1963
Born in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China
1983
Graduated from the Polytechnic University, Hebei, China
1991
Moved to the artist village Yuanmingyuan, Beijing, China
1995
Relocated to Tongxian, in the suburbs of Beijing, China
2000
Prize for Contemporary Chinese Art (CCAA)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
Yang Shaobin, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES, Berlin, Germany
Blue Room, ARKEN Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Blue Room, UCCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Beijing, China
2009
First Steps-Last Words, Museu de Arts de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silence, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN & BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2008
X-Blind Spot -Yang Shaobin solo exhibition, Long March space, Beijing, China
2007
Dramas of Violence, Indonesian National Gallry, Jakarta, Indonesia
IMMACULATA CONCEPTIO,ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN& BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2006
Voca me cum Benedictis,ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN&BEIJING, St. Matthaeus Church, Berlin, Germany
800 Meters, Long March Independent Project Space, Beijing, China
2005
Vibrations, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN&BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
2004
Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
2003
ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN&BEIJING (former Prüss & Ochs) Berlin, Germany
2001
Loft Gallery, Paris, France
Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2000
ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN&BEIJING (former Asian Fine Arts), Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Fragments of narrative, T. W. Stanford Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2015
5th "Art Changsha" Parallel Exhibition "Fragments of narrative", Changsha museum, Changsha, China
PANTHEON-------From Yuanmingyuan to Songzhuang, Songzhuang Contemorary Art Archive, Beijing,China
The Civil Power，Beijing Minsheng Art Museum,Beijing,China
CHINA 8 - Zeitgenssische Kunst aus China an Rhein und Ruhr, Duisburg, Germany
2014
Focus Beijing-----The De Heus-Zomer Collection, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1199 People, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Re-View-------Opening Exhibition of Long Museum West Bund,Shanghai,China
2013
Sharjah Biennale 11，Sharjah, The United Arab Emirates
We, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China
2012
Chinese Expressionism ,Shang hai art museum,Shang hai ,China
Chinese Expressionism ,Haw art museum,Wenzhou,China
Magnanimity-Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists,White Box Museum of Art, Bei Jing, China
RE-CODING---Reconstruction of Rhetorio and Narration, World Art Museum Cemtiru Hall, Bei Jing, China
Examples to Follow!---expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Face, MinSheng Museum of modern art, Shang Hai, China
2011
I Believe that --- Chinese contemporary art in songzhuang, HERIBERT C.OTTERSBACH,YANG SHAOBIN,RADEK SZLAGA, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN&BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
New Dream 2011·contemporary art new works, Guangzhou press center, Guangzhou, China
Coal + Ice, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010
Reshaping History:China Art 2000-2009, National Convention Center, Today Art Museum, Arario Gallery,Beijing, China
Chinese contemporary art three years history MinSheng Museum of modern art, Shang Hai, China
Franz Gertsch museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland
The Real Thing: Chinese contemporary art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Contemporary Chinese society "art" exhibition, Russia's column can just Cardiff national gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
6th Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Real Emergency, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University New South Wales, Sydney,Australia
To the Elements!-Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change ,OCA(Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez), Parque do Ibirapuera, Brazil
Body shangdong contemporary art center Nanjing China
19 Games T ART Center Beijing China
THE DOMUS COLLECTION WHITE SPACE BEIJING China
2008
China, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA
Face to China, Akureyri Museum, Iceland
China Gold, Maillol Museum, Paris, France
The Real Thing, Valencia Museum, Spain
Ture Feelings and Handle, Hamburg Art Museum, Germany
"Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon" F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
"Half-Life," MOMA, San Francisco USA
"7th Shanghai Biennale" Shanghai, Beijing
"Encounter" Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Beijing
Hypallage/The post-modern mode of Chinese Contemporary Art The OCT Art and Design Gallery Shenzhen China
2007
Zhi Shang Tan Bing, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, China
Art in Motion, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
ARROGANCE & ROMANCE, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China
BLACK WHITE GREY-An Active Cultural Selection, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, Arabic
Emotion Aesthetics, dARTex, The Danish Art Exchange, Beijing, China
INFERNO IN PARADISE: 10 YEARS ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
Zurück zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art From China, Tate Liverpool, UK
Chinese Contemporary Sotsart, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006
Building Code Violations, Long March Space, Beijing, China
CHINA NOW - Kunst in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Sammlung Essl | Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Hermann Nitsch | Yang Shaobin, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China
Hermann Nitsch | Yang Shaobin: Retour China, ALEXANDER OCHS
CHINA AVANTGARDE, Wiedergeburt des Mystischen
Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bern (2004), Switzerland
palmbeach³, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Miami, USA
Zurück zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo - Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
2005
Painting-unrealism, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, BEIJING, China
ASIA: THE PLACE TO BE? ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
Prague Biennale, Czech Republic
Chinese Sculptures, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Netherlands
2004
China: Bodies Everywhere, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Forbidden Senses, Sarlat, France
Me! Self-portraits of the 20th Century, Museum of Luxembourg Bridge, Siemens Forum, Munich, Germany
Chinesi!, Potenza Museum, Potenza, Italy
The Group, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
China-Cuba, MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino San Jose, California, USA
24 Living Artists in China, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING / WHITE SPACE BEJING, Beijing, Germany
2003
CP Open Biennale, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Der Rest der Welt, Pirmasens, Germany
Die Neue, Kunsthalle 2, Mannheim, Germany
Under Pressure, Geneva, Switzerland
2002
De waan, Stichting Odapark, Venray, Netherlands
First Guangdong Triennale: Reinterpretation, Ten years of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Fine Artists, China with the Football World Cup, Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
Long March, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
2001
Abbild, Graz Museum, Graz, Austria
Art Forum Berlin, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Berlin, Germany
Dream, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Hot Pot, Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Song Zhuang, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany
First Biennale of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2000
Art Cologne, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN I BEIJING, Cologne, Germany
Skin & Space, Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, Italy
Futuro, Contemporary Art Center of Macao (CACOM), Macao
Basic Needs, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
Body/Faces/Icons, Asia Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Our Chinese Friends, Galerie der Bauhaus, University of Weimar Germany
Portraits of Contemporary China, Espace Culturel France Mitterrand, Périgueux, France
1999
Passage, Dongyu Museum, Shenyang, China
Art China, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1998
Made in China, Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
5000 + 10, Bilbao, Spain
It's me! Temple of Imperial Ancestors, Beijing, China
Eight Chinese Artists, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Personal Touch, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
First Collection of the Upriver Gallery, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China
1997-1998
8 + 8-1, Selected Paintings by Fifteen Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
The History of Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism, Galerie Theorems, Brussels, Belgium
China International Contemporary Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
China!, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
1997
The Elevenses - The Avant Garde, Taikoo Palace, Hong Kong
1996
China Contemporary, Osaka, Japan
China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Germany; Kuensterhaus, Vienna (1997), Austria
1995
5 +5: Voices from Russia and China, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Chinese New-Wave Art Exhibition, Conference Center, Hong Kong
Vision of China: Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Chinese Masters, Bangkok, Thailand
The Magnificent Duo - Recent Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
The Beijing 3: A Three Man Show by Zhang Gong, Yue Minjun, Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1994
8 + 8, Contemporary Russian and Chinese Exhibition, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Art Asia?, Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
Faces Behind the Bamboo Curtain - Works by Yue Minjun and Yang Shaobin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Conference Center, Hong Kong
1992
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
First Exhibition of Professional Artists, Akuna Gallery, Beijing, china