Shang Yang is a prominent contemporary Chinese painter. He was born in Honghu, Hebei Province, in 1942. In 1981 he graduated from the Hubei Art Academy, where he then taught for several years. He is currently a Professor at the Fine Arts Academy of Beijing Normal University. Shang Yang has exhibited extinsively in China since the 1980s, and has shown internationally at galleries in London, Paris, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, and Helsinki. Shang Yang's work often appropriates images from traditional Chinese landscape painting, which are screened onto the canvas by a machine; he then distorts the image with graffiti or obtrusive geometrical designs.
Sullivan, Michael(2006). Modern Chinese Art: A Biographical Dictionary. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520244498