Born in Shanghai, China

Education
1992
MFA in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1989
MA in Painting and Drawing, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
1984
BA in Painting and Drawing, Shanghai Teacher’s University, Shanghai, China

Fellowships and Grants
1995
National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, USA
1993
Art Matters Fellowship, Art Matter Inc,. New York,

Teaching
Professor in Painting, School of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2010
“When Night Falls”, Stir Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009
“A Pardise Up in the Air”, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, USA;
“Momentary”, Stir Art Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2008
“City on Shelf – Installation by Xuhong Shang”, Sheldon Galleries, St. Louis, MO, USA.
2007
“Mountain Series by Xuhong Shang”, Galerie Leda Fletcher, Geneva, Switzerland;
“Xuhong Shang Solo Exhibition”, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, USA;
“Mountain Series”, Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA.
2006
“Xuhong Shang Solo Exhibition”, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL, USA;
“Xuhong Shang”, Merwin & Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA.
2005
“Intuition and Rational”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China;
“Intuition and Rational”, University Museum, Shanghai Teachers University, Shanghai, China.
2004
“Reality and Real – Xuhong Shang”, Kumamoto Fine Arts Museum, Kumamoto, Japan;
“Xuhong Shang”, University Gallery, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN, USA.
2003
“Reality and Real - Xuhong Shang”, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA;
2001
“Representation/Reality Xuhong Shang”, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York,NY, USA;
“Representation/Reality Xuhong Shang”, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong;
“Representation/Reality Xuhong Shang”, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Singapore;
“Xuhong Shang”, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA;
“Xuhong Shang”, Columbian Theatre and Museum and Art Center, Wamego, Kansas, USA.
2000
“Xuhong Shang”, Euroart’2000, Sala Marques de Comillas of Drassanes de Barcelona, Spain;
“Xuhong Shang”, Mountain Series, Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, KS, USA.
1995
“Landscape Boarders and Boundaries: Garden-to the Unknowing Pilgrim (installation)”, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
1992
“Xuhong Shang”, 479 Gallery Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1990
“Installation Work”, Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA;
“Where My Head (installation work)”, Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1989
“Join Two Rhetoric”, University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA;
“Xuhong Shang”, Signet Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
“The Literati Spirit”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2007
“Gallery Collective Artists Show”, Leda Fletcher Gallery, Shanghai, China;
“Group Exhibition”, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
“Rewind<Remix>Fastforward: Chinese Contemporary Art”, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China;
2006
“Shanghai Artists in Process”, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China;
“Across the Divide”, Reed Whipple Culture Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA;
“Across the Divide II”, Art Gallery, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, USA.
2005
“Group Exhibition”, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA.
2004
“Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Art”, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA;
“Group Exhibition”, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO, USA.
2003
“The Landscape: 3 visions in B/W”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, USA;
“Three Persons Exhibition, Mixed Media”, Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA;
“Across the Divide”, Max L.Gatov and Werby Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA.
2002
“Snapshots”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA;
“H20 Project”, The Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, USA;
“H20 Project”, The Fine Arts Gallery of the Valdosta State Uuiversity, Valdosta, GA, USA;
“Painting as an Abstraction”, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI, USA;
“The Vision International”, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX, USA.
2001
International Asian Art Fair, The Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, USA
“H-20 project”, Visual Arts Center of NW Florida, Panama City, FL, USA;
“Works on Paper”, Friendship Gallery, Mcpherson College, Mcpherson, KS, USA;
“Gallery Artists”, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, NY, USA;
“Mapping the Culture”, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro State University, Edinboro, PA, USA.
2000
“They Are Square, Yet, Not Too Formal”, Robert Prado Gallery, New York, NY, USA;
“International Young Art 2000”, Sotheby’s House, Vienna, Austria;
“International Young Art 2000”, Sotheby’s House, Chicago, IL, USA;
“International Young Art 2000”, Sotheby’s House, Tel Aviv, Israel;
“Group Exhibition”, organized by Plum Blossoms Ltd.
At The International 20th Century Art Fair, The Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, USA;
“Snapshot”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
“H20 Project”, The 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL , USA;
“Dreamscapes/Landscapes”, Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ, USA;
“Group Exhibition”, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY, USA;
“Group Exhibition”, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV, USA;
“Drawing Connections”, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, USA and Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK;
1999
“Gallery Selection ’99”, Central Fine Arts Inc., New York, USA;
“Group Exhibition”, Shafer Art Gallery, Barton County
Community College, Great Bend, Kansas, USA.
1998
“Three International Artists”, Zaniello Art Internazionale/Gallery at 678, New York, NY, USA.
1997
“Fruit in the Garden of Good and Evil”, Central Fine Arts Center, Shanghai, China.
1996
“Poem of Mind”, Z Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
“Fruit in the Garden of Good and Evil”, LFK Gallery, Hong Kong.
1995
“Regional Art Show (installations)”, South Florida Art Center, Miami, FL, USA;
“Beyond Possibility – Artist Documentary Show”, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY, USA;
“Pseudo Museum – Things Discernible in the Twilights of the Next Millennium”, Grapiter Interactive Productions,
New York, NY, USA;
“Mapping the Self”, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA.
1994
“South Meet East”, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA.
1993
“Two Artist Show”, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA;
“The Temporal Image”, The S.S.White Building (Momenta Art), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1992
“Two Persons Exhibition, Poem of the Visual”, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1991
“Selected Philadelphia Artist”, Gallery Axiom, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1990
“Group Exhibition”, Signet Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
1988
“Recent Works”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
1987
“Landscape Painting”, Studio Fifteen Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA;
“Selected Work Show”, McClean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL, USA;
1985
“National Olympic Fine Arts Competition”, Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China;
“Shanghai Spring Art Fair”, Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China.
 
Publications
2009
“Fleeing Minds” NY Arts Magazine, New York City, USA.
2007
“Xuhong Shang”, Mitchell Museum, Catalog, Mt. Vernon, IL, USA.
“Rewind, Remix, Fast-Forward: Chinese Contemporary Art”, Catalog, Contrast Galleries, Shanghai, China.
2004
“Shanghai Painter in America – Xuhong Shang”, Shanghai Scene Magazine, Volume 4, China.
2003
“Dangling between Reality and Image – On the installation art works of Shang Xuhong”, Sculpture #35 magazine,
third issue, Beijing, China.
2001
“Shang Xuhong” Jiang Su Art Magazine, Volume 9, Nanjing, China.
“Representation / Reality Xuhong Shang”, Plum Blossoms Galleries, Catalog Hong Kong, Singapore, New York.
“Art Sense”, Modern Home, Magazine, June issue, Hong Kong.
“A Season of Plum Blossoms”, Art & Auction, Magazine, June issue, New York, USA.
“Paintings by Xuhong Shang”, D+A, Magazine, 001 issue, Hong Kong.
2000
“Minimal Magic”, Asian Art News magazine, March/April issue, Hong Kong.
“International Young Art 2000”, Artlink@Sotheby’s, Catalog, Tel Aviv, Israel, New York and Chicago, USA.
“Snapshot”, Contemporary Museum, CD Catalog, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
“H-20 Project”, 621 Gallery, Catalog, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
“Euroart 2000”, BCN Art Director of Spain, Catalog, Barcelona, Spain.
1998
New American Paintings , Catalog,Vol. 16, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA, USA.
1996
“Xuhong Shang”, Sculpture, Magazine, January Issue, USA
1995
“Landscape, Boarders and Boundaries”, Art Paper, Magazine, Nov./Dec. Issue, Atlanta, USA.
1994
“Mapping The Self”, Telfair Museum of Art, Catalog, Savannah, GA, USA.