HUANG YAN
 Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 4中国山水纹身二套4 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 1中国山水纹身二套1 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 2中国山水纹身二套2 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |
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 Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 3中国山水纹身二套3 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 5中国山水纹身二套5 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 6中国山水纹身二套6 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |
 Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 7中国山水纹身二套7 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 8中国山水纹身二套8 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |  Chinese Shan-shui tattoo 9中国山水纹身二套9 Second set Photography 150 x 120 cm 1999 |
 Body Shan-Shui 1人体山水1 150 x 120 cm 2001 |  Body Shan-Shui 2人体山水2 150 x 120 cm 2001 |  Body Shan-Shui 3人体山水3 150 x 120 cm 2001 |
 Body Shan-Shui 4人体山水4 150 x 120 cm 2001 |  Body Shan-Shui 5人体山水5 150 x 120 cm 2001 |
HUANG YAN 黄岩
1966 born in Jilin, Jilin Province, China
Huang Yan graduated from the Changchun Teachers Academy in 1987 and currently lectures at Changchun University in China. In 1999, Huang Yan began a series of landscape paintings on the human body entitled “Chinese Landscapes”. Upon completion, these paintings were then photographed, therefore creating a performance, painting, and photograph all in one. Huang Yan’s work references a heritage that is inherent in Chinese culture, especially that traditional landscape paintings have become the embodiment of Chinese art. Rarely used in the ancient culture of painting, the human body has played an important role in the development of contemporary art in China since the end of the 1970's. Huang Yan innovates tradition by transposing the art form onto the human body.
