Yan Shanchun

Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in 1957, he holds a bachelor's degree from the Department of Printmaking and a Ph.D. from the Department of History at the China Academy of Art. He was a researcher and vice president of the Shenzhen Academy of Painting and currently lives in Shenzhen and Hangzhou.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 The First Malta Biennale "Tracing": Yan Shanchun, Valleburg, Malta

2023 "Fuchun: Yan Shanchun", Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen

2023 "Absent Memory: Yan Shanchun", Benyou Art Space, Shanghai, China

2018 "West Lake II: Yan Shanchun", Chambers Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA

2017 "Yan Shanchun Solo Exhibition", Chambers Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China

2015 "West Lake: Yan Shanchun", Chambers Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA

2007 "Works by Yan Shanchun", Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China

2006 "Works of Yan Shanchun", Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2005 "Dream Seeking the West Lake: The Works of Yan Shanchun 2004-2005", Hanart Tower, Hong Kong, China

2004 "Dream Seeking the West Lake: Yan Shanchun's 2004 Works on Paper", Hanart Tower, Hong Kong, China

Group Exhibitions 

2024 "Gray Gray Great", Common Art Center, Beijing China

2023 "Weather; Double Solo Exhibition of Tang Guo and Yan Shanchun", Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou

2021 "Revolution: Qiu Shihua, Liang Quan, Wang Chuan, Yan Shanchun", Ferris Wheel Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2019 "Landscape and Books - Pearl Art Museum Second Anniversary Celebration Exhibition", Shanghai Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2020 "Endless Streams and Mountains: Chinese Landscape Painting Tradition", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2018 "State of Mind: Shang Yang, Wang Chuan, Yan Shanchun", Chambers Gallery, Beijing, China       

2018 "Light Water Dark Mountain: Dual Exhibition of Yan Shanchun and Cao Xiaoyang", Hanart Tower, Hong Kong, China

2017 "History of the West Lake: Wang Gongyi / Yan Shanchun Works Exhibition", China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2017 "Aura and Aura: Twelve Oriental Samples of Contemporary Art", Hive Art Center, Shenzhen, China

2016 "Artists and Their Chinese Albums", Canadian Library, Ottawa, Canada

2014 "Print Expression Beyond National Boundaries - The 17th East Asian Artists Print Exhibition", Zuo Xizhen Museum of Art, Okinawa, Japan

2013 "The Mist and Miao - Exhibition of Works by Jiang Dahai and Yan Shanchun", Geng Gallery, Taiwan, China

2012 "The 80th International Print Exhibition", Tokyo Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2010 "Array of Nothing - Contemporary Abstract Art Invitational Exhibition", Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China

2008 "Exhibition of Works of Liang Quan and Yan Shanchun", Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China

2007 "Traces and Temperament 2007 - Experimental Ink Painting Exhibition", Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2006 "Chinese Abstraction - Three-person Exhibition of Liang Quan, Wang Chuan and Yan Shanchun", Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai

2006 "Pictures and Ink - Contemporary Ink Painting Invitational Exhibition", Guangdong Provincial Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

Important institutional collections (part)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.

Smith College Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, USA. U.S. Department of State, Washington, USA.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA. China Academy of Art Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Print Museum, Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen, China.