深圳美術(shù)館的前身是深圳展覽館，始建于1976年，是深圳最早的一個(gè)藝術(shù)品展覽機(jī)構(gòu)，深圳特區(qū)成立后，經(jīng)市政府批準(zhǔn)，于1987年正式更名為深圳美術(shù)館?，F(xiàn)有占地面積5500㎡，建筑面積2800㎡，展廳面積1200㎡。
建館30年來(lái)，深圳美術(shù)館利用特區(qū)“文化窗口”的作用、毗鄰港澳的地理優(yōu)勢(shì)，通過(guò)多種形式的活動(dòng)，積極推進(jìn)海內(nèi)外藝術(shù)交流。2001年以來(lái)，深圳美術(shù)館將“關(guān)注當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)，關(guān)注本土藝術(shù)”確立為自身的學(xué)術(shù)目標(biāo)，策劃舉辦年度中國(guó)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)專(zhuān)題展和深圳本土藝術(shù)專(zhuān)題展，以此推進(jìn)中國(guó)當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)和深圳本地藝術(shù)的發(fā)展，塑造了城市美術(shù)館的良好形象。
深圳美術(shù)館將繼續(xù)“關(guān)注當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)，關(guān)注本土藝術(shù)”，同時(shí)，繼續(xù)利用一切可利用資源，為專(zhuān)業(yè)藝術(shù)工作者、藝術(shù)愛(ài)好者及廣大民眾提供全方位的服務(wù)，積極共建社會(huì)公共文化服務(wù)體系，努力打造公共服務(wù)型美術(shù)館。
收藏
深圳美術(shù)館的收藏宗旨是，積極貫徹學(xué)術(shù)定位“關(guān)注當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)，關(guān)注本土藝術(shù)”，進(jìn)行相關(guān)收藏，在此基礎(chǔ)上，強(qiáng)調(diào)收藏種類(lèi)的多樣性，進(jìn)行其它類(lèi)型藝術(shù)精品的收藏。今后，還將繼續(xù)完善中國(guó)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)和深圳本土藝術(shù)收藏，并加強(qiáng)藝術(shù)精品的收藏力度。
深圳美術(shù)館現(xiàn)有典藏2384件，其中國(guó)畫(huà)713件，油畫(huà)166件，雕塑17件，其它1488件。典藏以當(dāng)代藝術(shù)和本土藝術(shù)為最大特點(diǎn)，尤其是對(duì)當(dāng)代油畫(huà)作品的收藏已初具規(guī)模。當(dāng)代油畫(huà)藏品和深圳本土藝術(shù)藏品曾先后前往馬來(lái)西亞、澳門(mén)、德國(guó)荷石州等地交流展出，廣受關(guān)注。
展覽
深圳展覽館成立不久，就舉辦了一系列弘揚(yáng)傳統(tǒng)中國(guó)藝術(shù)的大型美術(shù)作品展覽，例如1977年的“北京榮寶齋木版水印暨書(shū)畫(huà)原作展”、1978年的“人民美術(shù)出版社書(shū)畫(huà)原作展”等等，后來(lái)，又在1985年舉辦“深圳美術(shù)節(jié)”，這些活動(dòng)邀請(qǐng)了大批藝術(shù)家來(lái)到深圳，充分起到了連接祖國(guó)大陸與港澳臺(tái)文化交流的作用。
自2001年確定“關(guān)注當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)、關(guān)注本土藝術(shù)”的學(xué)術(shù)定位以來(lái)，深圳美術(shù)館緊緊圍繞這個(gè)定位，相繼舉辦了系列展覽，對(duì)中國(guó)當(dāng)代藝術(shù)進(jìn)行了學(xué)術(shù)清理，同時(shí)，通過(guò)策辦年度專(zhuān)題展、學(xué)術(shù)研討會(huì)等活動(dòng)，深入挖掘、發(fā)現(xiàn)和組織本土美術(shù)創(chuàng)作，全面、充分地展示了深圳本土畫(huà)家豐碩的創(chuàng)作成果，受到了各界好評(píng)。
此外，還舉辦了各種名家名作展覽，見(jiàn)證了中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)藝術(shù)的承傳與變革。
近年來(lái)，深圳美術(shù)館每年平均舉辦24個(gè)展覽，觀(guān)眾約5萬(wàn)人次。
以下是深圳美術(shù)館近年舉辦過(guò)的重要展覽：
“關(guān)注當(dāng)代都市藝術(shù)”系列
觀(guān)念的圖像——2002中國(guó)當(dāng)代油畫(huà)邀請(qǐng)展
圖像的圖像——2003中國(guó)當(dāng)代油畫(huà)邀請(qǐng)展
居住在成都——2004中國(guó)當(dāng)代油畫(huà)邀請(qǐng)展
緣分的天空——2005中國(guó)當(dāng)代油畫(huà)邀請(qǐng)展
城市的皮膚——當(dāng)代都市影像的可能性研究展
“關(guān)注本土藝術(shù)”系列
深圳抽象——深圳藝術(shù)家十人聯(lián)展（2001年）
行者無(wú)疆——早期來(lái)深美術(shù)家六人畫(huà)展（2002年）
深圳水彩畫(huà)家聯(lián)展（2002年）
鄉(xiāng)土情結(jié)與都市空間——深圳版畫(huà)家聯(lián)展（2003年）
視覺(jué)特區(qū)——2004深圳青年實(shí)驗(yàn)藝術(shù)展（2004年）
輝煌——深圳特區(qū)美術(shù)作品展（2004年）
魅力深圳——慶祝深圳特區(qū)成立25周年暨深圳畫(huà)家影像作品展（2005年）
蛻變——2005深圳中青年油畫(huà)家提名展（2005年）
名家經(jīng)典系列
林風(fēng)眠畫(huà)展（1997年）
當(dāng)代藝術(shù)大師——傅抱石精品展（1998年）
張大千畫(huà)展（2001年）
徐悲鴻畫(huà)展暨徐悲鴻藏古代中國(guó)畫(huà)展（2002年）
黃永玉八十藝展之特展——黃永玉的翡冷翠（2004年）
李可染寫(xiě)生作品展（2005年）
形上·形下——2005石虎新作展（2005年）
戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)與和平——西班牙藝術(shù)大師戈雅作品展（2005年）
華君武捐贈(zèng)作品展（2005年）
孔柏基捐贈(zèng)油畫(huà)作品展（2005年）
機(jī)構(gòu)
深圳美術(shù)館現(xiàn)任館長(zhǎng)為宋玉明，下設(shè)三部一室，推廣策劃部負(fù)責(zé)展覽策劃、對(duì)外宣傳、審美教育、管理建檔等工作；研究收藏部負(fù)責(zé)學(xué)術(shù)研究、藝術(shù)收藏等工作；展覽陳列部負(fù)責(zé)美術(shù)展覽的展示與陳列等工作；行政辦公室負(fù)責(zé)本館的行政管理工作。
現(xiàn)共有工作人員23名，其中在職員工18名，含業(yè)務(wù)人員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.