Meng Yangyang

born 1983 Chongqing China
lives in Shanghai
Meng Yangyang is an emerging Chinese artist who has a deep fascination with oil painting materials and a keen interest in the theme of the individual, specifically as a vessel for spirit and soul.She graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a BA in 2006, and a subsequent MFA in 2009. Meng meticulously depicts virtual and fantastical scenes and figures, constantly balancing and reconciling imagination with the world, engaging in a dialogue of conflict and healing, immersion and escape. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.

Since 2004, she has had 15 solo exhibitions and 70 group exhibitions in the US, UK, Italy, Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong, including a major solo exhibition Barbie, Cells and Stones, MOCA Shanghai (2023); other exhibitions include Castello Di Rivara Contemporary Art Museum, Torino, Italy; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art; Zhu Qizhan Art Museum; Shanghai Young Museum, Shanghai; Powerlong Art Centre, Hangzhou; Chengdu Modern Art Museum. Her works have been collected by Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen; Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan; Thomas Olbricht Collection.

Alisan Fine Arts 's booth at ART SG 2025 in Singapore was the gallery's first time working with the artist, and in the same year exhibits at West Bund Art & Design Fair in Shanghai, China.

BIOGRAPHY
1983  Born in Chongqing, China
2006  BA, Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing ,China
2009  MA, Oil Painting Department, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Present  Lives and works in Shanghai, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
  • Barbie, Cells and Atones, MOCA Shanghai Pavilion, Shanghai, China
  • Meng Yangyang Solo Exhibition, Beijing, China
  • Ideal Illusion, Shanghai, China
2020
  • The Dairy, Tsutaya Books, Shanghai, China
2021 
  • To be Heard in a Whisper, Shanghai, China
2018
  • The Spring Comes, Shanghai, China
2017
  • Legato, Shanghai, China
2015  
  • Alone and Together, Beijing, China
2014   
  • Wish the World Treat You Softly, Chengdu, China
2012     
  • Searching for the Light, Taipei, Taiwan
2011   
  • Youth, Beijing, China
2010    
  • Meng Yangyang, Taipei, Taiwan
2009     
  • Devouring Radiance, Beijing, China
2007    
  • Images of Fantasy, Olyvia Oriental Ltd, London, UK
  • Simply: Hearted Blackness, Gallery J Chen, Taipei, Taiwan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
2024
  • Global Painting La Nuova Pittura Cinese, Mart Rovereto, Italy
  • Global Painting A New Generation of Chinese Artists: Parallel Exhibition in China, Shanghai, China
2023
  • Desire of Live: Who Do You Think You Are?, Shanghai , China
  • Nocturnal Ballads, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
  • What Constitutes Today’s Life?, Chengdu, China
  • The Logic of Images, Shanghai, China
  • Cell, Barbie and Hard Stone, Fuzhou, China
2022
  • The Attitude of Drawing, Shanghai, China
  • The Jolt of Image: New Paintings by Chinese Millennials, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
  • Lost in Shanghai, Ningbo, China
  • Turning Point, Tai Art Centre, Shanghai, China
  • New Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Young Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Group Exhibition, Culture Hall, Milano, Italy
2021
  • A Room of My Own, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Lead, Massimodecarlo Vspace, online exhibition, Milan, Italy
  • Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Institute for Public Art, Shanghai, China
  • M’room Mini Figures Art Project, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
  • Right Now Right Here Stand by Her, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • Granule, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
2020
  • Walking with History Exhibition for the 80th Anniversary of the Building of SCFAI (1940-2020), Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2019
  • Mei Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2018 
  • The Contemporary of Figural Art: Round 4, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • Wandering, Powerlong Art Centre, Hangzhou, China
  • Elite Young Artists Program 2018, Right View Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 
  • Texture of Time: The Artwork Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2016
  • On the Paper 2016, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
  • CIGE 12th ARTOPIA, China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China
  • Ulysses’ Gaze: The Return of Painterliness and Soulful Contemplation, Ginkgo Art Centre, Beijing, China
  • Utopia & Beyond, Castello Di Rivara Contemporary Art Museum, Torino, Italy
  • Drawing the Fables: Paintings by the 70s and the 80s, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, Chia
  • Wall Power Wallpost Artist Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
  • Utopia Beyond, Paratissima 11, China Pavilion, Torino, Italy
  • She: Context Female Artist Exhibition 2015, Nanjing; Shanghai, China
  • 10th Shanghai Biennale 2014: City Pavilion, Shanghai, China
  • Urban Work & Shop, Shanghai, China
2014  
  • Citizen Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
  • Soul.Enchantment: The Subconscious in Lyrical Contemporary Art, Amelie Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • Wait a Moment, Lamart, Shanghai, China
2013    
  • Art Macao, Macao
2012    
  • 60s, 70s, 80s: Reflection, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
2009, 2011, 2012, 2016
  • Art Beijing, Beijing, China
2009   
  • Luo Zhongli Scholarship Artworks Exhibition, Chongqing, China
  • China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
2008, 2011, 2012, 2014     
  • SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2007      
  • Images of Fantasy, Olyvia Oriental Ltd, London, UK
  • Palm Beach International Design Expo, Palm Beach, USA
  • Painting Exhibition of Graffiti, Sichuan, China
2006     
  • Working on the Street: Eleven Artists Group Exhibition, Chongqing, China
  • Luo Zhongli Scholarship Artworks Exhibition, Chongqing; Beijing, China
  • Asian Art in London, London, UK
2005       
  • Special Exhibition for Emerging Artists: 2nd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2004      
  • 99-04 Art Work Achievement Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China
Thomas Olbricht Collection, Germany
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