Yan Bo was born in 1970 in Beijing to an artistic family, his father was an oil painter and his mother was an art teacher. He graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1996, and graduated from the postgraduate program in oil painting materials and expression at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2002. He now lives and works in Beijing.
Yan Bo's artistic practice breaks the constraints of traditional rectangular frames, focusing on three-dimensional non-figurative works. His deep understanding of structure, form, color, space, and material has led to a maturation of his artistic language. Yan Bo's works set up a kind of discursive "special objects" in the mixed zone of painting and objects, in which Yan Bo sets up a kind of "logical strangeness", and he establishes a kind of logically unfamiliar context and unique technical support, so that the works, with their open irregular shapes and the traces of time's stacking and sharpening, present the spirit palpable and seemingly warm freedom.
Yan Bo's artistic practice breaks the constraints of traditional rectangular frames, focusing on three-dimensional non-figurative works. His deep understanding of structure, form, color, space, and material has led to a maturation of his artistic language. Yan Bo's works set up a kind of discursive "special objects" in the mixed zone of painting and objects, in which Yan Bo sets up a kind of "logical strangeness", and he establishes a kind of logically unfamiliar context and unique technical support, so that the works, with their open irregular shapes and the traces of time's stacking and sharpening, present the spirit palpable and seemingly warm freedom.
Yan Bo has held exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and other places multiple times in recent years, and has won the Gold Prize at the 10th National Art Exhibition in 2004, the Distinguished Young Artist Prize of Shanghai Spring Art Salon and so on. His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, as well as other prestigious institutions.