Yang Yongliang, born in 1980 in Jiading, Shanghai, studied traditional Chinese art such as Chinese painting and calligraphy for nearly 10 years with Yang Yang from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2003, he graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design of the China Academy of Art. In 2005, he began experimenting and creating contemporary ink painting, photography, and video art. Yang Yongliang's works are widely exhibited internationally, including the Moscow Biennale, the UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, etc., and are also collected by many art institutions, including the British Museum and the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the New York Metropolis. Museum and Brooklyn Art Museum, Boston Art Museum, Massachusetts, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Paris DSL Collection, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Sydney White Rabbit Art Museum, Hong Kong M+ Sigg Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Swiss PAE Art Collection agencies, as well as Shanghai Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Unlike the expanding city and dense building imageries in his “Phantom Landscape”, Yang presents here his latest multi-screen video work “Views of Water” where he imagines and observes the tradition with a more serene and profound attitude. Inspired by Ma Yuan’s “Water Maps”, Yang videographed the sea surface of New Zealand in different states and combined the clips with digital technology to reproduce these moving imageries. While this kind of intuitive and simple conversion may seem simple at first, the actual shooting is in fact very difficult. With this series, the artist suggests the pure and eternal nature of the "sea" in human culture and history.

This is the first public exhibition of the series Views of Water.