Du
Chonggang
Born
1963 in China.
Teacher
in Ji Nan Craft
Arts College
and Shan Dong Arts College,
China, 1985-2003.
Arrived
2003 in Australia.
Education
Master
of Fine Art (by Research), Monash
University, Australia
Bachelor
of Fine Art, Shan Dong Normal
University, China
Diploma
of Fine Art, Shan Dong Arts College,
China
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Uncertain,
Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Paper
in East and West, Jan Manton Art Brisbane, Australia
2010
Ambiguous, Greenaway
Art Gallery,
Adelaide, Australia
2010 Background, Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Hybridity, Monash
University, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Civilised Phalanx, Monash
University Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
2006
New Paintings Exhibition in Span Galleries, Melbourne,
Australia
2004
Solo Exhibition in Span Galleries,
Melbourne, Australia
2002
Solo Exhibition in the Tenth Chinese Art Fair, Beijing, China
1992
First Solo Exhibition at Capital Museum,
Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2013 蛇 rắn 뱀 Snake - A
Celebration of Asian Australian Art, City of Sydney –
Chinese New Year Festival Exhibition,
Sydney Town Hall, Sydney,
Australia
2013 Small
Sculpture Fair 2013, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2012 Group
Exhibition, Memento 2012, Jan Manton
Art Brisbane, Australia
2012 Review,
Australia China Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Melbourne
Art Fair 2012, Ausin Tung Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building,
Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Art
Melbourne, Ausin Tung Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton,
Melbourne, Australia
2012 Chinese
Australia, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 The
Art of Christmas, Small Works Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia
2010
China
Obscura, MiFA, Melbourne, Australia
2010
2010
Fletcher Jones art prize, Geelong
Gallery, Australia
2009
Post,
Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Eight Ways of Being Here, New Work from Eight Emerging
Artists of
Chinese Descent, Museum of Chinese
Australian History, Melbourne,
Australia
2007
Group
Exhibition at Span Galleries, Melbourne,
Australia
2005
ANL
Maritime Art Prize 2005, Melbourne,
Australia
2001
Selected to Participate in China Watercolor Figure Paintings Exhibition,
China
2000
Selected to Participate in the Fifth National Watercolor and Crayon
Exhibition, China
2000 Selected to Participate in the Ya Heng Cup National Painting Exhibition,
China
1999
Selected to Participate in the Ninth National Art Exhibition, China
1998 Selected to Participate in the Fourth National Watercolor and Crayon
Exhibition, China
1997 Selected to Participate in Shan Dong, Hu Bei and Hong Kong Watercolor
Exhibition, China
1996 Selected to Participate in the Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings Overseas Touring and
Outstanding Chinese Oil Paintings Exhibition, Malaysia
1994 Selected to Participate in Shan Dong Art Exhibition, Credit Award,
Shan Dong, China
1994 Selected to Participate in the First Chinese Oil Painting Still Life
Exhibition, Beijing, China
1989
Selected to Participate in Shan Dong Art Exhibition, Shan Dong, China
1988 Selected to Participate in Shan Dong Oil Figure Painting Exhibition,
Shan Dong, China
1987 Selected to Participate in the National Art Exhibition of the 60th
Anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China
Awards
2013 Small
Sculpture Fair 2013, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2010 2010
Fletcher Jones art prize, Geelong Gallery,
Australia
2005 ANL
Maritime Art Prize 2005, Melbourne,
Australia
1999
First
Prize, Shan Dong Art Exhibition, Shan Dong, China
1994 Credit
Award, Shan Dong Art Exhibition, Shan Dong, China
Events
The
Jewish Museum of Australia's
Artevent was a roaring success on Tuesday 16th October 2012.
Held in the magnificent NGV forecourt and Great Hall works by 28 of Australia's
leading contemporary artists were auctioned for a good cause. After numerous
bidders getting in on the action Chonggang Du’s Newspaper #3 was
eventually sold to a very happy couple.
About
the Art event at http://www.artevent.com.au/about.html
Selected Collections
National
Art Museum of China.
Private
collections in Australia, China and USA
Selected Bibliography
ISSUU - Stonnington
Review Local by The Weekly Review, Local scene: What on, CHONGGANG
DU – UNCERTAIN,
Tuesday
30th October 2012
Coming Clean
Discarded Newspapers Inspire Creativity, Chonggang Du in the
Stonnington Leader Tuesday 2nd October 2012.
All the News Fit to Paint, Chonggang Du interviewed for the Knox Leader, Tuesday 2nd October 2012.
Du Chonggang Works,
Published on Chinese Oil Painting,
issue No. 3, 2003.
Record
in Asia Art Archive, www.aaa.org.hk/collection, 2004.
Heritage of Sui and
Tang Dynasties, Published on The
World of Water and Color,
Shan
Dong Fine Art Press, 2001.
The Girl in red dress, 2001,
51cm x 72cm, watercolor, Published on China
Watercolor Figure Paintings, Liao Ning Art Press, 2001.
Sui Tang Dynasty
Charm,
1999, 99cm x 74 cm, Published on Watercolor,
issue No. 1, 2001.
Ruin No.1, 2000,
104cm x 75 cm, watercolor, Published on Collection
of works from 5th national watercolor painting and gouache
exhibition, Ling Nan Arts Press, 2000.
Published
Color and Techniques of Still Life,
Guang Xi Art Press, China, 1999.
Record
in the Famous Chinese Artists Dictionary,
China, 1999.
Heritage of Sui and
Tang Dynasties, 1999, 108cm x 153cm, watercolor,
Published on The
9th Chinese National Art Exhibition 1999, Watercolor & Gouache,
Pastel Exhibition, Chinese Culture Ministry, Chinese Artist’s 