Maleonn
Born in 1972 in Shanghai, Maleonn received his art training at Shanghai University and Shanghai Huashan Art School. Before Ma became an artist, he was an Art Director and director in advertising and commercial film. Ma’s works have been exhibited extensively worldwide. He now lives and works in Shanghai as an independent artist.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Pure Satire", 2902 Gallery, Singapore
"Solo Exhibition by Maleonn", Espace Art 22, Brussels, Belgium
"White on White", AJG Contemporary Art Gallery, Seville, Spain
2010 "The Unexpected World", CO2 Gallery, Rome, Italy
"Maleonn Solo Exhibition", Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
"Solo Exhibition", Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
"White On White", Solo Exhibition, Galerie Magda Danysz, Shanghai, China
2009 "The Kingdom of Illusions", Paris- Beijing Galerie, Paris, France
"What Love Is", OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Shanghai Legendary", Artnext Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"Solo Exhibition", CDS Art & Visibility, Copenhagen, Denmark
"We & We", Cath Alexandrine Danneskiiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 "Fantastic", MAG Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
"Garden of Mirrors", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Maleonn Solo Exhibition", Ogilvy Headquarter Art Centre, New York, NY, USA
"Endless Dreamer", CO2 Gallery, Rome, Italy
"Maleonn", Galeria Tribeca Arte, Madrid, Spain
"MALEONN – Solo Exhibition by Maleonn", Espace Art 22, Brussels, Belgium
"Days on the Cotton Candy", Kasia Art Project Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
"Marbles", Gossip Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2007 "Nostalgia", Around Space, Shanghai, China
"Labyrinth", Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Cicada", Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2006 "Sweets and Sours", Art Sea Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Transfigurations", Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Wonderland", Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005 "Face to mask", Advance Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Shadow Maker – Maleonn", Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
"Maleonn Photography Exhibition", Esplanade National Art Centre, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 "Ballarat International Foto Biennale", Ballarat, Australia
"Cracked Culture?", Palazzo Giustinian Recanati, Venice Biennale, Italy
"FOTOFESTIWAL", Lodz Art Center, Lodz, Poland
"Gallery Artists Group Exhibition", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
"Far Away Beauty Lingers", Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Love & Recollections", Cath Alexandrine Danneskiiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Uforudsigeligheden i det Velkendte", curated by Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe,
Green Square, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 "A Departure from Reality III: The Tender Truth", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
"2020 Group Show", Above Second Artspace, Hong Kong
"The 4th Duolun Young Artists Exhibition", Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
"Rehearsal", Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
"CDS Art & Visibility”, Art Copenhagen 2010 Nordic Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Soul of China", Magda Gallery, Paris, France
"Exhibition" curated by Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark
"Nature of China – Contemporary Art Documenta", True Color Museum, Suzhou, China
"RESHAPPING HISTORY China from 2000 to 2009", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Chinese Contemporary Photography", Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia
"Passing China: Contemporary Chinese Photographers", Gallery Sanstorium, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 "FAF", Bielsko – Biala, Poland
"CDS Art & Visibility", Art Copenhagen 2009 Nordic Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Youth Fine Art Biennale", Chongqing, China
"Passing by China-Contemporary Photography", Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
"Reversed Images", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
"GetxoPhoto Festival", Getxo, Spain
"Theatre – Shanghai Metropolitan Photography", Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China
"Toys", CO2 Gallery, Rome, Italy
"Present – TENSE Biennial, Chinese Culture Center", San Francisco, CA, USA
"Children’s Epoch", Aura Gallery, Beijing, China
"Fables", Siamsa Gallery, Tralee, Ireland
2008 "Shanghai Land", Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
"Exquisite Corpse", M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
"United in Art", De Voss Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, USA
"A LOOK AT THE WORLD", Pamplona, Spain
"The World of Others", Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
"Group Exhibition", Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
"House Arrest", Gallery Mai36, Zurich, Swiss
"Out of the Spotlight", Ch’I Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
"China Design Now", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2007 "Chinese Walls", Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
"Post-Vanguard, Chinese contemporary Art", Hong Kong
"What Makes Shanghai addictive?", Berlin, Germany
"Asiana – A Survey of Contemporary Asian Art", Toronto, Canada
"Whispering Wind: recent Chinese Photography", First Center of the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA
"Dragon’s Evolution", China-Square Art Center, New York, NY, USA
"Shanghai New Art", Washington Art Fair, Washington DC, USA
2006 "Happily Ever After", Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, USA
"Diaporama Festival", Nantes, France
"IDAA (International Digital Art Awards)", Queensland, Australia
"The Virtual Salon", Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY, USA
2005 "Absent minded – Group Exhibition of photographers from Shanghai", Lianzhou International
Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
"CREATION", Olive Hyde gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Awards
2009 Pingyao International Photo Festival, Excellent Photographer Awards, China
Gold Medal of ‘China’ theme and Gold Medal of Excellence of 8th Trierenberg Super Circuit, Austria
2008 Photograph of the Year Winner in Fine Art Category, and 1st place – Outstanding Achievement,
The 4th Black and White Spider Awards
Award in Photography of Culture China, Annual Culture People, by Oriental Morning Post, Shanghai,
China
2007 The Most Important 50 International Contemporary Visual Artists by MAC Magazine, Japan
2006 The most potential young artists, Art Finance Magazine, China
IDAA International Digital Art Awards, Queensland, Australia
CCAA China Contemporary Art Awards nomination