Jianbo Yang

Yang Jianbo (杨剑波) is a Chinese painter working in oil and pencil, born in 1972 in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. He is Professor and Department Chair at the School of Art and Design, Yunnan University, where he also supervises graduate students in oil painting. He has been painting since his university years, and over decades his work has developed a distinct visual language rooted in the highlands of Yunnan and Tibet — where vast plateaus, migrating birds, and nomadic figures inhabit a world of compressed light and silence.

1987 – 1991
Bachelor of Fine Arts — Fine Arts College, Southwest University, China
Major: Oil Painting

2019–2024 — Selected works from the Plateau Figures series exhibited in group and institutional shows, Yunnan Province
National Fine Arts Exhibition (全国美术展) — Selected: 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th editions
3rd National Oil Painting Exhibition — Selected work
2nd Chinese Oil Painting Landscape Exhibition — "Visible Poetry" — Selected work
Yunnan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition — Multiple prize-winning participations
Collections: Jiangsu Art Museum (江苏省美术馆) · China News Service Yunnan Branch · Private collections internationally