Born in Shanghai 1980.
For ten years from his early age he was taught with Chinese traditional painting, calligraphy and various art forms.
He graduated from China Academy of Fine Art, Shanghai branch, Visual Communication department in 1999.
Currently works and lives in Shanghai.

Selected Exhibitions

2010 

Heavenly City, solo exhibition, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 

2009 

Yang Yongliang Photography Solo Exhibition, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

Scene-A dialogue with space & time, River South Art Center, Shanghai

Under construction-Photography on the EXPO 2010 Shanghai, Pudong Library, Shanghai

China Avant Garde - Landscape in Transit Han Bing, Yang Yongliang & Zhang Wei, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA

City of Phantom Visions, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai

Drama/Stage, Urban Photography in Shanghai, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai

Photo Beijing, The Agricultural Exhibition Centre of China, Beijing

On the Quiet Water, 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece

40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, Discovery Award, Arles, France

H&R Block ArtspaceProject Wall, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, USA

New Chinese architecture, Institute Cervantes, Beijing 

2008 

Two Points：2008 Chinese Contemporary Art, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy

Stairway to Heaven, Bates College Museum of Art, Maine USA

FOTO OFOTO, OFOTO Gallery, Beijing

Artificial Nature, MOCA ARTLAB, Shanghai

Collision Part I - New ·Classic: Yang Yongliang & Gao Feng, FQ Projects, Shanghai

Material Link - A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, MOCA, Shanghai, Athens

Heavenly City & On the Quiet Water, OFOTO gallery, Shanghai

Collision Part II - TU LONG JI: Installation by Yang Yongliang, FQ Projects, Shanghai

Shanghai-urban public-Space, Hamburg, Germany

Contemporary Chinese Art, Limn Gallery, AQUA Art Miami, Miami

Mixed Maze, Red Mansion Foundation, London 

2007

Phantom Landscape Series 2&3, OFOTO gallery, Shanghai
Art Now 2007, Gyeonggido Museum of Modern art, Ansan, Korea
2007 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
Celebrating, Epson Imaging Gallery, Shanghai, Beijing

Collections

The British Museum, London, UK

Bates College Museum of ART, Maine USA

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Portland, USA

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA