Biography
Tu Hongtao CV
Tu Hongtao
Born 1976 in Chengdu, China
Lives and works in Chengdu and Hong Kong
Education
Education
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1999Oil Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Solo Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
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2024Beyond Babel, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York
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2022Dusk, LGDR, Paris
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2021Drunken Forest, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
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2020Twisting and Turning, Lévy Gorvy, London
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2019Tu Hongtao, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
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2018A Timely Journey, Long Museum, Shanghai (traveled to Long Museum, Chongqing) (exh. cat.)
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2017Melting Point of Desire, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
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2016The Landscape, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
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2014Asides, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
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2013The Road Not Taken, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
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2011The Desire of the Plants, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
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2008Phantasmic Paradise, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid (exh. cat.)
Labyrinth, Chinese Contemporary, New York (exh. cat.) -
2007Exploration, Olyvia Oriental Gallery, London
Interlace, Soka Art Center, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2022Polyphonic Writing: The Group Exhibition of Four Artists (Yang Shu, Qi Lan, Tu Hongtao, and Li Qing), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
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2021Eternal Seasons: Part II, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
Nature Loves to Hide, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
No Line on the Horizon, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach -
2019Return to Nature, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
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2018The Clouded Peach Blossom Spring, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing -
2017Chinese Narrative: Special Exhibition of the 21th Anniversary of the HKSAR, HKCEC, Hong Kong
Crisscrossing East and West, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum, Yinchuan
Prague Biennale 4: China Box, Karlín Hall, Prague -
2016The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Unrealities in the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT, Shenzhen
A Ride to Combine, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
For an Image, Faster Than Light: Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum, Yinchuan
Too Loud a Solitude, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing -
2015Notes on Paintings, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
Black Dimension: The Gaze of Orpheus, Ying Art Center, Shanghai
Paintings, Poly Art Museum, Beijing
Break Through, Vanvory Gallery, Shanghai -
2014Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Social Landscape: The "Landscape Narration" in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Chengdu International Communication Center, Chengdu
Beautiful Summer, re-C Art Space, Chengdu
Tunnel of Inspiration, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu
The Immortal Scenery, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing -
2013Scenery and Pure Views, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona
Bloom, Pan-China, Shanghai -
2012Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
Recoding: The Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narrative, World Art Gallery, Beijing
Looking Away: The Unconscious in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Cynical Resistance, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Lust and Love of the Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing
Weather Stains on the Wall: The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou -
2011In the Heat of the Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Fly through the Troposphere: Memo of the New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Ephemeris vis-à-vis Stabilitas, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu
Uninhibited Scenery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu
Chinese Style Calligraphy, Today Art Museum, Beijing
No Way to Be Absent, Century City Expo Center, Chengdu
Scenery and Pure Views, Asia Art Museum, San Francisco -
2010Reshaping History, National Convention Center, Beijing
Filter Window, Beyond Art Space, Beijing
The Visible, re-C Art Space, Chengdu -
2009Prague Biennale 4: China Box, Karlín Hall, Prague
Personality of Dialect, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
Reflection: Further Development of New Art, West Lake Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou
Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Paradise Lost, Fun Art Space, Beijing
Thought, Touch?, Today Art Museum, Beijing -
2008Time-Lag: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid
The Disappearance of Nature, J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen
Painting & Sculpture in Digital & Photographic Time, No. 10 Gallery, Chengdu
The Shape of Life, Fenghuang Museum, Nanjing
Images of Desire II, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
Art in Two Cities, Tianyuan Museum of Art, Qingdao
Corresponding: Nanjing – Chengdu, Qinghe Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing
Landscape Topology, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing -
2007Three Years In Blue House, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
Whither, The University of Hong Kong Museum, Hong Kong
Guizhou Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum, Guiyang
Images of Desire, Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing
Animation Aesthetics Biennale, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai -
2006Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
My Days at Santai Mount, Line Gallery, Beijing
Unclear and Clearness, HEYRI Art Foundation, Seoul
Overstep of Degree: Contemporary Art, Nanjing Square Museum, Nanjing
Varied Images: Exhibition of China's Contemporary Oil Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Lian Cheng Jue: Visual Creativity in Urban City, Shanghai Zhengda Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai -
2005Living in Chengdu, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
18 Artists: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Under the Sky of Beijing, Yijingyuan Gallery, Beijing
Two People's Painting: Tu Hongtao & Wu Jianjun, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
Ten Eras Ten Colors, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing -
2004Bin gui, cuo gui: Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Railway Station Art Studio, Chengdu
Living in Chengdu: Shenzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen -
2001Up-Down-Right-Left, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
Selected Awards
Selected Awards
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1998Honorable Mention, Li Zhongsheng Foundation, Taiwan
Selected Public Collections
Selected Public Collections
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Simian Foundation,Hong Kong
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Musée D'Art Moderne de Paris,Paris
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Buffalo AKG Art Museum,Buffalo
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Black Flag Collection,Belgium
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Long Museum,Shanghai
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Power Station of Art,Shanghai
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Museum of Contemporary Art,Yinchuan
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White Rabbit Gallery,Sydney
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Zhi Art Museum,Chengdu
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Powerlong Museum,Shanghai
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Longlati Foundation,Shanghai
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Fosun Foundation,Shanghai
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LYC Collection Foundation,Guangdong
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Blue Roof Museum,Chengdu
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Shenzhen Art Museum,Shenzhen
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Guangdong Museum of Art,Guangzhou