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- Artist: SHAN SA
- Medium(s): Painter and writer
- Born in: Beijing, China
- Exhibitions List


Shan Sa was born in Beijing and resides in Paris.
At the age of eight, she made a sensation in China when her first poems were published in “Poetry” magazine. At the age of nine, she was acclaimed as the youngest poet, a phenomenon of Chinese modern literature. Before the age of sixteen, she had already published four collections of her poems in Chinese.
In 1990, she moved to Paris as a teenager. In 1997, she returned to France and published her first novel, Porte de la Paix Céleste, which won the Goncourt for best first novel.
Later, at age of twenty-eight, she published her internationally renowned novel, “The Girl Who Played Go”. She has sold 350,000 copies of her third novel in France. Her writings have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Shan Sa is now acclaimed worldwide as an author. She has published six novels and received the Prix Goncourt twice. Her novels have been published in the Unites States by Knopf and Harper-Collins.
Shan Sa is also a painter with prominent exhibitions in New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai.
ShanSa ExhibitionsClose
Shanghai:
- 2009
A New Series of Oil Paintings, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai
- 2009
Nominated as "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture
- 2009
"Time in West, Light in East", Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai
- 2008
Shanghai International Art Fair with the Marlborough Gallery of New York
- 2007
Shanghai International Art Fair with the Marlborough Gallery of New York
Paris:
- 2009
RICARD Foundation for Contemporary Art
- 2004
Art Paris with the Berthet-Aittouares Gallery
- 2004
Berthet-Aittouares Gallery
- 2004
Maison de la Chine
- 2002
Adler-Navarra Gallery
- 2001
Adler-Navarra Gallery
Monte-Carlo:
- 2007
Marlborough Gallery
Tokyo:
- 2007
Chanel Nexus Gallery
- 2007
Takashimaya Nihonbashi Gallery
Nagoya:
- 2008
Takashimaya Gallery
New York:
- 2008
Marlborough Gallery of New York
- 2006
International Asian Art Fair with the Marlborough Gallery of New York
- 2005
International Asian Art Fair with the Marlborough Gallery of New York







