| 1957 | Born in Hangzhou, China |
| 1982 | Graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts), Hangzhou, China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Hangzhou, China |
| 2024 | Tracing, Malta Biennale Art, Malta |
| 2023 | Mount Fuchun, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2020 | Fuchun, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2018 | West Lake II, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2017 | A Decade of Painting and Prints, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Exhibition of Yan Shanchun’s Works, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China YAN IN, Van Art Space, Hangzhou, China |
| 2016 | West Lake, Etchings and Paintings, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | West Lake, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Exhibition of Yan Shanchun’s Works, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2006 | Exhibition of Yan Shanchun’s Works, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 2005 | The West Lake in My Dream: Yan Shanchun’s Works 2004 – 2005, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2004 | The West Lake in My Dream: Yan Shanchun’s Works on Paper 2004, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2023 | The Rabbit Project, Chambers Fine Art, New York |
| 2022 | Ink - A Witness to Millenia, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong |
| 2021 | Wù Méngméng, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong |
| 2020 | Landscape and Books: Pearl Art Museum’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 | Learn from Ancient Wisdom to Open A New Chapter, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China New Art History: 2000 – 2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China |
| 2018 | Shang Yan, Wang Chuan, Yan Shanchun: A State of Mind, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Cao Xiaoyang and Yan Shanchun: Light Water Dark Mountain, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2017 | Crisscrossing East and West – The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia, MOCA, Yinchuan, China Memories of West Lake: Wang Gongyi & Yan Shanchun’s works, Art Museum of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Open Books – Artists and the Chinese Folding-books, Lalit Kala Academy and Ravindra Manch/RAVINDRA MANCH, ART GALLERY, Ramniwas Garden, Jaipur 19 Shenyun Road – Divided Unuty, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China |
| Yan Ying: Wang Gongyi & Yan Shanchun Doub Solo Exhibition, Van Art Space, Hangzhou, China | |
| AURA and VITALITY – 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China | |
| 2016 | Open Books – Artists and Chinese Folding-books, Library and Archive of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Narrative of Spirituality – Secularization of Abstract Art, Art100 Gallery, Hong Kong, China | |
| Shanshui, A Manifesta, Gongwang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China | |
| 19 Shenyun Road – Divided Unuty, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China | |
| Wang Gongyi and Yan Shanchun – Joint Exhibition, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, China | |
| 2015 | The Garden of Winter Light – A Space to Linger, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China The Third Abstraction, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Inner Visions: Landscape and Scenery, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China A Contemporary Historical Path by the West Lake, SanshangArt, Hangzhou, China |
| 2014 | Printmaking Transgressing Borders Han 17th Exhibition with East Asian Artists, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan |
| 2013 | Towards Atmospheric Abstraction: Jiang Dahai and Yan Shanchun Joint Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2012 | International Print Exhibition Tokyo 2012, Tokyo, Japan SELF–ESSENCE NATURALISM, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2011 | Slipping Transmission, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China China Abstract Painting Now, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany |
| Visible Soul – The Fourth Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 | Water Color as a Reason, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Reshaping History China Art from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China |
| An Array of Nothing – Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Abstract Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China | |
| 2009 | Where the Spirit Lives: Exhibition on Occasion of 100th Anniversary of Abstract, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong & Yan Shanchun, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2008 | Liang Quan and Yan Shanchun Group Exhibition, Osage Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
| Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm – New Aspects of Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Weixiang – Chenghuai Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Exhibition, Daxiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| 2007 | Traces and Temperament: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Du – Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting, Tianjin Museum, Tianjin, China |
| Tu Ink – Inviting Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Painting, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| Heiner Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany |
| Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA |
| Art in Embassies, US Department of State, Washington DC, USA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA |
| Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, USA |