Landscape is a way for me to reason things out; landscape is proof that I can use objects to unburden my feelings; landscape is a place where my soul is at peace; landscape is an abode in which my mortal body can
reside; landscape is a release for my Buddhist ideas. I am a man who paints landscapes; I am a member of the avant-garde literati who paints landscapes on the body. In the midst of a big city teeming with human life, in the humble room where I lead a secluded life, I am not a swordsman; I am not a gambler, still less am I a blind person. There are times when, like flowers fallen into a stream, I forget both the material world and myself, and I just paint landscapes; I just paint on the body with wild strokes and haphazard smears. This is enough, it’s a state of mind that I get into; I believe in intuition; I believe in landscape, I while away the time amid these landscapes…
— Huang Yan

Selected solo exhibitions: 2000: Hanart TZ, Hong Kong; 1999: Proper, Shenyang.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival; 2001: Dialogue, Milan; Knowledge is Power, Xidan Bookstore, Beijing; Project Art Exhibitions, Art Center, Shanghai; Chengdu Biennial; Chinese Contemporary Art, Berlin; Re-Shuffle, Sculpture Institute, Shenzen; Red Hot, Red Gate, Beijing; Asia Contemporary Art, Hamburg; Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Digital Arts Festival, Beijing; Virtual Future, Museum of Fine Art, Guangdong; 2000: Charming China, Eastlink, Shanghai; Photograph by Four Artists, Chinese Contemporary, London.