1958 Year of birth
Now SACCShanghai Arts and Crafts College Professor
Lives and works in Shanghai
Jiang Zhenggen’s works have an artistic conception of “emptiness and tranquility”, which is a spiritual conception of the inner dimension of Chinese traditional culture.
When JIANG Zhenggen created his works, his brushwork often imitated the brushstrokes of Song and Yuan painters. Whether you stipple or stop the brush, sometimes it is rapid and smooth, sometimes quiet and sometimes rhythmic. The balanced control, penetration, super-slow stippling, and patient layering of the brush on the canvas, coincide with the spirit of Chinese classical painting and calligraphy. Jiang Zhenggen has been creating the series “Dot Dash” since 2013. “Dot Dash” was proposed by art critic and curator Ping Jie, who completed an art review article on ” Dot Dash and Cultivation Practices” in New York. Artist advocates spirit, experience, process, and self-enlightenment. He uses the way of
sequence and plural to explore the sound of the void and the purity of spirituality, opening up a new field of abstract art with an abstract language that is completely different from the West.
The artist has held solo and group exhibitions in many art institutions such as Chun Art Museum, Art Bund Puxi Museum, Himalayan Art Museum, Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, China Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum, Sweden Redback Museum, and St. Petersburg Art Museum, etc. In 2015, he participated in the summerresidency project of Asian artists in Laforet, Italy. The works are collected by Swiss, Danish,Italian, and domestic collectors.
2022 | The color – Jiang Zhenggen solo Exhibition, Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai China |
2021 | “Wind/Trees/Fire/Hill”- Jiang zhenggen and Zhou Yangming, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai China |
2019 | Jiang Zhenggen::All Sounds are Still,ART BUND PUXI MUSEUM,Shanghai China |
2017 | Light and Dus – Jiang Zhenggen Abstract Exhibition, Nantong Modern Art Museum, Nantong China |
2016 | Uncertain Path The New Year Countdown Exhibition-Jiang Zhenggen’s Contemporary Artworks in 2016, Yuan D Yuan Yi Art Center, Shanghai China Above the Void – Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, Himalayan Art Museum humanities art space, Shanghai China |
2014 | Mottled Moss – Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, KOCA Art Space,South Bund, Shanghai China |
2012 | Drifting – Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, Casa Pasquee Art Center, Massagno Switzerland |
2010 | Drifting – Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, M Art Center, Shanghai China |
2004 | Line – Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, GALLERY 55, Bangkok Thailand |
2003 | Abstract Paintings of Jiang Zhenggen, D.V.O. Gallery, Brussels Belgium |
2022 | First Light, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai China Individual Reappearance – Conremporary International Art Exhibition,Jinse Gallery, Chongqing China Worship and Faith – Shanghai Style Abstract Art Research Exhibition,Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai China Feast Bund Time – Contemporary Art Exhibition, HuDong MOCA, Shanghai China |
2021 | Centennial Sea HeYu: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,BAI work, Shanghai China |
2020 | Worlds on Paper,ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai China Chinese Expressionist Art, Tai Art Museum, Shanghai China Abscission of Appearance, Cube Art Museum, Shanghai China |
2019 | The Leaning of Image – Art Bund Puxi Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Art Bund Puxi Museum, Shanghai China Fictitious Plane, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai China 4+1 Abstract Paintings Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai China |
2018 | Echo-Exhibition of the 10th Anniversary of Cheng Ji Museum, Cheng Ji Museum, Wuxi China Chinese Spirit—the 4th Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition in Beijing, National Gallery of China, Beijing China Avant Grade Shanghai – 30 Years’ Contemporary Art in Shanghai: Reconstructing Contemporary (1992-2000), Mingyuan Gallery, Shanghai China ART AMOY: Xiamen International Exhibition and Convention Center, Nordic Contemporary Art Center, Xiamen China Unrestrained–The 2018 Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Academy, Shanghai China Chinese Spirit – Chinese Abstract Painting, Wuhan Art Museum, Xi’an Art Museum, Museum of Luxun Art Academy, Shandong Art Museum, China PAINT THE WEB PINK—2018 New Year Exhibition, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai China |
2017 | Extension at Sea: Shanghai Artists Joint Exhibition 2017, Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai China Chinese Spirit – the 4th Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition Section III: Abstract and Non-Figurative Oil Painting Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing China ROOTS—Lakeside Cross-media International Art Exhibition 2017, Lakeside Art Museum, Huzhou China |
2016 | G20 Art Exhibition, Main Hall of G20 Summit, Hangzhou China China Line – School Art: Contemporary Research Exhibition, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou China |
2015 | Dunhuang – Song of Living Beings, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai China |
2014 | Another Utopia – Shanghai Abstract Art: Normadism, Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai China |
2013 | Zero/Boundary: The First China Installation Art Biennale, Peking MoCA & Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin China A New Spirit in Ink – An Exhibition of Cutting Edge Ink Art, Peking Contemporary Art Museum & Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shandong Art Museum, China Insightful Charisma – Shanghai Himalayas Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai China |
2012 | A New Spirit in Ink: An Exhibition of Cutting Edge Ink Art, Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai, China & Museum of Tianjin Art Academy China |
2011 | New Abstraction, Silver Stone Space, M50, Shanghai China |
2010 | Distinction – Group Exhibition of Ten Contemporary Artists, 99 Creative Centre of Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai China Face – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, GalleriBruket Rydebacks Gård, Helsingborg Sweden |
2009 | Point & Crosses – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2010 Art Centre, Shanghai China Scene – A Dialogue with Space & Time, River South Art Center, Shanghai China China Blue Cultural Festival – Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting, Malmo Sweden |
2008 | Time · Place · Person – 2008 Sino-German Contemporary Art Exhibition, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in collaboration with Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai China |
2007 | Contemporary Presentation, Wu Jiao Chang 800 Art Space, Shanghai China |
2006 | “Metropolis – Backyard: Contemporary Paintings of Artists from Shanghai and Hangzhou”, Tangyun Art Museum, Hangzhou China |
2004 | Shanghai Abstract Art Exhibition, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai China |
2003 | Sight – Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Bund Art Museum, Shanghai China |
2002 | USA Los Angeles Art EXPO, Los Angeles USA |
1999 | Shanghai Artists’ Selected Works, St. Petersburg Russia |
1996 | Asian Modern Fine Art Exchange Exhibition (Shanghai), Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai China |
1995 | Chinese and Japanese Fine Art Exchange, Tokyo & Osaka Japan |
2015 | Residency at Laforet Artist-in-Residence Summer Programme in Italy Group Exhibitions |
Jiang Zhenggen’s works have been collected both by Chinese collectors and in Swiss, Denmark and Italy.