YAN Bing
b. 1980
Yan Bing was born in 1980 in Tianshui, Gansu Province, China and graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, 3rd Studio of the Oil Painting Department. He lives and works in Beijing. Yan Bing directly uses ordinary or even primitive everyday objects as materials in his creation of different medium, and probes their spiritual dimension through painting. Hidden behind the prosaic items of daily life he depicts is his own perception of life. The emotions revealed in Yan Bing’s works are complex, while the simplicity is permeated with his sentiment and speculation, pain and joy. These works exuding an ancient quality reflects the artist’s profound thinking about the relationship between his personal experience and the current living world.
Recent selected exhibitions include: tone, Reflexion Gallery, Beijing (2024); One and All – A Pioneering Generation New Artistic Styles of Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing(2024); Yan Bing: Pear Blossom Turns White, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2022); Yan Bing: Suddenly, Everything Became Clear, ShanghART, Shanghai (2021); Yan Bing: At First the Weather Was Fine, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2019); YAN Bing, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); Superfluous Things, No.5, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Farming Poems, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing (2012); My Labour, Gallery Yang, Beijing (2011); 51㎡14#, Taikang Space, Beijing (2010); Yan Bing: Temperature, UCCA, Beijing (2009). He also participated in numerous group exhibitions held by institutions including CAFA Museum, Beijing; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing; Start Museum, Shanghai; Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing; Urban Arts Space, Ohio State University, U.S.A.; RH Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.; Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an; Taikang Space, Beijing; Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen and G·ART, Nanjing.
Collections
Taikang Museum, Beijing
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
Artworks
News & Events
Exhibition
One and All – A Pioneering Generation New Artistic Styles of Chinese Contemporary Painting
Group Exhibition, LIU Cong, YAN Bing
Curator: YI Ying, Producer: LUO Xudong
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Exhibition
The Shape of Perception
YAN Bing
Iris Art Museum, Suzhou
Event
One and All – Press Conference and Forum
Host: Yuan Jiawei
Guests: Yi Ying, Wang Jing, He Jing, Liu Chunfeng, Wang Guangle, Yan Bing, Sun Yitian, Luo Xudong
Venue: Lecture Hall, UCCA
Press
Talk|Genealagy Artists: YAN Bing
Solo Project, Start Museum, Shanghai
Press
YAN Bing: Wilderness is the Homeland for Everyone
ARTDBL
Exhibition
YAN Bing | Odyssey
Genealogy Study of Artists No.11
Start Museum (SSSSTART), Shanghai
Press
Artist YAN Bing: Focusing on daily objects, portraying the hustle and bustle to perfection
Yitiao Art
Press
YAN Bing: Art is a Silent Roundup
Fashion Bazaar Art
Exhibition
YAN Bing | Pear Blossom Turns White
Curator: Shen Ruijun
Solo Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Press
To the Artist’s Studio – YAN Bing
Wang Shu & Ji Laizhi, 99 ART
Press
YAN Bing: “Accident” open a door for him, everything suddenly became clear
artnet News
Press
Phoenix Art Exhibition Review ∣ Yan Bing: To the Inner of Wasteland
Yu Qihe, Phoenix Art
Press
YAN Bing Talks about Northwest Tour and New Works | ARTFORUM INTERVIEW
Wang Zhiyi, ARTFORUM
Press
YAN Bing: Long-distance solo trip, the Northwest is still his simplicity undertone
Shu Yuan, Hi art
Exhibition
YAN Bing | Suddenly, Everything Became Clear
Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Exhibition
YAN Bing | At First the Weather Was Fine
Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
Press
YAN Bing: Stimulating Awakening in Ordinary Places
Luo Shuyin, Art Express
Exhibition
YAN Bing
Organizer: Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
Academic Host: Lu Mingjun
Exhibition
YAN Bing | Love
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Yang, Beijing