Shao Yinong
Born 1961 in Xining, Qinghai Province, China.
Graduated in 1982 with a degree in Oil Painting from Qinghai Normal University.
Graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Assistant Lector Class of Oil Painting Department in1987
Currently lives and works in Beijing.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 Absolute Chair, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Taoism - in the Present moment, The Turning of the Dragon – Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Quzhou Art Museum, Zhejiang
2023 Time Gravity – 2023 Chengdu Biennale*, Chengdu Art Museum
I Loved You: Works From The White Rabbit Collection, Centre for Contemporary Photography
2022 THREE PATHS: Academic Nomination Exhibition of China's Contemporary Crafts, Craft Museum of China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou
Hill of the Madman, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2021 Encounter of Imagination – The Divine Comedy & Classic of Mountains and Seas*, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
100% @ 2021 East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale, Shimenfeng Memorial Park, Wuhan
2020 The Myth of Wood - Art and Life, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
A Stitch in Time - The 4th Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2019 180 Years of Photography in China, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
A Fairy Tale in Red Times: Works from the White Rabbit Collection, Australia
2018 Inner Will of Life– Sculpture Projects Pingyao, Pingyao, Shanxi
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shenzhen
2017 Working in History: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution, Museum for Photography in Berlin
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
2016 Everyday Legend, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum,
Confronting Anitya---Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Xi’an Art Museum
2015 China 8 - Contemporary Art from China along the Rhine and Ruhr, NRW-FORUM, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Dimension of Civilization, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
Concealed Power, Yang Art Museum
2014 The 12th National Art Exhibition-the section of Experimental Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
By the name of Dailiness-Chinese Contemporary Art Everyday Discourse and Generate ideas, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu
2013 Shaoyinong & Muchen: Weathered root·Fleeting eternity, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Confronting Anitya---Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, 900magimuseo, Bologna/ Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy
2012 Credit Suisse— Today Art Award 2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Architectural Photography–Made in China, Guest Exhibition of the International Photography Scene in Koeln Museum of Applied Arts, MAKK, Cologne, Germany
2011 Open House - Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore Museum, Singapore
Pure Views - Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, Sichuan
2010 Regulator - the second today's documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing
China Today , Museum of Annika Tina Edsvik , Sweden
2009 Never Equal Distance to the Moon:Power,Politics,and the Environment, Faurschou Copenhagen, Denmark
“Political/Minimal” · KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany / MS2 Museum of Art, Łódź, Poland
2008. Farewell to Postcolonialism-the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
New World Order-Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands
2007 The Thermocline – New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe , Germany
ZHUYI! Actual Photography from China，Atrium Art Museum，Madrid，Spain
2006 Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Museum, Australia
SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
2005 Follow me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millenium, Mori art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Mahjong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Bern Art Museum, Switzerland
2004 Techniques of the visible-2004 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Fine Art Museum
Past in Reverse:Contemporary Art of East Asia, tour show in San Diego Art Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire
2003 Alors La Chine? , Pompidou Center, France
Spread in Prato 2003, Prato, Italy
2002 2002 Taibei Biennial—Great Theatre of the World, Taibei
Money and Value/the Last Taboo, Swiss National Bank, Biel, Switzerland
