Yang is a renowned Chinese performance artist. Considered one of the most extreme performance artists in China, and perhaps globally, he uses his body as a tool to draw on social issues linking the individual with the world. Many of his performances involve painful acts such as branding and surgical processes. Personal pain has become a part of his experience and a means of communication to engage the larger world.
In his recent work Chinese Bible, Yang has focused on a new art form linking China’s past in order to understand its future. The artist spent three years collecting from second-hand shops the personal diaries of overlapping generations from China. The 3,000 notebooks inscribed with personal writings span 50 years from 1949 to1999. The writings reach deep into the very essence of feelings among the Chinese whether emotional, political or even mundane during a half-century of monumentally changing times.
1963 born in Gansu Province in China, Lives and works in Beijing, China.
EDUCATION
1986 Graduated from the Art Department of Northwest Normal University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Chinese Bible, La Salle College of Arts,
Singapore
2011
Chinese Bible,10 Chancery Lane Glalery, Hong Kong
2009
Chinese Bible, China Art Archives &
Warehouse, Beijing, China
Yang Zhichao Works Exhibitions Eastlink
Gallery ,Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Inward Gazes –Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
2011
Progetto ”ART SHIFT”—Eventl d’arte contemporanea per
l’Asolo International
Art Film Film Festlval 2011. Italy,Asolo
The First Deconstructionism Art
Exhibition{Preview\Shanghai}, Shenghetang Culture & Art Center, Shanghai,
China
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Believe that -- Chinese Contemporary Art in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art
Center, Beijing, China
The Documenta of Chinese Performance Art-1985-2010,
Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
2010
Great Performance,
Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Reshaping history China art from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2009
Conspiracy
multimedia and performance art Exhibition
Other Gallery,
Beijing, China
Lanzhou three decades Contemporary Art Exhibition, Lanzhou, China
Displacement Exhibition China, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
Foodprint Exhibition,
BINK36, The Hague, Holland
Deconstructionism Art Background Literature Exhibition (Circuit Exhibition) – Chapter
One Ode, Deconstructionism Art Hall,
Shanghai, China
Inward Gazes- Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art Macao, China
Invitation Exhibition, Sunshine International Art
Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
2008
Chinese Contemporary – Two Point, Pallazzo
Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy
55 Days in
Valencia: Chinese Art Meeting, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia,
Spain
2007
Vital 2007 Performance – The Essence of Performance, Chinese Arts
Centre, Manchester and John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
P3 Project Performance - Paper-Project,
52 Venice Biennale 2007, Venice, Italy
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the
contributors, Copenhagen, Denmark
07 Image Documentary Exhibition, Open Realization
Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Body Talk Group Exhibition,
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Made in Beijing, Contemporary Art
Museum of Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
Conceptual Photography of 6 Artists Exhibition, Gefeng
Art Center, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Performance Art Photography Exhibition, Inter
Art Center & Gallery, Beijing, China
Beijing BS1 Contemporary Museum 2007 Nomination
Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan, Shanghai, China
Unexpected
– Out of Control, KU Art Center, Beijing, China
2006
First ‘5x7’ Picture – Taking
Biennale Project, Pingyao,
China
Performance Red-Chinese
Performance Arts, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2005
City Skin – Images of the
Contemporary Metropolis, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao, China
Conspire, Beijing TS1 Contemporary
Art Center, Beijing, China
China Live, Chinese Arts Centre
of Manchester, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, UK
Mah-jong Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,
Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
Oh the Move 2nd Event,
Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society, Hong Kong, China
The Chinese
Performance Videos Show, French Touraine National Dance Centre, France
Transparent Box – Unlimited Expansion of
Limited Space Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Jian Wai Soho, Beijing, China
2004
China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent,
Belgium
DaDao Live Art Festival, Jian Wai Soho,
Beijing, China
2003
Live Art Festival, Beijing Tokyo
Art Projects, Beijing, China
Distance – Contemporary Exhibition, Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhong, China
2002
Cut In, China Art Archives &
Warehouse, Beijing, China
Concrete, Chambers Fine Arts, New York, USA
Dialogue China Contemporary Art
Itineration Exhibition, Bari, Italy
2001
SOHO Art Collection Exhibition,
Soho City, Beijing, China
2000
Fuck off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
AWARD
2002 China contemporary Art Awards (CCAA), Beijing, China
