深圳美术馆的前身是深圳展览馆，始建于1976年，是深圳最早的一个艺术品展览机构，深圳特区成立后，经市政府批准，于1987年正式更名为深圳美术馆。现有占地面积5500㎡，建筑面积2800㎡，展厅面积1200㎡。

    建馆30年来，深圳美术馆利用特区“文化窗口”的作用、毗邻港澳的地理优势，通过多种形式的活动，积极推进海内外艺术交流。2001年以来，深圳美术馆将“关注当代都市艺术，关注本土艺术”确立为自身的学术目标，策划举办年度中国当代艺术专题展和深圳本土艺术专题展，以此推进中国当代都市艺术和深圳本地艺术的发展，塑造了城市美术馆的良好形象。

    深圳美术馆将继续“关注当代都市艺术，关注本土艺术”，同时，继续利用一切可利用资源，为专业艺术工作者、艺术爱好者及广大民众提供全方位的服务，积极共建社会公共文化服务体系，努力打造公共服务型美术馆。

    收藏
 

    深圳美术馆的收藏宗旨是，积极贯彻学术定位“关注当代都市艺术，关注本土艺术”，进行相关收藏，在此基础上，强调收藏种类的多样性，进行其它类型艺术精品的收藏。今后，还将继续完善中国当代艺术和深圳本土艺术收藏，并加强艺术精品的收藏力度。

    深圳美术馆现有典藏2384件，其中国画713件，油画166件，雕塑17件，其它1488件。典藏以当代艺术和本土艺术为最大特点，尤其是对当代油画作品的收藏已初具规模。当代油画藏品和深圳本土艺术藏品曾先后前往马来西亚、澳门、德国荷石州等地交流展出，广受关注。

    展览
 

    深圳展览馆成立不久，就举办了一系列弘扬传统中国艺术的大型美术作品展览，例如1977年的“北京荣宝斋木版水印暨书画原作展”、1978年的“人民美术出版社书画原作展”等等，后来，又在1985年举办“深圳美术节”，这些活动邀请了大批艺术家来到深圳，充分起到了连接祖国大陆与港澳台文化交流的作用。

    自2001年确定“关注当代都市艺术、关注本土艺术”的学术定位以来，深圳美术馆紧紧围绕这个定位，相继举办了系列展览，对中国当代艺术进行了学术清理，同时，通过策办年度专题展、学术研讨会等活动，深入挖掘、发现和组织本土美术创作，全面、充分地展示了深圳本土画家丰硕的创作成果，受到了各界好评。

    此外，还举办了各种名家名作展览，见证了中国传统艺术的承传与变革。

   近年来，深圳美术馆每年平均举办24个展览，观众约5万人次。

    以下是深圳美术馆近年举办过的重要展览：
 

    “关注当代都市艺术”系列
 

    观念的图像——2002中国当代油画邀请展
    图像的图像——2003中国当代油画邀请展
    居住在成都——2004中国当代油画邀请展
    缘分的天空——2005中国当代油画邀请展
    城市的皮肤——当代都市影像的可能性研究展

    “关注本土艺术”系列
 

    深圳抽象——深圳艺术家十人联展（2001年）
    行者无疆——早期来深美术家六人画展（2002年）
    深圳水彩画家联展（2002年）
    乡土情结与都市空间——深圳版画家联展（2003年）
    视觉特区——2004深圳青年实验艺术展（2004年）
    辉煌——深圳特区美术作品展（2004年）
    魅力深圳——庆祝深圳特区成立25周年暨深圳画家影像作品展（2005年）
    蜕变——2005深圳中青年油画家提名展（2005年）

    名家经典系列
 

    林风眠画展（1997年）
    当代艺术大师——傅抱石精品展（1998年）
    张大千画展（2001年）
    徐悲鸿画展暨徐悲鸿藏古代中国画展（2002年）
    黄永玉八十艺展之特展——黄永玉的翡冷翠（2004年）
    李可染写生作品展（2005年）
    形上·形下——2005石虎新作展（2005年）
    战争与和平——西班牙艺术大师戈雅作品展（2005年）
    华君武捐赠作品展（2005年）
    孔柏基捐赠油画作品展（2005年）

    机构
 

    深圳美术馆现任馆长为宋玉明，下设三部一室，推广策划部负责展览策划、对外宣传、审美教育、管理建档等工作；研究收藏部负责学术研究、艺术收藏等工作；展览陈列部负责美术展览的展示与陈列等工作；行政办公室负责本馆的行政管理工作。
 

    现共有工作人员23名，其中在职员工18名，含业务人员7名。

    SHENZHEN ART MUSEUM

    Brief Introduction

    The predecessor of Shenzhen Art Museum is Shenzhen Exhibition Hall, one of the earliest exhibition institutions for artworks, which was established in 1976 and was renamed as Shenzhen Art Museum in 1987 under the approval of the municipal government after the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The museum now has a floor space of 5500㎡, a building area of 2800㎡ and an area of 1200㎡ for the exhibition hall.

    30 years has passed since its establishment, Shenzhen Art Museum has been actively pushing forward art exchanges both at home and abroad through activities of multiple forms, taking advantages of the function of “a cultural window” of the Special Economic Zone and neighboring Hong Kong and Macao,. Since 2001, the museum has established its academic target as “pay close attention to contemporary urban native arts” and has been plotting Annual China Theme Exhibition on Contemporary Art and Theme Exhibition on Native Art of Shenzhen by which the museum has propelled the developments of the contemporary city art of China and native art of Shenzhen and shaped a fine image of city museum.

    Shenzhen Art Museum will continuously stick to its academic target, namely, “pay close attention to contemporary city arts and native arts” and simultaneously provide all-around services to the professional art workers, art amateurs and the mass through all available resources and jointly and actively establish a service system for socially public culture and try to build an art museum servicing the public.

    Collections

    The collection tenet of Shenzhen Art Museum is to conduct relevant collections with the active execution of the academic orientation of “pay close attention to contemporary urban and native arts” and based on such collections, put emphasis on the variety of sorts of the collections and conduct collections of other kinds of fine art works. In the future, the museum will continuously perfect the collections on the contemporary city art of China and native art of Shenzhen and strengthen the collection force of fine art works.

    Chinese paintings, 166 pieces of oil paintings, 17 pieces of sculptures and 1488 pieces of other sorts of collections. The classical collections of the museum are mainly characterized by contemporary art works and native art works. In particular, the collection of contemporary oil paintings has begun to take its shape. The contemporary oil paintings and the native art collections of Shenzhen has successively been sent to countries and places such as Malaysia, Macao and Schleswig Holstein of Germany for exchange exhibitions and received a wide attention.

    Exhibitions

    Shortly after its establishment, Shenzhen Exhibition Hall started to hold a series of large-scale artistic works exhibitions with the aim to promote the Chinese traditional art, such as “Beijing Rongbaozhai Water-color Woodblock Printings and Original Art and Calligraphy Exhibition” in 1977 and “Original Art and Calligraphy Exhibition of People’s Fine Arts Press” in 1978. It also held a “Shenzhen Art Festival” in 1985. In these activates, a lot of artists were invited to Shenzhen, which fully played the role of cultural exchange connecting the motherland mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

    Since the establishment of academic orientation of “pay close attention to contemporary urban and native arts” in 2001, Shenzhen Art Museum has successively held a series of exhibitions firmly sticking to such orientation which has conducted academic cleaning to the contemporary art of China. Simultaneously through plotting and holding activities such as annual theme exhibitions, symposiums, Shenzhen Art Museum has deeply unearthed, discovered and organized the native art creations of Shenzhen, which has comprehensively and fully showed the rich creation achievements of the native painters of Shenzhen and enjoyed good comments of all social circles.

    In addition, the museum has held various exhibitions of masterpieces of celebrities in the field and such exhibitions have witnessed the succession and changes of the traditional art of China.

    In recent years, Shenzhen Art Museum has annually held 24 exhibitions and the number of audience is as high as some 50,000.

    The following contents are the important exhibitions held by Shenzhen Art Museum in recent years:

    Series of “Pay Close Attention to Contemporary Urban Art”

    Images on Ideas —— 2002 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
    Image on Image —— 2003 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
    Inhabitation in Chengdu —— 2004 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
    Sky of Destiny —— 2005 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings
    Skin of Cities —— Exhibition of Research on Possibility of Images of Contemporary Cities

    Series of “Pay Close Attention to Native Arts”

    Abstraction of Shenzhen —— Joint Exhibition of Ten Artists of Shenzhen (2001)
    No Border for Traveler —— Joint Art Exhibition of Six Artists Coming to Shenzhen in Early Days (2002)
    Joint Exhibition of Watercolor Painters of Shenzhen (2002)
    Native Soil Complex and City Space —— Joint Exhibition of Xylograph Painters of Shenzhen (2003)
    Visual Zone —— 2004 Experimental Art Exhibition of Youth of Shenzhen (2004)
    Resplendence —— Exhibition of Art works of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (2004)
    Charming Shenzhen —— Celebration for 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Shenzhen Special    Economic Zone and Image Works Exhibition of Painters of Shenzhen (2005)
    Disintegration —— 2005 Nomination Exhibition for Mid-aged and Young Oil Panting Painters of Shenzhen (2005)

    Series of Classics of Celebrities

    Art Exhibition of Lin Fengmian (1997)
    Classics Exhibition of Fu Baoshi, a Contemporary Art Master (1998)
    Art Exhibition of Zhang Daqian (2001)
    Art Exhibition of Xu Beihong and Art Exhibition of Collections of Chinese Ancient Paintings by Xu Beihong (2002)
    Special Exhibition for Eighty Years Art Career Exhibition of Huang Yongyu —— Firenze in Eyes of Huang Yongyu (2004)
    Exhibition of Sketching Works of Li Keran (2005)
    Metaphysical and Empirical —— 2005 New Works Exhibition of Shi Hu (2005)
    War and Peace —— Exhibition of Works of Goya, a Art Master of Spain (2005)
    Exhibition of Works Donated by Hua Junwu (2005)
    Exhibition of Oil Paintings Donated by Kong Baiji (2005)

    Institution

    Shenzhen Art Museum, with Song Yuming as the current chief librarian, has three divisions and one office. Generalizing and planning division is liable for the work such as exhibition planning, external propaganda, aesthetic education and file establishment and management; research & collection division is liable for work such as academic researches and arts collections; exhibition division is liable for work such as display and exhibition and administration office is liable for administration and management work of the museum.
At present, the museum has 23 staff members in all, including 18 on the job, among whom 7 are business personnel.