Education
Current Working at Shanhai 1999 Graduated from the Department of Art at the Chinese College of Art 1976 Born in Putian, Fujian Providence
Career
Solo Exhibitions 2020 “Each Single Self”, ARARIO GALLERY I Samcheong, Seoul, Korea 2019 “Chen Yujun”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China “CARAVAN OF WANDERER, WORSHIPER, LOVER OF LEAVING”, Rén Space, Shanghai 2018 “REFLECTION FROM THE GOLDEN DOME”, Rén Space, Shanghai “Mulan River – Voyage”, organized by A+ Contemporary, Asia Art Center Taipei II, Taipei 2017 “Mulan River - Cuò”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel “The River Never Remembers”, ARARIO GALLERY I Shanghai; Bank Gallery, Shanghai 2016 “White - Chen Yufan + Chen Yujun”, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong 2015 “Chen Yujun / Chen Yufan Independent Project: Mulan River|Topsoil”, 9m2 Museum, Shanghai “Another Place”, Space@All, Los Angeles “The City That Flies”, JEWELVARY Art & Boutique, Shanghai “Chen Yujun: The Second Door”, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai 2014 “Space Graphy No. 1 - Chen Yufan & Chen Yujun ”, AYE Gallery, Beijing 2012 “Mulan River - Unsettled”, Zhong Gallery, Berlin “Transitional Room”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing 2011 “Mulan River Project - Chen Yujun and Chen Yufan”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing 2010 “The Empty Room”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing Group Exhibitions 2019 “A STRONG WIND IN BEIJING”, ARARIO GALLERY I Cheonan, Choenan, Korea “A Confrontation of Ideals”, Anren Biennale, Chengdu “Pal(ate)/ette/, Shanghai Gallery of Art (SGA), Shanghai “Observation, The Barn Conte,porary Art Space, Shenzhen “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018”, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing 2018 “After sunset”, GALERIE LIUSA WANG, Paris “Brushwork and True Feeling”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok “Shanghai Painters”, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing “Visible or Invisible Forms”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei “Silence”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing “Osmosis Symbiosis - Locational practices of contemporary art in China”, Shanghai Oil Painting Sculpture Institute, shanghai 2017 “15- Artists Art Exhibition of Zhejiang Academy of Art”, Beijing CRE8IVE International Art Centre, Beijing “Frontier: Re - assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, Shanghai “Voice of Asia”, ARARIO GALLERY I Shanghai, Shanghai “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2016”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing “All happens after sunset...”, Museum of Contemporary Art Pavilion, Shanghai 2016 “The Decameron - BMCA Documenting Art: The Archer of Autumn Grove Crossing”, Wenyu River, Beijing “Another Wave - The 1st DAOJIAO New Art Festival”, XI Contemporary Art Center, Dongguan “Dissensus Agitation - The Painting to Language”, Today Art Museum, Beijing “Over the Wall: Paintings Tempted by Installation”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing “Unrealities in the Reality-The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life”, Boxes Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhen “Exotic Stranger”, Galerie Paris Beijing, Paris “Return- Poetic Dwelling in Contemporary Art”, Pifo, Beijing 2015 “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2014”, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing “Babel Me”, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai “The Garden of Forking Paths - Tracks and Intersections of 15 Artists”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai “Painting: 20×20”, Poly Art Museum, Beijing “The Spectres in the Double Shadow”, Alioth Gallery, Shanghai “The First Exhibition for the Study of Contemporary Art on Paper”, Lelege Art, Beijing “Handmade”, Mao Space, Shanghai “Destination”, Lempertz Art Center, Berlin “Stereognosis Zone”, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou “Sovrapposizioni di Immagini”, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy “Within Sight - Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era”, Foundation Taylor, Paris “Breaking the Image-Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists from China”, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing “Blow - Up: Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era”, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing “Cross the Year”, Renke Art Gallery, Hangzhou 2014 “Prophesy”, UP Museum, Shanghai “Po[r]tion”, L’Avenue Shanghai;Shanghai gallery of art, Shanghai “In Memory of a Landscape”, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai “Inside - Outside”, Klein Gallery, New York “Neo 10 - Chinese New Painting Award 10th Anniversary Invitation Exhibition”, Hi Art Center, Beijing “The World III in the Third World”, the Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok “Within Sight - Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era”, Poly Art Museum, Beijing “The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale 2014”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen, Shenzhen “The Being of Non-Being: A Kind of Personal Expression on “Meta-Painting”, Linda Gallery, Beijing “Broken.Stand: The New Painting to Order”, Long Museum, Shanghai “Criss-Cross: Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection”, Long Museum, Shanghai 2013 “On the Road · 2015-Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists”, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen “Mulan River - Unsettled”, Leipzig Cotton Mill, Leipzig “Seven Sunsets, Waiting Dawns, All in One. How to Kill a Wondrous Time... Not Wanting a Thousand Hours”,Shanghai Gallery of Art,Shanghai “Voice of the Unseen”, Venice Arsenale, Venice “Fuck off 2”, Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands “Not the Same Not Different”, China Academy of Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou “Ignition Point”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai “Mirror and Shadow”, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta “ON|OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2012 “Merging·Distances in light”, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu “Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Collectors”, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing “Landscape Visual Memory”, Venice Museum of Science and Technology, Venice “Dawn - New Art from China”, Zhong Gallery, Berlin “Water Stains on the Wall-The Carrier of Formation”, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou 2011 “Line Up”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing “Ri Yong - Chang Xing”, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu “Nostalgia and Rendezvous”, Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing “What To Do”, Henglu Art Museum, Hangzhou 2010 “Post Traditions: Enlarge the Carve”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai “’Visual Flux’ Easel Painting Research Exhibition I–Space and Energy”, Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing “Defocus”, Hangzhou Normal University Art Museum, Hangzhou “Youth Upstairs - 2010 Young Critics Nomination Exhibition”, Times Art Museum, Beijing “Home · Stay”, Osage Gallery, Shanghai “Reshaping History-China Art from 2000 to 2009”, ARARIO GALLERY I Beijing, Beijing “A Close - Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends”, Platform China, Beijing “Free Terminology”, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu 2009 “Points & Crosses-Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China”, 2010 Art Center, Shanghai “Art of the Future”, Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing “Going By - Group Exhibition of Contemporary Artists”, SZ Art Center, Beijing “Blackboard”, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai “Blade - Reconstruct Leifeng Pagoda”, SZ Art Center, Beijing “Reflection”, Wall Art Museum, Beijing; Hangzhou Xi Hu Art Museum, Hangzhou “Look Deeper”, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing “Evolution?”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai 2008 “Future Sky - Chinese Young Artists Nomination Exhibition”, Today Art Museum, Beijing “To Be A Qualified Successor”, YIBO Gallery, Shanghai “Another Way-Experimental Art Exhibition of Hangzhou”, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing “Seven Stones - Hangzhou Art Fair”, Hangzhou Peace International Conference and Exhibition Center, Hangzhou “Aquilaria”, Eye Level Gallery, Shanghai “Grain Cereals”, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou 2007 “Chongqing's Position”, Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing “Forms and Colors - Zhejiang Young Oil Painters Invitational Exhibition”, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou “Academy Exhibition Series - China Academy of Fine Arts”, C5 Art, Beijing “CAF Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan 2005 “Migrants’ Home”, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou “Spectacle: Century and Heaven - The 2nd Chengdu Biennale”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu 2004 “Ideal of New Generation-Chinese New Generation Artist Award Exhibition”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen 2003 “The 17th China New Artists Exhibition”, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing “Shanghai Young Arts Exhibition”, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai 1999 “Integrated Painting Documentary Exhibition”, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Beijing
Awards career
Cooperation Projects 2018 “Time Lapse - Chen Yujun and Pannaphan Yodmanee”, Tang Contemporary Art 2015 “Dynamics of Sources: Chen Yujun + RAPHAEL DENIS”, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels Collections ARARIO MUSEUM Brooklyn Museum DSL Collection France Yuz Museum He Xiangning Art Museum Long Museum M+ Museum of Art White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection