1948 Born in Shanghai, with ancestral home in Zhongshan, Guangdong
1964 Admitted to the affiliated middle school of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Acaemy of Art)
1978 Enrolled in San Francisco Art Institute to study printmaking
1984 Back to China, started to teach at the Printmaking Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art)
1995 Started to works as professional painter at Shenzhen Fine Art Institute
Now works and lives in Shenzhen
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Tasting the new spring every day-The 8th Art Changsha, Changsha Art Museum, Changsha, China
2019 The Neo Six Persimmons, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
2018 Watching Clouds Go By: Liang Quan’s Creative style and it’s Changes, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2017 Liang Qian Solo Project, Insight, ART BASEL HongKong, HongKong, China
2017 Arcadia Revisited: Liang Quan and the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2017 Liang Quan Light As Tea: Frank F. Yang Collection Exhibition, Extra Space, Shenzhen, China
2015 Amassing the Essence: Thirty Years of Paintings by Liang Quan, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei
2014The Joy of Tea：Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taipei
2013 Folds of the Infra-fade, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2011 Bland, Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei
2011 Sailing Afar -Liang Quan's New Works, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, M.Sutherland Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A
2004 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, Mies van Der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2001 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, Kunst House, Nürnberg, Germany
1994 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, Alisan Fine Arts Limited, Hong Kong, China
1989 Liang Quan's Solo Exhibition, University of San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.
Group Exhibitions（Selected)
2024 Grey Grey Great, Common Art Center, Beijing China
2022 Mandarine·Tangerine : Liang Quan & Wu Shan Dual Exhibition，Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
2022 Xun Dao Wang Yuan - Contemporary Ink and Wash Exchange Exhibition across the Taiwan Strait, Daxin Museum, Guangzhou, China
2022 Painting: Feel the pulse of the time, Award of Art China, Shenzhen Artron Art Center, Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2021 THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA (2020),Shanghai, China
2021 All on paper, Aroundspace, Shanghai ,China
2020 THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA (2019), Shanghai, China
2019 “Good” told by the nature, OCT, Foshan, China
2018 Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2017 The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art At M+, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
2017 Return to Otology: Tracing the source of acstract art in the new period of Guangdong, Lingnan Museum, Guangzhou, China
2017 Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 Tracing the Past and Shaping the Future: Powerlong Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 Shanghai GalaxyⅡ, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 Polar Region: Exhibition of New Ink Art, Ink Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2017 Emersion of AURA: Inaugural Exhibition for Hive's New Space in Shenzhen, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2016 A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2016 Ten Years Collection Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 Disguised Form-Ink Paintings' Dimension, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China
2016 Contemporary Ink Art Invitational Exhibition, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2016 No.19 in Shenyun Road-Shenzhen International Invitational Exhibition, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2016 Abstract and Beyond: The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 The World is Yours, as Well as Ours, Mason’s Yard, London, England
2016 Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Chinese Abstract 2016, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 Research RoomⅢ: The Working of Non-fugurative System,Rightview Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 G20, Hangzhou International Exhibition Centre, Hangzhou, China
2016 Pi Daojian+Yan Yong: Being And Inking- Ducumenting Contemporary Ink Art, Redtory
2016 Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
2016 Shanghai Modern and Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures Exhibition: Artists Living in
2016 Shanghai Wuu Speech, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 New Objects: The End of the Brush and Ink Era, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2016 Too Loud a Solitude: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015 Mind-Scape II, 3812 Art Space, Hong Kong, China
2015 The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art In China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 Deconstruction and Revolution of Ink Art, Phoenix Art Palace, Wuxi, China
2015 Dialog: The Differences and Similarities in the Abstract Art- Enrique Brinkmann&Liang Quan, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 Time and Space: Abstract Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2015 The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Perfection upon Finery: Liang QuanJin Shi, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Form of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Saint Urban Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland
2014 Context of Paper Essence, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago，Chicago,USA
2014 Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition,United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2014 By the Name of Dailiness: Daily Discourse and Generation of Ideas in Chinese
2014 Contemporary Art,Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
2013 Illusion/Image: Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series I, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2012 Re-ink: nvitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
2012 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2011 LA GRANDE ASTRAZIONE CELESTE, Rome Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2011 Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Minnesota University Art Museum, Minnesota, U.S.A.
2011 Super-Organism CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 Back to the Essence from Ink Painting to Ink,Da Xiang Art Space, Taiwan, China
2010 One Day in June,Columbia UniversityGraduate School of Architecture, Columbia, U.S.A.
2010 Yi Pai:30 Years of Abstract Art in China,la caixa forum Palma / la caixa forum Barcelona/ la caixa forum Madrid, Spain
2010 Geng-Yin Ink Art: Creation and Prospect, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2010 Reshaping History: China Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing,China
2010 Thirty Years of China Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 Ink, Not Ink, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.; Museum of Warsaw Royal, Poland
2009 Paint Aloud: Wang Gongyi, Song Yonghong, Liang Quan, KogoArtSpace, Hangzhou, China
2009 Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong & Yan Shanchun,Osage Kwun Tong, Osage
2009 Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008 Savoring Images with a Pure Heart: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Invitational Exhibition, Daxiang Art Space, Taiwan
2008 Guangdong Modern Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2008 Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 Zeichen Im Wandel der Zeit, Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden, Germany
2007 Narration in Ink and Wash, Yokohama Zaim Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2006 Chinese Abstract: Liang Quan,Wang Chuan and Yan Shanchun, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005 Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Seoul National Art Museum, Seoul, KoreaInk and Paper, Weimar Art Museum, Weimar, Germany
2005 Ink on Paper: Contemporary Ink and Wash, Palace Rihour, Lille, France
2005 Retrospection of Experimental Ink and Wash 1985-2000, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
2005 Tribute to 85, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2003 Metaphysics2003: Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
2002 Ost+West: Ausstellung fuer die Zeitgenossische Kunst aus China, Kunstlerhaus in Wien, Austria
1998 Shanghai Fine Arts Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1997 Chinese Art Exhibition - Contemporary Chinese Painting, Shanghai, China
1996 Chinese Modern Print Exhibition, British Museum, London, UK
1991 Exhibition in Headquarter of the World Bank, Washington, U.S.A.
1988 Chinese Modern Fine Art Exhibition, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK
Collections (Selected)
National Art Museum of China
Shanghai Museum of Art
Zhejiang Art Museum
Guangdong Museum of Art
British Museum
M+ Museum of Visual Culture
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Louis Vuitton
Neue Staatsgalerie
