Yang Xinguang, a Beijing-based artist born in Hunan province in 1980, is a graduate of the sculpture academy of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Through his participation in a series of group exhibitions across China, he has earned a reputation as one of the strongest exemplars of a reemerging sculptural sense among the younger generations of artists in China.

Occupying a unique role in the dialectic of contemporary art history, Yang Xinguang steps back from both descriptive work on everyday life and protest work in the realm of politics. Instead, his introspective works recall the discourses of both American minimalist sculpture in terms of their phenomenological relationship with the body of the spectator and arte povera in terms of their openness towards material and space. Yang Xinguang’s works often involve wood, earth, and stone as their primary materials. Despite the process-oriented nature of their production, the emphasis remains on a final, finished product (although one differentiated from a unitary

Solo Exhibitions   

2008 

Consumed, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China  

Group Exhibitions

2008

Poorism, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
Buena Vista Sculpture Exhibition, OCT, Shenzhen, China
Hidden Life: Apartment Diary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
Updating, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007 

The Bounds of Reason, New York Art, Beijing, China         

2006 

How Far From Art, Rain Gallery, Beijing, China