1960-1960 Born in Chengde, Hebei, China

1984-1984 Graduated from the Printmaking Department, Central Academy

1984-1984 of Fine Arts (CAFA)

1984-1989 Lecturer, Printmaking Department, CAFA, Beijing, China

1989-1994 Received the West German Cultural Exchange Scholarship, DAAD

1994-1994 Master of Arts, the Department of Free Painting, Berlin University

1994-1994 of the Arts

1994-2002 Professor, Director of Design Department of CAFA, Beijing, China

2002-2003 Professor, Director of School of Design, CAFA, Beijing, China

2003-2014 Professor, Vice President, CAFA, Beijing, China

2014-Present Vice President, Chinese National Academy of Arts (CNAA)

Currently lives and works in Beijing, China

COLLECTIONS

Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, America

Artron Art Museum, Beijing, China

Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany

Museum for Modern Visual arts, Kolding, Denmark

National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Portland Art Museum, Portland, America

Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

「Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective」Yuz Project Space of Art, Shanghai, China

2018

「Tan Ping 1993: The Beginning of Two Modules」Platform China, Beijing, China

「Work Work Work: Tanping’s works on paper」LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2017

「Form - Forces」Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

「Tan Ping」 Horsens Museum of Modern Art, Horsens, Denmark

「……」Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China

「The Certainty of Uncertainly」Leo Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2015

「Tan Ping: Follow My Line」ASU Art Museum, Tempe, America

「Drawing: The Art of Tan Ping」Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

2014

「Tan Ping: Follow My Line」PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2013

「Murmurs」Meilidao International Art Institution, Beijing, China

2012

「A Line」National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2011

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」German Embassy, Beijing, China

「Tan Ping New Works Exhibition」Yun Gallery, Beijing, China

2010

「Tan Ping at Fifty」Red Gallery, Beijing, China

2009

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Yun Gallery, Beijing, China

2008

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

「A Metaphor of the Painful」Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China

2005

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2004

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Gallery Alexander Ochs, Berlin, Germany

2003

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2002

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2000

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Berlin Art Loft, Berlin, Germany

1999

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

1995

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

1994

「Tan Ping Works Exhibition」Gallery Christof Weber, Berlin, Germany

「"Beijing–Berlin" Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

1992

「"Calling from the Distance"」Gallery Germering, Munich, Germany

1991

「Tan Ping Prints Exhibition」Gallery Mönch, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

「Abstraction 2020, Part Ⅰ」Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China

2019

「The Perspective of Time and Space」LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

「The Gaze of History-Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited」Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China

「Focus Gather」Yuchen Art Gallery, Yantai

「Painting and Existence: Chinese Japanese and Korean Abstract Painting Travelling Exhibition」Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

「Small is Beautiful · 8」Leo Gallery, Shanghai

2018

「Abstract Art 11 – Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China」PIFO Gallery, Beijing

「Somewhere I Belong」LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2017

「Blue」LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2016

「Beyond Every Mountain is Another Mountain: A Meeting of Contemporary Art From China and Switzerland」Helmhaus Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

「Oriental Abstraction VS Western Figuration: A Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli」SPSI Art Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

「The Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China」Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

「Since the Abstract: The Tour Research Exhibition of Abstract Art in China」Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

「Poetic Community」The Art Space of the Comprehensive Cultural Platform in the Bonded Area, Xiamen

「Poétique: The 9th Annual Exhibition of Abstract Art」PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

「Return: Poetic Dwelling in Contemporary Art」PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2015

「Oriental Abstraction VS Western Figuration: A Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli」National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

「Follow My Line & Traffic Controls, Tan Ping and Liu Qinghe」Meilun Art Museum, Changsha, China

「The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2014」Beijing Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

「The Third Abstraction」Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

「Calligraphic Time and Space - Abstract Art in China」Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China

「Nonfigurative」Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2014

「In the Absence of Avant - Garde Reading」798 Art Factory, Beijing, China

「Forms of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art」art-st-urban, Lucerne, Switzerland

2013

「ChiFra Art Exhibition」Champs Elysees, Paris, France

2012

「"The Unseen" Guangzhou Triennial」Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

2011

「"The Will of China" Chinese Art Invitation Exhibition」MOCA Beijing, Beijing, China

「"Tao of Nature" Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2010

「The Great Celestial Abstract – Chinese Abstract Art in 21st century」National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2008

「"Grinding the Stone" China – Sweden Artists Joint Exhibition」National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

「China·Sweden Artists Joint Exhibition」Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden

「Yipai – 30 Years of Chinese Abstract Art」Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain

「"Dialogue" China – Germany Artists Dual Exhibition」Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2007

「"Friends" China – Denmark Artists Joint Exhibition」Susanne Ottesen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

「China – Germany Artists Joint Exhibition」Schreier Von Metternich Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

「The Works of Artists, Marianne Newman Gallery」Melbourne, Australia

2006

「“Ruins” Tan Ping and Zhu Jin Shi Works Exhibition」Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2004

「The Works of Artists」Square Studio, Beijing, China

2002

「Eight Artists' Printmaking」Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2000

「Square Studio Works Exhibition」Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bonn, Germany

1999

「Square Studio Works Exhibition」Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

1998

「Chinese Printmaking Exhibition」International Art Palace, Beijing, China

1995

「China – Austria Artists Joint Exhibition」Meridian Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1988

「Chinese Artists Works Exhibition」European & Asian Cultural and Art Centre, Paris, France