YANG YONGLIANG

A young artist, born in 1980, Yongliang is a resident of Shanghai, China who depends heavily on his a camera and a laptop computer to make his art. Using only these tools—and a knowledge of traditional Chinese painting traditions—Yongliang invents urban scenes that depict skyscrapers under construction, freeway systems, electrical power plants, and bustling urban corridors. His compositions starkly reveal the impacts of technological progress that China has undergone over past decades.

Yongliang is among a generation of young artists who came of age after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and therefore embraces a level of artistic freedom that is not common among past generations of Chinese artists.

Yang Yongliang combines ancient Chinese art techniques, such as shui mo painting and calligraphy, with photographic elements of modern urban Shanghai, arranged in the traditional composition of Chinese landscape, to produce artworks with a perfect balance between fragility and danger, beauty and cruelty.

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Nevada Art Museum, Reno, U.S.A.

MIFA, Melbourne, Australia

River south art center , Shanghai.

Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai.

Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, USA.

MOCA ArtLab, Shanghai.

Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea.

MAIN COLLECTIONS

AiLing Foundation  (Shanghai, China)

Nevada Art Museum  (Reno, Nevada, USA)

The British Museum  (London, UK)

Bates College Museum of ART  (Maine USA)

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art  (Gainesville, FL,USA)

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art  (University of Oregon, Portland,OR,USA)

Ulrich Museum of Art  (Wichita State University, Wichita，Kansas, USA)

National Gallery of Victoria  (Melbourne, Australia)

Uli Sigg Collection   (Swiss)

PAE ART Collection   (Swiss)