Museum Exhibition
Liang Quan Green
Pingshan Art Museum
2023.5.14-11.15
Biography
Liang Quan (b. 1948, Shanghai, China) is one of the most representative figures in abstract painting in China. He graduated from the Affiliated High School of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and went to study at the Academy of Art College (now the Academy of Art University) in San Francisco. Liang taught at the printmaking department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art), and worked at Shenzhen Fine Art Institute. He currently lives and works in Shenzhen.
Liang Quan is one of the earliest artists who combine traditional ink wash painting with abstract painting, creating a personal style that bridges — while accentuates — the differences between the Eastern and Western aesthetics. The application of both fine-brush and free stroke painting fills the canvas with minute details, forming an elaborate scheme that represents things and, ultimately, the emptiness of things. The ink wash bleeds into each other, creating a cascade of colors of varied saturation, and a choreography of forms. Reality is constructed with layers upon layers of details, and, as it is buried underneath, reemerges again in a different light. Emptiness conveys limitlessness. The concessions and ambiguities he makes are the step back he takes when facing the fast-changing world. The most representative of his works, the ink wash collages, are an expression of the peace of Zen. His mixed material collages connect the abstract art of the West and the traditional ink wash of the East, and draw wide attention with its unique style and Eastern essence.
Education
1948Born in Shanghai, with ancestral home in Zhongshan, Guangdong
1964Admitted to the affiliated middle school of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art)
1978Enrolled in Academy of Art College in San Francisco to study printmaking
1984Back to China, started to teach at the Printmaking Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) 1995Started to works as professional painter at Shenzhen Fine Art Institute Now works and lives in Shenzhen
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2024Liang Quan: New Spring, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2023Liang Quan: Green, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
20222022 Art Changsha, Changsha, China
2021Title-less: Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2020Enzo Cucchi & Liang Quan, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2019Liang Quan: The Neo Six Persimmons, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
“Good” told by the nature in Shanghai, Mao Space, Shanghai, China
“Good” told by the nature, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, China
2018Watching the Clouds Go By: Liang Quan’s Creative Style and it’s Changes, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
2017Liang Quan Solo Project, Insight, ART BASEL Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Arcadia Revisited: Liang Quan and the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Liang Quan | Light as Tea: Frank F. Yang Collection Exhibition, Extra Space, Shenzhen, China
2015Amassing the Essence: Thirty Years of Paintings by Liang Quan, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2014The Joy of Tea – Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Soka Art Taipei, Taipei, China Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei, China 2013Folds of the Infra-fade, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2011Bland, Wellside Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Sailing ~ Afar — Liang Quan’s New Works, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei, China 2006Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2005Liang Quan: Paper Abstractions, M. Sutherland Fine Arts, New York, United States 2004Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Mies van Der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany 2001Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Kunst House, Nuremberg, Germany 1994Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China 1989Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023The Beginning Of Spring, Ying Space, Beijing, China
The trace and evolution of contemporary ink painting in Guangdong, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Dwellings and Surroundings: From Saisen Private Collection, Saisen Art, Shanghai, China
2022Greater Than Abstraction, Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2021The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China Shanghai 2020, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The Memory Palace, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Nine-Tiered Pagoda: Spatial and Visual Magic ⑤: Similar Results, Different Approaches – Chen Wenji + Ding Yi + Liang Quan + Tan Ping, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2020Wild Imagination – Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao from 2000 to 2020, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China From Treatise on Superfluous Things, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China Tribute to Tradition: Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Art Paper Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2019Freeland around the Second Line: Shenzhen Contemporary Art in 2019, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China The Gaze of History: Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited, Jupiter Museum, Shenzhen, China Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Mountains and Rivers Far Away: Contemporary Evolutionary Creation and Document Exhibition of “Shanshui” Art, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China Ink and Things: The Second Biennale Exhibition of Wuhan Ink Art, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China The Common Space-The Grand Canal Narrative of the Post Intangible-Heritage Ear, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China Ink at Current: The 10th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute / OCAT Shenzhen / OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China Exposition Collective Eau et contemporaines du Guangdong, Centre Culturel de Chine à Paris, Paris, France Spearhead: Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Ink Wash (New Abstract of Ink Painting), Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China Tasteless Taste: Seven Possibilities of Modern Diluted-colored Ink-and-Wash, No.8 Bridge Space of Art, Shanghai, China 2018The Clouded Peach Blossom Spring: Selected Works of Chinese Contemporary Artists as Exemplars, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Oriental Peach Valley: Contemporary Chinese Art with Sources of the Traditional Oriental Aesthetics, Werkschau Halle, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany Return to Otology: Tracing the source of abstract art in the new period of Guangdong, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China / Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 20177th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China The Polars: Part of the New Ink Wash Painting Series Exhibition, Ink Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Troposphere – Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Tracing the Past and Shaping the Future: Powerlong Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art At M+, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China Aura and Vitality: 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China 2016The Third Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Works: Disguised Form-Ink Paintings’ Dimension, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Ten Years Collection Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China Contemporary Ink Art Invitational Exhibition, Enjoy-Art Museum, Beijing, China No.19 in Shenyun Road-Shenzhen International Invitational Exhibition, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China Abstract and Beyond: The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China G20, Hangzhou International Exhibition Centre, Hangzhou, China Chinese Abstract 2016, Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China The world is yours, as well as ours, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, United Kingdom Pi Daojian + Yan Yong: Being and Inking – Documenting Contemporary Ink Art, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China Artists Living in Shanghai Wuu Speech, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China Research Room III: The Working of Non-figurative System, Rightview Art Museum, Beijing, China Too Loud a Solitude: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Deconstruction and Revolution of Ink Art, Phoenix Art Palace Museum, Wuxi, China 2015Dialog: The Differences and Similarities in the Abstract Art – Enrique Brinkmann & Liang Quan, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China Calligraphic Time and Space: Abstract Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Mind-Scape II, 3812 Art Space, Hong Kong, China 2014Perfection upon Finery: Liang Quan & Jin Shi, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China By the Name of Dailiness: Chinese Contemporary Art Everyday discourse and generate ideas, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China vibrARTion Switzerland 2014 – Form of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, art-st-urban Museum of Contemporary Art, Lucerne, Switzerland Context of Paper Essence, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, United States 2013Illusion: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Painting Exhibition I, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2012RE-INK: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2011The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in the 21st Century, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Minnesota University Art Museum, Minnesota, United States Super-Organism CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010Back to the Essence – From Ink Painting to Ink, Da-Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China Ink: One Day in June, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, New York, United States Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China Thirty Years of China Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Gengyin ink · Original and Future, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 2009paint ALOUD: Wang Gongyi, Song Yonghong, Liang Quan, KOGO art space, Hangzhou, China Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China INK not INK: A Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States; Museum of Warsaw Royal, Poland Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong & Yan Shanchun, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China 2008Appreciation / Pure Mind: Chinese Contemporary Water Ink Exhibition, Da-Xiang Art Space, Taichung, China The Transforming Marks of Ink, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany Guangzhou Station: Special Exhibition Contemporary Art of Guangdong, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art, CaixaForum Palma / CaixaForum Barcelona / CaixaForum Madrid, Spain 2007Narration in Ink and Wash, Yokohama Zaim Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 2006Chinese Abstract: Liang Quan, Wang Chuan and Yan Shanchun, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2005Ink and Paper, Weimar Art Museum, Weimar, Germany Ink on Paper: Contemporary Ink and Wash, The Rihour Palace, Lille, France Retrospection of Experimental Ink and Wash 1985-2000, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China Tribute to 85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 2003Metaphysics 2003: Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China 2002Ost + West: Ausstellung fuer die Zeitgenossische Kunst aus China, Vienna Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria 1998The 2nd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 1997Chinese Art Exhibition – Contemporary Chinese Painting, Shanghai, China 1996Chinese Modern Print Exhibition, British Museum, London, United Kingdom 1991Exhibition at the Headquarters of the World Bank, Washington, United States 1988Chinese Modern Fine Art Exhibition, Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United States
Collections (selection)
The British Museum
Australian White Rabbit Art Museum
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong M+
Asian Art Museum
Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum
National Art Museum of China
Suzhou Hanshan Art Museum;
Artron Art Center
Zhu Qizhan Art Museum
Minsheng Modern Art Museum
Guangdong Museum of Art
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