Shang Chengxiang

Shenyang, China

Shang was born in Shenyang in 1985 and graduated from Oil Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. He has been working as a professional artist since, and has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. His important collections including DSL Collection (France), Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, American Consulate in Shenyang and Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum.

Partially inspired by the Surrealist master René Magritte, Shang’s works are influenced by this style yet remain true to his own unique presentation, palette and subject. Shang usually produces several different series of works simultaneously, with dreams and dream states a major source of ideas. His imagery wavers between this world of pure imagination, and reality. Meanings are hidden within these seemingly peculiar and fantastic scenes, waiting for the audience to interpret and decode.

As Shang explains, “I enjoy creating an atmosphere of suspense. I believe this feeling of suspense motivates us to think and ponder. Through this process, we can discover all sort of hidden potentials.”

 

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BORN

1985 in Shenyang, China

EDUCATION

2008

BFA, Oil Painting Department, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Becoming, 3812 Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2022

Undercurrent, Fermentation Art Center, Shenyang, China

2021

Sunshine on Another Afternoon, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2020

BMW Brilliance Plant Art Space, Shenyang, China

2019

Borderless, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2018

Borderline, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2015

Threshold: Shang Chengxiang Solo Exhibition, Space Station, Beijing

2014

Cloud Atlas, Space Station, Beijing

2013

31.20°N – 121.21°E, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai

2012

A Desolate Dream, Space Station, Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Shanghai Calling, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

In The Flow, Mirror Space, Shaoxing, China

Dreamer’s Free Verse, Fermentation Art Center, Shenyang, China

2023

Aurora, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

Going into the Unknown, JINGHOPE Art Center, Hainan, China

Self-Contemplation, Jimu Art Space, Hangzhou, China

Feather: The Mundane Narratives of Seven Artists, Uart Space, Shanghai, China

As Water, 3812 Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Worlds on Paper II, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2022

12 Paintings in TANK, Inner Flow, Shanghai, China

Future x Scene, Zero Art Center, Beijing, China

2021

Electric Picnic, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2020

Worlds on Paper, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

North Wind, Jimu Art Academy, Shenyang, China

2019

Elite Young Artists Program, Jining Art Museum, Jining, China

2018

Paint the Web Pink, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

Attention Training, Yi Yuan Space, Wuhan, China

IDEALISM ART STUDIO, Wu Art Space, Shenyang, China

2017

10 Years of Love, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

New Space Soft Opening Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

New Space Grand Opening Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

The Unknown Future, NIU Museum, Shijiazhuang, China

Premises of Affection, Link Gallery, Beijing, China

SIMULACRUM LIVING, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2016

Fireflowers, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

Lost Opportunities, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

Unknown Landscape Without Anyone, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, China

Elite Young Artists Program, Guanshanyue Museum, Shenzhen, China

Elite Young Artists Program, Brightview Art Museum, Beijing, China

Wang Shikuo Award & TAM Exhibition of Nominated Chinese Contemporary Young Artist, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Artificial Wonderland: Chinese and South Korean Young Art Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China

2014

Dreaming in Color, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

Faces and Traces, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

2013

Strayed Representation, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Pursuing Perfection, Bloom Art Space, Shanghai, China

2012

Northern Mirror, He Hui Art Center, Shanghai, China

Also World, T Art Center, Beijing, China

2011

Social Experience and Spiritual Narration, Blue Roof Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

2009

Northeast Blue, Northeast China, The Club Gallery, Shenyang, China

Ten Years, The Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

2008

New Vision ’08: Film, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

New Northeast Power, Gaodi Gallery, Beijing, China

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2012

Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artists in Residence Program, Shanghai, China

IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS

White Rabbit Collection, Australia

DSL Collection, France

Blue Roof Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

United States Consulate, Shenyang, China

Jinji Lake Art Musem, Suzhou, China

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