Huang Yan, born 1966 in Jilin Province, is an eminent Chinese painter, sculptor, photographer and performance artists based in Beijing. He graduated from the Changchun Normal Academy in 1987 and is currently a Lecturer at Changchun University.

Like many of the recent internationally recognized artists from China, Huang Yan conflates aspects of China’s rich traditional art with contemporary global art practices. His photos of models painted in traditional Chinese landscape combine one of the great Chinese art forms with body art.

He operates his own gallery, Must Be Contemporary Art, in Beijing's 798 Factory/Art Center.

Selected international exhibitions

• 2006 Body Scape - Solo exhibition, V!P's International Art Galleries http://www.vipsart.nl in cooperation with China Art Trade http://www.chinaarttrade.nl, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 2005 100 International Artists, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
• 2004 Between the Past and the Future, International Center of Photography, NYC
• 2002 Guangzhou Triennial Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art
• 2002 1st Chinese Art Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum
• 2000 Fuck Off
  Fuck Off (art exhibition)
  "Fuck Off" was a controversial art exhibition which ran alongside the Third Shanghai Biennale , which itself was the city's first attempt at a truly international survey of contemporary art...
  
  , Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
• 1998 The Best of Chinese Contemporary, Proud Gallery, London
• 1994 Post-89, New Art of China, Marlborough Gallery, London

Huang Yan at 88MoCCA - The Museum of Chinese Contemporary Art on the Web