Fang Lijun

Chinese | 1963

Fang Lijun is a Chinese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1963. Their work is currently being shown at Ennova Art Museum in Langfang. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo have featured Fang Lijun's work in the past.Fang Lijun's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 100 USD to 9,515,658 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2005 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,515,658 USD for SERIES 2 NO. 4, sold at China Guardian Auctions, Beijing in 2022. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 33,052 USD.Fang Lijun has been featured in articles for CAFA Art Info, ArtDaily and China Daily. The most recent article is 12 Hong Kong Art Exhibitions Coming in 2025, Including Picasso, Renoir and Cézanne Shows written for South China Morning Post in December 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Fang Li-jun

Featured for Sale

1996.15 ,1996

By Fang Lijun

Ketterer Kunst Munich

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled ,2001

By Fang Lijun

+346%

above mid-estimate

1998.08.30 ,1998

By Fang Lijun

+3%

above mid-estimate

Untitled ,1997

By Fang Lijun

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Upcoming Lots

1996.15 ,1996

By Fang Lijun

Ketterer Kunst Munich

Recent Auction Results

Ceramic, H. 34 cm ,1998

By Fang Lijun

+6%

above mid-estimate

AAG: Arts & Antiques Group

Endlessness of Life ,2011

By Fang Lijun

-27%

below mid-estimate

Poly Auction Hong Kong Limited

Three works: (i) Goldhead No. 6; (ii) Goldhead No. 3; (iii) Goldhead No. 11 - Fang Lijun

Three works: (i) Goldhead No. 6; (ii) Goldhead No. 3; (iii) Goldhead No. 11 ,2005

By Fang Lijun

-24%

below mid-estimate

Phillips Hong Kong

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Current Exhibitions

Etched in Time: The Experience and Transformation of Contemporary Art Collection in China

Ennova Art Museum

Langfang | China

Apr 29,2024 - Jun 07,2027

Past Exhibitions

Golden: 28th Anniversary Exhibition

Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (1st Space)

Chaoyang | Beijing | China

May 22,2024 - Jun 28,2024

Fang Lijun: Portraits And Porcelain

Ashmolean Museum

Oxford | UK

Oct 15,2023 - Apr 14,2024

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Articles

12 Hong Kong Art Exhibitions Coming in 2025, Including Picasso, Renoir and Cézanne Shows

South China Morning Post 31/12/2024

Hong Kong art lovers have an exciting year in store, to judge by a slew of recently announced exhibitions. Here are 12 to look forward to.

Triumph Gallery Announces Fang Lijun’s Latest Solo Exhibition in Beijing

CAFA Art Info 23/10/2024

Triumph Gallery announces that Fang Lijun’s latest solo exhibition Look on, Near and Far, will be unveiled at the gallery on October 25th, 2024.

Eskenazi shows Fang Lijun's porcelain sculptures for his first UK exhibition

CAFA Art Info 06/06/2023

Eskenazi Limited presents the first exhibition dedicated to Fang Lijun (b. 1963) to be held in the UK.

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Coverage

“ ..Fang began in 1984 as a so-called Cynical Realist, creating paintings of numerous bald men waiting, some of them apparently drowning... ”
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Kunsthalle Bielefeld

“ ..Fang Lijun’s bold imaginings and critical postulations are expressed with a perfectly tuned overlay of humour and cleverness; yet behind the entertaining narrative of every child’s fairy tale there lurks... ”
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Hanart TZ Gallery

“ ..Fang Lijun’s iconic bald head appears frequently in these works as a kind of tool of self-analysis, both of society and of the artist himself: here this feature is applied to the different subjects who... ”
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Hanart TZ Gallery