| 1956 | Born in Foshan, Guangdong, China |
| 1974-78 | Studied paper mounting, folk art, calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting at the Foshan Folk Art Institute, Foshan, Guangzhou, China |
| 1978-82 | Studied traditional Chinese painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China |
| 1982-89 | Taught at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China |
| 2005 | Visiting artists at Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
| 2008 | Sterling visiting Professorship at the Stanford University Medical School, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford, California, USA |
| Currently | Lives and works in Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2017 | Yang Jiechang: The Whip, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| Yang Jiechang: This is still Bird and Flower Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China | |
| Mustard Seed Garden – Mayland Lake, Art House, Guangzhou, China | |
| Earth Roots: Yang Jiechang Paintings, 1985-1999, Ink Studio, Beijing, China | |
| Earth Roots: Yang Jiechang Paintings, 1985-1999, Ink Studio, New York, USA | |
| 2016 | On Earth as in Heaven: Celebration of the artist’s 60th anniversary, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Early Works by Yang Jiechang: 100 Layers of Ink, Alisan Fine Art, Hong Kong, China Yang Jiechang: Still Trembling, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Underground Flowers – Yang Jiechang, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Good Morning Hong Kong, Central Library, Hong Kong, China Ink Studio at China International Gallery Expo (CIGE), Beijing, China |
| 2014 | Yang Jiechang: I often Do Bad Things, Deichtorhallen/Phoenixhalle, Hamburg, Germany Yang Jiechang: Die Rechnung bitte, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany Yang Jiechang: This is Still Landscape Painting, Ink Studio, Bejing, China |
| 2012 | King of Canton: Yang Jiechang, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China Tale of the 11th Day, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China |
| 2011 | Stranger than Paradise, La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Rennes, France Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France Tale of the 11th Day, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | deutschlandpremieren, Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf, Germany Underground Flowers, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen, Festival Automne en Normandie, Rouen, France New Ink Art by Yang Jiechang, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China |
| 2009 | On Ascension, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France |
| 2008 | No - Shadow Kick, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Yang Jiechang: Artists Continue to Try Hard, Chambers Fine Art, New York City, USA Biennale di Venezia, Tibetan Pavilion, Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy In God We Trust, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, USA |
| 2007 | The Most Beautiful Country of China, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2006 | Tomorrow Cloudy Sky, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China Idylls, Grace Li Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Memorandums, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, Shenzhen Painting Institute, China Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d’arte, Milan, Italy |
| 2003 | Lookchat, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada For Emily, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2002 | Der Längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany |
| 2001 | French May, Hong Kong University Museum, Hong Kong, China Enlightened Blackness, Alice King Gallery, Hong Kong, China Double View, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris 100 Layers of Ink, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Institut Français, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2000 | You – Double View, ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain |
| 1999 | Another Turn of the Screw, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Rebuild Dong Cunrui, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1998 | Your Customs – Our Customs, Altes Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1996 | Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France |
| 1995 | Ostwestliche Kontakte, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany Galerie Samuel Lallouze, Montreal, Canada Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1994 | Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Espace d'art Contemporain Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, France Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France |
| 1993 | Rencontres dans un Couloir, private flat of Hou Hanru, Paris, France Galerie Lauter, Mannheim, Germany |
| 1992 | Testament, Dritte Welt Haus, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Gallery Turbulences, New York, USA Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France |
| 1991 | Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK |
| 1990 | Salon de mars, booth of the Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France Voyage en Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1988 | Milky Way Exhibition N°9, Gallery of the Central Park, Guangdong Artists Association, Guangdong Province, China |
| 2017 | Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| Ink Asia 2017, Ink Studio, Hong Kong | |
| Whisper from the Earth, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France | |
| PASSION DE L’ART: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Haeger depuis 1925, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France | |
| Corps et Ames – Un regard prospectif/Body and Spirit – A prospective gaze, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France | |
| China Now: New Literati Art, Asia Week New York, New York, U.S.A | |
| 2016 | ARNDT at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, China |
| Drawing Now 2016, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France | |
| Dimanche à la galerie, St Germain Space – Marais Space, Paris, France | |
| Ink and the Mind, Ink Studio, Beijing, China | |
| Fragmentary Narratives, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, U.S.A | |
| Carambolages, Grand Palais, Paris, France | |
| About Painting, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France | |
| Dialogue Ⅸ, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France | |
| Celebrating 35 Years of Promoting Chinese Contemporary Art, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China | |
| Tracing The Brush: Transformed Text – Selected Works From Ink Asia, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2015 | I am Ten, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 20 + 2 Years of ARNDT Berlin, Singapore | |
| Fragmentary Narratives, Changsha Museum, Changsha, China; Stanford Art Gallery, California, USA | |
| A Hundred Years of Shame: Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nation, ParaSite, Hong Kong, China | |
| Clouds, The Museum of Sketches, Lund, Sweden | |
| 2014 | Advance through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China China's Changing Landscape, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Sweden Ink and the Body, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | Zizhiqu/Autonomous Regions, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Origin of Dao: New Dimension in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| 2011 | The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tracing the Milky Way, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | James Ensor - Hareng Saur: Ensor et l’Art Contemporain, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium The Vision of Contemporary Art, Artsonje Museum, Seoul, South Korea Erotic, Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Nachbarschaft - Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria Territoria 4, Il grande balzo - Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy 10e Biennale de Lyon - The Spectacle of the Everyday, La Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Time versus Fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany |
| 2008 | Expansion - Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France Onda Anomala - Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy Too Early for Vacation, RV&A, Limerick, Ireland 3rd Guangzhou Triennal, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Our Future, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China Eurasia, ShContemporary 2008, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China |
| 2007 | Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Metamorphosis: The Genreation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Made in China, Louisiana Museum, Kopenhagen, Denmark Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Gu Dexin, Yang Pei-Ming, Yang Jiechang, Red Mansions Foundation, London, UK New Wave '85, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Laboratory for an Uncertain Future, Grand Palais, Paris, France La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi, Isola Art Centre, Milano, Italy Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Terni, Rome, Italy Infiltration - Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Taste 5th Shenzhen International Ink Painitng Biennial, Shenzhen, China |
| 2005 | Beyond, Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China Experimental Ink, Museum of the University of Science, Taipei & Taichung, Taiwan Emergency Biennial, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France & Grosny, Checnya Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Province, China International Ink Painting Exhibition, Art Center University of Science, Taiwan; China; USA Layered Landscapes: Yan Lei and Yang Jiechang, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA On the Edge, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
| 2004 | Le Moine et le Démon, Museé D'art contemporain, Lyon, France All Under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerpn, Belgium La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, China Stop Over Hong Kong, HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2003 | Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen Painting Institute, Shenzhen, China The Fifth System, Fifth International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, China |
| 2002 | Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, South Korea Variations of Ink, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China |
| 2001 | 20 Main Chinese Painters, National Gallery Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Chengdu Art Museum, and Guangdong Art Museum, China China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, China Centre de Refuge, Centre International de Poesie, Marseille, France |
| 2000 | Paris pour Escale, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Continental Shift, Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Liège, Belgium A Portrait, Gallery agnès b., New York, USA Fuori Uso – The Bridges, Pescara, Italy |
| 1999 | Art in March: Legend 99, Nantou, Taiwan Asiart ‘99 Biennale d'arte Contempranea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy |
| 1998 | Les Magiciens de la Terre, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA The 2nd International Biennial, Shanghai, China The First International Biennial of Ink Art, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Guangzhou Province, China |
| 1997 | etween Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| 1996 | Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1995 | Über Hölderlin, Hölderlin Museum Tübingen, Germany |
| 1994 | Out of the Centre, Museum of Modern Art, Pori, Finland |
| 1993 | Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
| 1992 | Chinese Museum Project, The Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland |
| 1991 | Exceptional Passage, City Museum Project, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 1990 | Chine Demain Pour Hier, Les Domaines de l'art, Pourrières, France |
| 1988 | Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre d'art Moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris, France China/Avantgarde, National Gallery, Beijing, China |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA |
| M+, Hong Kong, China |
| Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA |
| The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA |
| Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA |
| Ministry of Culture, France |
| Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China |
| University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, China |
| Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China |
| Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China |
| Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea |
| Heiner Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany |
| Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany |
| Annie Wong Art Foundation, Vancouver, Canada |
| Swatch Collection, Switzerland |
| François Pinault Foundation, France |
| Ullens Foundation, Switzerland |
| Yageo Art Foundation, Taiwan |
| Eslite Inc., Taiwan |
| The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA |