1955 Born in Shanghai, Currently lives and works in Shanghai and New York City
EDUCATION
1990 (MFA) Boston University, Massachusetts
1989 (Exchange Students Award) New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
1988 (Fellowship Award-Art in Residence) Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
1982 (BFA) Shanghai Academy of Theater, Shanghai
1978 Shanghai Art College, Shanghai
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 SHEN CHEN Ⅳ：Light Without Light–A Brief Survey in Gray, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2022 SHEN CHEN，Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp
2021 SHEN CHEN，Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 SHEN CHEN III：Untitled/The Works Since the 2000s, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2019 SHEN CHEN II ：Diary/Experimental Acrylic Paintings From the 1990s, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2018 SHEN CHEN I ：Calligraphy/Abstract Ink Paintings From the 1980s, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2018 SHEN CHEN, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art, New York
2018 SHEN CHEN, Matthew Liu Fine Art, Shanghai
2018 SHEN CHEN, Gallery Gowolhun, Seoul
2018 SHEN CHEN, Cynthia Reeves Contemporary Art, Art Central, Hong Kong
2017 SHEN CHEN, NanHai Art, San Francisco
2017 SHEN CHEN, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
2016 SHEN CHEN, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New Hampshire
2016 SHEN CHEN, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
2014 SHEN CHEN, Cynthia Reeves Contemporary Art, Massachusetts
2014 SHEN CHEN - paintings, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2013 Between the Lines–Paintings by Shen Chen, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
2013 SHEN CHEN, The Solo Project, Cynthia Reeves Contemporary Art, Art Basel, Basel
2012 SHEN CHEN, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2012 SHEN CHEN, Cynthia Reeves Contemporary Art, Massachusetts
2011 SHEN CHEN – Paintings, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai
2011 SHEN CHEN－Selected Works from Sanshang Museum, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai
2010 SHEN CHEN, San Shang Museum of Contemporary Art, Zhejiang
2010 Paintings by SHEN CHEN, Shanghai University Art Center, Shanghai
2009 SHEN CHEN, Cynthia Reeves Contemporary Art, New York
2008 SHEN CHEN, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2008 Void but Complete Pictures-Recent Works by SHEN CHEN, Nantong Art Museum, Jiangsu
2008 SHEN CHEN - Recent Works, SanShang Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
2006 SHEN CHEN – Recent Paintings, Gallery 456, New York
1994 SHEN CHEN, Ink Paintings, Gallery White Art, Tokyo
1991 Ink of China - Paintings by SHEN CHEN, Mentor Gallery, Virginia
1988 SHEN CHEN- Paintings, China National Museum of Art, Beijing
1987 Abstract Ink Paintings by SHEN CHEN, Beijing Gallery, Beijing
1986 Ink Paintings by SHEN CHEN, Ancient Observatory Gallery, Beijing
1985 A Collection of Ink Paintings by SHEN CHEN, Roma Academy of Fine Art, Rome
1984 Fresh Experience - Abstract Ink Paintings by SHEN CHEN, China Journalist Society, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 And Now-The Second Decade of the White Rabbit Collection, White Rabbit Museum, Australia
2020 Abstraction 2020 (l part – Cool and Warm), YIBO Gallery, Shanghai
2019 International Contemporary Ink Art Biennale, Zhangjiagang Art Museum, Jiangshu
2019 Cross Culture Practice: Recent works by Chinese Artists in New York, CUNY, New York
2019 In Ink – Current trends of Ink Art, NanHai Arts Center, San Francisco
2019 Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
2018 Avant-Gard Shanghai: 30 Years History of Contemporary Art 1979-2010, Mingyuan Museum, Shanghai
2018 Contemporary Art 2019 Annual Exhibition, Da Hu Art Space, Shanghai
2018 Tableau-Sway-Religion/Art between Worship, Prohibition and Destruction, Bochum Museum, Bochum
2018 All This - NanHai Art Gallery, San Francisco
2018 Chinese Abstract Painting Today - Part II, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2018 Blurred Boundaries, Art Gallery at New York School of Interior Design, New York
2018 Way of Thinking, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2018 Chinese Abstraction, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New Hampshire
2018 FARBE, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2017 Open Books, Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, Connecticut
2017 Abstract Art in Dialogue, Art Gallery New York School of Interior Design, New York
2016 Neo Moroism, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing
2016 Research exhibition on Contemporary Chinese Line-School, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou
2015 Paper Theatre, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai
2015 Abstract Painting from Chinese, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2015 An Exhibition in Celebration of Shanghai Academy of Theater 70th Anniversary, Dorgan Museum,Shanghai
2014 The Supremacy of Invisible - Chinese Abstract painting. Museum Hurrle, Durbach
2014 Another Utopia – Shanghai Abstract Art, Ming Yuan Museum, Shanghai
2014 A Fragment in the Course of Time – Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s, Himalaya Museum of Art, Shanghai
2013 Asian Contemporary Art from China, Japan and Korea, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2013 “Choate / Chaos”, Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, New England
2012 China /Germany: Abstract Painting Today, WILO Art Foundation, Dortmund
2012 China /Germany: Abstract Painting Today, WILO Art Foundation, Beijing
2012 Chinese Abstract (Slow) Art, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Queensland
2012 Change, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing
2011 Buddha’s Trace - Contemporary Art from Asia, Bochum Museum, Bochum
2011 Chinese Abstract Painting Now, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
2011 Chinese Abstract (Slow) Art, Singer Museum, Laren
2011 Breathing, Sylvia Wald Art Foundation, New York
2010 Assimilating Antiquity, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing
2010 The Coincidence of Opposites, Causey Contemporary, New York
2010 Here and Now, Museum of Chinese in America, New York
2009 Contemporary Ink Painting, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2009 How Chinese, Gallery 456, New York
2009 The Power of Contemporary Chinese Abstraction, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
2009 Remembering how the air shimmers-Abstract art by Three Artists, 1918 Art Space, Shanghai
2009 Return to the modern, Xi Hu Museum of Art, Zhejiang
2008 Turn to Abstract - A Retrospective of Shanghai Experimental Art 1976-1985, Zhendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2008 Quiet Quest: Realism to Abstraction, One Moon Gallery, Beijing
2008 Works by Three Artists, East Link Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Asian Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, New York
2008-2007 Qi Yun-An International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstraction, Hexiangning Museum, Shenzhen; Art Now Gallery, Beijing; Hanart TZ Gallery, Artist Commune, Hong Kong; China Square Gallery, New York
2007 Asian Contemporary Art, SanShang Art Museum /China Square Gallery, New York
2007 Contemporary Asian Art, Sotheby’s, New York
2007 Echoes & Reflections, China Square Gallery, New York
2006 Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2006 International Modern Ink Painting, Asian Cultural Center, New York
2006 New Chinese Occidentalism- Chinese Contemporary Art in New York, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
2005 Simplicity, Crystal Art Foundation, New York
2005 The Art Ville, Two Times Thirteen Gallery, New York
2003 Between the Lines, China 2000 Fine Art Gallery, New York
2003 Creations on Paper by Chinese Artists, China 2000 Fine Art Gallery, New York
1998 Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1995 Pacific Artists in New York, New World Arts Center, New York
1993 Paintings by Three Contemporary Chinese Artists, Avatar Gallery, Chicago
1990 Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Muse Gallery, Boston
1990 41’Salon Jeune Peinture 1990, Grand Palais, Paris
1989 Beijing - New York, Contemporary Chinese & American Art II, Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1988 Beijing-New York, Contemporary Chinese & American Art l, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York
1986 Grand Exhibition – Youth Artists, China National Museum of Art, Beijing
1986 Paintings by Eight Artists, Zhongshan Park Gallery,Beijing
1982 Annual Exhibition– Oil Paintings, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai
1981 Art of Youth Artists, Youth Palace, Shanghai
1981 New Paintings, Ningbo Museum of Art, Zhejiang
1980 Water Color and Gouache Paintings, Circuit Exhibition in Six Provinces, Shanghai Museum of Art, Nanjing art Museum, Guangzhou Museum of Art
1979 Annual Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai
1978 Wild Rose - An Exhibition of Experimental Art, Shanghai Academy of Theater, Shanghai
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), China
Hexiangning Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Long Museum, China
Shanghai University, China
Today Art Museum, China
Ningbo Museum of Art, China
San Shang Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Sagacity Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Nantong Art Museum, China
Doulun Museum of Modern Art, China
Ming Yuan Museum of Art, China
Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China
Queens Museum of Art, USA
The Museum of Chinese in America, USA
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Bochum Museum, Germany
Museum Hurrle Durbach, Germany
ME collection, Germany
White Rabbit Collection, Australia
Collection of Reydan Weiss, Germany
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, the Netherlands
Duke Energy Corporation, USA
Collection of Fu Ruide, the Netherlands
Stibbe Collection, the Netherlands
Johnson and Johnson Foundation, USA
J&J Art Foundation, USA
Roma Academy of Fine Arts, Italy
