1946
Born in Zhejiang, China
1964
Graduated from High School for Art, Shanghai
1970
Became the leading artist at the Shanghai Institute of Painting
1984
Master's Degree in art from Hunter's College, New York
2004
Lived and worked in Shanghai, P.R.C.

Selected Sole Exhibitions
1980
New England Centre for Contemporary Art, USA (also in 1981,82,83)
1983
Hammer Gallery, New York (also in 1986,88 and 90)
1990
'Recent Paintings', Seibu Museum, Tokyo
1996 - 1997
The Homecoming of Chen Yifei, Retrospective Exhibition, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai; The China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing
First London Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paintings of Tibet, Pavilion of the People's Republic of China, XLVII Venice Biennale, 1997
Chen Yifei, Premise Exposition en France, Muse Granet, Aix-en-Provence