Photographie 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.

BOOKS & CATALOGUES

• Power Station of Art (2016) Huang Yong Ping, Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left
• Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (2016) Monumenta 2016 Empires – Huang Yong Ping, Éditions Flammarion
• Beaux-Arts Magazine (2016) Huang Yong Ping – Empires / Monumenta 2016, Beaux Arts / TTM Éditions
• Grau, D. (2016) Our Worlds in Tongues – Conversation between Huang Yong Ping and François Jullien, Éditions Klincksieck, mennour
  
• MAXXI (2015) Huang Yong Ping – Bâton Serpent, Mousse Publishing
• Moinard, D. and Martin J.H. (2014) Huang Yong Ping – Les Mues, Le Voyage à Nantes, Éditions Dilecta
• Nouveau Musée National Monaco, mennour (2011) Wu Zei – Huang Yong Ping, Les presses du réel
• mennour (2009) Huang Yong Ping – Myths, Les presses du réel
• Martini, V. and Bonami F. (2008) Huang Yong Ping, Electa Publishing
• Galerie Anne de Villepoix (2006) Huang Yong Ping – Les mains de Bouddha
• Walker Art Center (2005) House of Oracles – A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Publishing
• La Biennale di Venezia, Ullens Foundation (2003) Huang Yongping – Bat Project / Bat Project II