Yang Jiechang was born in Foshan (Guangdong Province) in 1956. He graduated
from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, where he taught until 1988. He
lives and works in Paris and Heidelberg, Germany since 1988. Yang gained
international recognition through his large monochrome black ink paintings entitled
Hundred Layers of Ink shown for the first time in the seminal exhibition “Magiciens
de la terre” in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989.
His works have been shown at many important exhibitions and venues, such as:
"China Avant-garde" (National Gallery, Beijing, 1989), MOMA Oxford (UK 1993),
ARC Paris (Paris, France 2001), Palais de Tokyo (Paris 2002), Stanford Art Gallery
(Stanford, USA 2005/2007), the Shanghai Biennial (1998/2012), the Gwangju
Biennial (2002), the Venice Biennial (2003), the Guangzhou Triennial (2003/2005),
in "La Force de l'Art - 1st Paris Triennial" (2006), and the Liverpool Biennial (2007),
the Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Moscow Biennial (2009), the French May (Hong
Kong 2001/2015), "Carambolages" (Grand Palais, Paris 2016), The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (2013), "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the
World" (Guggenheim Museum, New York/ Bilbao 2017/2018), "The Street", MAXXI
(Rome, 2021)," Carte Blanche à Yang Jiechang", Musée Guimet (Paris 2022).