Yang Jiechang 杨诘苍

Yang Jiechang was born in 1956 in Guangdong Province. His extensive training in Chinese and Western artistic traditions combined with the range of his artistic ideas has given Yang Jiechang uncommon versatility as an artist: his works range from painting, collage, and sculpture to multimedia installation, site-specific works, and performance. Yang Jiechang gained international recognition through the exhibition of his large monochrome ink paintings in "Les magicians de la terre" in the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989. He currently lives and works in Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany. Yang Jiechang's work has been collected extensively by both public institutions and private collectors around the world.