born 1962 Shantou, Guangdong, China
Arrived Australia 1994
works in Beijing and Hobart, Australia
 
 
 

Selected Awards
2016 Arts Tasmania Grant
2014 Participant, Paint Face, Australia Council for the Arts, Presentation and Promotion Grant 
Arts Tasmania Grant
2008-10 Australian Government Foreign Affairs and Trade, EMDG Grant
2008 Australia–China Council Grant 
Arts Tasmania Grant 
Tasmanian Premier’s Grant
2005 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale
1997 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart
 

Selected Profressional & Community Experience
2017 President, Chinese Contemporary Art Tasmania Inc, Hobart
2016 Member, Committee of Lunar New Year Celebration, Hobart City Council, Hobart
Artistic Director, Chinese Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Co-host, Zaohua, Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, Art Nova 100, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Co-host, Mutualism – Contemporary Ink Paintings, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
Organiser, Collaboration, 35th Anniversary of Tasmania-Fujian Sister State Relationship, Fujian Museum, Fujian
Coordinator, Life in Motion, Zhejiang Song & Dance Company, Theatre Royal, Hobart
2014 Speaker, Australian School, Singapore
2013 Speaker, Dialogue with Jason Yeap, Mapping Melbourne, Melbourne
Artist Residency, Shanyuan Art Museum, Beijing
2011 Speaker, Asian Art Forum, Contempo, Art Gallery of New South Wale, Sydney
2009 Organiser, Three Australian Painters, Australian Consulate General, New York
2008 Organiser, Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Artist Residency, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2003 Organiser, Tasmanian Vison, Art Museum of Shantou University, Shantou
2002-05 Member, Art Sub-committee, Salamanca Arts Centre
2001 Member, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
1989 Member, Artists Association China, Shantou
1986-90 Assistant Lecturer, Shantou University, Shantou
 
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 People and Places, Colville Gallery, Hobart
Special Project, The UN-World Conference on Human Rights 1993 in Vienna – Strengthening
Imperatives 30 Years After, Vienna
2022 Self-Isolated, Barrack Gallery, Derwent Valley, Tasmania
Nine Songs, Online project, International Conference, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna
2021 Studio Warm Up, Gallerie Seventy One, Hobart
2020 Muses and Mountains, Nanda/Hobbs, Sydney
Garden, Informality, Oxfordshire
Muse, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2019 Chinese Contemporary Paintings, Australia-China Arts and Cultural Symposium, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Ladybird’s Garden, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2018 Bird’s Daughter, Nanda/Hobbs, Sydney
2017 New Tales of Magic, Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney
Australian Artists, Art Beijing, Beijing
Returning Lives, Ten Days on the Island, Rosny Barn, Hobart
The Picnic, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2016 Magic Narratives Colville Gallery, Hobart
2015 Colour And Ink Colville Gallery, Hobart
2014 Zen Flies Over, Singapore High Commission, Singapore.
Unseen Mountain, Colville Gallery, Hobart.
2013 Flying with Birds, Art Equity, Sydney.
Mapping Melbourne, Melbourne International Fine Art, Multicultural Arts 
Victoria, Melbourne.
To Feel, To Fly, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2012 Unseen Forest, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York. 
Art Platform, Represented by Gaffer Hong Kong, Los Angeles.
Complex Emotions, Art Equity, Sydney.
Phoenix, Colville Gallery, Hobart.
Man and Universe are One, Gaffer, Hong Kong
2011 Chen Ping, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne.
Metaphysics, Art Equity, Sydney.
The Great Myth, Colville Gallery, Hobart.
2010 Ancient Dreams, Art Equity, Sydney.
Other, Colville Gallery, Hobart.
Confucius, Other Realities, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York.
2009 Girl in the City, Art Equity, Sydney
2008 Her Dreams, Salamanca Collection, Hobart. 
Ruins, Vis-à-Vis Art Lab, 798, Beijing
2007 Figurative Language, Salamanca Collection, Hobart.
Island Symphony, Art Equity, Sydney.
Living Artists Surviving Human, Tasmanian Living Artists Week, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart
2006 If Turner Was Here, Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2005 Raphaelite Now, Salamanca Collection, Hobart.
They Are Figures, Northern Exposure Festival, Melbourne
2003 Life is Beautiful, Salamanca Collection, Hobart.
2002 The Charcoal Grilled She, Foyer Installation Gallery, Hobart
2001 No Escape, Kelly’s Garden, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2000 Box – viewpoint, Foyer Installation Gallery, Hobart
 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Five Contemporary Artists’ Joint Exhibition, Anne Gallery, Melbourne
9 x 5, Group Show, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
Covid-Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens
2020 Art Virus 2020, Gyeongmin Museum of Contemporary Art, Uijeongbu.
Art Virus 2020, E-World 83 Tower Exhibition Hall, Daegu
Art Virus 2020, Art & Craft Museum Boim-Chun, Jeollanam-do
2019 China Translated, Mona Terminal, Brooke St Pier, Hobart
China Translated, Chinese Contemporary Art Month, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
Between Two Worlds, Newcastle Art Gallery, Sydney
The Island Collection: 10 Years of Collecting Tasmanian Art, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Colville at West End Art Space, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2018 Annual Artists Show Coville Gallery, Hobart
King’s Art Prize, King School, Sydney
Inheritance and Exploration, Contemporary Ink Paintings, Qing Yuan Ji Museum, Sichuan
Chinese Contemporary Art, 35 x 35 Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens
2017 Personal Structures: Time Space Existence, European Cultural Centre, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
Annual Artists Show Coville Gallery, Hobart
2016 Collaboration Art Exhibition celebrating 35th Anniversary of the Tasmanian-Fujian Sister State Relationship, Fujian Museum, China
MUTUALISM - Comtemporary Chinese Ink and Wash, China Cultural Centre Sydney
2015 Annual Artists Show, Coville Gallery, Hobart
2014 Seeking – Australian Chinese Artists, Australia–China Culture Council, Sydney. 
Paint Face, Constance ARI, Hobart.
Art Wall, Judges’ Chambers, Supreme Court of Tasmania, Hobart.
Chinese Masters & Chen Ping, Poly International Auction (China), Chinese Art Centre, Sydney.
Artmrkt, San Francisco 2014, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and San Francisco
2013 AES+F, Dale Frank, Yushitaka Amano, Chen Ping, Art Statements & Gaffer, Hong Kong.
Personal Structures: Time–Space–Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice.
International Artists Exchange Program, Shuanyun Art Museum, Beijing.
Made in China, Australia, Salamanca Arts Centre, touring
2012 Los Angeles Art Show, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Los Angeles.
Artmrkt Hamptons 2012, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York.
Artmrkt, San Francisco 2012, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and San Francisco.
Made in China, Australia, Salamanca Arts Centre, national touring exhibition. 
Art Asia Miami, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Miami
2011 Los Angeles Art Show, China Today, represented by Gaffer, Hong Kong.
Artaid@TMAG 2011, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
Scope Art Show, New York 2011, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York.
Next, Chicago Art Fair 2011, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, Chicago.
Artmrkt, San Francisco 2011, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and San Francisco.
Scope, Art Basel 2011, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Basel.
Artmrkt Hamptons 2011, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York .
Contemporary Chinese Art, Pearl Lam Fine Art, Shanghai.
Artmrkt, Texas Contemporary, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Houston.
Art Asia Miami, represented by Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Miami
2010 Three Australian Painters, Australian Consulate General, New York.
Asian Art 2010, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York and Mobile
2009 Australian Contemporary Art, Gaffer & Koru Contemporary Art, The Rotunda, Hong Kong.
Coming Home, Australian Sydney Olympic Park, Linda Gallery, 798, Beijing.
Digital Art Expo International in Downtown Los Angeles, participant of Davis Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles.
One World One Home, Chinese Government, Ministry of Culture, Qing Tong Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
Exhibition of the Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art by Davis Museum, MKAC, Museo Karura Art Centre, Spain.
Hong Kong International Art and Antique Fair, represented by Gaffer, Hong Kong
2008 Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou. 
International Artist Residency Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing.
Singapore International Art Fair, represented by Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong & Singapore.
Try to Remember, Osage SoHo Gallery, Hong Kong.
2005 Glover Prize, Evandale
2003 Trio, Gallery of Shantou University, Shantou.
2002 Fingering Glover, Long Gallery, Hobart
2000 Converge, group show, Long Gallery, Hobart.
1997 Hue’s Hue, Entrepot Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Affinity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
International Art Exhibition of Chaoshan Origin, Gallery of Shantou Institute of Art, Shantou.
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart
1987 Shantou University Teachers’ Exhibition, Gallery of Shantou Institute of Art, Shantou
1985 Graduation Exhibition – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Gallery of Culture Park, Guangzhou.Graduation Exhibition – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Gallery of Culture Park, Guangzhou.
 

Selected Bibliography

Monographs, exhibition catalogues and brochures
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Artworks by Students of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, National Art Schools Series, 1985.
Ralph Hobbs, Island Symphony, Art Equity, Sydney, 2007. Guangdong Museum of Art, International Exchange Series, Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists, Guangdong, 2008.
Peter Timms, ‘Taking off the masks’, in Oil Paintings by Three Australian Artists; forewords by Bill Bleathman & Wang Huangsheng, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, 2008.
Michael Edwards, Foreword, Chen Ping, Painting, China, 2009.
Sydney Olympic Park, Coming Home, China/Australia, 2009.
Louise Joel & Mikala Tai, ‘In conversation with Chen Ping’, inMetaphysics; foreword by Wong Suihong, Melbourne Intercultural Fine Art, Melbourne, 2011.
Tally Beck, Chen Ping’s Unseen Forest, Tally Beck Contemporary, New York, 2012.
Dean Chan, Looking for ‘China, Australia’: The Transnational Dimensions of Diaspora, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 2012.
Greg Leong, ‘Hybrids, crafts & others: Two generations of Chinese Australian art’, in Made in China Australia, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, 2012.
Global Arts Foundation, Catalogue 1, Time–Space–Existence #2,55th Venice Biennale,Venice, 2013.
Multicultural Arts Victoria, Mapping Melbourne, Independent Contemporary Arts,Melbourne, 2013.
Australia–China Culture Council, Seeking: Australian Chinese Artists Group Exhibition, Sydney, 2014.
Global Arts Foundation, Catalogue 2, Time–Space–Existence #2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2014.
Andrew Harper & John McDonald, Chen Ping: Unseen Mountain, forewords by Bill Bleathman, Will Hodgman, and Doug Lowe, Australia China Business Council, Hobart, 2014.
Vanessa Goodwin, and Doug Lowe, Australia China Business Council, Hobart, 2014.
Tasmanian International Art Festival, Catalogue, Made in China Australia, Hobart, 2015.
Ralph Hobbs, Returning Lives, Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney, 2015.
Briony Downes, Colour and Ink, Art Guide, Australia, 2015
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, 35 x 35 Art Project, Athens, 2015
James Arvanitakis, Collaboration, forewords by Fujian Museum, Fuzhou, 2016.
James Arvanitakis, Mutualism, forewords by China Cultural Centre, Sydney, 2016.
Trudi Young, Magic Narratives, Colville Gallery, Hobart, 2016
Ten Days on the Island, Catalogue, Returning Lives, Hobart, 2017
Global Arts Foundation, Catalogue, Time–Space–Existence #4, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017
Ralph Hobbs, New Tales of Magic, Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary, Sydney, 2017
Art Nova 100, Australian Artists, Art Beijing, Beijing, 2017
King’s Prize, King School, Sydney, 2018
Inheritance and Exploration, Contemporary Ink Paintings, Qing Yuan Ji Museum, Sichuan, 2018

Selected articles and interviews
Chris Nelson, ‘Box – viewpoint’, ABC Radio, 31 May 2000.
Yang Pei Jiang, ‘Painting is the language of ambiguity’, Shantou Metropolitan Daily, 2002.
Zeng Song Ling, ‘The joy of self-righteousness’, Chao Sheng Magazine, 2002.
Penny Thow, ‘Painting’s language’, Sunday Arts, Sunday Tasmanian, 2005. 
———, ‘Local atmosphere’, Sunday Arts, Sunday Tasmanian, 2006.
Sally Glaetzer, Interview, Stateline, ABC-TV, 2007.
Tricky Walsh, ‘Tear in her eyes’, Newsletter, Art Equity, Sydney, 2007.
Jane Dyer, ‘Tasmanians in China’, Artnotes, Art Monthly Australia, 2008.
Sally Glaetzer, Art’s Big Smoke – Tassie’s Fresh Air, News, Mercury, 2008.
Jan Hauters, ‘Chen Ping, paint, hope & pain’, That’s BJ, 2008.
Jane O’Sullivan, ‘Artist milestones’, This Art Week, Australian Art Collector, 2008. 
Penny Thow, ‘The Great Wall’, Sunday Art, Sunday Tasmania, 2008.
Ian Findlay, ‘Emptiness and substance’, Asian Art News, 2009.
Zhu Xili, ‘Coming home’, Interview, China Central TV, 2009.
Tally Beck, ‘Confucius, other realities’, TB Contemporary, New York, 2010.
Ralph Hobbs, ‘Ancient dreams’, Art Equity, Sydney, 2010.
‘New work’, News Brief, Asian Art News, Hong Kong, 2011.
Jeremy Eccles, ‘Spirit of Tasmania’, Art Market Report Magazine, 2011.
‘Art Asia Miami 2011 concludes with strong sales’, News, Art Asia, 2011.
James Arvanitakis, ‘Complex emotions’, News & Media, University of Western Sydney, 2012.
Klowden Mann, Art Platform– Los Angeles, LA Art Diary, 2012.
Allison Tait, ‘How would you invest $50,000?’, Investment/Navigate,Voyeur Magazine, 2012.
Phil Whelan, ‘Morning brew’, Interview, RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong, 2012.
‘Venice Biennale 2013’, News, ABC-TV, 16 November 2012.
‘Chen Ping’s paintings’, Advocate Art, Art Market Magazine, Beijing, 2013.
James Arvanitakis, ‘The artist & the threshold’, in Catalogue1, Time–Space–Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2013.
Alan Greenhalgh, Alan’s Venice Show #72, Interview, YouTube, 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, part 3, 3 August 2013.
Michael Corbin, ‘A beautiful mess’, Art Book Guy, 2014.
Emma Hope, ‘Paint face’, News Point, Mercury, 2014.
Rajth Suri, ‘Savagery & silence’, in Catalogue2, Time–Space–Existence#2, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2014.
Yan Xi, Interview, Elite, Modern Youth Magazine, Beijing, 2014.
News, ABC TV 7 News, Hobart, 2014
Report, Australian Financial Review, Hobart, 2014
Ryk Goddard, Interview, ABC Radio, Hobart, 2014
Andrew Harper, ‘The Picnic, Mercury, Hobart, 2017
Ralph Hobbs, ‘Bird’s Daughter’, Nanda/Hobbs. Sydney, 2018

 

Collections

Public collections
Official gift to the visiting Chinese president by Tasmanian Government, Beijing
Gift to the premier, Tasmanian Government, Hobart
Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Sydney, Australia
The Island Collection, Hobart, Australia
Fujian Museum, Fuzhou, China
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Singapore National University Museum

Private collections
Austria, Australia (Jason Yeap Collection, Melbourne), China, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Russia (Popov Collection, Moscow), USA.