Born 1974 in Jinan, Shandong, China
Lives and works in Jinan, Shandong, China
2001 – 2005: Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg
1992 – 1994: Shandong Art Institute, Shandong, China
SOLO SHOWS selected
2023/24
2020: Light Cone Arrival, Guo Zhenyu and Yang Kailiang's double solo exhibition, Wu’s Art Museum, Jinan, China
2017: Growing Tree, Kunsthalle Dresden, Dresden
2015: Kailiang Yang - from west to east, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China
2012: Kailiang Yang, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2011: Investance, Paris, France
2009: Kailiang Yang – Paintings, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2007: Kailiang Yang - Paintings, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2006: Kailiang Yang - Paintings, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2005: Around the Cherry Tree, Art Club Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2007: Paintings, Municipal Gallery Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
GROUP SHOWS selected
2020/21: 1st Jinan International Biennial, Jinan, Shandong, China
2019 - 2015: Art Festival Henan, Jigongshan Art District, Xinyang, China
2016: 60 Years Jubilee Shandong Art University, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Contemporary Chinese Art, Exhibition on Invitation by new Art Gallery: Jajian Art, Jinan, China
Zhang and his students, Art Museum Jinan, China
Landscapes in Art since the 15th Century, Situation Kunst, Bochum
A Tree is a Tree is a Tree, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf
Mind – Landscape- Poetry – Contemporary Chinese Landscape Paintings, Exhibition on Invitation held by 2015 International Poets’ Gathering at Rainbow Bridge, Slender West Lake, Yangzhou, China
Land in Sight, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
2014: Landscapes - Depicted in Six Centuries of Art, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
2013: Painting Forever! Frames, Art Works Berlin – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
More Than Appearance / Shining - Through, Αyto Πioy Φainetai - Zone D, Athens, Greece
AWARDS
2006: Grant from "Die Zwölf", Hamburg
2004: Grant from Karl H. Ditze Foundation, Hamburg
2003: DAAD Prize for excellent foreign students
COLLECTIONS selected
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Municipal Gallery, Wolfsburg
Shandong Art Museum, Jinan
Charles Kaisin, Brussels