Born in Tangshan, Hebei, China, Yang Shaobin graduated from the Hebei Polytechnic Institute in 1983. Yang Shaobin joined the Cynical Realist movement in 1991 after moving to a Chinese avant-garde artist community in the village of Yuanmingyuan, on the outskirts of Beijing, and began experimenting with a more abstract style after 1995 when he relocated to Tongxian. Yang Shaobin’s art has become known for its social commentary and disturbing subject matter, which the artist claims is intended to evoke pain in viewers. One of the most important figures in Chinese avant-garde, Yang Shaobin has exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Bonn for their groundbreaking exhibition “China!” in 1994 in addition to the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. In 2000, he won the Contemporary Chinese Artist Award. Selected Public Collections: Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Cartier Foundation, Paris, France Spazio Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, Italy Selected Solo Exhibitions: “Yang Shaobin” Asian Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2000 “Yang Shaobin” Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK, 2001 “Yang Shaobin” Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China, 2004 “Vibrations” Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2005 “800 Meters Under” Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2006 “Yang Shaobin: Immaculata Conceptio” Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2007 “YANG SHAOBIN” National Gallery Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2007 “X-Blind Spot” Long March Space, Beijing, China, 2008 “First Steps - Last Words” Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009 “Blue Room” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2010