Paintings About the Artist Yang Fan is a young social-realist painter, in 1998 her subject matter began to portray the girls from the Southern Chinese towns. These girls are commonly depicted as fashionable with heavily-laced make-up coupled with their smoking habits and modeling careers. Yang Fan reveals the urban materialization of the girls, reflecting their counterparts from the western capitalist countries. Her paintings often express the fantasy and surface culture of these young females in their demure and carefree manner in a transitional and dreamlike state, although trapped in the period of transition – to save themselves by continually up keeping their materialized lifestyles. These countryside girls are characterized as losing their simplicity and cutting their past roots, plunging themselves zealously into the New World; traveling to new places, excitement for new products and accessories, to be as beautiful as the next model. Their openness and thirst for materialization and internationalization form the post-industrial culture of Urban China. Yang Fan's paintings relay an unconscious self-recall when global culture and capitalist popular culture have a great impact on the next generation. Her theme is about influenced sorrow and influenced road to liberation.

1996

Graduated from Printmaking Department, Guangzhou Academy of Art

2007:

ARTSingapore 2007, The Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore

Luxurious Lifestyle, Linda Gallery, Singapore

A Vain Life, Linda Gallery, Jakarta

A Vain Life, Linda Gallery, Bejing

The Mast of Society, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China 2006:

China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE) 2006, Beijing World Trade Centre

2005:

Shallow and Deep Game, Comics, Beijing

After 1970s The Generation Changed by Market, Shanghai / Beijing

2004:

A Colourful World, Shanghai

Next Stop, Cartoons, Beijing

2003:

Very Substantial, Very Visional Achieve: Individual Power

Round Exhibition of Contemporary Exhibition Solo Exhibition, Beijing

2002:

Individual Power - Round Exhibition of Contemporary Artists Solo Exhibition, Guangzhou

High Summer: Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting, Beijing

2001:

Urban Slang: Contemporary Art of the Pearl Delta, Shenzhen

Boys and Girls Contemporary Art Exhibition, Singapore / Kunming

Chinese Mythology: Joint Exhibition of Contemporary Artists, Shanghai

Dialogue: Joint Exhibtion of Chinses Young Artists, Italy

2000:

The Younger Generation and a New Century: An Art Exhibition, Guangzhou

Transition Age: Exhibiiton of Contemporary Chinese Art 2000, Chengdu

A General Exhibition of Guangdong Oil Painting, Guangzhou

1999:

Exhibition of Fashionable images in 1990s Shanghai

1998:

Plural/Individuality A Joint Exhibition institute