YANG YONGLIANG
b. 1980, ChinaTrained in traditional Chinese ink paintings, Yang Yongliang majored in Visual Communication in China Academy of Art in Shanghai, and working as a multimedia artist, Yang Yongliang creates works that meld both traditional art forms and digital technology. Each work in Yang’s contemporary reinterpretation carefully recreates the historical aspects into moving images, transforming the static landscape into an active and energetic state. Yang’s distinct style is deeply rooted in his childhood, growing up in a village near Shanghai, where he was experiencing the changes in the Chinese culture and environment. Through his practice, Yang strives to offer an alternative reading on landscape paintings and draws attention to societal issues such as environmental pollution and rapid urbanization.
Currently dividing his time between New York and Shanghai, Yang’s works are included in prominent public collections such as Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; The British Museum, London, UK; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; How Art Museum, Shanghai, China; M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, China; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA, and The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, USA. Yang has been awarded the 2019 Asia Arts Game Changer granted by Asia Society and nominated for The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability in 2019 and the 40th Anniversary of the Recontres d’Arles, Discovery Prize in 2009.
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