Born in 1958 in Kunming Yunnan Province, China. He graduated in 1982 from the Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing. He is currently a professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Time Thief---Prophecies & Fragments Ye Yongqing Works 2010-2014,Longmen Art Projects, Shanghai
Ocher stone album—Ye Yongqing 2012,museum of contemorary art, ChengDu
Sparrow god funky bird--Ye Yongqing 2012, Longmen Art Projects, Shangha
Ye YongQing Broken Flow, Yuz foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Ye YongQing as Light as a Feather, LINDAGALLERY, Singapore
Ye Yongqing Beyond the Bird, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei
Time Permeants - Ye Yongqing's Art in Huangjiaoping for Twenty Years, Tank Loft Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing
Ye Yongqing,Gallery J.Chen,Taipei
Beyond Graffiti- Ye Yongqing Solo Exhibition,My Humble House Art Gallery,Taipei
To Be or Not To Be - Solo Exhibition of Ye Yongqing, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
As Free As a Bird, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Paint a Bird:Paradox and Reality, China Square Gallery , New York , USA
Injured·Heart--Solo Exhibition of Ye Yongqing ,K· Gallery, Shanghai Art Fair
To Paint a Bird! Fun Art Space, Beijing
A Wounded Bird, Gallery Artside, Seoul, Korea
Solo Flight, Blue Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
Scribble, Shanghai Zhangjiang Art Museum, Shanghai
Ye Yongqing, ShanghART, Shanghai
Ye Yongqing, China Contemporary, London
China in A Scholarís Eyes, SooBin Art Gallery, Singapore
Ye Yongqing, Kailin Sax Gallery, Munich
UK Gas Art Studio, UK
To Live in History, China Art Studio, Augsberg
Ye Yongqing, Shuang Hexuan Gallery, Seattle
Ye Yongqing, French Embassy in Beijing, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Boao Forum for Asia, ARTMIA Living, Hainan
ASEAN BIENNALE,Nanning
Venice Biennale - Culture.Mind.Becoming, Italy
Artists’ Trival Living I: Object - Ruminationism, Chengdu
Cross year exhibition Open Books, Hangzhou
Martell Artists of the Year 2012, joint-exhibition in: Beijing today Art Museum,Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
CHENGDU BIENNALE, Chengdu
The will of China, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing
EXPRESSION OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Chinese Linguipedia Art Fair, Taipei
Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing
Thirty years of Chinese Contemporary art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum,Shanghai
The 7th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Guan
Shanyue Art Museum, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen
Spirit of the East II - Bridging, Asia ArtCenter, Beijing
Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
Collision---Experimental cases of contemporary Chinese art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
Thirty Years on the Scene – Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition,Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo,Japan
Case Studies of Artists in Art History , SZ Art Centre , Beijing
Chinese Art Gentre ,Basel , Switzerland
Accumulations-The Spirit of the East, Asia Art Centre, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary, Artside Gallery, Beijing
Lovely Blossoms and Full Moon - YuZ Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, YuZ
ArtMuseum,Jakarta, Indonesia
Beyond Reminiscence, Beijing Center for the Arts,Beijing
Towards the Post Abstract–Contemporary Art Exhibition, Pifo New Art Gallery, Beijing
Embarking From the Southwest-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
From New Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Talk of War on Paper, Nanjing Sifang Museum of Art, Nanjing
Unconsciousness, Dubang Contemporary Space, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Size Decides Attitude First 5x7 Picture Biennale Project, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi
Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Unclear and Cleanness, Heyri Art Foundation, Korea
Renovate OCT, He Xiangning Art Museum, OCT Art Centre, Shenzhen
Art in Motion, Shanghai MoCA Art Museum, Shanghai
Stern Face, Beijing Now Gallery, Beijing
Future Archaeology ñ Chinese Art Triennial, Nanjing Museum of Art, Nanjing
Dream of the Dragon People ñ Chinese Art Exhibition, Ireland Art Museum, Ireland
Asia Urban Network, Seoul Art Museum, Korea
The Big River ñ Chinese New Era Oil Painting Retrospective Exhibition,National Art Museum,
Beijing
The Yuanfen Sky, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
The Guangzhou Trienniale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong
Conspire, TS1 Contemporary Art Centre 1st Exhibition, Beijing
Transcending Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art,Shanghai
Ye Yongqing, Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Duisburg, Germany
Contemporary Art of China and Korea, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul,Korea
Behind Reality, Dimension Arts, Taipei
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
The First Chinese Art Triennial Exhibition, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou
The Dream of Chinese Art, Red Building Art Centre, London, England
New Images, National Art Museum of China, Beijing,
Sichuan Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art
Gate of the Century: 1979-1999 The Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Contemporary Art
Museum, Chengdu
Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Ö Between Ö, Upriver Club, Kunming
A Tale of Two Cities, Asia Contemporary Art, London, England
Art from China, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, America
China's New Art Exhibition, Observatoire 4ed Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Quotation Marks, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Red & Grey, SooBin Art International and Baozang Art Centre, Singapore
Between Two Places, October Gallery, London, England
Koeln International Art Fair, Ludwig Museum, Koeln, Germany
Liu Wei and Ye Yongqing, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
China!, Contemporary Art Museum ,Bonn, Germany
The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum China,
Beijing; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
First Shanghai Art Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Sharing the Dreams, Jamaica Art Centre, New York, America
Feeling of Skin, Antony Art Centre, France
Avant-guard Artisiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
The Annual Exhibition of Works of Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National
Art Museum of China, Beijing
Post 89 New Art from China, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Chinese Art in 90s-Chinese Experience, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu
China Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing Minority Cultural Palace,Beijing
The 1st Guangzhou Oil Painting Biennale, Exhibition Hall of the Central Hotel,Guangzhou
French Modern Art Expo., Grand Palace Fine Arts Museum, Paris, France
I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese New Wave and Avant-guard Art of the Eighties, Asia-Pacific Museum, Pasadena, California, America
China Avant-guard, National Art Museum of China, Beijing