Gong Jian
Born 1978 in Jingzhou, China. Lives and works in Wuhan, China
EDUCATION
2006
M.F.A., Department of Fine Arts, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Hubei, China
2001
B.A., Department of Painting, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
SOLO EXHIBITION
2016
Gong Jian: From Byzantine Community to East Lake Park, Antenna Space Gallery, Beijing
2012
Gong Jian: Nothing is Important, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
2009
Gong Jian: You Should Learn to Wait, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
2008
Gong Jian: People’s Park, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
2007
Unhappy, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Upstairs Cities, ASE Foundation, Shanghai
2022
Carefree Days, Plaform China, Beijing
2021
New General Intellect in Art: Drawing Project 5-Beta, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China
ON | OFF 2021: Caousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Shunde, China
Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality, X Musum, Beijing
The Tears of Eros II, Linda Gallery, Beijing
Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Classical Gaudiness, Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen, China
2020
Muses, Yu Gong and Compasses, Pingshan Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Farm, chi K11 Art Space, Shenyang, China
Force Majeure, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
CLEAN, SPURS Gallery, Beijing
2019
Hic Sunt Leones, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China; 798 Art Centre, Beijing
Open Islands, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
The Variable and The Generating, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai
River Flowing Without a Beacon 1979, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Corner Square Montage, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2018
Painting Mapping, National Agricultural Center, Beijing
2017
Boundless Realities, Multiple Now - Contemporary Art From Hubei As A Sample, Wuhan University Wanlin Museum, Wuhan, China
Simul Taneous Eidos - Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Refocusing - Opening Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature Art Center’s New Space, New Space Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
Urban Constellation, K11 Art Village, Wuhan, China
Among Friends, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Fantasy Creator, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
2016
Our Painting, YAM Museum, Beijing
Drawing - Apperceive of Liberation, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Exotic Stranger, Paris-Beijing Gallery, Paris
Exhibitions We Have Made These Years, Sheshan Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai
Asia Now, 9 Avenue Hoch, Paris
2015
Notes on Paintings, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Wuhan: An Urban History Linked - The Annual Exhibition of Wuhan, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Base, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art Store, Beijing
No Apple No Show, We Gallery, Shanghai
Text Pause, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Southern Wind, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Fat Choi, A307 Space, Gland Space, Beijing
2014
You Can Only Think About Something If You Think of Something Else, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Re-modernization - The 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts of Wuhan, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Conscious: Twelve Views on Painting, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
The Being of Nonbeing - A Kind of Personal Expression on ‘Meta-painting’, Linda Gallery, Beijing
Summer 2014: Friends, Pool and Waves, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
MEMO II, White Space Gallery, Beijing
Uneasy Trip in Asia, Star Gallery, Beijing
Given, NUO Art Gallery, Beijing
Wormhole - Geo-attraction, Lin&Lin Gallery, Taipei
Boredom is the Beginning of Action, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
2013
ON|OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Watermelon Peel - Summer Special Show, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
2012
Pulse Reaction, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Painting Lesson II - Negative and Positive Style, Yang Gallery, Beijing
Re: Painting, Platform China, Beijing
2011
The Wedding Banquet, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
15 Days: A Collaborative Work, Whitebox Museum, Beijing
Breaking Away, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
The Burden of Representation - Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Gallery, Shanghai
2010
The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong; Shanghai
Fortress Besieged - Works By 21 Artists, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
DU - Crossover, Aroundspace, Shanghai
2009
Hubei and Hunan Chinese Contemporary Art 1985-2009, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Deutschland and China - Gemeinsam in Bewegung, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Backtracking and Exploration, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Normality: 2009 New Artworks Show, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
PAWNSHOP, The Shop of Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing
2008
Notes of Conception: A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting, Iberia Centerfor Contemporary Art, Beijing
Winter Group Show, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Poorism, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
Time-Lag, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Star Archives - A Documentary Library that Witnesses Chinese Art in the 21st Century, Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2007
Forms of Concepts, The 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts of Wuhan, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Wuhan! Wuhan!, Nanjing Square Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Visual Experiences, China National Art Museum, Beijing
Words on Paper Exhibition & Christmas Party, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan,China
2006
Twelve - Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Limited & Freedom, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
Happy New year - Young artists' Paintings Exhibition, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
Young Artists' Paintings Exhibition, HANMO Arts Gallery, Beijing
Satellite 06, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
2005
WHS+8 - Siemens Art Project, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China
2004
Congratulations on Become Riches-Fish Eye Passes as Pear-A Bully with A Coward, Red City Art Center, Wuhan, China
Slow Down, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuhan, China
Plug and Play, Byzantium Residential Community, Wuhan, China
2003
Distance, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The 5th System: Public Art in the Age of Post–Planning - Shenzhen Distance, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Minority Subordinate to the Majority, BIZART Art Center, Shanghai
2002
Chinart - The Contemporary Art from China, Kuppersmuhle Museum, Duisburg, Germany; Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy; Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Budapest, Hungary
New Urbanism, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
N Identity: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Naval Command College, Nanjing, China
2001
Reshuffle - Contemporary Chinese Art Show, Shenzhen Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China
Welcome, Jingsha Center, Wuhan, China
2000
Outside of the Site - Water, Pinggu, China
SELECTED AWARDS
2006
China Contemporary Art Award
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
X Museum, Beijing
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
M+Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney