Yu Chunming - Artist Biography Chronology

2025

Solo Exhibition at Singapore Ming Liu Gallery

Solo Exhibition at San Diego State University (SDSU) Chinese Culture Center, USA

2022

Solo Exhibition at Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, USA

2016

Yu Chunming Art Museum established in Nanchang

Organized the 3rd International Academic Symposium on Chinese Ming and Qing Export Porcelain. Participants included: Director of Peabody Museum (USA), Director of Amsterdam Museum (Netherlands), and museum experts and scholars from Canada, Germany, UK, and France

Participated in Art Beijing Fair

2015-2019

Participated in Shenzhen Art Fair (annually)

2014

Organized the 2nd International Symposium on Chinese Ming and Qing Export Porcelain

Solo Exhibition at Baozhentang Gallery, Shenzhen

"Dwelling - Yu Chunming Oil Painting Exhibition" at Baozhentang Gallery, Guangzhou

Solo Exhibition at Red Valley Beach Water City Art Village Building No. 6, Nanchang

2013

"Homeland" - Yu Chunming Oil Painting Exhibition at Shanghai Culture and Art Research Institute

2012

Organized the First International Symposium on Chinese Ming and Qing Export Porcelain

2011

Donated 236 pieces of Ming and Qing export porcelain to Nanchang University and established Nanchang University Museum, serving as Director

2010

Awarded Honorary Citizen of Cupertino, USA

Invited to paint portrait of Nobel Prize laureate Charles K. Kao

"Home Mountain" - Yu Chunming Oil Painting Exhibition at Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, USA

Yu Chunming Oil Painting Exhibition at San Francisco Modern Art Gallery, USA

2009

Interview on Ding Ding TV program "Extraordinary Weiping"

"Poetic Dwelling" exhibition at "Shang" Gallery, Shanghai

"Beautiful Homeland, Beautiful Life" exhibition at Silicon Valley Asian Art Center

Yu Chunming Exhibition at San Francisco City College Library, USA

2008

Mill Valley City Hall, Northern California, USA

Stanford University Art Space Gallery

Lulu Gallery, Carmel, Northern California, USA

Charity sale for China earthquake relief and anti-cancer association

2007

Interview on International Channel program "Tonight We Need to Talk"

2006

Works presented by Cupertino City Government, Northern California, as gift to Hsinchu City Government, Taiwan

Interview on International Channel program "Beyond the Horizon"

Exhibition at Silicon Valley Asian Art Center

2005

Invited to give lecture at Google headquarters in September

Represented Mainland China in the 30th anniversary exhibition of World Journal North America

"Distant Homeland" exhibition at World Journal Gallery

"Poetic Home" exhibition at Stanford University Library

2004

World Parliament of Religions Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

2003

Personal interview on International Channel (Channel 26), USA

2002

Solo Exhibition at "Dragon's Child" Gallery, Palo Alto

Painted portraits for Nobel Prize Centennial, commemorative envelopes issued in USA and Europe

Started painting American Universities series in watercolor

2001

Oil painting published as commemorative cards for US Presidential Inauguration

1999

20th Century World Religious Figures Painting Exhibition at Eastern Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1997-2001

Painted over 160 works (oil and watercolor) in the 20th Century World Religious Figures series

1997

Personal interview on International Channel (Channel 18), USA

Taught Chinese residential culture at UCLA Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

1996

Yu Chunming Exhibition at Eastern Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1995

Co-organizer of World Vernacular Architecture Symposium

Yu Chunming Exhibition at D.C. Fishscale Ousetooth Art Gallery

Yu Chunming Chinese Vernacular Architecture Exhibition at Bada Shanren Memorial Hall, Jiangxi

1993

Yu Chunming Vernacular Architecture Exhibition at Shinyei Gallery, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

1992

Yu Chunming Exhibition at Tianqiao Hotel and Rongbaozhai, Beijing

1990

First solo exhibition: Yu Chunming Chinese Vernacular Architecture Exhibition at Hong Kong International Exhibition Center

1985

Began participating in "China Lacquer Painting Exhibition," "China Youth Art Exhibition," and others. Works collected by National Art Museum of China

1983-1996

Taught at Nanchang University Department of Architecture. During this period, self-funded travels throughout China to study Chinese vernacular architecture, creating over 3,000 sketches over more than ten years

1982

Graduated from China Academy of Art (formerly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts)