1963  
Born in Tangshan, Hebei Province
1983  
Graduated from the Hebei Light Industry Institute
Lives and works in Beijing, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009  
First Steps - Last Words, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008  
X – Blind Spot, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007  
Yang Shaobin, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Yang Shaobin: Immaculata Conceptio, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006  
800 Meters Under, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2005  
Vibrations, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004  
Yang Shaobin, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
2003  
Yang Shaobin, Prüs & Ochs, Berlin, Germany
2002  
Yang Shaobin, Loft Gallery, Paris, France
2001  
Yang Shaobin, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2000  
Yang Shaobin, Asian Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009  
6th Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Real Emergency, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
To the Elements! – Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change, OCA (Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez), Parque do
Ibirapuera, Brazil
2008  
Collective Conscience: E-Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, The Carlton Studio, Melbourne, Australia
Trans Local Motion – 2008 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Writing on the Wall. Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum,
Groningen, The Netherlands
Under The Sky, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
2007  
Passion For Art, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, UK
2006  
China Now – Art in Times of Change, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Mahjong – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Galerie der Gegenwart - Kunsthalle         
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2005  
Mahjong – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
International Biennale of Contemporary Art Prague, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Always to the Front, Kuanda Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Avant – Garde, The Hague Sculpture, Sculpture Museum of The Hague, The Netherlands
The Gravity of the Immaterial, Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Building Code Violations, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Hermann Nitsch and Yang Shaobin, White Space, Beijing, China
Absolute Images – Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
2004  
China: Bodies Everywhere, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France Forbidden Senses, Sarlat,           France
Me! Self-portraits of the 20th Century, Museum of Luxembourg, Paris, France Bridge,                     Siemens Forum,
Munich, Germany  The Group, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, UK Pain, Michel           Berger Gallery,
Pittsburgh, USA. China-Cuba, Macla Movimiento de Arte y Culturad Latino San Jose, California, USA2003  
CP Open Biennale, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Der Rest der Welt, Parmesans, Germany
Die Neue, Kunsthalle 2, Mannheim, Germany Under Pressure, Geneva, Switzerland
2002  
De waan, Stichting Odapark, Venray, The Netherlands First Guangdong Triennale: Reinterpretation,           Ten
Years of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou,China Let’s           Go! Chinese
Contemporary Artists with the Football World Cup, Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China Chinese
Contemporary Art, Rekjavik, Iceland Long March, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
2001  
Abbild, Graz Museum, Graz, Austria Dream, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK Hot Pot, Chinese         
Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Song Zhuang, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany
First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
2000  
Skin & Space, Contemporanea Art e Culturi, Milan, Italy
Futuro, Contemporary Art Center of Macao, Macao Basic Needs, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany           Body/Faces
Icons, Asia Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany Our Chinese Friends, Galerie der Bauhaus, University of Weimar, Germany.
Portraits of Contemporary China, Espace Culturel France Mitterrand,          Perigueux, France
1999  
Passage, Dongyu Museum, Shenyang, China Art China, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1998  
Made in China, Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
5000 + 10, Bilbao, Spain
It's me! Temple of Imperial Ancestors, Beijing, China Eight Chinese Artists, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne,
Switzerland. Personal Touch, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
1997  
The History of Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism, Galerie Theorems, Brussels,           Belgium
China International Contemporary Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland China!, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna,           Austria The
Elevenses - The Avant Garde, Taikoo Palace, Hong Kong
1996  
China Contemporary, Osaka, Japan
China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1997-98    
8 + 8-1, Selected Paintings by Fifteen Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
First Collection of the Upriver Gallery, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
1995    
5 + 5: Voices from Russia and China, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong Chinese New-Wave Art Exhibition,
Conference Center, Hong Kong Visions of China: Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Chinese Masters, Bangkok,
Thailand
The Magnificent Duo - Recent Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong           Kong
The Beijing 3: A Three Man Show by Zhang Gong, Yue Minjun, Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1994  
8 + 8, Contemporary Russian and Chinese Exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain - Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Conference Center, Hong Kong

Public Collections
Asante Collection, France
Cartier Foundation, France
China Club, Hong Kong
CP Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Diözesan Museum Würzburg, Germany
Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Graz Museum, Austria
Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China
Leister Collection, Switzerland
Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Museum Klosterneuburg/Sammlung Essl, Wien, Austria
Museum und Kunstkammer Schloss Bartenstein, Germany
Ordos Art Museum, Inner Mongolia, China
Plum Collection, Belgium
Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Spazio Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, Italy
Tang Guowen, Changsha, China
Teda Museum of Modern Art, Tianjin, China
Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Ullens Foundation, Belgium
Yu Deyao Art Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Zürich Versicherungsgesellschaft, Opfikon-Giettbrugg, Zürich, Switzerlan