TU Hongtao
1976 Born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
1995 Graduated from the high school of Sichuan Fine Art Academy
1999 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Fine Arts Academy
Lives and works in Chengdu, Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Twisting and Turning，Levy Gorvy ,London. Britain
2019 Tuhongtao，Levy Gorvy ,Hong Kong ,China
2018 A Timely Journey, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 Melting Point of Desire, Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2016 The landscape, Yeo Workshop, ,Singapore
2014 Asides, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2013 The Road Not Taken, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2011 The Desire of Plant, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing,
2008 Phantasmic Paradise, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain Labyrinth, Chinese Contemporary, New York, USA
2007 Interlace, Soka Gallery, Beijing Exploration, Olyvia Oriental Gallery, London, England
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Return to Nature, Levy Gorvy ,Hong Kong ,China
2018
Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2017
Chinese Narrative—Special Exhibition of the 21th Anniversary of the HKSAR
Crisscrossing Ezst and West, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum ,China
Benevolence of Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen
2016
The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Unrealities In the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhou, China
A Ride to Combine, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
For an Image, Faster Than light, Yinchuan Biennal, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum, China
Too Loud a Solitude, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2015
Notes on Paintings, Blueroof Art Museum, Chengdu
Black Dimension:The Gaze of Orpheus, Ying Art Center, Shanghai Paintings, Poly Art Museum,Beijing, China
Break Thourgh, Vanvory Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014
Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China
Social Landscape, The “Landscape Narration”in Chinese Contemporary Painting As Well As Its Cultural Concept Changes, Chengdu International Communication Center for Cultural and Art Pieces,Chengdu,China
Beautiful Summer ，re-C Contemporary Arts Center，Chengdu，China
Tunnel of Inspiration，A4 Contemporary Arts Center，Chengdu，China
The Immortal Scenery, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2013
Scenery and Pure Views, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain Bloom, Pan-china, Shanghai
2012
Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Recoding–The Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narrative, World Art Gallery in China Millennium Monument, Beijing
Looking Away–The Unconscious in contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Cynical Resistance, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Lust and Love of the Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing
Weather Stains on the Wall–The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
2011
In the Heat of the Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Fly through the Troposphere–Memo of the New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Ephemerus vis-á-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, USA
2010
Reshaping History, National Convention Center, Beijing
Filter Window, Beyond Art Space, Beijing
The Visible, Re-C Art Space, Chengdu
2009
Prague Biennale 4–China Box, Prague, Czech
Personality of Dialect, Blueroof 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
2008
Time-Lag, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
The Disappearance of Nature, J&Z Gallery
Painting & Sculpture in Digital & Photographic Time,
No.10 Gallery, Chengdu
The Shape of Life, Fenghuang Museum, Nanjing
Images Of Desire, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
Art in Two City, TianYuan Gallery, Qingdao
Corresponding, Nanjing QingHe Current Art Center, Nanjing
Landscape Topology, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing
2007
Three Years In Blue House, Blueroof Art Museum, Chengdu
Starting From Southwest, Guangdong art Museum, Guangzhou
Whither, The University of Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong
Guizhou Art Biennale Exhibition, Guiyang Art Museum, Guiyang
Images of Desire, Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing
Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
2006
Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
My Days at Santai Mount, Line Gallery, Beijing
Unclear and Clearness, HEYRI Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Overstep of Degree–Chinese New Painting, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing
Varied Images, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Lian Cheng Jue: Visual Creativity in Urban City, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2005
Living in Chengdu, The Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
18 Artists: Contemporary Oil Painting Art Exhibition, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Under the Sky above Beijing, Yijingxuan Gallery, Beijing
Tu Hongtao and Wu Jianjun, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
Ten Eras Ten Colors, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
2004
Binhui, Cuogui: Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Railway Station Studio, Chengdu
Living in Chengdu: Shenzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
2001
Up-Down-Right-Left, The Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
AWARDS
1998 Honorable Mention of Li Zhongsheng Foundation