Luo Yongjin
1960 Born in Beijing
1978-1982 BA degree, PLA University of Foreign Languages, Luoyang, Henan
1982-1998 Teacher, Audio and Video Centre, PLA University of Foreign Languages, Luoyang, Henan
1985-1986 One-year study, Department of Oil Painting, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou,
1988-1992 MA degree, History of Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou
1997-1999 Freelance photographer and cameraman, China Central TV, Beijing.
2000 Teacher, Shanghai Institute of Design, China Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2021
2019 Perceving the Central Mountain,OFOTO & ANART,Shanghai
New Residence, North Bank, Luoyang
2017 Vision, Pan View Gallery, Zhengzhou
Songshan Mountain, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2016 Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, Gucang Contemporary Photo Gallery, Lanzhou
Wall, OCAT Art Museum, Xi’an
A Place Far Away, AKI Gallery，Taipei
2015 Black, White, Grey, Mo Art Space, Henan
Black, White, Grey, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2013 Heart Steps, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Collection from OCAT Shenzhen
2011 Artists’ Belongings, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Artists’ Belongings, Art Museum of Xian Art Academy, Xi’an
2010 Extraordinary·Ordinary, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Plight Shines into the Realiy, Auto Art Center, Xiamen
2009 Extraordinary·Ordinary, Fei Gallery, Guangzhou
Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, Timezone 8 Bookstore, 798 Art District, Beijing
2008 Renovation, Zhangjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, Hexiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
2007 Moving Closer, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 View Points, Allsopp Contemporary, London, UK
Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, Eidos, Barsano, Italy
About Face, Artsea, Shanghai
2005 Faces in Time, Sala del Granaio, Grimaldi Foundation, Modica (RG), Italy
2004 Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, Photography Gallery of Art College, Seoul, Korea
Luo Yongjin Solo Exhibition, Year of Chinese Culture, Central Lille, France
Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition, La Galerie Photoeil, Fabrezan, France
2003 Are We Dreaming? Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2002 Faces in Time, Photographic Gallery L. Ghirri, Corte Capitaniale, Caltagirone, Italy
1999 Fixed Transience, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
1996 Celebrations and Celebrities, CIFA Gallery, Beijing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 2025PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai
SONGSHAN PROJECT 2025, Limiangou, Zhengzhou
2024 ANO THER AVANT-GARDE:Photography 1970-2000, West Bund Museum, Shanghai
Flowing Moments, WHIZZ PROJECTS, Shanghai
SHANGHAI GARDEN, Drunken White Pool ,Shanghai
SONGSHAN PROJECT 2024, Limiangou, Zhengzhou
DIANCHI ART SEASON, Kunming
HUAQIAO ART SEASON, Dali
2023 A TREE, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2022
2021 2022 Nanjing Art Fair International,Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing
2022 Fiap World Photographers Conference，Lishui Photography Park, Lishui
Wang Xingwei in Shanghai 2002-2008,Power Station of Art,Shanghai
Notes:Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Voice from the End of the Twentieth Century
Inside-out Art Museum,Beijing
How Many Times,I Have Left My Everyday Life,69 CAMPUS Art Century,Beijing
For a Bigger Picture,Art Pioneer Studio,Shanghai
Logic of Sensation,OCT-LOFT,Shenzhen
Gaze - Photography Exhibition for Saving Shanxi Ancient Architectural photography,
Sinan Mansion,Shanghai
Columbia Circle,Shanghai
Art Xiamen Fair,Art Amoy,Xia Men
Go to Tea,OFOTO & ANART,Shanghai
Dharma II,Mountains and Seas Art Museum,Zhengzhou
2020 Plot the Soil:Reconstructuring the Country China,
Gao Fan Photography Art Museum and Gao Fan Memorial Hall,Hangzhou
"White Paper on Chinese Photography" and Exhibition of Original Cover Works Collection,
Yin Studio,Hangzhou
Contemporary Collection of BAM,Being Art Museum,Shanghai
Waves,Power Station of Art,Shanghai
Soul Wandering,The Couple's Garden,Suzhou
2019 2019 China Yanping Art Harvest, Fujian
Continuance, The 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition of M50, Innovation Plus Art Space, Shanghai
Fine Art Asia 2019 & Ink Asia 2019, Hongkong
City, Art, Mutualism Joint Exhibition, MUSE u&m, Shanghai
The 6th China Photos of the Year, Photography Museum of Lishui China, Zhejiang
CONCRETE CHINA, Raibaudi Wang Gallery, Paris, France
Enlightenment Art Exhibition, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2018 Life and Dreams:Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art
The Walther Collection,Germany
2018 China Yanping Art Harvest, Fujian
Cloud Space Writing, CIMEN, Shanghai
A Tribute Exhibition to Chen Congzhou’s 100 Anniversary, Liberation Daily, Shanghai
Sunshine Mountain, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Lost Villa Wild Art Festival, Zhejiang
Spontaneity---Experimental Art in Songshan, Chanxinju, Zhengzhou
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT, Shenzhen
The Fifth Year, Mo Art Space, Zhengzhou
Art Fragmented Nature of the Movement, OCAT, Shenzhen
Life and Dreams, Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art, The Walther Collection, Germany
2017 Extension at Sea, China Art Museum, Shanghai
Wander in a Wonder, Gengle Hall, Suzhou
Warm Winter, Dream Center, Shanghai
Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Roots--Lakeside Cross-media International Art Exhibition, Likeside Art Museum, Shanghai
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Black Stone Apartment, Shanghai
Songshan Project 2017, Chan Xin Jv, Henan
40 Years of Chinese Photography, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing
The Spiral Narrative in a Klein Bottle, Library of Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai
Rip It Up, Second Changjiang Photography Biennial, Changjiang Art Museum, Chongqing
Life Death Transition, Tongji University Museum, Shanghai
Energy Field, Trans-media Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2016 Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Shanghai Dialect, China Art Museum, Shanghai
From Grain to Pixel, Monash Museum of Art, Australia
The Silk Road of Video and Photography, Tianshui International photography Biennial, Gansu
Wall or Not Wall, United Art Museum, Wuhan
Nature a Subjective Place, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai
6th Jinan International Photography Biennial, Jinan
Jimei-Arle International Photography Season, Three Shadows Photography Center, Xiamen
Three in a Line, Zhangjiang Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Songshan Project 2016, Chan Xin Jv, Henan
Dharma Project, Rainbow Box, Zhengzho
Photograph - Calligraphy, 203 Art Gallery, Swiden
International Contemporary Art Tour, Hangzhou Library Art Center, Hangzhou
2015 Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Tianshui International Photography Festival, Gansu
Songshan Project, Kunlun Moon View Art Museum, Zhengzhou
Chinese Incidents and Images, Kunlun Moon View Art Museum, Zhengzhou
Designing View Beyond the Earth - 20 Years of Contemporary Photography in China, Xian Art Museum
Tea Point - Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tea Affair Art Space, Xiamen
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season - City Light, West Bund, Shanghai
The Urban Vision - 2015 Shanghai Contemporary Art Exibition, Cloud Art Space, Shanghai
A Vision with Two Eyes, Confucius School, Renne, France
Grain to Pixel, A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography
Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center
To Be or Not to Be, Artoon, Shanghai
Songshan Project, Dali International Photography Festival
Water, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
The Order of Things, The Walther Collection Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2014 Facade, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Staging Encounters, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou
Photo Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names, UCCA, Beijing
REAL-LY, Ray Art Center, Shanghai
Myth/History, Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Oltre La Materia, Mo Space, Henan / Accademia di belle arti di Bologna, Italy
Pagoda, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Songshan Microcosmic Art Exhibition, Limiangou, Henan
2013 Regards sur le Guizhou, Chaillot Palace, Paris, France
Collection from OCAT, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzheng
To the Countryside, Gallery of Shanghai Institute of Design, China Academy of Art, Shanghai
2012 A Vision with Two Eyes, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Regrouping, Bend in The River, UK
Jetlag, China-Germany Multimedia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hannover, Germany
Photogaphy of Architecture Made in China, Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany
Citizen Art Shanghai, Garden Hotel, Shanghai
OFOTO@Commune by the Great Wall, Commune by the Great Wall, Beijing
Heartbeat Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2011 Contemporary Photography in China, TASVEER, (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedebad), India
Biennale of Alessandria 2011, Alessandria, Italy
Photo L.A., Los Angeles, USA
2010 Da Xiang Wu Xing, Gucang Contemporary Photo Gallery, Lanzhou
Stay You, the Great Wall, Beijing
Big Tree Foot, The 5th OCAT International Art Residency Exhibition, J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen
Contemporary Photography Exhibition from China, AKI Gallery, Taipei
San Sheng Wan Wu, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai
River Flows East-Landscapes of the Imagination, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing / The Collection Art and
Archaeology in Lincolnshire, UK
Open Frame - New Landscape Photography from China, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore
Global Financial Center Photography Exhibition, Global Financial Center, Shanghai
Preservation by Design, the Meridian International Center, Washington, USA
Landscape Insight, Around Gallery, Shanghai
2009 Attitude, Shit Art, Zhengzhou
All Manifestations of Nature, China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou
Underconstruction-Photography on the Expo 2010 Shanghai, Pudong Library, Shanghai
Memory of Shanghai, Hongmiao Gallery, Shanghai
Another China, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Group Photography Exhibition, Aura Gallery, Beijing
Drama/Stage: Urban Photography in Shanghai, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Resolving the Crises, Shifo Commune, Zhengzhou
Otherness, Photo Beijing, The Agricultural Exhibition Centre of China, Beijing
The Photograph’s Enticement of the Brush, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2008 Dopo La Sicilia, Galleria Credito Siciliano, Italy
FOTO·OFOTO, OFOTO & ANART, Beijing
Art Shanghai 2008, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai
Panoramic, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
Another China, Kunstverin Tiergarten, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers, Bates College Museum
of Art, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, USA
2007 The Alchemy of Shadows, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou
17e Recontres Photographiques du Pays de Lorient, France
Cina, Centro Trevi Kuoturzentrum, Bolzano, Italy
La Chine, Saveurs Du Divers, Photoquai, L’Institut Polonais, Paris, France
Evolution, 2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Change of Dragon, China Square, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, 798 Art Festival, Beijing
Group Exhibition, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Group Exhibition, Eastlink, Shanghai
Group Exhibition, Shifo Commune, Zhengzhou
Shanxi in Black and White, The Heart of the Art Space, Luoyang
One Year of Experimental Art at Lashihai, Lashihai Haidong Art Center, Lijiang
City Tale, OFOTO & ANART, Shanghai
2006 Visible and Invisible-20 Years of Chinese Photography, Sifang Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing
Contemporary Chinese Art, Dongshang Gallery, Xi’an
Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturender Welt, Berlin, Germany
Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
CA. Santa Barbara, USA
Group Exhibition, Gallery Chinese Eyes, Paris, France
2005 Group Photography Exhibition, Foam Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Holland
Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China, V&A Museum, UK
Between Past and Future, Seattle Art Museum, USA
50 Years of Henan Photography, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou
Back to Future, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
Back to Future, Inner Space, Poznan, Poland
Guangzhou Photography Biennale, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
It Is I, Galleria Caria Sozzani, Milano, Italy
Beyond the Everyday, Doland Museum of Art, Shanghai
Change, The Heart of the Art, Luoyang
Tiananmen, Photograph Museum in Amsterdam, Holland
Exhilaration, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
The Second Reality: Photographs from China, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Harvest, Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai
Lianshou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou
2004 Asia Photography Biennale, Kim Young Seob Photo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Un-normal Perspective, 798 Space, Beijing
Land-scapes, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund, Shanghai
2004 VASL Exhibition, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
It Is I, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing
Illusion, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Documenting China, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, USA
Documenting China, China Institute, New York, USA
Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germany
Between Past and Future, The International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Between Past and Future, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Between Past and Future, University of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
L’annee de la Chine, Cite du Livre, Aix En Provence, France
Nobodys Fool Nobodys Hurt, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Art Shanghai 2004, INTEX Shanghai, Shanghai
2003 Take A Seat, Artsea, Shanghai
It Is I, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
New Chinese Landscape, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
The Overseas International Art Project, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2002 100 Harps for the Great Wall, Palazzone, S. Alberto di Romagan, Italy
The Hidden Part, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
Moscow Photography Festival, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2001 Seen from Afar, Italian Cultural Institute, Beijing
Grosse Kunstaustellung Nrw, Duesseldorf, Germany
16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
P*Photoshow, Shanghai Design Institute (China Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai Branch), Shanghai
It’s Me, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai
Chinese Cities Planning Exhibition, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
The Anamorphic City, Yipin International Photography Festival, Dongying
Strategies Against Architecture II, Stabilimento Teseco, Pisa, Italy
Hotpot, Contemporary Chinese Art, Oslo, Norway
2000 Lost Identities, Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, Italy
Meeting with Strangers, Flower City, Luoyang
1999 Love, Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, International Arts Festival Tachikawa 99, Japan
1998 1998 Anguillara Ad Arte, Anguillara Sabazia, Rome, Italy
1997 1997 Face to Face, Gallery of the International Art Palace, Beijing
COLLECTIONS
The Walther Collection
ICP (International Center of Photography)
Bates College Museum of Art (Maine USA)
He Xiangning Art Museum
Shanghai Zhangjiang Museum of Modern Art
Mytophome, Guangzhou
Shanghai Art Museum
Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan
OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen
Yudeyao Art Museum
