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5,500平 方米，建筑面积2,800平方米，展厅面积1,200平方米。

    该馆现有典藏2384件，其中国画713件，油画166件，雕塑17件，其它1488件。典藏以“关注当代都市艺术，关注本土艺术”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。

    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。

    深圳美术馆建立之初就致力于学术展览的运作，包括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，通过策划年度专题展、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。当今中国的当代艺术日益活跃，不同门类、水平的艺术展览层出不穷，而深圳美术馆仍然坚持做足展览的学术性以及当代性，近年来组织了许多国内外的著名展览，比如：城市的皮肤—当代都市影像的可能性研究展、2002-2005年间的中国当代油画邀请展、视觉特区—2004深圳青年实验艺术展（2004年）、当代艺术大师—傅抱石精品展（1998年）等一系列关注当代、关注本土的展览。

    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。

Shenzhen Art Museum

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 5,500 m2, a building area of 2,800 m2 and an area of 1,200 cm2 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 local 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.

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.

There are 2,384 pieces of art works in this museum, including Chinese paintings, oil paintings, sculptures and other sorts of collections. The classical collections of the museum are mainly characterized by contemporary art works and local art works. In particular, the collection of contemporary oil paintings has reached a certain scale. The contemporary oil paintings and the local art collections of Shenzhen has been sent to countries and places such as Malaysia, Macao and Schleswig Holstein of Germany for exchange exhibitions and received a wide attention.

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 local 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. These projects include some academic exhibition and activities, for example Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings from 2002 to 2005.

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 Chinese traditional art.