1963  Born in Handan

1989  BA, Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Lives and works in Beijing

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Fang Lijun: Look on, Near and Far, Triumph Gallery, Beijing

Fang Lijun: Portraits and Porcelain, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, UK

2023

Between Perfection and Destruction: Fang Lijun Porcelain Sculpture, ESKENAZI, London, UK

Fang Lijun: The Light of Dust (A Luz Poeirenta) , Macao Museum of Art, Macao

2022

Wonderland on Earth: Fang Lijun's Ink Painting, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an

2019

Facial Recognition, Vermilion Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2021

Fang Lijun, Triumph Gallery, Beijing

2019

Fang Lijun Solo Exhibition, Suzaku Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2017

Fang Lijun: This All Too Human World, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Art History of Fang Lijun, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Fang Lijun: an archival exhibition at university, Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

Fang Lijun’s Works, Springs Art Gallery, Beijing, China

2013

Fang Lijun, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Outside, inside - in the form of ideas and visions, Duqing Art, Beijing, China

2011

Fang Lijun: From Symbols to Analysis, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China

2010

Fang Lijun, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2009

Life's vague - created 25 years of Fang Lijun exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Sea+Sky, Kunsthalle Bielefeld Museum, Germany

Time Trail, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

2007 

Picture - Fang Lijun Solo Exhibition, Belmar art and a laboratory of ideas, Denver, USA

2006
Life is Now, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia

Today, Fang Lijun, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2004
National Galerie China Art Museum, Beijing
2002
Fang Lijun, Peking & Dali, Ludwig Forum, Zwischen

Fang Lijun, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong

1998
Fang Lijun, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Reflexion Archive: A Trilogy of Disordered Becoming, Soka Art, Beijing

Light of Asia: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2024

TO NEWER “NEW PAINTING”, K Gallery, Chengdu

Golden: The 28th Anniversary Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art

2023

Trio - Fang Lijun and His Students, XIN Art Space, Shanghai

SONATA FORM # 2023,Triumph Gallery, Beijing

2020

Fang Lijun & Ren Rong Double Solo Exhibition, Kunsthalle Ludwig, Germany

2018

40x40——Shaped by 40 Artists Art History, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai

New Historical Drama, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

The Fuck Off Generation - Chinese Art in the Post-Mao Era, Ethan Cohen, New York, US

2017

The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Masters’ Manuscripts (First Chapter)-The 10th Anversary of Triumph Gallery, Triumph Gallery, Beijing

2016

Clues.3, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

2015

Concealed Power, Yang Museum, Beijing

2014

Cosmos, M21, Shanghai

Myth/History— Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai
2013

Portrait of the Times: 30 years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

2012

Art-Frontier Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

Looking Awry, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Omen 2012: Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2011

The Second Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Prints-Print Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2010

Clouds:Power Of Asian Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Beijing

2008
We lead the future -2nd Moscow Biennale of special schemes sector, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Chinese Contemporary Society Exhibition, Tretyakov Museum and Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006
A point of time-At Wuhan, Art Literature Magazine, Hubei
2005
New Work,New Aquisitions, MoMa, New York, USA

Clues, White Space Beijing, Beijing

2004
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation： Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Ministry of Culture of People’s Republic of China & Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland 
East Wind, Museum Franz Gertsch, Switzerland
2003
From China with Art, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002
The First Guangzhou Contemporary Art Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou

The Power of Image, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

2001
Towards a New Image Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Art Museum,Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou

China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

The First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu2000
The Collection of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Portrait of China Contemporaries, Espace Culture Francois Mitterrand, France

Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

1998
Inside Out： New Chinese Art, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA

Black & White: Chinese Contemporary, London, UK.

5000+10, Chinese Contemporary, Bibao, Spain

1996
Beijing No No Soap Opera?, Marstall Gallery, Munchen, Germany

Begegnungen mit China, Ludwig Forum. Aachen, Germany

1995
Visions of Happiness——Ten Asian Contemporary Artists, The Japan Foundation

Unser Jahrhundert, Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany

1994
The 22nd International Biennale of San Paulo, Brazil
1993
The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1989
China Avant——Garde Art Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing