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Chihung Yang
Large Abstract Expressionist Taiwanese Painting Chihung Yang Chinese Art

1986

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Chihung Yang American (b. 1947) Untitled (Black and Brown Composition) (1986) Mixed media (acrylic, pastel) on paper Hand signed lower right Sheet 38 x 50 inches, frame dimensions: 45 x 57 x 2 inches, wood frame with glazing Provenance:= From a Corporate Art Collection Yang Chihung (Chinese: 楊識宏; pinyin: Yang Chihung; born 1947) Taiwanese-American artist. Yang Chi-hung was born on 25 October 1947, in Chungli, Taiwan. He developed an interest in art in early childhood, and found inspirations to pursue an artist career after reading Lust for Life – The Life of Vincent van Gogh, translated by poet Yu Kuang-chung, in junior high school. Between 1965 and 1968, he attended the National Taiwan College of Art, developing a sound foundation in oil painting under the tutelage of famous Taiwanese artists of the Japanese Colonial period, such as Liao Chi-chun, Li Mei-shu and Yang San-lang. Meanwhile, he actively attended events organized by the modern art groups of Taiwan, namely the Fifth Moon Group and Ton Fan Group, only to find himself both intimidated and dissatisfied with the then relatively conservative art environment in Taiwan. In 1979, he emigrated to the United States of America with his wife, Jane, and their son, Daniel. His pioneering works soon landed him the “Outstanding Asian-American Artist” award. The concept and style of abstract expressionism as represented by the works of Jackson Pollock in the 1950s had great impact on Yang’s work. With the sense of nihilism that gave rise to abstract expressionism in the post-war period, artists no longer clamored to depict the external environment, but rather chose to focus on their own inner experience. Yang Chihung embraced this spirit about the early 1990s when his style turned abstract. In 1984–85 and again in 1985–86, he was twice awarded a year's residency at The Clocktower Studio in New York City by MoMA P.S.1. In 2013, Yang, along with Xu Bing, Zhang Huan, and Li Chen, were the four artists featured in the Discovery Channel Asia documentary series, Chineseness, a multi-series production that focused on postwar Chinese contemporary artists. He is of the generation of artists such as Chen Tingshi, Liang Yifeng, Yang Yuyu, Pang Jiun, Yinhui Chen, Jui-Ling Hung, De-Jinn Shiy, Yong-ik Cho, Wan Chuan Chang, Kuosung Liu, Sanlang Yang, Chetsai Shen, Fu-sheng Ku, Chunxiang Zhao, Ming Ju, Ming-Che Huang, Jiutong Liu, In-Ting Ran, George Chann, Yi Hong, Tzu-Chi Yeh, Max Liu, Yi-Hsiung Chang, Che Chuang Awards and recognition 1989, Outstanding Asian American Artist Award, by Governor of New York 1984–1986, MoMA P.S.1 National Studio Program, Residency at Clocktower Studio, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1969 Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition, U. S. I. S. Lincoln Center, Taipei, Taiwan 1974 Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ueno Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1977 10 Chinese Leading Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1978 Contemporary Chinese Art from Taiwan, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 1978 International Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea 1979 6th British International Print Biennial, Bradford Art Galleries and Museum, England 1980 4th Miami International Print Biennial, Metropolitan Museum Coral Gables, Florida 1982 Summer Invitational, Susan Caldwell Inc, New York City 1982 Four Artists, SoHo Center for Visual Artists, New York City 1983 New Acquisitions and Trustee's Choice, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1983 Cleveland (UK) 6th International Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England 1983 Dreams Demons Madness, Alternative Museum, New York City 1984 Rambunctious, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York City 1984 Invitational Painting Exhibition, Part II: Eight Imagist Painters, Siegel Contemporary Art, NYC 1984 Salvo, Ruth Siegel Ltd, New York 1984 Modern Art, Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York City 1985 Exotica, Paintings and Works on Paper, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York City 1985 The Art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1985 Large Figurative Drawings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia 1985 Studio Programs, 1984 -1985, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc, The Clocktower, New York City 1985 Surplus, Exit Art, New York City 1985 Four Painters From New York, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California 1985 Harvest, Ruth Siegel Ltd, New York City 1986 The Object Revitalized, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1986 Annual Juried Exhibition '86, The Queens Museum, New York City 1986 Summer Group Show, Galleri Mustad, Sweden 1987 New Work - New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1988 The Shell: Design Spirit, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey 1988 Works on Paper, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1988 The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1988 Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY 1988 Continuity and Change; Five Contemporary Chinese Artists, Yale University Art Gallery 1988 First Anniversary Exhibition, Michael Walls Gallery, New York City 1989 Second Anniversary Exhibition, Michael Walls Gallery, New York City 1990 The Matter At Hand; Contemporary Drawings, UWM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, 1991 Entr'acte, Michael Walls Gallery, New York City 1991 Taipei - New York: Confrontation of Modernism, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Taiwan 1991 Past Becoming Future, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Intimate Universe; Small-Scale Paintings By Twenty-five American Artists, Michael Walls 1993 Paper Trails; The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, 1993 Intimate Universe, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1994 Isn't It Romantic? On Crosby Street, New York City 1994 To enchant (blue), Cynthia McCallister Gallery/Bixler Gallery, New York City 1994 Singapore International Art Fair, Sarina Tang Fine Art, Singapore 1994 Taipei Modem Art Exhibition, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 1995 A Romantic Impulse: Seventeen American Artists, O'Hara Gallery, New York City 1995 Chinese Artists in the United States, Hong Kong Land Limited, The Rotunda, Hong Kong 1996 Taipei Modern Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China 1996 In Full Bloom: Flower and Garden Paintings, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1997 Intimate Universe [Revisited], Robert Steele Gallery, New York City 1997 A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California 1997 Forces of Nature, Taipei Gallery, New York City, 1997 Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1998 Asian Aesthetic, Takara/Yukiko Lunday Gallery, Houston, Texas 1998 Contemporary Art from the Overseas Chinese, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan 1999 Looking for the Light, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, New York 1999 Visions of Pluralism, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Mountain Art Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2001 Fifteen Asian American Artists, Staller Center For the Arts, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York (Artists: Arai, Tomie; Byun, Chong Gon; Huang, Wennie; Jo, Sook Jin; Kawata, Tamiko; Le, Dinh; Lee, Bing; Li, lan; Ng, Chee Wang; Rahman, Ram; Shin, Jean; Snyder, Kit-Yin; Wong, Paul; Yamaoka, Carrie; Yang, Chihung) 2001 Rain Forest/Contemporary Paintings Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 2001 Taipei Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2001 Rain Forest, Taipei Gallery, Chinese Information and Culture Center, New York 2002 Rain Forest, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas 2002 Contemporary Chinese Abstraction, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 2002 Contemporary Chinese Abstraction, SenJuing Museum of Art , Guangdong, China 2003 Vision, 456 Gallery and Cork Gallery / Lincoln Center, New York 2003 World Artist's Calligraphy Biennale, Son Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do, Korea 2003 Fifty Years of Post War Taiwanese Art, Chan Liu Art Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan 2004 Salon Comparaisons, Espace Auteuil, Paris, France 2005 Kuandu Extravaganza, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2005 China-Korea Modern Art Exhibition, Ho Hsien Ning Museum, Senjiun, China 2005 Ecology Earth Art 21, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 2005 Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon, Korea 2005 Blocks Shifting, National Central University Art Center, Jongli, Taiwan 2005 World Calligraphy Biennale, Jeollabuk-do Art Center, Korea 2005 China-Korea Modern Art Exhibition, Sejong Museum, Seoul, Korea 2006 Silent Exile, Two Times Thirteen Gallery, New York City 2006 The Third Space: Chinese Text of Abstract Art; Shanghai Art Museum, Ningbo Art Museum; Beijing 798 Art District, China 2007 Qi Yun, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of the He Xiangning Art Museum; Beijing Art Now Hong Kong Artist Commune 2007 World Calligraphic Biennale of Jeollabuk-Do, Sori Arts Center, Jeollabuk-Do, Korea 2008 Qi Yun, travelling exhibition, ChinaSquare, New York 2009 Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy Ink Paintings, Art Next Gallery, New York City 2009 Unbounded, China Square Gallery, New York City 2009 Wind from the South, The Contemporary Art of Taiwan, O Fine Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2009 Drawing of the World/World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2010 Saemangeum Flag Art Festival 2010, April 27-May 6, Saemangeum, South Korea 2011 Taiwan 100 - Taiwan Contemporary Artists Group Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Chung Shan National, Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan; Tainan Municipal Tainan Cultural, Center, Tainan, Taiwan 2011 SKY-2011 Asia Plate & Print Exhibition, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2013 Chinese Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 2013 Majestic Island, The Development of Modern Art in Taiwan, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; China Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2013 Culture • Mind • Becoming, La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2013 World Calligraphy Biennale, Jeollabuk-Do, Korea 2014 Hualien • New York • Paris, iP Art Gallery, Hualien, Taiwan 2016 First of all, respect your paper!, Red Gold Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 1960-The Origin of Taiwan's Modern Art, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan Publications: Yang Chihung The Sensibilities of Black and White – the Stream of Consciousness Series, Asia Art Center, 2018 Eternal Present: Recent Paintings by Yang Chihung, Asia Art Center, 2016 Yang Chihung 1967–2014, Asia Art Center, 2014 Chihung Yang: 40 Years of Painting, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2010 Inner Vision.Human Condition: Chihung Yang Solo Exhibition in National Art Museum of China, Asia Art Center, 2007 The Images of the Mind: Chihung Yang’s Painting, National Museum of History, 2004 New Trends in Modern Art, Artist Magazine, 1987

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