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Yao Lu, born in 1967 in Beijing, is a Beijing-based artist and Professor of Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the Printmaking Department at CAFA and completed a Master of Arts in Visual Arts from a joint program between the Central Academy of Fine Arts – CAFA and Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art – QCA in Australia in 2000.
Yao Lu has developed a recognizable technique of photomontage manipulations that borrow from classical Chinese aesthetic style of painting. His comments on the rapid changes in the environment and the consequences of modernization in China show the tension between the past and present. His works seem harmonious from far, but a closer look reveals a depiction of contemporary issues the artist has been tackling in his artworks.
Yao Lu has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festivals including the Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego; the Royal Academy of Art, London, UK; Fotofest International in Houston; Multi-medium Art Exhibition “Space and Transportation”, Graz, Austria; Paris Photo, France; and at GETXOPHOTO Festival, Bilbao, Spain. His work has been viewed in prominent institutions in the East including the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey; National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; A9 Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Beijing Art Gallery, China; Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China; Brisbane Photography Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia; Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea; Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China; Made In China Fotofestival, Lodz, Poland; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; and the SuoLuo Gallery, Beijing, China. He lives and works in Beijing.
He was awarded the Paris Photo Prize for Contemporary photography in 2008.
Yao Lu, born in 1967 in Beijing, is a Beijing-based artist and Professor of Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the Printmaking Department at CAFA and completed a Master of Arts in Visual Arts from a joint program between the Central Academy of Fine Arts – CAFA and Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art – QCA in Australia in 2000.
Yao Lu has developed a recognizable technique of photomontage manipulations that borrow from classical Chinese aesthetic style of painting. His comments on the rapid changes in the environment and the consequences of modernization in China show the tension between the past and present. His works seem harmonious from far, but a closer look reveals a depiction of contemporary issues the artist has been tackling in his artworks.
Yao Lu has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festivals including the Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego; the Royal Academy of Art, London, UK; Fotofest International in Houston; Multi-medium Art Exhibition “Space and Transportation”, Graz, Austria; Paris Photo, France; and at GETXOPHOTO Festival, Bilbao, Spain. His work has been viewed in prominent institutions in the East including the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey; National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; A9 Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Beijing Art Gallery, China; Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China; Brisbane Photography Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia; Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea; Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China; Made In China Fotofestival, Lodz, Poland; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; and the SuoLuo Gallery, Beijing, China. He lives and works in Beijing.
He was awarded the Paris Photo Prize for Contemporary photography in 2008.
| 1967 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1991 | Student of the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| 1999 | Master of Arts in Visual Art (photography), Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University & the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| present | Present Professor of Photography Department,School of Design, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Associate Professor |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 BACKLIGHT—Chinese Contemporary Landscape Photography Exhibition. Chengdu, CHINA
| 2018 | Art of the Mountain — Through The Chinese Photographer`s Lens, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art | University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA |
| 2017 | Shenzhen International Photography Exhibition, Shenzhen, China Chinese & French Photogallery Joint Exhibition of International Universities, LiShui, Zhejiang, China Born in the 60’s – China Contemporary Art Exhibition for Swedish Artists, China Cultural Center in Stockholm, SwedenWide Margins: Periphery In Chinese Contemporary Art– Traveling Group Exhibition, Israel Sea Of Sand And Oasis Of Green, Ordos Museum, Ordos, China The Model Of The World, Zhangzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhangzhou Museum, Zhangzhou, China Human Being Is Nothing, Photo Beijing 2017, Shang 8 Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2016 | Langjingshan Cup China New Pictorial Photography Biennale Yaolu & Wang Chuan Duo Exhibition, Huaian International Photography Center, China History Code Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China Dream Appear, Sino-Polish Art Dialogue Exhibition, Beijing, China China-scape Form Rural to Urban Exhibition ff Chinese Contemporary Photography, Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive, Milan, Italy Photo Fair, Shanghai, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, China Spanning Time: Contemporary Chinese Photography, The University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Shanghai, China Confronting Tradition – Artworks from Wang Chuan and Yao Lu, Columbia University, NewYork, USA The Pulse of the Academy, The Rhythm Art Organization, Beijing With the Mountains and Rivers – Chinese Landscape in the Multi-Dimension, Sanya Hainan, China |
| 2015 | Beyond the Earth – The First Xi’an Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Xi`an Art Museum, Xi`an A Tradition Re-interpreted: New Work by Contemporary Chinese Artists, The Galleries at Cleveland State University, USA From Iconography to Photography – Selected Chinese Contemporary Photographs from Charles Jing’s Collections, Cipa Gallery, Beijing Grain to Pixel – A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai Meet with Imagination – The Silk Road International Youth Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia Art Institute of Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of KOREAN Ivitational Exchange Exhibition, Gallery of CAFA, Beijing Diversity – Jin Feng & Yao Lu Dual Exhibition, 11 Gallery, Beijing Bizarreland Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography Kunstraum Villa Frede, Bonn, Germany The First Edition of Changjiang International Image Biennale – Special Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art – Chongqing, Chongqing |
| 2014 | Lianzhou International Photo Festival—Staging Encounters (Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China), Lianzhou, Guangdong The AIPAD Photography Show, New York, USA No Place (Like Home) – James Casebere, Lori Nix (USA), Giacomo Costa (Italy), Yao Lu (China), University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2013 | Exhibition of Professors’ Works, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Siege Landscape Yao Lu & Wang Jiuliang, Yishu8, Beijing Yao Lu Solo Exhibition, Hayward Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK |
| 2012 | Conceptual Renewal – Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing Italy – China Biennale, Milan Monza, ItalyChinascape – Contemporary Chinese Photography, Wolfson Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK GETXOPHOTO FESTIVAL, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2011 | XXX – Next 10 years of Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing Development of the Infinite Balance Exhibition, Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, USA Ten Climate Stories, Science Museum, London, UK Yao Lu’s New Landscapes, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey Wind, Blowing from the East: China – Korea – Japan International Exchange Exhibition, The Pnu Art Center Exhibition, Pusan, Korea Capturing Cathay, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden and Turku Observatorium, Finland |
| 2010 | A Decade Long Exposure – The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Contemporary Photography, CAFA Art Museum, China PARISPHOTO, Paris, France Updating China – Art and Architecture Exhibition on Sustainable Urban Development in China, Himalayas Art Museum, ShanghaiNomadic Reality, Esse Space 798 Art Zone, ChinaArmory Show, Miami, USA ART BASEL 41, Basel, Switzerland Festival de l’image Environnemental International, Montreuil, France |
| 2009 | GSK Contemporary Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy, London, England Spectacle and Gaze – Exhibition of Contemporary Photography in China, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing PARISPHOTO, Paris, France Never Equal Distance to the Moon, Power, Politics and the Environment, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark Yao Lu’s New Landscape, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA Prix Pictet, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK Passage de Retz Gallery, Paris, France Open Vision – Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic GETXOPHOTO FESTIVAL, Bilbao, Spain Chinese Gardens for Living, Brussels Meeting Center, Belgium |
| 2008 | PARIS PHOTO, Paris, France Then & Now—Memories of the Future, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea Hypallage: The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, OCT Art & Design Museum, Shenzhen Blight, Hope and Photoshop, Seoul, Korea; London, UK 2008 Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality, Pllinitz Castle, Dresden, Germany Concealment and Restructuring: YaoLu’s New Mountains and Water, 798 Photogallery, Beijing MADE IN CHINA, Fotofestival 2008 Lodz, Poland Fotofest International Houston Current Perspectives, 1998 – 2008 Houston, USA Retrospective Exhibition of Xin Beijing Art Gallery, New Beijing Art Gallery, Beijing |
| 2007 | Lianzhou Inernational Photo Festival, Lianzhou Sightseeing, A9 Art Gallery, Beijing Glory and Records 567 Art Exhibition, Beijing-Berlin-Paris-Brussels Yesterday Picture Exhibition, SuoLuo Gallery Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Chinese Art Today, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing The Post Fact – Images of Yao Lu & Wang Chuan, New Beijing Art Gallery, Beijing |
