Major solo exhibitions:
2025 Eye to Eye Thaddaeus Ropac | Pantin/Paris | France | September 13 – December 20, 2025
WANTED
MASSIMODECARLO | London | United Kingdom | June 4 – August 8, 2025
Yan Pei-Ming: A Burial in Shanghai
Museum of Contemporary Art | San Diego | USA | April 17, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Oltre il muro — Regina Cœli, Roma
Conciliazione 5 | Rome | Italy | February 15 – May 15, 2025
2024
Kung Hei Fat Choi
MASSIMODECARLO | Hong Kong | China | February 4, 2025 – January 5, 2026
2023
Portraits
Francisco Carolinum Museum | Linz | Austria | May 24 – August 12, 2023
Yan Pei-Ming, Pittore di storie
Palazzo Strozzi | Florence | Italy | July 7 – September 3, 2023
2022
Wild Game
MASSIMODECARLO | Milan | Italy | February 24 – April 2, 2022
L’année du tigre
MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique | Paris | France | April 5 – 23, 2022
2021 Tigres & Vautours Collection Lambert et Palais des Papes | Avignon | France | June 26 – September 26, 2021 | May 19, 2021 – January 31, 2022
Au nom du père
Musée Unterlinden | Colmar | France | April 2 – October 11, 2021
2020
The Mourners
Massimo De Carlo | London | United Kingdom | November 25, 2020 – January 30, 2021
Against the Light
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Salzburg | Austria | October 10 – December 23, 2020
2019
Yan Pei-Ming face à Courbet
Musée Gustave Courbet | Ornans | France | June 11 – September 30, 2019
L'Homme qui pleure
Musée des Beaux-Arts | Dijon | France | May 17 – October 28, 2019
L'Ultimo Sorriso. Le Dernier Sourire. The Last Smile
Massimo De Carlo | Milan | Italy | October 19, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Un enterrement à Shanghai
Musée d’Orsay | Paris | France | October 1, 2019 – January 12, 2020
2018
Dating
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | France | March 2 – April 21, 2018
2017
A Short History of Power and Death
Massimo De Carlo | London | United Kingdom | October 4 – December 16, 2017
2016
Yan Pei-Ming Roma
Villa Médicis | Académie de France à Rome | Rome | Italy | March 18 – June 19, 2016
It Takes a Lifetime to Become Young
Massimo De Carlo | Hong Kong | China | March 21 – May 22, 2016
Crucifixion
Chapelle du Palais | Belvedere Museum | Vienna | Austria | May 18 – November 6, 2016
Ruines du temps réel
Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon | Sète | France | June 25 – November 6, 2016
2015
No Comment
CAC Málaga | Málaga | Spain | March 20 – June 14, 2015
Aggressive Beauty Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Salzburg | Austria | July 25 – August 28, 2015
2014
Innocent
Massimo De Carlo | London | United Kingdom | February 11 – March 29, 2014
Dead and Alive
Beijing Center for the Arts| Beijing | China | May 19 – July 31, 2014
Night of Colours
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles | Arles | France | May 19 – July 31, 2014
2013
Help!
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | France | October 21 – November 23, 2013
2012
Black Paintings
David Zwirner | New York | USA | May 4 – June 23, 2012
Un jour parfait : Beinaschi et Rubens invitent Yan Pei-Ming
Musée des Beaux-Arts | Chapelle de l’Oratoire | Nantes | France | March 20 – June 14, 2015
Painting the History
QMA Gallery Katara | Doha | Qatar | October 12, 2012 – January 12, 2013
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer : Landscapes
Massimo De Carlo | Milan | Italy | October 31 – December 15, 2012
2010
Destinies
Carlson Gallery | London | United Kingdom | February 8 – March 19, 2010
2009
Les Funérailles de Monna Lisa
Musée du Louvre | Paris | France | February 12 – May 18, 2009
Yes!
San Francisco Art Institute | Walter and McBean Galleries | San Francisco | USA | February 20 – May 23, 2009
Landscape of Childhood,
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art | Beijing | China | June 19 – October 11, 2015
The Funerals of Mona Lisa
Gallery One | Emirates Palace | Abu Dhabi Art | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | November 19 – November 22, 2009
2008
Yan Pei-Ming con Yan Pei-Ming
GAMeC | Bergamo | Italy | March 19 – July 27, 2008
Yan Pei-Ming: Life Souvenir
Des Moines Art Center | Des Moines | Iowa | USA | September 19, 2008 – January 4, 2009
2007
Portraits d’artistes
Fondation Maeght | Saint-Paul-de-Vence | France | November 4, 2007 – March 9, 2008
The Yan Pei-Ming Show
Galleria Massimo De Carlo | Milan | Italy | September 21 – October 31, 2007
You maintain a sense of balance in the midst of great success
David Zwirner | New York | USA | May 14 – June 16, 2007
2006
Exécution
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole | Saint-Étienne | France | March 3 – April 30, 2006
2005
Anti Riot Cop
Edicola Notte | Rome | Italy | December 22, 2005 – January 20, 2006
Inside The Red Window – Confession
Galleria Massimo De Carlo | Milan | Italy | April 7 – May 25, 2005
Hommage à mon père, Dijon-Shanghai-Guangdong
Shanghai Art Museum | Shanghai | China | February 22 – March 13, 2005 & Guangdong Museum of Art | Guangzhou | China | April 26 – May 22, 2005
2004
The Way of the Dragon
Kunsthalle Mannheim | Mannheim | Germany | November 6, 2004 – May 1, 2005
The Way of the Dragon
Galerie Anne de Villepoix | Paris | France | April 30 – June 29, 2004
Mise à mort
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen | Brussels | Belgium | February 20 – March 20, 2004
2003
Yan Pei-Ming, Le Fils du Dragon : Chantier / Funérailles
FRAC de Champagne-Ardenne | Reims | France| September 5 – November 2, 2003
Yan Pei-Ming, Fils du Dragon : Dessins intimes
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire | Geneva | Switzerland | May 28 – August 24, 2003
Yan Pei-Ming, Fils du Dragon : Portraits de Mao
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie | Besançon | France | May 16 – September 30, 2003
Yan Pei-Ming, Fils du Dragon : Portraits chinois
Musée des Beaux-Arts | Dijon | France | May 14 – September 1, 2003
2002
Yan Pei-Ming, Benner, Boucher, Bouguereau…
Musée des Beaux-Arts/Villa Steinbach | Mulhouse | France | June 18 – September 8, 2002
2001
Chinese Vermilion: In Memory of Mao
Galerie Max Hetzler | Berlin | Germany | April 20 – May 26, 2001
2000
Selfscape: Kim Sooja & Yan Pei-Ming
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik | Odense | Denmark | December 1, 2000 – February 25, 2001
Tête de vertu
Studio Massimo de Carlo | Milan | Italy | March 20 – June 14, 2000
1999
Opération Dragon
Chapelle du Collège Gérôme et Musée Georges-Garret | Vesoul | France | October 22 – December 31, 1999
Le retable, éloge des métissages (Soweto – Ile de La Réunion – Paris)
Panthéon | Paris | France | May 12 – October 30, 1999
Vulnérables…
Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert | Paris | France | April 20 – June 5, 1999
1997
Invisible Man
Crossings’97 : France/Hawaii | East-West Center Gallery | Honolulu | Hawaii | USA | October 6 – November 21, 1997
Morts & Vifs
FRAC de Franche-Comté | Musée des Beaux-Arts | Dole et Musée des Beaux-Arts | Lons-le-Saunier | France | June 7 – September 21, 1997
La Prisonnière : détenues de la prison de Rennes et autres portraits
Musée des Beaux-Arts | Rennes | France | March 6 – May 5, 1997
1996
Portrait d’un inconnu
Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert | Paris | France | September 7 – October 19, 1996
Faces from Soweto, 21 portraits of children
Uncle Tom’s Site | Soweto | South Africa | June 16 – July 16, 1996
Paysage International
Le Consortium | L’Usine | Dijon, France | March 29 – May 18, 1996
1995
Figures… ancêtres… diaspora
Musée Léon Dierx, Saint-Denis| Reunion Island| France | June 30 – August 20, 1995
1994
Visages, Portraits
Le Nouveau Musée | Villeurbanne | France | January 17 – February 13, 1994
1991
Face à face, « A partir de son histoire mon histoire commence »
Galerie Anne de Villepoix | Paris | France | January 30 – March 9, 1991
1989
La Maison de Thé
Musée Greuze | Tournus | France | March 20 – June 14, 2000