Xu Yongkang was born in Anyue, Sichuan Province. He Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a master degree in Fine Arts. Currently Xu Yongkang teaches at the Arts Institute of Southwest Nationality University in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Recent works of Xu Yongkang are obviously different form the past. In past creations he tried to express a kind of depressed city life involving complicated feelings of emptiness. In recent works, Xu Yongkang is searching for something with more character, a kind of creation that can represent his own current motion. By creating babies Xu Yongkang is trying to research the importance of cloning and the future developments of humankind.
1976
Born at Anyue, Sichuan Province, China
2003
Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Childen, Gallery Bertin-Toublanc, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Childen, YU Gallery, Paris, France
Chinese Group Show - Who's next？Gallery Bertin-Toublanc, Paris, France
2008
Asiatic Show: Xu Yongkang et KIM Joon, Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Miami, U.S
2007
Three Years In Blue House Art Center Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue House Art Center, Chengdu, China
China Sensation: New Art from Chengdu, Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Cornice Art Fair, Venezia, Italy
Chinese Contemporary Art, Peter Robertson Gallery, Canada
2006
Chinese Contemporary Art, Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Paris, France
1st New Power • China - Contemporary Art Biennale 2006 Shanghai, China
Verona Art Fair, Verona, Italy
2005
Forever Intriguing, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004
Sichuan University and College Teacher's Exhibition, Chengdu, China
2003
The First Oil Painting Exhibition of Chongqing, Chongqing ,China
The Second Guiyang Oil Painting Biennale, Guiyang , China
2002
Exhibition of the Experience Art Education for the series exhibition of the Opening of the Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2000
Nokia "The Paradise of the Imagination" Exhibition, Beijing, China
1999
The Ninth National Exhibition, Chongqing, China