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Liu Yang and Qingjun Huang
About Qingjun Huang
Qingjun Huang is a freelancer artist. He was born and raised in China, currently based in the United States.
Qingjun's representative work is Family Stuff photography series, including 160 works, started from 2003 and is ongoing. Robert Frank said “Your work is an open window to look at China.” Family Stuff works have been exhibited worldwide, including Christie’s London, International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Switzerland, Chengdu Art Museum, Hunan Art Museum, Xi’an Art Museum Three Shadows Photography Art Center China, HeadOn Photofestival Australia, Photoquai Photography Biennial France, Singapore International Photography Festival, Helsinki Photo Festival, Benaki Museum Athens Greece, College of Lake County USA, among others.
BBC has featured him four times, NY Times, Bloomberg, Wired, Business Insider, Guardian, China Daily also published his works. His works are in books and magazines such as HUMAN.KIND, NatGeo, Harvard Business Review, My House My Room, Family Photography Now, Architecture Boston, Chinese Photography, Grazia etc. His works shown in textbooks Oxford University and National Geographic learning.
Qingjun’s works are juried into museum’s permanent collections, including Louisiana University Museum of Art, Appleton Art Museum, Figge Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Boca Raton Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Atlantic University Galleries, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Bradbury Art Museum, College of Lake County, Chengdu Art Museum, Photography Museum of Lishui and so on.
Selected Awards：
2025 Giga Photo Contest, by UNICEF and ITU, Students’ Choice
2023 Fujifilm 2022 GFX Grant Challenge Global Winner
2021 Lishui Photography Festival ／Special Collection Award
2015 London International Creation Competition (LICC Finallist)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
03//2026 “Mirror in Others” The American Experience of Chinese Contemporary Artists
The U.S. Embassy in China, for celebrating USA 250 anniversary.
03//2026 “Civilization” Museum Fur Gestaltung, Zurich Switzerland
02/2026~02/2027Peoria City Hall, Peoria, IL USA
12/2025. Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025
04~08/2025 “Civilization: The Way We Live Now”, Kunsthalle Munich, Germany
06/2025 “Joy of Connection” Giga photo festival, by UNICEF and ITU, Geneva Switzerland
05/2025 Zhou B Art Center, 3rd Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of Arts
02/2025, Peoria City Hall, Mayor’s suite. Peoria IL, USA.
Jan.13-31,2025 Culture Identified, Christie’s London, UK.
Oct. 2023-Aug. 2024 <Human.Kind> International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland.
Dec.31st 2023-March 30th 2024 HEIGHT Masterpiece Exhibition of Famous Chinese Photographers, Chengdu Art Museum, China
11/2023 Fujifilm GFX Grant Challenge Winner’s exhibition, Tokyo Japan
11/2021 Head On Photo Festival, Australia
11/2021 Lishui Photography Festival, China
03/2021 Resonance, A Tribute to Robert Frank, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
11/2020 Global Localized Chinese Contemporary Art, Hunan Art Museum
09/2020 Helsinki Photo Festival, Finland
10/2019 All We Love, 798 Art Factory, Beijing,China
11/2016 Chinese Contemporary Photography Group show in Milan, Italy
06/2016 Constellation.s Habiter le Monde, Centre d’architecture Bordeaux, France
06/2015 Athens Photo Festival 2015, Benaki Museum, Athens
03/2015 The Transformations of a Thread, Xi’an Art Museum
10/2014 4th edition Singapore International Photography Festival. Singapore.
09/2013 Photoquai Photography Biennial, Musee Du Quai Branly.Paris
11/2012 Lianzhou FOTO
03/2012 AIPAD New York, USA
11/2010 PHOTO Exhibition, Paris
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
01/2026 Family Stuff, XPOSURE Festival, Sharjah UAE, as quest photographer.
10/2025 In Her Silence, God, Foster Gallery for Christianity and the Fine Arts. Peoria IL USA
09/2025 Family Stuff, Carl Sandburg College, IL USA
02/2025 Family Stuff, Robert T Wright Gallery, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL USA
01/2025 "Family Stuff" Palm Beach Art Design Showroom Florida USA
01/2025 "Steam Locomotive in China" Peoria Art Guild, USA
02/2024 “Family Stuff”, Palm Beach Art Design Showroom Florida USA
01/2024 “Illinois Family Stuff”, Peoria Comtemporary Art Center, USA
07/2023 “Family Stuff” 1839 Comtemporary Gallery, Taiwan.
11/2022 “Housed/Unhoused”. Contemporary Art Center, Peoria IL USA
02/2022 FUJIFILM X Space, Shanghai, Family Stuff of Streamers.
11/2017 Amusement Park, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
05/2015 From Faraway Steam Locomotive Solo Show, Terminal 2 Pudong International Airport.
03/2015 Family Stuff New Works Show. Meimen Gallery, Beijing
02/2015 “Online Shopping Family Stuff”, Alibaba Group Headquater, Hangzhou, China
09/2014 “Family Stuff” solo show in WM Gallery, Amsterdam
09/2013 “Family Stuff” works 10 years anniversary exhibition in 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing China
12/2007 “Family Stuff” ,798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China.
10/2007 “China Steam Locomotive”Dresden Transport Museum, Dresden, Germany
12/2006 “China Steam Locomotive”DB Museum, Nuremberg Germany