环碧堂画廊

毛焰，1968年出生于湖南湘潭，1991年毕业于中央美术学院油画系，现居南京，任教于南京艺术学院美术系，任中国油画学会理事。
毛焰一直以他的观念性肖像绘画受到世人瞩目。作品中极端的技巧主义倾向来源于作者繁锐的感受力，这种天赋是画家传神写照的根本。细致如神经未梢的刻画显示了形、神相融的境界，这是肖像艺术中趋于完美的体现。毛焰这种融贯通的成熟的观念和风格出现于九十年代中期，代表着中国写实绘画的新高度。
评论有:
《写实主义的探险》-栗宪庭
《对世界文化的眷念》-吴振骏,《橄榄树文学月刊》
《青春的现代性根源：毛和毛之后的广场》-朱其

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Mao Yan
1968 Born in Hunan Province, China
1991 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Currently teaches in the Nanjing Art Institute, Nanjing, China
Critiques
Li Xianting, “Exploration of Realism“
Wu Zhenjun, “The Love of World Culture“
Zhu Qi, “The Modern Roots of the Youth: Mao and the Square after Mao's Time“
Awards
1994 Excellent Art Work Prize at “The 2nd Chinese Art Fair”, Guangzhou, China
Chinese Oil Painting Art Prize at “The 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1992 Academic Prize at the “Biennial Art Show of the 90s”, Guangzhou, China
Exhibitions
2006 “Contemporary Oil Painting Collectors Event”, Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
“Summer Time, Sharing Art”, Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
“Chains”, REDe Gallery, Changsha, Hunan Province, China
“Art Node: 2006 Contemporary Art Collectors’ Exhibition”, Tan Guobin Art Museum, Changsha, Hunan Province, China
2005 “Sick: Our Art Today”, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2003 “New Paintings”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
“New Generation and Post-revolution”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
“The Different of the Different”, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2002 “China Contemporary Artists Collective Exhibition”, Schoeni Art Gallery III, Beijing, China
“Pictures of Idealism, Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Artists” Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“Paris - Pekin”, Pierre Cardin Museum, Paris, France
2001 “Academic and Un-academic”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Towards a New Image - Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing / Shanghai Art Museum / Sichuan Provincial Art Museum / Guangdong Provincial Art Museum, China
“Poster Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Artists”, Beijing / Guangzhou / Shanghai, China / Tokyo, Japan / Paris ABBILD, France / Landes Art Museum, Austria
“Initial Image - Contemporary Art on Paper”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Chengdu Biennial“, Chengdu, China
2000 “Mao Yan Solo Exhibition”, Hanyaxuan Gallery, Hong Kong
“Exhibition of Liu Haisu Museum's Collection”, Shanghai, China
“Mao Yan & Liu Ye”, Modern Chinese Art Gallery, London, UK
“Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing / Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
“Magical Image”, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
1999 “Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, San Francisco, U.S.A
　　 “Collective Exhibition of Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts”, Shenyang, China
“Sharp New Sight”, International Yiyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Fifty Years of Chinese Oil Painting”, Beijing, China
”Shanghai International Art Exposition”, Shanghai, China
“Gate of the Century 1979 -1999”, Chinese Art Invitation Exhibition”, Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
1998 "East Meets East in the West", LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
“Chinese Contemporary Artists League Exhibition”, Shanghai, China
“Mao Yan & Zhou Yiqing Painting Exhibition”, Suzhou, China
1997 “100 Years of Chinese Portraiture”, National Art Museum of China
“The Qualities of Portraiture - Mao Yan & Zhou Chunya”,
“Beijing Art Fair”, Beijing International Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
“Shanghai Art Fair”, Shanghai World Trade Centre, Shanghai, China
“Painting by Mao Yan”, Pingge Gallery, Nanjing, China
“Chinese Modern Artists”, Hong Kong Conference Centre, Hong Kong
1996 “Shanghai Art Biennial”, Shanghai, China
“Chinese Oil Painting Association Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
“Contemporary Art Association Invitation Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing / Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
1995 “Current Chinese Oil Painting”, Hong Kong University, Feng Pingshan Art Museum, Hong Kong
“Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition”, Cooper Union College, Los Angeles / China Press Gallery, New York, USA
1994 “The 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition”, National Art Museum of 　
China, Beijing, China
“Exhibition of Works Selected by Art Critics” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
“Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition”, Sino-Japan Friendship Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“The 2nd Chinese Art Fair”, Guangzhou, China
1993 “Asian Art Expo”, Hong Kong
“The 1st Chinese Oil Painting Biennial”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
“Nanjing Modern Art Exhibition”, Jiangsu Art Museum, China
1992 “Biennial Art Show of the 90s”, Guangzhou, China
“View and Emulate” (solo), Nanjing Art Academy, China