Shang Yixin was born in 1980 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. In 2007 he graduated from the China Academy of Art Department with an MFA in Oil Painting. Currently he lives and works in Hangzhou. His works have been exhibited in Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing (2017); How Art Museum, Wenzhou (2015); San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, U.S. (2015); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S. (2015); Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing (2013); Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, U.S. (2013); Central Acaedmy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Beijing (2012); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); The Gallery of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (2011); Times Art Museum, Beijing (2010); Medium Art Centre, Beijing (2009); Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai (2006); Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2006), etc.

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