LAO JIA’S Exhibitions & Events
1938 Born in Jiming Village, Zunhua, Hebei Province, China
1958 Entered the Art Department of Beijing Art Institute
1962 Worked in Beijing Chaoyang District, Arts & Cultural centres
1964 "Comic Book Show", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1970 Invited to create and published a six-episode of Comic on the History of the Communist
Party of China Museum of Chinese Revolution, China
1972 "Chairman Mao, Talks At The Yan'an Forum Literature and Art: The 30th Anniversary of the
National Art Exhibition”
1973 "National Chinese Painting: Comic Art Exhibition”
1978 Posted to Beijing Art Academy
1982 "The Sino -Japanese Art Joint Exhibition", Vancouver, Canada
1983 "Art of The 80th Century Exhibition", Work collected by the Beijing Artist's Association
1985 A Joint Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Hong Kong; Singapore
1986 "Chinese Painting Exhibition", Bucharest Romania Visited Singapore
1987 Exhibited in Hong Kong and National Art Museum of China, Beijing Graded as First Grade
National Artist
1988 Solo exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Artworks acquired as Private collections by the National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1989 "The 23rd Monte Carlo's International Contemporary Art Exhibition"
"Contemporary Chinese Painting Exhibition", Moscow Exhibited in Harvard University,
United States of America
1991 Solo Exhibition, Yan Tai Museum
1992 Solo Exhibition, Jiangsu Art Museum
Solo Exhibition, Beijing Fine Art Academy
1994 Solo Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
"94 - Exploring for the Inner Power for Ink and Wash" exhibition, National Art Museum of
China, Beijing
"The 8th National Art Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1995 Solo Exhibition, Singapore
1997 Established Lao Jia Art Museum
Solo exhibition of new works - Official Opening of Lao Jia Art Museum
1998 "98 - Exploring for the Inner Power for Ink and Wash" exhibition, National Art Museum of
China, Beijing Solo exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
1999 "21 Most Famous Artists of Chinese Painting Beyond the Century", National Art Museum
of China, Beijing "The 9th National Art Exhibition", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2001 "The Masters of Chinese Painting Of The Last 100 Years Exhibition" by the Chinese
Ministry of Culture and the China Artists'Association
2002 Solo exhibition, Shijiazhuang Museum
"Century Movement - China 50 Contemporary Artists", China Millennium Monument
Museum
2003 "China Art Today" Exhibition, China Millennium Monument Museum
"The 2nd Annual National Chinese Art Academic Exhibition”
2004 "Century Movement - China Contemporary Artists" Works Exhibition, China Millennium
Monument Museum
"New Freehand Chinese Ink Painting by Invited Artist", National Art Museum of China,
Beijing "The 10th National Art Exhibition", Zhejiang World Trade International Exhibition
Centre Artwork "Men of Hulunbei'er", Collected by the National Art Museum of China,
Beijing
2005 "Excellent Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition", the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference Auditorium
"The 6th Sino - Japanese Fine Arts Exchange Exhibition”
2006 "Golden Age of Contemporary Chinese Painting- 100 China's Most Influential Artists
Nominated by the Art
Publisher" exhibition, China Millennium Monument Museum "1996 — 2006, Chinese Ink
Painting Documenta Exhibition", Nanjing Museum
2007 5 artists joint exhibition, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing
Joint exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
"Oriental Vision - China and Korea Contemporary Art Exhibition" Solo exhibition
2008 Joint exhibition, Da Lian
2009 "China Vision - Ink society", Sunshine International Museum
"Characteristic of Ink and Brush - Renowned Contemporary Chinese Artists Invitational
Exhibition", Anhui Museum "Masters of Chinese Painting: The Last 100 Years 1908 -
2008", National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2010 The People's Fine Arts Publishing House published Masters of Chinese Modern Painting:
Jia Haoyi, featuring 128 representative works.
2013 Contest participating in "10th China Art Festival · National Excellent Art Exhibition" at the
Shandong Museum of Art and winning a prize for excellent work.
In the same year, Lao Jia was appointed as a specially invited artistic advisor to China
Art Academy Art Creation Center.
2014 Lao Jia’s work Fast Wind was selected for the "12th National Art Exhibition."
2015 “LAO JIA FREEHAND PAINTING” exhibition held at the National Art Museum of China.
The Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House published Lao Jia’s Freehand Painting, an
eight-volume edition with selected texts.
2016 “One within Heaven and Earth—Laojia freehand painting” exhibition held in Art Museum
Beijing fine art academy, Lao Jia donated 12 pieces of artwork to Beijing Fine Art
Academy where he worked for more than 20 years.
2017 Solo exhibition “LAOJIA’S FREEHAND PAINTING” in Ukraine National Academy of Fine
Arts to celebrate The 25 anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between
China and Ukraine, The 100 anniversary of the founding of the Ukraine National Academy of
Fine Arts & The 20 anniversary of the founding of Laojia Art Museum.