Watching the Clouds Go By: Liang Quan’s Creative Style and it’s Changes
2018.3.10-2018.4.29
Arcadia Revisited: Liang Quan and the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers
2017.3.4 – 2017.4.7
The Boundaries of Order
2015.4.4-2015.5.4
Aura and Vitality: 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art
2017.3.19 – 2017.4.24
Too Loud a Solitude: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art
2016.3.17 – 2016.4.17
Freeland around the Second Line: Shenzhen Contemporary Art in 2019
2019.12.28 – 2020.2.23
Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists
2019.12.14-2020.2.21
A Ride to Combine Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016
2016.12.25- 2017.2.17
Amassing the Essence: Thirty Years of Paintings by Liang Quan
2015.6.27–2015.7.27
Illusion: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Painting Exhibition I
2013.06.22-2013.07.22
Perfection upon Finery : Liang Quan & Jin Shi
2014.11.08-2014.12.8
Fold of the Infra-Fade: the Solo Exhibition of Liang Quan
2013.5.11-2013.6.11
Liang Quan
1948 Born in Shanghai, with an ancestry of Zhongshan, Guangdong
1964 Admitted to the affiliated middle school of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art)
1978 Enrolled in Academy of Art College in San Francisco to study printmaking
1984 Back in China, started to teach at the Printmaking Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art)
1995 Started to works as a professional painter at Shenzhen Fine Art Institute
Now works and lives in Shenzhen
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Watching Clouds Go By: Liang Quan’s Creative Style and its Changes, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2017 Liang Qian Solo Project, Insight, ART BASEL Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Arcadia Revisited: Liang Quan and the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Liang Quan Light As Tea: Frank F. Yang Collection Exhibition, Extra Space, Shenzhen, China
2015 Amassing the Essence: Thirty Years of Paintings by Liang Quan, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei
The Joy of Tea:Liang Quan Solo Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taipei
2013 Folds of the Infra-fade, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2011 Bland, Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, Wistaria Tea House, Taipei
Sailing Afar -Liang Quan’s New Works, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, M.Sutherland Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A
2004 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Mies van Der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2001 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Kunst House, Nürnberg, Germany
1994 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, Alisan Fine Arts Limited, Hong Kong
1989 Liang Quan’s Solo Exhibition, University of San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art At M+, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Return to Otology: Tracing the Source of Abstract Art in the New Period of Guangdong, Lingnan Museum, Guangzhou, China
Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Tracing the Past and Shaping the Future: Powerlong Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
Shanghai GalaxyⅡ, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Polar Region: Exhibition of New Ink Art, Ink Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Emersion of AURA: Inaugural Exhibition for Hive’s New Space in Shenzhen, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2016 A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Ten Years Collection Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
Disguised Form-Ink Paintings’ Dimension, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China
Contemporary Ink Art Invitational Exhibition, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China
No.19 in Shenyun Road-Shenzhen International Invitational Exhibition, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
Abstract and Beyond: The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The World is Yours, as well as Ours, Mason’s Yard, London, England
Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Abstract 2016, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Research RoomⅢ: The Working of Non-figurative System, Rightview Art Museum, Beijing, China
G20 Forum, Hangzhou International Exhibition Centre, Hangzhou, China
Pi Daojian+Yan Yong: Being And Inking- Documenting Contemporary Ink Art, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Shanghai Modern and Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures Exhibition: Artists Living in Shanghai Wuu Speech, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
New Objects: The End of the Brush and Ink Era, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Too Loud a Solitude: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015 Mind-Scape II, 3812 Art Space, Hong Kong
The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art In China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Deconstruction and Revolution of Ink Art, Phoenix Art Palace, Wuxi, China
Dialog: The Differences and Similarities in the Abstract Art- Enrique Brinkmann & Liang Quan, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
Time and Space: Abstract Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Perfection upon Finery: Liang QuanJin Shi, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Form of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Saint Urban Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland
Context of Paper Essence, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, USA
Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
By the Name of Dailiness: Daily Discourse and Generation of Ideas in Chinese Contemporary Art, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
2013 Illusion/Image: Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series I, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2012 Re-ink: invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2011 LA GRANDE ASTRAZIONE CELESTE, Rome Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minnesota, USA
Super-Organism CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 Back to the Essence from Ink Painting to Ink, Da Xiang Art Space, Taiwan
One Day in June, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, New York City, USA
Yi Pai:30 Years of Abstract Art in China, la caixa forum Palma / la caixa forum Barcelona/ la caixa forum, Madrid, Spain
Geng-Yin Ink Art: Creation and Prospect, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Reshaping History: China Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Thirty Years of China Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 Ink, Not Ink, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.; Museum of Warsaw Royal, Poland
Paint Aloud: Wang Gongyi, Song Yonghong, Liang Quan, Kogo Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong & Yan Shanchun, Osage Kwun Tong, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Savoring Images with a Pure Heart: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Invitational Exhibition, Daxiang Art Space, Taiwan
Guangdong Modern Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Yi Pai: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Zeichen Im Wandel der Zeit, Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden, Germany
2007 Narration in Ink and Wash, Yokohama Zaim Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2006 Chinese Abstract: Liang Quan, Wang Chuan, and Yan Shanchun, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005 Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Seoul National Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Ink and Paper, Weimar Art Museum, Weimar, Germany
Ink on Paper: Contemporary Ink and Wash, Palace Rihour, Lille, France
Retrospection of Experimental Ink and Wash 1985-2000, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Tribute to 85, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2003 Metaphysics2003: Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
2002 Ost+West: Ausstellung fuer die Zeitgenossische Kunst aus China, Kunstlerhaus in Wien, Austria
1998 Shanghai Fine Arts Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1997 Chinese Art Exhibition – Contemporary Chinese Painting, Shanghai, China
1996 Chinese Modern Print Exhibition, British Museum, London, UK
1991 Exhibition in Headquarter of the World Bank, Washington, U.S.A.
1988 Chinese Modern Fine Art Exhibition, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK