa 1987 Revisited, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
	Ink Upgraded, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai
	Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation, Beijing Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing
	In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
	Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai
2019	The Return of Guests, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	River Flowing without a Beacon, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
	Daybreak, The Barn Contemporary Art Space, Shenzhen
	Side Lanes, ShanghART, Shanghai
2018	From 1978 To 2018: Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
	Shanghai Beat - The Dynamism of Contemporary Art Scene in Shanghai, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
	Oriental Peach Valley, Contemporary Chinese Art with Sources of the Traditional Oriental Aesthetics, Werkschau Halle, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
	White Flash, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
	Shanghai Painters, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing
	Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
	Approach Spirits, N3 Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing
	Avant-grade Shanghai: 30 Year Literature Exhibition of Shanghai Contemporary Art (1979-2010), Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai
	Sense of Paper - Melting Point, L+ Space, Shanghai
2017	The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen
	Troposphere, Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
	Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
	Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	Graffiti and Calligraphy: 6 Abstract Artists in China, Arario Gallery, Shanghai
	The Source of the Image, Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou
2016	20, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
	Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Abstraction and Beyond: A Research-Based Tour Exhibition of Chinese Art, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	7th Edition of Busan: Biannual Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Museum of modern Art & Kiswire Factory, Busan, Korea
	The World is Yours, as well as Ours, White Cube, London, U.K.
	Geomancy-ink changing--Misreading and Regeneration of Chinese Ink, Alioth Art Center, Shanghai
	New Capital, Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu
	Too Loud A Solitude, Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2015	City Vision, 2015 Shanghai Artists' Works Exhibition, Cloud Art Center, Shanghai
	Elixir, Biennale Italia-China 2015, Turin, Italy
	Garden Splendors, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou
2014	Just as Money is the Paper, the Gallery is the Room, Osage Gallery, Shanghai
	Broken. Stand, The New Painting to Order, Long Museum, Shanghai
	Right is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
	Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names, UCCA, Beijing; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	Original Home, JIA Pingwa Culture and Art Center, Xi'an, Shanxi
	Re-View, Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
	A Fragment in the Course of Time, Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai
	5 Plus, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
	Starlight, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai
2013	Shanghai/Paris, Modern Art of China, China Art Museum, Shanghai
	Clutch, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
	One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Us and Institution, Us as Institution, Times Museum, Guangzhou
	Foundational Work II, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
	The 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition, Independent Chinese Art Exhibition: Voice of the Unseen, Venice, Italy
	The Early Abstract Art in Shanghai, A Retrospective of Art History, Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Arts Exposition, Shanghai
	Four Quarters-3553, Exhibition Cycle of Chinese Contemporary Artists, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou Branch, Wenzhou
	Art 500, Halcyon Gallery, Shanghai
	Re-Reading, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Fujian: Four Chinese Contemporary Artists, Yuehu Gallery, Shanghai
	Continental Divide, 10 Chinese Artists at Home and Abroad, artshare.com
	Foundational Work, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
2012	Cultural Shanghai- A Return Oriented Towards the Future, 2012 Shanghai Gallery Alliance, Shanghai
	2×Helbling in Shanghai, IG Halle, Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland
	Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2010	Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
	Landscape in Transition, Yuzi Paradise International Art Symposium, Yuehu Gallery, Shanghai
	Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000-2009, Special Documenta, China National Convention Center, Beijing
	Great Image Without Image, 15 Person Abstract Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	San Sheng Wan Wu, Opening Exhibition, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai
2009	Santa's Workshop Shanghai, Selected works, toys and artists' editions, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai
	Out of Shanghai, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
	Shanghai History in Making from 1979 till 2009, 436 Jumen Rd., Shanghai
	Warm Up, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing
	The China Project - Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
	Another Scene, Artists' Projects, Concepts and Ideas, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass, U.S.A.
2008	Five Years of Duolun, Chinese Contemporary Art Retrospective Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Cheng Xiang, Opening Exhibition of Shanghai Eye Level Gallery, Eye Level Gallery, Shanghai
	Speed of the Flows, Invited Artists Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artworks, Yuandian Gallery, Shanghai
	Writing on the Wall, Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
	Red Aside, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2007	'85 New Wave, The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing
	Strategy on Paper, Works on Paper Invitational Exhibition, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
2006	Witness, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
	2006 Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai
2005	Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
	Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2004	Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation, Contemporary Art from China, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, Ireland
	Chine, le corps partout? (China, the body everywhere?), Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
2003	Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Dashanzi, Beijing
2002	Paris - Pekin, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2001	Made by Chinese #3. Chinese Pop, Galerie Navarra, Paris, France
	Shanghai Star, Casula Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
2000	Futuro E, Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Macau
1999	Fortune Global Forum, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jinmao Podium Bldg., Shanghai
1997	15 Contemporary Chinese Artists, National Art Association, Portugal
	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the 1990', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech; OTSO Gallery, Espoo, Finland
1996	Reckoning with the Past, Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
1995	Des del País del Centre: avantguardes artístiques xineses, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
	Change, Chinese Contemporary Art, Goeteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
1994	22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993	Mao Goes Pop: China Post‐1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
	45th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale - Cardinal Points of the Arts, Venice, Italy
	The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
	Mao Goes Pop, China Post '89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	China Avant-garde, (Touring exhibition) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Hildesheim Art Gallery, Germany; Kunsthall Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Brandts Klaederfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
	China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1991	Materials, Beijing; Nanjing; Chongqing
1989	China / Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1988	Exhibition of Today's Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	Today, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1986	First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition, Xuhui Cultural Centre, Shanghai
	Inauguration Exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1985	Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists, Yu Youhan, Ding Yi, Qin Yifeng, Wang Guqing, Ai Dewu, Feng Lianghong, Fudan University, Shanghai

2024	10 YEARS, ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024, ShanghART, Shanghai
2020	c̶o̶n̶temporary, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2016	The Meeting Room, Nr. 40, Nan Dan Road
2014	The Journey of Art, Follow-up exhibition of John Moores Painting Prize, Artemis, Shanghai
2011	Party, Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel, Shanghai