He sen, born in kaiyuan, yunnan province in 1968, moved to chongqing with his parents the same year. Graduated from the normal department of sichuan academy of fine arts in 1989, and taught in chongqing no.40 middle school. Resigned from public service in 1991 to specialize in artistic creation. He moved to chengdu in 1999 and Beijing in 2003.
Solo Exhibitions
1992 Fist Exhibition, Chongqing
2000 Women’s Portraits, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2001 Scene, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
2002 He Sen Solo Exhibition, Piltzer Gallery, Paris
2003 Girl . Toy . Smoke, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
He Sen Solo Exhibition, Marella Art Contemporary, Milano
2004 Shadow Shaped, Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2007 Now and Then, Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2008 Do You Have Time Tonight,Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie,Essen
2008 Come Together,Jack Tilton Gallery,NewYork
2009 Best Print Collection of HeSen,A Story Gallery,Busan
Painting, Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2010 Illusory Scene,Primo Marella Gallery
2012 Conversing With The Moon,Today Art Museum,Beijing
2014 Return at dusk .Enlightenment at dawn He Sen ,LongMen Art Projects,ShangHai
2015 Watching the Stream, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie,Essen
2017 Journey to the East, LongMen Art Projects,ShangHai
2018 HeSen,Reinventing Traditional Chinese Art,Primae Noctis Art Gallery,Lugano
2023 Journey to the South,Redbase,Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1989 Sichuan Provincial Fine Art Exhibition, Provincial Gallery, Chengdu
1992 First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong
First Biennial Art Exhibition, Guangzhou
Second Documentary Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangzhou
1993 China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong
First Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Beijing
Second Exhibition of Chinese Oil painting, Beijing
1994 Sliced, Chongqing
1995 Third Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Beijing
Urban Idealist-New Art From Sichuan, Hong Kong
Chinese Contemporary Oil paintings: From Realism to Post Modernism, Theoremes Gallery, Brussels
1997 First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing, Hong Kong
1999 Exhibition of Dongyu Art Gallery Collection, Shenyang
Academic Exhibition, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu
Sharp New Sights From Young Artists Born Around 1970, Beijing
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
2000 Gate of the Century 1979-1999 Chinese Art invitational Exhibition, Chengdu
Exhibition of the Collection of Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Individual And Society in Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
Melbourne Art Fair
Shanghai Art Fair
2001 On Boys And Girls, UpRiver Loft,KunMing Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Up Down Left Right, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu
1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu
2002 New York Asia International Art Fair, New York
Youth-Cruelty, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai
Golden Harvest-Chinese Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary, Zagreb
2003 Out of The Red-China Art Now, Marella Art Contemporary,
Milano.Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia
Post-revolution and New Generation, Chinablue Gallery
Modernization & Urbanization, Opening’ Seoul-Asia Art Now’ Exhibition, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul
2004 China Avant-garde, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta
11 + 1: Crowds and Voids, Art Scene Warehouse,S hanghai
China’s Photographic Painting, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
Hua Jia Di, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Art Contemporary, Milano
WuHan The First Nominative Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature,
Hubei Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan
Beijing Chongqing Shanghai-Painting And Photography, Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich
2005 China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna
Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
Grounding Reality, Seoul Art Center, Seoul
Good Girls, Bad Girls, Red Mansion Foundation, London
2006 Vanity Beauties, Marella Gallery, Beijing
ARCO 06, Madrid
JIANG HU, Tilton Gallery, New York; Los Angeles
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Unclear and Clearness, Chinese Contemporary art exhibition
Heyri Art Space, Seoul
Made in China, Opera Gallery, London
Varied Images, Invitation Exhibition of China’s Contemporary Paintings, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
The Blossoming of Realism-The Oil Painting of Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2007 Remixed & Revisited: New Visions on China, Arndt Partner, Zurich
Starting from the Southwest Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China1985-2007, GuangDong Museum of Art
GuiYang Biennale, GuiYang Museum
Made in China-Contemporary Chinese Art,Louisiana Museum,Copenhagen
Simple Immense,Mun Gallery,BeiJing
From New Figurative Image to New Painting,Tang Contemporary Art,Beijing
Black White Grey-A Conscious Cultural Stance,Today Art Museum,Beijing
Floating-New Generation of Art in China,National Museum of Contemporary Art,Seoul
Summer Exhibition,O-Gallery,Beijing
On the Yellow Sea, Gallery A Story,Seoul
A Wakening From A Ten-Year Long Sleep, HJY Art Center
2008 Beyond Reality, Beyond Art Space,BeiJing
La Cina e’ Vicina, Pan-Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Napoli
Free Zone：China，BSI Art Collection，Lugano
Artists in Art History,SZ Art Center,BeiJing
Painting Rebellion,Gallery TN,BeiJing
86 Steps to Nine Layers Heaven, Beyond Art Space,BeiJing
Today’s China，Belvue Museum，Brussels
3rd NanJing Triennial, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
Hypallage-The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art,The OCT Art & Design Gallery,ShenZhen
2009 Metropolis Now! — A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art ，The Meridian International Center, Washington,
D.C.
See A World In Grain Of Sand,Chinese Pavilion of The 53rd Venice Biennial,Venice
2010 The Ten Faces of Modernity, D-Park Space,BeiJing
Reshaping History, China National Convention Center,BeiJing
Wisper of the Wind-Chinese Artist Group Show,Beyond Art Space,BeiJing
Pure Views-New Painting from China,Louise Blouin Foundation,London
Beyond Fashion- Crossover between YoungChinese Fashion Designers and Young Chinese Artists, Beyond Art
Space,BeiJing
2011 Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art,matchToday Art Museum,BeiJing
Pure Views-New Painting from China,Asian Art Museum,San Francisco
Pure Views-2011 ChengDu Biennale,East Village Music Park,ChengDu
2012 Re-Coding,Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narration,World Art Museum Century Hall,BeiJing
Pulse Manifestation-First QinHangDao Document Exhibition,Museum of Contemporary Art
QinHuangDao,QinHuangDao
Art. Frontier- Contemporary Art Exhibition ,SongZhuang Art Museum,BeiJing
Contrast-Inheritance & Development,JinJi Lake Art Museum,SuZhou
2013 New Paintings From China-Traditions Reactivated,Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,Fukuoka
National Art Museum of China
Evolution：Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center Opening Exhibition， Avant-garde Contemporary Art Center，
NanJing
Hidden Power,HongKong Contemporary Art Museum
“Civilization" Round”Ｉ-Lin Lv，White Box Museum of Art，BeiJing
Pure Views-Transformations of Chinese Contemporary, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2014 TAI——Invitational Exhibition of the Contemporary Art，Shone-show Gallery，BeiJing
Original Home:An Exibition of Contemporary Art, JiaPingwa Museum of Culture & Arts，XIAn
Chinese Contemporary Art of Excellence at Galaxy Macau, Galaxy Macau, Macau
Lesser Logic - Linguistic Encoding and Discursive Expression in Contemporary Art，Parkview Green Art，BeiJing
Secret Signs -calligraphy in Chinese contemporary art， Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg
2015 Epoch Writing,Epoch Art Museum,WenZhou
Painting-20X20,Poly Art Museum,BeiJing
Magic Square-the transcoeding of accuracy,MingYuan Art Museum,ShangHai
2016 The Return of Elegancy—Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition,ShenZhen Art Museum
Scarcity & Supply—The 3rd NanJing International Art Festival,NanJing
2017 Reading the Raindrops—Western Artists Documenta,MOCA YinChuan,YinChuan
Grounding，UCCA，BeiJing
2020 Walking with History Exhibition for The 80th Anniversary of The Building of SCFAI(1940-2020),Art Museum of
SiChuan Fine Arts Institute,ChongQing
2021 The Generation of New Painting in SCFAI，Art Museum of SiChuan Fine Arts Institute,ChongQing
Mindscapes，HOFA Gallery，London
Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale 2021，Jeonnam Art Center，Mokpo
2022 LongMenZhen：Southwest Pedigree，Lansing Art Center，ShenZhen
Post-Tradition，AC LAB，ChengDu
2023 “QianShanChunQiu”Contemporary Art Exhibition，Powerlong Art Center，ShangHai
Public Collection
National Art Museum of China
HeXiangNing Art Museum
ShangHai Art Museum
GuangDong Museum of Art
ShenZhen Museum of Art
HJY Art Center
ChengDu Contemporary Art Museum
Art Museum of SiChuan Fine Arts Institute
HuaRen Contemporary Museum
MingYuan Art Museum
TanGuoBin Contemporary Art Museum
LangFang Ovation Hotel
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
M+ Museum for Visual Culture
White Rabbit Gallery
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
Standard Chartered Bank
BSI.Swiss and Italian Bank
Deutsche Bank