Photo: Fabrice Seixas

Huang Yong Ping was an internationally acclaimed Chinese avant-garde artist. He was born on February 19th 1954 in Xiamen, China, and passed away on October 19th 2019 in Paris, France. He lived and worked in Paris since 1989.

In 1982, he graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, China and a few years later co-founded the Xiamen Dada group (1983-1988). He was invited by Jean-Hubert Martin to participate in the pioneering exhibition “Les Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Pompidou and at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris in 1989. In 1999 he represented France at the 48th Venice Biennale with Jean-Pierre Bertrand. A great travelling retrospective was held between 2005 and 2008 at the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis, MASS MoCA in North Adam (Massachusetts), and at the UCCA in Beijing.

In 1999, he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, then in 2015 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2000, he received the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts in recognition of Outstanding Creative Achievement in the field of visual arts. In 2016, he was the winner of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.

Huang Yong Ping was invited by the Ministère de la Culture for the 7th edition of Monumenta in the Nef of the Grand Palais in Paris. He presented his work Empires from May to June 2016.

Institutional collections include: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Centre Pompidou, DSL Collection, Fondation Cartier, Galeries Lafayette Foundation, Gröningen Museum, Guanyi Art Documentation, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Ludwig Museum, MoMA, M+ Museum, MCA Chicago, Pinault Collection, Qatar Museums, Red Brick Museum, Rubell Family Collection, Sigg Collection, Walker Art Center and Yuz Museum, among others.

PRESS, BOOKS & CATALOGUES

• Hou Hanru, Evelyne Jouanno (2023) J’ai une famille, Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais
• Alexandra Munroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru [et al.] (2017) Art and China after 1989 Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum Publications
• Jacques Henric, François Jullien, Huang Yong Ping [et al.] (2017) Artpress2 trimestriel n°46 Philosophie de François Jullien, Artpress
• Huang Yong Ping, Hou Hanru, Pi Li [et al.] (2016) Huang Yong Ping, Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House [Exhibition. Power Station of Art. 2016]
• Jean de Loisy, Pascal Lamy [et al.] (2016) Monumenta 2016. Huang Yong Ping. Empires, RMN-Grand Palais
• Judicaël Lavrador, Daphné Bétard, Huang Yong Ping (2016) Huang Yong Ping – Empires / Monumenta 2016, Beaux Arts/TTM Éditions
• François Jullien, Huang Yong Ping (2016) Our Worlds in Tongues – Conversation between Huang Yong Ping and François Jullien, Éditions Klincksieck
  
• Giovanna Melandri, Hou Hanru, Francesco Bonami (2015) Huang Yong Ping – Bâton Serpent, Mousse Publishing [Exhibition. MAXXI. 2015]
• David Moinard, Jean-Hubert Martin (2014) Huang Yong Ping – Les Mues,  Éditions Dilecta [Le Voyage à Nantes]
• Thierry Raspail, Deirdre Emmons, Doryun Chong (2013) Huang Yong Ping-Amoy/Xiamen, les presses du réel
• Jérôme Alexandre, Marie-Claude Beaud, Marie-Laure Bernadac [et al.] (2011) Wu Zei – Huang Yong Ping, Les presses du réel [Musée Océanographique de Monaco]
• Jean de Loisy, Gilles A. Tiberghien (2009) Huang Yong Ping – Myths, Les presses du réel
• Vittoria Martini, Francesco Bonami (2008) Huang Yong Ping, Electa Publishing
• Chiara Parisi (2008) Panthéon Huang Yong Ping, Silvana Editoriale
• Cécile Bourne (2006) Huang Yong Ping – Les mains de Bouddha, Galerie Anne de Villepoix
• Doryun Chong, Philippe Vergne, Fei Dawei [et al.] (2005) House of Oracles – A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Publishing
• Huang Yong Ping, Martina Köppel-Yang (2003) Huang Yongping – Bat Project / Bat Project II, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation [Venice Biennale. 2003]
• Jean-Hubert Martin, Mark Francis, André Magnin [et al.] (1989) Magiciens de la Terre, Éditions du Centre Pompidou