| 1942 | Born in Hubei Province; Kai County, Sichuan Province by Origin |
| 1965 | Graduated from Oil Painting major of Fine Art Department of Hubei Art Academy |
| 1981 | Graduated with M.A. in Oil Painting Department from Hubei Art Academy |
| 1985 | Trustee of Chinese Artists Association |
| 1987 | Professor of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts |
| 1989 | Vice President of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts |
| 1995 | Director in Institute of Fine Arts of South China Normal University and Vice |
| Chairman of Chinese Oil Painting Association | |
| 1997 | Professor in Fine Arts Academy of Capital Normal University |
| 2000 | Director in Fine Arts Academy of Capital Normal University |
| 2009 | China Artists Association, Vice Director of the Oil Painting Arts |
| Currently | lives and works in Beijing |
| 2018 | Shang Yang: New Works, Chambers Fine Art & Artfarm, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Shang Yang's Art in Suzhou, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China |
| 2012 | Shang Yang: Diaries and Scripts, VA Center, Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Shang Yang: Dong Qichang Project, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Essence of Sketch – Shang Yang’s Painting Exhibition, Chengdu Blue Space Art Gallery, Sichuan, China |
| 2018 | New Ink Ark in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China 40x40:From 1978 to 2018 - Art History Shaped by 40 Artists, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China Silence,Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | AURA and VITALITY: 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China |
| SOUTH OF THE MOUNTAINS: 11 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS, Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy | |
| Bridge Gallery's 10 Years Collection Exhibition, Bridge gallery, Beijing, China | |
| FREE REALM: BEIJING 798-GUIYANG CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION, Guiyang 798 Art Zone, Guiyang, China | |
| Bridge Gallery's 10 Years Collection Exhibition, Bridge gallery, Beijing, China | |
| FREE REALM: BEIJING 798-GUIYANG CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION, Guiyang 798 Art Zone, Guiyang, China | |
| BIENNALE CHINA - ITALIA, Palladian, Vicenza, Italy | |
| IMAGE OF THE MIND, CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART EXHIBITION, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, U.S.A. | |
| 2016 | TOO LOUD A SONLITUDE: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| FLAT AND DISTANT——China/ Slovenia - Contemporary Art, Maribor Art Museum, Slovenia; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Beyond Image: The Oil Paintings from China, China Cultural Center, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Significant Presence: The Third Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Unexpected Encounter: Chinese Imagery Oil Painting by Five Artists, Shanghai New Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| IMAGE POOL, Ginkgo Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| Experimenting China in Peru - APEC "Human and Nature" Art Exhibition, Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru, Peru | |
| Divine Signs, Zhong Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| ARTE DE CHINA, Diego Rivera Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Resonance Chinoise, Exposition itinerante internationale de la peinture a l'huile chinoise, Brongniart, Paris, France | |
| 2015 | CONFRONTING ANITYA: Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Austria |
| REVOLUTION IN TRADITION, China’s Post - lnk Painting Era, Natani·Ovadia Gallery, Paris, France | |
| THE BOUNDRIES OF ORDER, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2nd NANJING INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing,China | |
| Cultural Context, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Castiglia di Saiuzzo, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| ART HISTORICAL FLASHBACRS: Another Path in Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Three and One Thirds: Shang Yang × Xu Bing × Liang Shaoji, Kylin Contemporary Center of Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2014 | The National Gallery's Collection Exhibitions of Ministry of Culture of The People’s Republic of China —Landscape Paintings— 660 years away from Huang Gongwang, Changshu Art Museum, Jiangsu, China |
| The Edge of Vision, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| The Immortal Scenery, An Interpretation as the Common Destination of Western and Experience China, Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France | |
| Essence of China—Touring Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting & Retrospective of 100 Years of Chinese Oil Painting, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China | |
| Chi-Fra Art Exhibition, Champs-Elysees, Paris, France | |
| THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CIHNA, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Chinese New Expressionism: Special Invitation Exhibition 1980 - 2014, Shanghai, China | |
| 2013 | Forms of the Formless: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hubei Museum, Wuhan, China |
| Visibility - 2013 SPSI Art Museum Invitational Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China | |
| Infinity: Zhan Zhou International 2013 Invitational Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China | |
| 2012 | Ink/Limit, Hua Fu Art Center, Shanghai, China |
| The Body & Beyond, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition International Tour (U.S.A.), The Rouse Company Gallery at Howard Community College, Columbia, U.S.A. | |
| Collaborate -Dialogue: Sino-French Exchanging Exhibition, Basel Contemporary Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| Social Scenery: 2012 Suzhou Jin Ji Hu Biennale, Basel Contemporary Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| Human and Object: The Traversing of Memory, Jin Ji Hu Art Museum, Suzhou, China | |
| The Natural Temperament: The Chinese Painting of Tomorrow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| The Form of Formless: The Art Exhibition of Chinese Culture Year 2012, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Opening and Fusing: The Chinese Contemporary Art, Hungarian National Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary | |
| 2012 China Contemporary Art Exhibition, London Olympic Art Center, London, U.K. | |
| Self-essence Naturalism, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| OMEN·2012 Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| THROUGH ALL AGES: LONG MUSEUM Opening Series Exhibition, LONG MUSEUM, Shanghai, China | |
| RE - INK, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China | |
| 2011 | Shan Shui: Poetry without Sound, Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Lucerne, Swiss |
| Pure Views: Remote Form Streams and Mountains, New Painting China, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| Retrospect and Prospect: Hubei Oil Painting Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China | |
| Percorso: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Old City Art Gallery, Spoletto, Italy | |
| History Collection: New Art from China, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu, China | |
| New Realm, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Australia, Sydney, Australia | |
| East Dawning: Exhibition on the 30th Anniversary of China Art Gallery, National Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Eastern Music Park, Chengdu, China | |
| The Will of China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2011 Chinese Context: Ultra-impressionistic Rack 10 +10, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| Arts of Heaven and Human: Chinese New Painting Exhibition, Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 | The State of Things: Contemporary Art from China and Belgium, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| Reshaping History: China New Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China | |
| Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979—2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| Unending Distance: The 3rd Exhibition of Abstract Art, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Research and Exceed: The Second Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Ink and Wash, Expo 2010, Shanghai China, Shanghai World Expo Bureau Zero Carbon Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| The Third Abstract: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Reconstruction: The Top Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Abstract Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Oil Painting Art and Modern Social - Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| The Kite Does Not Fly Off: In Remembrance of Wu Guanzhong, Bridge Art Space 798, Beijing, China | |
| The Collection of The First Exhibition by The Nine-Dragon Mountain Artists, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Spirit of The East II: Bridging, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| New Wave of Chinese Contemporary Art, California State University, Sacramento, U.S.A. | |
| Chinese Expression, Chinese Expression Artists Invitation Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing. | |
| Pure Views: Remote Form, Streams and Mountains, Chinese New Painting Exhibition, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, U.K. | |
| The Seventh Shenzhen International Ink Art Biennale, Shenzhen Painting College, Shenzhen, China | |
| With Ink: Dialogue with Contemporary Artists, Xuhui Museum of Art and Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China | |
| East Dawning: National Art Museum of China, The Boutique Collection Exhibition, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China | |
| 2009 | Ink not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Drexel University Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A. |
| Ink not Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Warsaw Royal Castle, Poland; Hungarian Agricultural Museum, Budapest, Hungary; The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania; Sculpture Museum of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Croatia | |
| Yi School: Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| New Image: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Paper Art Exhibition, Belarus National Gallery, Minsk, Belarus | |
| Open sight: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Czech National Gallery, Prague, Czech | |
| In the - Abstract Art Exhibition in Occasion of the Birth of a Hundred Years Partial Front New Art Space, Beijing, China | |
| State of Affairs: EUROPALIA, China Art Festival Exhibition, Belgian Royal Palace of Fine Arts, Belgium | |
| Ink and Wash Painting Calligraphy: A Third Abstraction, Shanghai Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| Traditional Easter, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, BASIS SPACE, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Collision: 27 cases of Chinese contemporary Art, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China | |
| 2009 Context: Spiritual Elite, Chinese Version of the Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Qinghe Art Gallery, Nanjing; Beijing Art America Fund, Beijing, China | |
| Traditional Easter: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shandong Library, Ji'nan, China | |
| 2009 China Art Exhibition, Central Iron Age Museum of Art, Beijing, China | |
| Hill Also Has Water: 2009 China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei Contemplation Arts Center, Taipei, China | |
| 60 Years of New China Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Trends in Hubei and Hunan: Chinese Contemporary in Hubei & Hunan 1985 - 2009, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| The Revival Tradition: Contemporary Chinese Art, BASIS SPACE, Frankfurt, France |
| 2008 | Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstraction, La Caixa Forum Museum of Parma, Madrid, Spain |
| Inside, Outside Images: The Inviting Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings, Yu Xin Art Museum, Singapore | |
| Writings, Marks: Joint Exhibition of 20 Artists in Abstract Painting, Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art Documents, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| The Third Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 2D and 3D, Negotiating Visual Languages, PMK Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Hypallage - The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, the OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China | |
| Ink Not Ink: Chinese Modern Ink and Wash Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Expand & Fusion – Chinese Oil Painting Study and Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Sunshine International Art Annual Exhibition, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| People · History - Exhibition of Studies of Chinese Art of the 20th Century, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Culture after Culture - 12 Chinese Contemporary Oil Painters Exhibition, YUAN Center of Art, Beijing, China | |
| Pursuing Source and Doctrine: Oil Painting Research Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Art Basel Miami Beach 2008, Miami, U.S.A. | |
| THE GRIT BETWEEN THE STONES, A Meeting Between Swedish and Chinese Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Ink - Not - Ink: China Contemporary Ink-painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 2007 | The Scenery of Desire – Shang Yang and His Student Art Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Beijing; MOCA Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, China |
| OTKPbITOe KNTaNCKOe NCKYCCTBO, Tocyaapctbehhbin Pyccknn My3en, St. Petersburg “St. Petersburg, Russia | |
| Rote Berge - GRuNES WASSER, CHINE SISCHE UND DEUTSCHE MALER HEUTE, Kunsthalle St. Annen Lubeck, Germany | |
| Landscape: Nature · Spirit, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland | |
| On Ink and Wash: A Dialogue between Contemporary Artists, Tank | |
| Loft· Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing; Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Trace Contemporary: Chinese Version, 2007, Credit Suisse, Beijing Comprehensive Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Strategy on Paper: Works on Paper Invitational, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| Interception: Chinese Image in Contemporary Art Invitation Show, Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China | |
| Decennial: Hejingyuan Museum of Art Opening Exhibition, H.J.Y. Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2006 | Anatomical Signs: Internationally Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bao Qu Tang Modern Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| China Scenery, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Si Fang Art Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| Expanding Realism: Chinese Mainland Oil Painting from 1978, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, China | |
| The Second Exhibition of Chinese Art Today, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Cross the Continent - Joint Exhibition of 11 Artists from China and Germany, Sanxian Art Space, Shanghai, China |
| 2005 | Dress Up, Chinese Opera Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| Nature and Human: The Second Contemporary China Landscape Painting (Oil Landscape Painting) Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Asian Art Exhibition, Shunde Art Gallery, Shunde, China | |
| Up and Down the Great River: A Retrospection of New Era’s Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Conspire: The 1st Exhibition of T.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China | |
| The Endless Landscape, Invitational Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| 2004 | Inviting Exhibition of Contemporary Art from China, France and Korea, |
| International Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Baishi/ Youji, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai; Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China | |
| 2003 | An Opening Era, Celebration Exhibition of 40th Anniversary of Founding of China |
| National Museum of Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Premieres Lueurs sur L'Orient -- L'aventure de la peinture chinoise au 20ème Siecle, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France | |
| Fine Pieces of New Expressionism Oil Painting of Chinese Master, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| The Fine Pieces Exhibition of The Third Oil Painting Exhibition of China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 2002 | Behind the Reality, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, China |
| The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China | |
| Century Demeanor, Exhibition of China’s Contemporary Art Masters, Beijing | |
| World Art Museum, Beijing; The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China | |
| Concept Image: 2002, China Modern Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| 2011 | The Chicago International Art Exhibition, Chicago, U.S.A. |
| Science, Technology and Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| The First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu International Conference Center, Chengdu, China | |
| 2000 | The Gate of Century – Inviting Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Chengdu International Conference Center, Chengdu, China |
| The 20th Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| The Chinese Art Contemporary Exhibition, Bulayda Art Museum, Padowa, Italy | |
| The Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China | |
| The Chinese Ideology and Performance of Art Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| 1999 | The Chinese Culture and Contemporary Art Exhibition, Rayman Institute Art Museum, U.S.A. |
| The Joint Exhibition of Chinese and Italian Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China | |
| 1998 | The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Young Museum of Revere Palace, Mantova, Italy |
| The 50-Year Chinese Painting Exhibition, Sino-Japanese Hall of Friendship, Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Exhibition of 18 Artists from China and Korea, Korea Art Center, Seoul, Korea | |
| Twenty-year Revelation of Chinese Contemporary Art, Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China | |
| ‘98 Asia- Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fuzhou Art Museum, Fuzhou, China | |
| 1997 | The Twelfth Asian Art Exhibition, Museu de Art de Macau, Macau, China |
| The Chinese Art Exhibition, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China | |
| The Contemporary Art Exhibition for Celebration of 1997 Hong Kong’s Return, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, China | |
| The Exhibition of China's Hundred-year Oil Painting Portraits, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 1994 | Post- ’89 Chinese New Art Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, London, U.K. |
| Exhibition of Art Critics Nomination of the Year, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 1993 | Post- ’89 Chinese New Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China; Sydney Contemporary Art Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| The International Summer Art Festival in Helmbach, Helmbach, Germany | |
| The Sino-Japanese Modern Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 1992 | The Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China |
| 1991 | The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gontsu Art Gallery, Yamanasiken, Japan |
| 1989 | The Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, Sino-Japanese Hall of Friendship, Tokyo, Japan |
| The 7th National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Eight Artists' Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 1987 | Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Tokyo and 9 other cities, Japan |
| The First China Oil Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China | |
| 1986 | The Second Contemporary World Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India |
| The Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| 1964 | National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | The seventh Award of Art China, Lifetime achievement award |
| 2010 | Honored with Wu Zuoren Plastic Arts Award, Wu Zuoren International Fine Arts Foundation |
| 2009 | The Third Annual of Chinese Critics, Honored with the Award of Artist |
| 2006 | Chinese Contemporary Art Document Exhibition, Honored with the Award of Literature |
| 2004 | The First Nominated Exhibition of Fine Art Literature, Honored with the Award of Literature |
| 1997 | The First Academy Invitational Art Exhibition, Honored with the Award of Dedication |
| 1992 | The First 1990’s Biennial Art Fair, Honored with the Academic Award |
| 1991 | The First Annual of Chinese Oil Painting, Honored with the Award of Distinction |
| 1984 | The Sixth National Art Exhibition, honored with the Award of Excellent Works |
| The Sixth Hubei Province Art Exhibition, Honored with the Golden Award |