1980-1984 studied in Architecture Department of Chongqing Architecture College from 1980 to 1984
1984-1992 worked in Southwest Architecture Design Institute as a National Certified Architect, and had been awarded grand architecture prizes in various types for many times?
1992 founded the Company of Chengdu Haosi Property Development?
1996 the Company of Sichuan Gangjia Architecture Design?
1997 founded Sichuan Upriver Stock Co., Ltd ?
1997 founded Upriver Art Gallery, the first private Art Gallery in China?
1998 founded Chengdu Upriver Guildhall and Kunming Upriver Guildhall?
1999 elected as one of the twelve "Outstanding Young Architect" of China by UN?
2001 Bigining to be an artist from then on
2002 The excellent works prize of the 20th China Photographic Exhibition
2003 The excellent works prize of the 21th China Photographic Exhibition Source www.chenjiagang.com
Featuring the most prominent names in contemporary Chinese photography, these pocket-sized monographs explore the extraordinary diversity of the genre and showcase a creative, liberated, and unique artistic perspective. The collections present an obscure tableau of modern Chinese society, from magnificent landscapes and never-before-seen industrial compounds to the desires of Chinas new youth and its growing sociopolitical challenges. The imagery from some of the most exciting artists working todayincluding the invisible man photos of Liu Bolin and the world-famous coal miner portraits of Song Chaois prefaced with a concise essay that explains the background and inspiration of each featured photographer.
Chen Jiagang has taken the former industrial compounds built in central cities of China during the sixties (the Third Front) as the subject matter of his first bodies of work. Trying to capture the specters of industry that still reside there, his pictures tell the sad story of these cities, which in their time were the incarnation of the social ideal, the glory of the country but which have since become useless industrial cemeteries and endless wasteland Making use of an extremely large format camera, Chen Jiagang is fully engaged in a realist but narrative documentation of abandoned and desolate landscapes and the scars left by time and neglect on such regions.
Capturing another side of China, a country currently experiencing one of the highest rates of development in the world, Chen Jiagang's sumptuous, large-scale color photographs of monumental industrial wastelands make us question the usefulness, or absurdity, of the mad development that humans so intrinsically pursue.
