1958
Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
1982
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
Currently Professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Sparrow God Funky Bird - Ye YongQing 2012, Longmen Art Projects, Shanghai
2011
Ye YongQing Broken Flow, Yuz foundation, Jakarta
Ye YongQing as Light as a Feather, LINDAGALLERY, Republic of Singapore
Ye Yongqing Beyond the Bird, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei
2009
Ye Yongqing, Gallery J.Chen, Taipei
Beyond Graffiti - Ye Yongqing Solo Exhibition, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei
To Be or Not To Be - Solo Exhibition of Ye Yongqing, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2008
As Free As a Bird, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Paint a Bird:Paradox and Reality, China Square Gallery, New York
Injured•Heart--Solo Exhibition of Ye Yongqing, K•Gallery, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
2007
To Paint a Bird! Fun Art Space, Beijing
A Wounded Bird, Gallery Artside, Seoul
2006
Solo Flight, Blues Dreamland Gallery, Chengdu
2005
Scribble, Shanghai Zhangjiang Art Museum, Shanghai
2001
Ye Yongqing, ShanghART, Shanghai
2000
Ye Yongqing, China Contemporary, London
1999
China in A Scholarís Eyes, SooBin Art Gallery, Singapore
Ye Yongqing, Kailin Sax Gallery, Munich
1995
To Live in History, China Art Studio, Augsberg
Ye Yongqing, Shuang Hexuan Gallery, Seattle
1989
Ye Yongqing, French Embassy in Beijing, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
CHENGDU BIENNALE, Chengdu
The Will of China, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing
2010
Reshaping History - Chinart from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing
Thirty years of Chinese Contemporary art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2009
Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
Collision - Experimental cases of contemporary chinese art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
2008
Case Studies of Artists in Art History, SZ Art Centre, Beijing
Chinese Art Gentre, Basel, Switzerland
Accumulations - The Spirit of the East, Asia Art Centre, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary, Artside Gallery, Beijing
2007
Embarking From the Southwest-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
From New Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Talk of War on Paper, Nanjing Sifang Museum of Art, Nanjing
Unconsciousness, Dubang Contemporary Space, Miaoli County, Taiwan
2006
Size Decides Attitude - First 5x7" Picture Biennale Project, Pingyao International
Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi
Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Unclear and Cleamess, Heyri Art Foundation, Korea
Renovate OCT, He Xiangning Art Museum, OCT Art Centre, Shenzhen
Art in Motion, Shanghai MoCA Art Museum, Shanghai
2005
Stern Face, Beijing Now Gallery, Beijing
Future Archaeology - Chinese Art Triennial, Nanjing Museum of Art, Nanjing
China Art Trienniale, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
Dream of the Dragon People - Chinese Art Exhibition, Ireland Art Museum
Asia Urban Network, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul
The Big River - Chinese New Era Oil Painting Retrospective Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing
The Yuanfen Sky, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
The Guangzhou Trienniale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong
Conspire, TS1 Contemporary Art Centre 1st Exhibition, Beijing
2004
Transcending Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Ye Yongqing, Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2003
Opening Era, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2002
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Duisburg, Germany, China
Contemporary Art of China and Korea, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
Behind Reality, Dimension Arts, Taipei
Guangzhou Trienniale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2001
The Dream of Chinese Art, Red Building Art Centre, London
New Images, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Sichuan Museum of Art
Guangdong Museum of Art
2000
Gate of the Century: 1979 -1999 The Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
Chinese Oil Painting in the 20th Century, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Ö Between Ö, Upriver Club, Kunming
A Tale of Two Cities, Asia Contemporary Art, London
1999
Art from China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
1998
China's New Art Exhibition Observatoire 4ed Montreal, Montreal
1997
Quotation Marks, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Red & Grey, SooBin Art International and Baozang Art Centre, Singapore
Between Two Places, October Gallery, London
Koeln International Art Fair, Ludwig Museum, Koeln
Liu Wei and Ye Yongqing, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1996
China!, Contemporary Art Museum, Poland
First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
First Shanghai Art Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Sharing the Dreams, Jamaica Art Centre, New York
1995
Feeling of Skin, Antony Art Centre, France
1995
Avant-guard Artisiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona
1994
The Annual Exhibition of Works of Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1993
Post 89 New Art from China, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney
Chinese Art in 90s-Chinese Experience, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu
1992
China Oil Painting Exhibition, Beijing Minority Cultural Palace
1st Guangzhou Oil Painting Biennale, Exhibition Hall of the Central Hotel, Guangzhou
1990
I Donít Want to Play Cards with Cezanne and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese New Wave and Avant-guard Art of the Eighties, Asia-Pacific Museum, Pasadena, California
French Modern Art Expo., Grand Palace Fine Arts Museum, Paris, France
1989
China Avant-guard, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Public Collection
National Art Museum of China
Shanghai Art Museum
Guandong Museum of Art
Shenzhen Art Museum
Singapore Art Museum
Guggenheim Museum
New Orleans Museum of Art
Pacific Asia Museum
Germany Empoli Cultural Foundation
Soobin Art Int'l Gallery Singapore
Siemens,Novo Nordisk, HSBC
Bill Gates Software Company
England Triangle Arts Foundation
Murdock News Corporation
SPDBCNSH, Hubei Fine Arts Literature Art Center, KMCB-NET
Taiwan Chinese Culture Promotion Council
Suei Yuan Arts Foundation
Dimension Endowment of Art
MinSheng Art Museum
TaiKang Art Space
Dragon Art Museum