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Zhang Jian-Jun 張建君 (b. 1955)

Hailing from Shanghai, China, Zhang Jian-Jun (b.1955) is one of the most disciplined and gifted contemporary Asian artists of our time. Zhang graduated from Shanghai Drama Institute’s Fine Arts Department in 1978 and is today an Adjunct Professor at the Fine Arts Department of New York University.

Zhang’s art perforates the surface of East-West fusion and the idea of time, expressing his strikingly unique and profoundly perceptive musings. Exploring the essence of these topics, his art may not be instantaneously interpretable by many; however, this is also the very quality that elevates the intellectual element of his works, inviting viewer participation. Zhang demonstrates his gift in the artistic manipulation of time by re-creating the ancient scholar rock with modern materials such as silicone rubber. These ornate rocks, called Taihu Rocks, originated from Suzhou and are traditionally appreciated and prized by Chinese Literati. They are also symbolic of traditional Chinese culture and focus on the changes in aesthetics, culture and social patterns across time. Creatively, he has resurrected a fragment of history and propelled episodic moments from that distant time to this present age. These consequential works are evidently contemporary and undoubtedly unique.

Zhang has held more than 15 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions in China, the United States and other parts of Asia and Europe. His works are collected permanently in the K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Yuz Museum (Shanghai), San Francisco Asian Art Museum (California), Shanghai Art Museum, Jerry Yang Collection (California), Uli Sigg Collection, JP Morgan (Hong Kong), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art (California),

He was also involved in the Golden Globe Awards Party 2007 where he was commissioned to install his scholar rock sculpture, Mirage Garden #5.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021 | Residency Programme co-presented by Royal Academy and K11 Art Foundation, presented at chiK11 art museum Shanghai, chiK11 art space Shenyang and K11 HACC Hong Kong.
  • 2017 | Between Then and Now, OCAT Xi’An, China
  • 2016 | Water • Quintessence, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • 2015 | China Chapter, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 | Jade Mountain & Ink River, Christian Duvernois Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2015 | 1980s: Zhang Jian-Jun’s Early Artwork (1978-1988), Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2015 | Nature and Beyond,” Leo Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong
  • 2015 | Water • Ink • China, Pace Prints, New York, New York, USA
  • 2014 | Nature, Art Projects International, New York, New York, USA
  • 2012 | Forms • Water • Vestiges, Pavilion of Repose Garden, Kunshan, China
  • 2011 | Water, 99 Art Center at M50, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 | Zhang Jian-Jun: Vestiges of a Process, iPreciation, Singapore
  • 2007 | Alternative Landscape, 140 sqm Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 | Mirage Garden Part 6, South Beauty Garden, Shanghai, China (in collaboration with Barbara Edelstein)
  • 2007 | Vestiges of a Process: New York, Shanghai, New Village, iPreciation, Singapore
  • 2005 | Vestiges of a Process, Asian American Art Centre, New York, USA
  • 2005 | Garden of Wishing Trees, Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, New York, USA
  • (in collaboration with Barbara Edelstein)
  • 2004 | Vestiges of a Process: Chelsea Chapter, DTW Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2003 | Mountain & River, Art Projects International Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2002 | Chinese Ink Garden of Re-Creation, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  • 2002 | Vestiges of a Process: Guangzhou Chapter, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • 2002 | China Chapter, Museum of the Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
  • 2001 | Art Projects International, New York, New York, USA
  • 1997 | Footprint, Gallerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1995 | Art Projects International Gallery, New York,
  • 1994 | The Paradox of the Fish, Gallery Contempo, New York, New York, USA
  • 1989 | Nerlino Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 1988 | Existence, Kay Garvey Gallery, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
  • 1988 | Solo Exhibition, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1987 | Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 | Out of Ink: Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art, Pera Museum, Istanbul
  • 2019 | Beyond Scholar Gardens, 2018, Duolan Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 | Between Human and Water, Zhu Jia Jiao Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 | Dialog, Zhu Qi Zhan Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 | From New Shanghai School to Contemporary, Baoshan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2017 | Avant-Garde ·  Shanghai: 1979-2010 Documenta of Shanghai Contemporary Art, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2016 | Under Heaven: Contemporary Art from China in the Ahmanson Collection, Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, California, USA
  • 2016 | White Grey Black, Gallerie Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2016 | Water & Ink: Tradition in the Contemporary Art, China Cultural Center in Brussels, Belgium
  • 2016 | Splotch, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2015 | View from Shanghai, Cloud Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2015 | 30 Years of Contemporary Shanghai Art, Sheshan Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2015 | Navigating Abstraction, Christian Duvernois Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2015 | Canvas Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2014 | Nature and Beyond, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • 2014 | Pursuing Dream: Shanghai Sculpture Invitational Show, Shanghai Sculpture Space, China
  • 2014 | Contemporary Ink, Da Xiang Art Center, Taizhong, Taiwan
  • 2014 | Experimental Art, The 12th China National Art Exhibition, Today Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2014 | Sempre Natura, Christian Duvernois Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2013 | Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
  • 2013 |Tutte le strade portano a Roma. 17 artisti contemporanei da SHANGHAI a Palazzo Brancaccio, Museo Nazionale D’Arte Orientale, Rome, Italy
  • 2013 |Opening, Christian Duvernois Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  • 2012 | Culture Shanghai: A Return Oriented Towards the Future, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China
  • 2012 | Ink Now, Special Project of The SH Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
  • 2012 | Water, Anacostia Art Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
  • 2012 | Undoing ShuiMo – Contemporary ShuiMo Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • 2011 | Celestial Abstraction, Contemporary Art Museum, Rome, Italy
  • 2011 |20 Years Retrospective Exhibition of 1991 San Diego Chinese Artistic Creation Seminar, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
  • 2011 |Selected Asian Cultural Council Fellows: Then and Now, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  • 2011 |ShanShui, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2010 | The Seventh Shenzhen International Chinese Ink Biennale, Shenzhen, China
  • 2010 | Big Draft – Shanghai, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2009 | Ink Society,” Sunshine International Museum, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
  • 2009 | “In-Situ: A Dialog with Space and Time,” River South Art Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2009 | Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusions to Reality, Europalia.China International Arts Festival, The Square, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2008 | Mountain & Water, Dresden Art Museum, Dresden, Germany
  • 2008 | Towards Abstraction: 1976-1985 Shanghai Contemporary Art, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 | Rejected Collection, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 | Asia/Europa Mediation, Poznan National Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland
  • 2006 | Crossing the Atlantic, Goldsmith’s College, London, England
  • 2006 | Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity, 1st Envisage, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • 2005 | Flowing River: 30 Years of Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2005 | 100 Years of Chinese Sculpture, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China
  • 2004 | The Fourth Shenzhen International Chinese Ink Biennale,” Shenzhen, China
  • 2004 | Shanghai Abstract Survey – 50 Years, Ming Yuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2003 | 10-Year Anniversary, 2003, Art Projects International Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2002 | Urban Creation, The Fourth Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • 2001 | 1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
  • 2000 | DMZ_2000, Korean Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1999 | Wrap the World, The Kitchen, New York, New York, USA
  • 1998 | Observatoire 4 Galerie, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

For full CV and biography details, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com

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Hung Liu 劉虹 (b. 1948 – d. 2021)

Born in Changchun, China and later becoming an American citizen, Hung Liu held a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Art Education from the Beijing Teacher’s College, a Graduate Degree in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego. She was a Professor of Arts at MillsCollege in Oakland.

Over the years, Liu had staged more than 50 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions in the U.S, China and numerous other parts of Asia and Europe. She had also been the recipient of several prestigious awards like the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award, and the San Francisco Women’s Center Humanities Award, to name a few. Her artworks were on permanent display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and various corporate institutions in the U.S.

Hung Liu’s art conveyed her intimate interpretations of various cultural and societal issues, drawing inspiration from turn-of-the-century photographs which she collected from China. These rare and unique remnants of an episodic time and the stories encased within them are artistically projected into meaningful oil and canvas paintings, thus encapsulating Liu’s personal impressions and reflections.

Liu’s protagonists usually centred around nameless female figures, individuals who were sold off into prostitution; with lotuses symbolising offerings surrounding their lithe, porcelain bodies. Through her paintings, she desired to bestow them ‘new lives’, being a believer in the notion that art needs ‘soul’ and ‘meaning’ to acquire timelessness. These paintings by Liu were analogous to shrines that have been dedicated to these lost women. Liu passed away in 2021.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2015 | Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu Retrospective, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA, USA
  • 2015 | Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu Retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, MO, USA
  • 2014 | Hung Liu: Prints and Tapestries, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 2014 | The Rat Years, 2Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, USA
  • 2013 | Questions from the Sky: New Work from Hung Liu, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
  • 2013 | Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu Retrospective, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA
  • 2013 | Hung Liu: Offerings, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
  • 2007 | Hung Liu: Old Road: West Wind, iPreciation, Singapore

 Selected Group Exhibitions 

  • 2014 | I’ll Show you Mine: Contemporary Artists Explore Family Portraits, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • 2014 | Beautiful Disintegrating Obstinate Horror Drawing and Other Recent Acquisitions and Selections from the Museums’ Permanent Collection, UNM Art Museum’s Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • 2014 | The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, NY, USA
  • 2014 | Radical Repetition: Albers to Warhol, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, USA
  • 2014 | The Female Gaze: Selfhood and Community from the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver School of Art and Art History, CO, USA
  • 2014 | The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Selected Public Collections

  • 2016 | Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA
  • 2008 | San Francisco International Airport, CA, USA
  • 2006 | Oakland International Airport Terminal 2, CA, USA
  • 2004 | Asian Art Museum Civic Centre, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2002 | Cerritos Library, CA, USA
  • 1995 | Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1995 | San Jose Museum of Art and the City of San Jose Collection, CA, USA
  • 1992 | Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1986 | Media Center and Communications Building, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
  • 1981 | Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

For full list of exhibitions and public collections, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com

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Cheung Yee 張義 (b. 1936 – d. 2019)

Born in Guangzhou, China, Cheung Yee graduated from the Fine Art Department of Taiwan Normal University in 1958, and five years later he formed the Circle Group with other local artists in Taiwan. In 1965, Cheung received a grant to travel the USA and Europe, exploring the discovering Western artists and their key influences and practices.

Most renowned for his cast paper murals developed in the 1970s, Cheung Yee is widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary art movement in Hong Kong. His artistic innovation and contributions had also won him The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member class (MBE) in 1979 conferred by the Queen of England. With over a hundred exhibitions organised worldwide since he started his career, Cheung holds the record as the only living artist in the history of Hong Kong to have been specially invited to exhibit three solo-exhibitions at the prestigious Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Cheung was a professor of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong until 1998, the chairman of the Hong Kong Sculptors’ Association, as well as advisor to the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Possessing a rare perception in art, his works reflect elements from a myriad of subjects including early American art, Egyptian art, ancient Chinese philosophy, geomancy, among various others; all of which are uniquely interpreted to result in works that are evidently distinct. Archaic touches from the East, like a profound Chinese poem from the distant past or cryptic primitive symbols from a forgotten time, are delicately blended into his cast paper works. Cheung Yee passed away in 2019.

Four Spirits & the Sanfuhuangtu
An interesting theme that Cheung’s art projects is the Sanfuhuangtu 《三辅黄图》 (Annotations on the Rule of the Yellow Emperor). This ancient literary text is propelled to life by his individualistic bronze sculptural works which express the xuanwu 玄武, represented by the combined form of the tortoise and the snake. Consequently, a keen observer may notice that a number of his sculptures such as the Magic Nine and Four Spirits show spatial openings, symbolic of the tortoise shell, and worm-like figures, representative of the snake.

Education

  • 1958 | Graduated from the Fine Art Dept. of Taiwan Normal University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2021 | Taiwanese Art Treasures Preserved Overseas: The Homecoming Exhibition of the Sun Ten Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  • 2020 | 20/20 Hong Kong Print Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
  • 2019 | iPreciation 20th Anniversary: Reverie Collection–25 Years of Art Collecting Journey, iPreciation, Singapore / Embody, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
  • 2018 | Beyond Signs and Symbols: Hong Kong Landmarks Re-presented, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
  • 2010 | It’s Not Sculpture, Linda Gallery, Singapore 
  • 2008 | Bridge ArtFair New York 2008, U.S.A
  • 2007 | Korea International Art Fair, Korea
  • 2000 | Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 1995 | Tresors, Singapore
  • 1990 | Contemporary Artists Drawing Exhibition, Cheng Pin Gallery, Taipei
  • 1988 | Moderne Chinesische Kunst Aus Hong Kong, Galerie Art East Art West, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1983 | 10th National Arts Exhibition, Taiwan National Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1982 | Contemporary Hong Kong Art, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
  • 1971 | Art Now Hong Kong, London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, UK
  • 1964 | Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, U.S.A.
  • 1961 | Salon d’Aout, Hong Kong, St. John Cathedral Hall, Hong Kong

Awards

  • 1979 | Awarded the Member Order of the British Empire (Honorary)
  • 1988 | Awarded “Sculptor of the Year Award 1988”, Hong Kong Artists’ Guild

Public Collections

  • Hong Kong Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
  • National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
  • Taiwan Museum of Art, Tai Chung, Taiwan
  • Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum

Permanent Collections

  • Ashmolen Museum, Oxford, England, UK
  • Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
  • Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
  • National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan

For full list of exhibitions, awards and collections, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com

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Ah Leon 陳景亮 (b. 1953)

Born in 1953, Ah Leon is one of Taiwan’s most renowned ceramic artists. He graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts in 1976, and from 1978 to 1982, sought the apprenticeship of famous ceramic artists throughout Taiwan In 1982, he participated in a artist-in-residency at the State of University of New York, USA. Ah Leon has exhibited extensively in Asia, Europe and America since 1985, including the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the National Ceramics Museum in Denmark, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, and the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Los Angeles. Ah Leon’s works are collected by renowned Museums including the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Taiwan Museum of Art in Taichung the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Ah Leon’s works have been described as a trompe l’oeil, or a deception of the eyes; as he indulges in the manipulation of clay to mimic the silken, softness of bean curd, or the sturdiness of wood. Viewers are engaged in a rare, sensory experience, as the delicate touch of the ceramic, lies contradictory to the visual enticement of the impersonating ‘wood’ or ‘tofu’, eliciting humorous responses, as one vacillates between realism and fabrication.

Education

  • 1978 – 1982 | Apprenticed with Master Potters, Taiwan
  • 1976 | Graduated from Taiwan National Academy of Arts, Taiwan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2000 | Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
  • 2002 | Four Excellent Ceramists in Taiwan, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Public Collections

  • 2010 | American Museum Of Ceramic Art , CA, USA
  • 2010 | Taipei County Hakka Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2010 | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
  • 2009 | Museum of Arts and Design, NY, USA
  • 2003 | Asian Art Museum San Francisco. CA, USA
  • 2003 | Johnson Museum of Art, NY, USA
  • 2003 | Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
  • 2002 | National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2001 | Ichon Ceramics Museum, Ichon, Korea
  • 2001 | Taipei County Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

For full list of exhibitions and collections, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com

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