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Fair | ART021-Booth E17
2019.10.31




The 7th Edition of ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair will take place from November 7 to November 10, 2019 at Shanghai Exhibition Center.  As a participating project of the 20th China Shanghai International Arts Festival,2019 ART021 consists of four major sections: MAIN GALLERIES, APPROACH, DETOUR and BEYOND Public Projects. The fair brings together 111 galleries from around the world and presents thousands of most significant artworks from today. 44 galleries are participating for the first time this year.


Triumph Gallery will present 9 contemporary artists’ works in 2019 ART021 at booth E17, they are:  Fang Lijun, Li Guanguan, Liu Fengzhi, Mao Yan, Xu Hong, Xu Hongxiang, Yang Liming, Zhang Kai, and Zhou Chunya (in alphbetical order). We warmly welcome your visit!




Artists
Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun (b. 1963, Handan, Hebei) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts,  Printmaking Department  in 1989. In July of the same year, he resided in the Yuanmingyuan area, becoming a key advocate of the "Yuanmingyuan Artists' Village." In 1993, he established the Songzhuang studio, contributing to the formation of the  "Songzhuang Artists' Village." In 2014, he founded the "Archive of Contemporary Art of China," systematically organizing the development of Chinese contemporary art. Since 2004, Fang Lijun has been appointed as a guest professor and graduate mentor at more than twenty institutions, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University, and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.

Fang Lijun’s solo exhibitions have been held in major art institutions worldwide,  including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum,  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Japan Foundation, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Musée Ariana, et cetera. Domestic retrospectives have been mounted at the Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, United Art  Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, and He Art Museum, among other significant venues. Additionally, he has been consistently invited by mainstream international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Fang's works are permanently collected by  international museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Within China, his works are held by the National Art Museum of China, Contemporary Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Guangdong Museum of Art.

Furthermore, through his artistic career, Fang Lijun has published over 50 monographs, including Fang Lijun: Chronological Notes, Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue, Fang Lijun: Cliff in the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Forbidden Zone, Fang Lijun Prints, and Surviving Like a Stray Dog.  In 1993, his work Series Two No. 2 appeared on the cover of The New York Times.
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Artists
Li Guanguan
Li Guanguan 
1982   Born in Shan Dong, China
2004  Graduated from Department of ink painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Now living and working in Beijing, China  
Solo Exhibition
2020  Chasing the Light: Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery,Beijing 
2017  Cut-in:Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery,Beijing
2013  Guan Guan's Horse—Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
2012  To Dream for Horse: Solo Exhibition, Village South Art Salon, Beijing 
Group Exhibition
2019  The Winter Movement,WF Central, Beijing       
Horses, but not Horses:Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibiton, Inner Mongolia, China       
The Lucky Pig is hogging the door,Beijing
2018  Metaphor: Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition of Seven Artists, Triumph Gallery, Beijing
All Things Grow, Fuyan Commune, Beijing
2017  The Unique Flower on Earth (II),Sunyard Sincerenart,Hangzhou       
Xishuangbanna International Art Exhibition,Xishuangbanna Art Museum,Yunnan   
Four Phases of Ink, Manggha Museum, Krakow, PolandVision of Females, China National Museum of Women and Children, Beijing
2016  The Unique Flower on Earth, Sunyard Sincerenart, Hangzhou
Ink art fair in Hong Kong Art triumph art space Hong Kong convention and exhibition center
Ink now,See Well International Art Central, Fuzhou
Image·Artistic Conception in Painting-Contemporary Meticulous Painting
Academic Invitation Exhibition, NAMOC, Beijing
YUPPIE-Group Exhibition of China &Korea Artists, Common Art Center, Beijing 
New Tales of Ink, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting2015-2016,
Today Art Museum, Beijing
In The Light, Art Nanjing, Nanjing
2015  Ink Art Fair in Hong Kong Art, Triumph Art Space, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Hail to the Ocean-China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sanya, China Across the border in 2015-100: youth art exhibition, One art space
Return:Riverside Art Museum Opening Ceremony,Beijing
Nanjing international youth art biennale, Jinling gallerySee life art, today art museum
Anonymous, exhibition space of Beijing 798 SAN
making a, the first contemporary art Beijing has the top design center
2014  Hidden The Unfathomable, today art museum BeijingYouth Decide the Future, Youth Art 2014 Hong Kong tour in Beijing
The Line of Sight of People-China and South Korea, meeting different South Korea gyeonggi province art museum
2013  Art Taipei 2013, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
In My Heart: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink, Triumph
Art Space, BeijingArt Nova 100, Beijing
Art Beijing, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Art Macao 2013, Triumph Art Space, Macao
Young Art Taipei, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
2012  The group exhibition of Ning, Ning Gallery, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phantom of the Opera, Hong Studio, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phoenix Luan Gongs, Tree Museum, Beijing
The group exhibition of Prophecy , Long Mai Gallery, Beijing
Art Beijing, O2 Art, Beijing
2011  Art Beijing, Hanmo Art gallery, Beijing
2009  The After 80’s Artists Group Exhibition, Live 3, Songzhuang, Beijing
2008  The group exhibition of Chinese Painting Gallery, BeijingThe first cutting-edge Meticulous Exhibition, Beijing
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Artists
Liu Fengzhi
Liu Fengzhi was born in 1964 in Harbin, China. He graduated from art department of Harbin Normal University in 1984, and died in 2017.

His works have been widely collected by collectors around the world. Whether it is landscape painting or portrait, Liu Fengzhi's works contain strong subjectivity and emotional features. With free and loose brushstrokes and lines, he pulls away the original volume of the object, especially with the help of lines that twists, turns, hovers, reciprocates, sways, and gathers, closely responding to the transient emotional changes. He further presents and delineates the subtle and unobservable mental process, in which, reaching a highly abstract state. Liu Fengzhi faces the real world with a heart full of passion and humanistic care. In the poetic dismantling and combination of the external world, it hints at his deep reflection on the living conditions of human beings.
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Artists
Mao Yan
Born in Hunan, Xiangtan,
1968. Mao Yan graduated from Centry Academy of Fine Arts in
1991 majoring in oil painting. He currently lives and works in Nanjing. The meaning in Mao Yan's endeavors does not lie in the idea of "portraits". Rather, his works are "paintings of portraits"-borrowing the contour and movement of a character in order to substantialize outline, color, and composition. It is within the framework of realism that such deep, subtle inquiries into human mentality can be made. In the end, a simple painting is no more than another way of viewing the world; the significance of Mao Yan's works is founded precisely in this point, as it has not inherited the static and noise of the generation. In the past few years, Mao Yan holds individual exhibition in Beijng,Geneva,New York and Paris.
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Artists
Xu Hong
It is also at this juncture, that the work by Xu Hong connects to a modernist abstract painting tradition in the West. This might not be so surprising as it seems. A lot of Western artists in the past have looked towards Asia for inspiration and Zen Buddhism has been widely popular amongst modernist artists. Richard Tuttle comes to mind, or Raimer Jochims from Germany. What is important to understand, however is that Xu Hong´s work comes from experience not from looking at other art. It is the sincerity of his work that makes it so convincing.
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Artists
Xu Hongxiang
Xu Hongxiang was born  in 1984 in Changsha, Hunan, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a bachelor´s degree, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree, and now lives and works in Beijing.

Xu Hongxiang’s artistic practice often revolves around painting. Project-based painting series with narrative contents and oil paintings centered on landscapes are the two parallel creative approaches that punctuate his career. "Image",  "body", and "the relationship between painting and reality" are the overarching themes he has been trying to explore in his multi-media painting projects throughout the years. The traits of his highly stylized painting, which included a signature saturated palette, are the fragments that reflect such themes.

Xu Hongxiang’s  solo  exhibitions  includes: "Xu Hongxiang: Wander"  (Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2024), "Xu Hongxiang: Ancient Posts"  (Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, 2023), "Xu Hongxiang: Displaced  Images"  (Triumph  Gallery, Beijing, 2022), "Xu  Hongxiang: An  Exuberant View" (Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, 2021), "Xu Hongxiang: One Night While Hunting for Faeries" (Loft8  Galerie,  Vienna,  2019), "Not Dark Yet - Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, 2018),  "Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (SZ Art Center, Beijing, 2014). His solo project includes: "Cultivating in solitude - Xu Hongxiang's Residency Program in Australia" ( LalLal Art Museum, Melbourne, 2023), "Artists Residency Program: The JAEGER EXPERIEMENT" ( JINGHOPE Art Center, Sanya, 2021), "Shuffle Parallel Vienna 2018" (Vienna, 2018),  "Li Qiang" (Changsha,  2016), "In the Field"  (Changsha,  2016) . Selected group exhibitions includes:   "Web of Being: The Living Network"  (Tang Contemporary Art, Singapore,  2025), "The season has not arrived"  (Atmosphere Space, Nanjing,  2024), "DIALOGUE: Art Museum Tour by Art Gallery Association Beijing"  (Art Museum of SCFAI, Chongqing,  2024),  "Symphony of Coexistence - Chinese and Southeast Asian Art Invitational Exhibition"  (Art Museum of SCFAI, Chongqing,  2024), "Follow the Rabbit - Talking stock of a collection and its reception through contemporary Chinese art"  (Museum Liaunig, Austria, 2023).
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Artists
Yang Liming
Yang Liming was born in 1975 in Sichuan, China. He graduated from the Art College of Sichuan Normal University in 1999 with bachelor degree on oil painting. Currently lives and works in Beijing

Yang Liming’s paintings are abstract, in the same time having a stable, firming ground structure. Nevertheless, by closer perception there are many different aspects, parts that show reflection, sigh and some light moments of joy. Here is maybe the point to connect with Franz Schubert’s music with its delicate points like open wounds, melancholic meditations of questions without answers given. Yang Liming’s paintings take the viewers into their deep universe, in case the viewer permits to be carried away.  Just as well as in Schubert’s music are questions rising, involving the observer into their matter.  What is melancholia in Schubert’s music stays as a mystery in Yang Liming’s paintings.
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Artists
Zhang Kai
Zhang Kai was born  in 1985 in Shanxi, China. He graduated from the School of Arts, Shanxi Normal University, currently works and lives in Beijing. 

In his painting, the protagonists are personified and spiritualized cats and rabbits, which present the tranquil, mysterious and poetic atmosphere. Through the synthesis and reconstruction of the classical and the contemporary, Zhang Kai presents his thinking on time, spirit, appearance and essence, starting from his analysis of art history from the contemporary perspective, and his own aesthetic tendencies.
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Artists
Zhou Chunya
 ZHOU CHUNYA 
1955 Born in Chongqing, China
1982 Graduated from the Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, Chongqing, China
1988 Graduated from Experiment Art department of Kassel Academy of Fine Art, Kassel, GermanyNow lives and works in Chengdu and Shanghai, China 
Solo Exhibition:
2019
The Splendours of the Southeast,Long Museum,Shanghai,China
2018
Spring‧Sprout,POLY GALLERY II, Hong Kong, China
Zhou Chunya: Hong Kong Solo Exhibition, Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2015
Zhou Chunya New Works 2015, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
2013
2013 New Works by Zhou Chunya, Art Museum of Nanjing University the Arts, Nanjing, China2012New Works by Zhou Chunya
2012,
Zhou Chunya Art Academy of Shanghai, Shanghai, China20101971-2010
Forty Years Retrospective Review of Zhou Chunya, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2008
Zhou Chunya, Green Dog, Jakarta, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
Blooming Stories: Paintings & Sculptures by Zhou Chunya, Beijing Today Art Museum, China
2006
New Works by Zhou Chunya”, Shanghai Gallery of Art at Three on the Bond, Shanghai, China
2002
Zhou Chunya, Museum of Modern Art Contemporary, Trento, ItalyZhou Chunya Art Show: Green Dogs, 314 international Art Centre, Bergen, Norway 
GroupExhibition:
2018
Being Hale and Hearty Invitation Exhibition to Retired Artists of Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
Zhou Chunya & Fang Lijun’s Joint Solo Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
Turning Point-40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China
Art History Shaped by 40 Artists:40x40 from 1978-2018, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Masters’Manuscript(First Chapter)The 10th Anniversary of Triumph Gallery,Beijing,China
2016
What About The Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery ALRIWAQ, Doha, Qatar
2015
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 , Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk Province, Korea
2014
Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China
Social Landscape---The Landscape Narration in Chinese Contemporary Painting as well as its Cultural Concept Changes, Chengdu Art BondedFacility, Chengdu International Cultural Art Exchange Centre, Chengdu, China
2013
Art Changsha 2013, Changsha Municipal Museum, Changsha, China
Passage to History—20 Years of La Biennale Di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale Di Venezia Nappa 89, Italy
2012
Through All Ages: Long Museum Opening Series Exhibitions, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Expressionism, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011
5th Chengdu Biennale: Pure View, Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China
2010
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
Martell Artists of the Year 2010, joint-exhibition in: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2009
A Collateral Event For The 53rd Biennale Di Venezia: A Gift To MARCO POLO, VIU(Island of San Servolo), Italy
2007
Beyond Icons: Chinese Contemporary Art in Miami, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
Post-Martial Law vs Post-89: Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, Taiwan Art Museum, Taiwan, China
2006
Expanded Realism-Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
2005
2nd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
The First International Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art Montpelier, Montpelier, France
Focus on China, WBK Vrije Academie, Den Haan, Hague, Holland
2004
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation - Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Britain.
2003
ALORS, LA CHINE?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Dream-Contemporary Chinese Art, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, England
2001
First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Towards a New Image:Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Touring Show in National Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum, China
2000
Chinese Oil Painting in 20th Century, National Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1998
East meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997
The Nature of Portraiture, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, ChinaQuotation Mark—Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Singapore
1996
China!- Chinese Contemporary Art, Bonn Art Museum, Bonn, Germany
First Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaThe First Academic Invited Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art 1996-1997,
Touring Show in National Art Museum, Beijing and Hong Kong, China
1994
The Annual Exhibition of Works of the Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National Art Museum, China
1993
Chinese Experiences, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China1993-1997 China New Art, Post-1989, Touring Show in Hong Kong, UK. etc
1992
Guangzhou The First 1990s' Biennale Art Fair(Oil Painting Part), The Exhibition Centre of Guangzhou Hotel, Guangzhou, China
1985
Chinese Youth Art Exhibition in Forward, National Art Museum, Beijing, China1981The Second China Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
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