1963 Born in Handan, Hebei Province, China
1989 Graduated at the Print Dept. of the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2005 Professor of Hebei Training University Art College, China
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Fang Lijun – Gigantiske farvetræsnit, The Kastrupgaard Collection, Kastrup, Denmark; The Art Gallery of the Faroe Island, Island; The Art Gallery of Vendsyssel. Vendsyssel, Denmark
2007 Fang Lijun, Shang Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2007 Fang Lijun, Hunan Museum, Chang Sha, China
2007 Fang Lijun: Places to Places to Places, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany
2006 Fang Lijun: Today!, Today Art Museum Beijing, China
2006 Fang Lijun: Life is now, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
2006 Fang Lijun – Woodcuts and Drawings, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
2005 National Galerie I Galerie en France, Beijing, China
2004 Fang Lijun: LEBEN IST JETZT, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, Berlin, Germany
1998 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Galerie Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Human Images in an Uncertain Age, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo
1995 Galerie Bellefrord, Paris, Fannce
1995 Galerie Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions
2008 Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
2008 China's Revision. Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany
2008 Chen Guangwu – Fang Lijun – Liu Wentao, Museum für Asiatische Kunst (MAK), Berlin, Germany
2008 China – Facing Reality, NAMOC, Beijing, China
2008 Writing on the Wall. Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2008 Facing China, Coll. Fu Ruide, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Island
2007 Arrogance & Romance, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China
2007 China – Facing Reality, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2007 Red Hot – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
2006 China Now - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2006 Mahjong, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2005 Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2005 New Work / New Aquisitions, MoMa New York, USA
2005 Sammlung Hoffmann Berlin, Präsentation 2006/2007, Berlin, Germany
2005 The Languages of Nature, Fang Lijun – Franz Gertsch, White Space Beijing, China
2004 Ostwind, Franz Gertsch Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2003 Alors, la Chine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2000 The Art of Protest, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
1999 The 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1998 Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, USA
1998 Black and White, Chinese Contemporary, London
1998 5000- 10, Chinese Contemporary, Bilbao
1998 It's me, Forbidden City, Bejing, China
1996- 1997 China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (traveling exhibition)
1996 Hegegnunger mit China, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1996 Bejing/No Soap Opera? Munchen, Germany
1996 New collection of commissioned works on the theme Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1995 Visions of Happiness-Ten Asian Contemporary Artists, The Japan Foundation, ASEAN Cultural Center, Tokyo
1995 Unser Jahrhunddert, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
1995 1st Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
1995 Couplet 4, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netjerlands
1995 Avantgardes Artistiques Xinesses, Center d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
1994- 1995 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka/Setagaya Art Museum, Japan
1994 Welt-Moral, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1994 Chinese Contemporary Art at Sao Paulo, 22nd International Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1994 New Chinese Art, Hanart T Z Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993- 1994 China Avante Garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
1993 China's New Art, Post 89, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
1993 Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
1993 Passagio ad Oriente, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1993 New Art from China: Post 89, Marlborough Gallery, London, England
1992-93 New Art from China/Post-Mao Product, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney/Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane/City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat/Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1992 Lijun and Liu Wei Oil Painting Exhibition, Bejing Art Museum, Bejing, China
1991 Fang Lijun/Liu Wei private exhibition, Bejing, China
1989 China Avante Garde, China Art Gallery, Bejing
1984 6th National Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China
Public Collections
Asia Society, New York
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Museum Ludwing Koln, Germany
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
