Tan Ping

Chair of the SFD Academic Committee (Leading Professional in Fine Arts)
Professor

Tan Ping is the Chairperson of the Experimental Art Committee of China Artists Association and Director of National Research Center of Contemporary Arts. He served as the Vice President of Chinese National Academy of Arts and former Vice President of Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

Research Area: Art and Design, Design Education
Ping has led several research projects including the Reform of Art and Design Basic Education Experiment Course, and the Art and Design Experiment Course.

Major Publications
Design Basics, Concept Art and Design (Co-author), Spiritual journey (Co-author), The Story of Growth, Design: In the Name of Interviews, Design: In the Name of Education, Offside - Design: In the Name of Heritage, Design Education Experiment Series and Classic Education Series of Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Major Solo Exhibitions:
2019 "Duet: A Tan Ping Retrospective", YUZ MUSEUM, Shanghai, China
2017 "TAN PING", Horsens Museum of Modern Art, Horsens, Denmark
2015 "Tan Ping: Follow My Line", ASU Art Museum, Tempe, USA
2012 "A Line", Tan Ping Solo Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2008 "A Metaphor of the Painful" – Tan Ping Works Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2000 Tan Ping Prints Exhibition, Berlin Art Loft, Berlin, Germany

Major Group Exhibitions:
2019 "Painting and Existence", Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
2018 "MINIMALISM: SPACE. LIGHT. OBJECT.", ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Singapore
2016 "Oriental Abstraction VS Western Figuration: A Dialogue between Tan Ping and Luciano Castelli", SPSI Art Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2015 "Nonfigurative", Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2014 "vibrARTion Switzerland 2014", Forms of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, art-st-urban, Luzern Switzerland
2013 "ChiFra Art Exhibition", Champs Elysees, Paris France
2010 "The Great Celestial Abstract – Chinese Abstract Art in 21st century", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2008 "Yipai – 30 Years of Chinese Abstract Art", Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
2000 Square Studio Works Exhibition, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Collections:
National Art of China, Beijing, China
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Museum for Modern Visual arts, Kolding, Denmark