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Art Fair | 2019 ART CHENGDU-Booth C06
2019.04.25



2019ART CHENGDU

BOOTH C06

 

VIP PREVIEW

2019 / 4 / 28(Sun)11:00-18:00

2019 / 4 / 29(Mon)11:00-19:00

 

PUBLIC OPEN

2019 / 4 / 30-5 / 1(Tue - Wed)10:00-19:00

2019 / 5 / 2(Thu)10:00-17:00

 

Chengdu Century City

New International Exhibition& Conventional Centre






The 2nd edition of International art fair ART CHENGDU has opened on 28th April and will open till 2nd May in Chengdu China. ART CHENGDU is committed to be one of the best art fairs in Asia and around the world. International art fair in Chengdu shows the profound cultural heritage of this city and its new image of contemporary art. Triumph Gallery has presented works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists at booth C06, they are: Cai Jin, Fang Lijun, Jiang Miao, Li Guanguan, Li Xinjian, Liang Ying, Liu Guangguang, Pan Jian, Tu Xi, Wang Mengsha, Xu Hong, Xu Hongxiang, Yang Liming, Zhang Jian, and Zhou Chunya (alphabetical order). We warmly welcome your visit!

 




Seleted Artists

Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun was born in Handan, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the printmaking department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. In the 1980s, Fang Lijun pioneered the cynical realism style, which has been applauded as the most representative and recognizable visual symbols since the “reform and opening up” policy. He has created several huge prints since the late 1990s. With his print-making learning background, he has always expected to make some breakthrough in woodcut print. Huge size but still with fluent knife-wielding techniques is a technical puzzle in Fang Lijun’s woodcut prints, but also his contribution to it. The exhibiting works by Fang Lijun present his humorous and playful style. He has created his unique contemporary woodcut print language with vibrant colour and individualized presentation.

Fang Lijun’s latest solo exhibitions include: “Fang Lijun: Facial Recognition” (Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia, 2019), “This All Too Human World” (Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2017), “Art History of Fang Lijun” (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2017), etc.


Zhou Chunya

Zhou Chunya was born in 1955 in Chongqing, China. He graduated from the Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Art in 1982. Then in 1988, he graduated from Experiment Art department of Kassel Academy of Fine Art, Kassel, Germany. Now Zhou Chunya lives and works in Chengdu and Shanghai, China. Zhou Chunya’s painting style, language, ideas and methods have been paying close attention to the present。His exquisite craftsmanship, absorbing the fruits of western contemporary art, is neither conventional nor out of the tradition. His painting is very individualized, while not confined to the local taste. He found his own way of expression, with, both traditional Chinese image and more powerful western oil painting skills.

Zhou Chunya’s latest solo exhibitions include: “Spring ‧ Sprout”(POLY GALLERY II, Hong Kong, China, 2018), “Zhou Chunya: Hong Kong Solo Exhibition”(Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2018),“Zhou Chunya New Works 2015” (Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China, 2015), etc.


Cai Jin

Cai Jin was born in Tunxi, Anhui, China in 1965. In 1986, she graduated from the fine arts department, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China. In 1991, she graduated from the oil painting department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. She has been teaching at the Tianjin Fine Arts Institute, Tianjin, China since 1991. Cai Jin's art works is in fact the reflection of herself. The artworks of Cai Jin are just like the “water traces on the wall”. She tries to capture the weirdness, and shows no interest in the colorful attractive reality. She devotes herself to the loneliness subject that makes her excited but calls no attention of others.

Cai Jin’s latest solo exhibitions include: Arcadia (Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China, 2018), A Gathering of Flower Fairies: Cai Jin Solo Exhibition (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China, 2017), Static and Flowing (Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China, 2015), Cai Jin: Return to the Source (Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA, 2014), Cai Jin: Return to the Source (Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China, 2013),etc.


Li Xinjian

From 1982 to1990, Li Xinjian studied in Sichuan Fine Art Academy, and volunteered to work in Tibet. In 1985, he was invited by Robert Rauschenberg, an American artist, to design an advertisement for World Tour Exhibit of Rauschenberg. From 1991 to 1994, he studied the materials, techniques and skills of oil painting at Picas Studio (Abraham Pincas), National Academy of fine arts, Paris, France. From 1993 to 1995, Li Xinjian staged "Swastika" three times respectively in Paris and Beijing (on the Great Wall). In 1997, he was invited by the New York Yutica Sculpture Foundation (Sculpture Space Company, Utica NY, Etats-Unis) to participate in the Artist Resident Program. In 1998, Li Xinjian left New York and back to Paris, began to write the book“Swastika Detection”(Text Conceptual Art - Non-Symbolic Design - Human Archeology after the Fifteenth century). Recently he lives and works in Beijing as a professional artist.

Li Xinjian’s major solo exhibitions include: “A Lonely Rock Filled the Whole Sky” (Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China, 2017), “Started from Tibet” (Guanxiang Gallery, Taipei, 2010), “Tunnel” (Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York, USA, 1998), “SIGNE SOMBRE CHINE PROFONDE” ( Centre Culturel de la Maugerie, France,1994), etc.


Zhang jian

Zhang Jian was born in 1968 in Beijing, China. He graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Art in 1993. Now he lives and works in Beijing. Early in his career Zhang Jian was inspired by the Impressionists particularly Édouard Manet and the Russian Valentin Serov. Zhang Jian became fascinated with representations of sunlight and outdoor themes, striving to demonstrate introspective, calm and peaceful moments in everyday life. In the early 2000s Zhang Jian began to use photography as a starting point for his paintings and employed techniques of ‘flatness’ and blurred figuration in his work - evocative of the work of Gerhard Richter.  In recent years, his paintings have become more subjective and free - more expressionistic - creating a confusion of reality, dream and abstraction.

His latest solo exhibitions include: “Tranquility” (PIFO Gallery, Beijing, 2017), “Still Moments” (iPRECIATION, Singapore, 2013), “Zhang Jian: The New Painting” (Galerie Frank Schlag & CIE, Essen, 2011), etc. 












Artists
Cai Jin
Cai Jin was born in Tunxi, Anhui, China in 1965. In 1986, she graduated from the fine arts department, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China. In 1991, she graduated from the oil painting department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. She has been teaching at the Tianjin Fine Arts Institute, Tianjin, China since 1991. Cai Jin's art works is in fact the reflection of herself. The artworks of Cai Jin are just like the “water traces on the wall”. She tries to capture the weirdness, and shows no interest in the colorful attractive reality. She devotes herself to the loneliness subject that makes her excited but calls no attention of others.
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Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun (b. 1963, Handan, Hebei) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts,  Printmaking Department  in 1989. In July of the same year, he resided in the Yuanmingyuan area, becoming a key advocate of the "Yuanmingyuan Artists' Village." In 1993, he established the Songzhuang studio, contributing to the formation of the  "Songzhuang Artists' Village." In 2014, he founded the "Archive of Contemporary Art of China," systematically organizing the development of Chinese contemporary art. Since 2004, Fang Lijun has been appointed as a guest professor and graduate mentor at more than twenty institutions, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University, and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.

Fang Lijun’s solo exhibitions have been held in major art institutions worldwide,  including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum,  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Japan Foundation, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Musée Ariana, et cetera. Domestic retrospectives have been mounted at the Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, United Art  Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, and He Art Museum, among other significant venues. Additionally, he has been consistently invited by mainstream international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Fang's works are permanently collected by  international museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Within China, his works are held by the National Art Museum of China, Contemporary Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Guangdong Museum of Art.

Furthermore, through his artistic career, Fang Lijun has published over 50 monographs, including Fang Lijun: Chronological Notes, Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue, Fang Lijun: Cliff in the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Forbidden Zone, Fang Lijun Prints, and Surviving Like a Stray Dog.  In 1993, his work Series Two No. 2 appeared on the cover of The New York Times.
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Jiang Miao
姜淼
1981生于吉林,现居北京。
2005毕业于中央美术学院版画系,获学士学位,
2009年毕业于中央美术学院版画系,获硕士学位。
她的作品被中央美术学院,澳门博物艺术馆,贵阳美术馆,南京博物院收藏。   
姜淼从个人感受出发,创作意象大部分是对内在个性、非物质本性的自发表现,除了细腻地表现超验的想象,她还善于观察并描绘与她年龄相仿、成长于当今社会的青年女性群体,以及她们的情感、意志和智力等等。鉴于自身性别与生活背景,姜淼坦诚地对女性的了解胜于对男性的认知,所以女性是她创作以来一直延续的主题。艺术家作为人的意义,可贵的不是女性气质和孩子气,而是女性气质的细腻和直觉,并拥有孩子的想象,正是这二者能够融解僵冷的理性世界,涤除纷繁物欲的感性迷障,向着灵性的纯净源头回归。
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Li Guanguan
Li Guanguan 
1982   Born in Shan Dong, China
2004  Graduated from Department of ink painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Now living and working in Beijing, China  
Solo Exhibition
2020  Chasing the Light: Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery,Beijing 
2017  Cut-in:Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery,Beijing
2013  Guan Guan's Horse—Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
2012  To Dream for Horse: Solo Exhibition, Village South Art Salon, Beijing 
Group Exhibition
2019  The Winter Movement,WF Central, Beijing       
Horses, but not Horses:Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibiton, Inner Mongolia, China       
The Lucky Pig is hogging the door,Beijing
2018  Metaphor: Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition of Seven Artists, Triumph Gallery, Beijing
All Things Grow, Fuyan Commune, Beijing
2017  The Unique Flower on Earth (II),Sunyard Sincerenart,Hangzhou       
Xishuangbanna International Art Exhibition,Xishuangbanna Art Museum,Yunnan   
Four Phases of Ink, Manggha Museum, Krakow, PolandVision of Females, China National Museum of Women and Children, Beijing
2016  The Unique Flower on Earth, Sunyard Sincerenart, Hangzhou
Ink art fair in Hong Kong Art triumph art space Hong Kong convention and exhibition center
Ink now,See Well International Art Central, Fuzhou
Image·Artistic Conception in Painting-Contemporary Meticulous Painting
Academic Invitation Exhibition, NAMOC, Beijing
YUPPIE-Group Exhibition of China &Korea Artists, Common Art Center, Beijing 
New Tales of Ink, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting2015-2016,
Today Art Museum, Beijing
In The Light, Art Nanjing, Nanjing
2015  Ink Art Fair in Hong Kong Art, Triumph Art Space, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Hail to the Ocean-China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sanya, China Across the border in 2015-100: youth art exhibition, One art space
Return:Riverside Art Museum Opening Ceremony,Beijing
Nanjing international youth art biennale, Jinling gallerySee life art, today art museum
Anonymous, exhibition space of Beijing 798 SAN
making a, the first contemporary art Beijing has the top design center
2014  Hidden The Unfathomable, today art museum BeijingYouth Decide the Future, Youth Art 2014 Hong Kong tour in Beijing
The Line of Sight of People-China and South Korea, meeting different South Korea gyeonggi province art museum
2013  Art Taipei 2013, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
In My Heart: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink, Triumph
Art Space, BeijingArt Nova 100, Beijing
Art Beijing, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Art Macao 2013, Triumph Art Space, Macao
Young Art Taipei, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
2012  The group exhibition of Ning, Ning Gallery, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phantom of the Opera, Hong Studio, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phoenix Luan Gongs, Tree Museum, Beijing
The group exhibition of Prophecy , Long Mai Gallery, Beijing
Art Beijing, O2 Art, Beijing
2011  Art Beijing, Hanmo Art gallery, Beijing
2009  The After 80’s Artists Group Exhibition, Live 3, Songzhuang, Beijing
2008  The group exhibition of Chinese Painting Gallery, BeijingThe first cutting-edge Meticulous Exhibition, Beijing
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Li Xinjian
Li Xinjian was born in 1954  in Chongqing, China. He studied at both the Sichuan Academy of Fine Art and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Currently lives and works in Beijing. Looking back at Li Xinjian’s 40 years of output, one can observe that only he values his personal style and its exchange with the language of contemporary art, but also the inner cultural conscience and contemporary significance of his art. Li Xinjian constantly reiterates his position of “Cultural Nomadism” through his works, from the perspectives of history, culture, and visual archeology, with the help of the interpretation and recoding of different images, using his personal artistic expression to present expanded horizons to the viewer. Just as the material world shapes society and water shapes mountains, humanity glistens with the gift of the Buddhist holy land, giving inspiration, teaching humanity appreciation, the appreciation between gods, between people, between gods and people, that mysterious truth that need not be spoken. 

Li Xinjian's works are collected by many important institutions and foundations, such as Long Museum, Yuz Museum, Suzhou Art Museum, ChengduMOCA, New York Public Library, Changjiang Art & Culture Club.
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Liang Ying
Liang Ying was born in Beijing, China in 1961, studied in the Department of Chinese Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1982, and studied at the Art Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg in Germany from 1983 to 1993, and received an art scholarship from the Rotary Club of Hamburg and the North German State. In 1991 received a Master of Fine Arts.

As a pioneering female artist in Chinese contemporary art, Liang Ying was one of the earliest group of artists who studied in Germany in the 1980s. She is also one of the first established Chinese artists who forgo oil painting in order to focus on ink painting. Whether it is her early series “Diary Liang Ying”, which depicted modern women in urban settings, or her recent series “Immortals and Legends,” Liang Ying has always innovatively combined the compositional elements and contents of German Neo-Expressionism with the brushwork and subject matters of traditional Chinese Painting, transforming them into myriad phenomenal artworks.In these works, she merges concepts, narrative, and painterly expression in one entity. Like many Chinese artists in the 20th century, Liang Ying devotes herself to exploring the possibility of ink painting, hoping to prove to the world that ink painting is still a vital component of today’s contemporary art world.
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Liu Guangguang
Liu Guangguang 
1986 Born in Gansu
2009 Graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. BFA 
Solo Exhibition 
2016    "Liu Guangguang" XGALLERY, Beijing, China
2013    Bejeweled--Liu Guangguang Solo Exhibition, Space Station Gallery, Beijing, China
2010    The Year of Uncertainty- Works of LIU Guangguang, Line Gallery, Beijing, China 
Selected Group Exhibition 
2019  “FUTURE GAMES——The 4nd German and Chinese Young Artists Development Fund Joint Exhibition”, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018  “Long Zheng Hu Dou”G.M Gallery,Beijing,China 
2017 “J Space Young Artist Project”J Space Contemporary Art,Shenzhen, China
2016     “Lovers hate Valentine” Onehome Art Hotel Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2015     “The Civil Power" Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opining Exhibition, Beijing, China
2014     “Pluck the Laurel” Chinese New Painting Award 2014, Beijing, China
“Ruins x Landscape” Halcyon Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Temperature" 6 Exhibition, PARK VIEW GREEN ART. 798, Beijing, China
2012     “Return To A Visual Method” Lu Xun Academy Of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
“Strayed Representation” Tang Contemporary Art, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
“China International Youth Arts Festival Also World Art Exhibition" T Art Center, Beijing, China
“China International Gallery Exposition 2012"Space Station Gallery, Beijing, China
“Generation Me: Lost in Transition-NiuBi Newbie projects" Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
“Young Bones” Northeast New Generation Artists Exhibition, Ba da Gallery Shanghai, China
“Culture. Desert-KuBu Qi Contemporary Art Exhibition” CuBuQi Art Museum, Ordos, China
2011      “China Next 10 years of Contemporary Art"Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
“The post-80 generation Art Files" Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Mobile art -surreal pop"Yue art gallery opening exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China,
“Paint”_young artists group exhibitions, Beijing space, Beijing, China
“Merry-Go-Round"China New Painting Award 2011, Times Art Musuem, Beijing, China
2010      “Hey! We're 80s-Time Machine"Group Exhibition of Young Artists, Line Gallery, Beijing, China
New Beijing-Young Painting from China, Sesame Gallery London, England
2009     “Hey! We're 80s-Getting Closer"Group Exhibition of Young Artists”, LINE Gallery, Beijing,China
“Art of Northeast- Northeast Young Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Weilan Art Museum, Shenyang, China
“Reflect-Focus”, DUN Gallery, Beijing, China
2008     “CREATIVE M50”, M50, Shanghai, China
2007     “Green school 2nd Exhibition", Star gallery, Beijing, China
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Pan Jian
PAN JIAN
Born in Dec. 31st, 1975
2001 Graduated from oil painting department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts 
Now lives and works in Beijing and Xi’an  
Solo Exhibitions
2018   Seeing the Forest through the Brush – Pan Jian Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery,  Beijing, China
2017   Light of the Troposphere, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HongKong, China
2015   Shadow of Light, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HongKong, China
2013   The Realm of the Shadows, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HongKong, China
2010   Strange Image: Painting Solo Show-Pan Jian, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China2008   The End of the World, Beijing Space, Beijing, China  
Group Exhibitions
2017  The Green Ray, Triumph Gallery, Beijing, China
2016  Quotidian, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China
2015  Space and Nothingness, Cang Xin & Pan Jian Duo Exhibition, Pearl Lam Gallery, SingaporeEast Meets West, Artlink Gallery, Vancouver, CanadaEast Meets West, Artlink Gallery, Toronto, Canada2014  Macht Sichtbar: To Unveil the Invisible - Pan Jian & Fu Xiaotong Duo Exhibition Jing Gallery, Beijing, ChinaOutside the Lines: New Art from China, RH Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2013   ART SANYA, Sanya, Hainan, China
2012   MAXIMA+, Shanghai Gallery of Art,Shanghai, ChinaBetween Dream and Memory, Force, Beijing, ChinaPlane·Scape, Jing Yi Art Space, Beijing, ChinaXinjiang Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China    Close Observation & Distant Meditation –Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Chao Art Center, Chengdu, China Cynical Resistance, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011  Mid Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HongKong, ChinaChengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China Fabricator, Soka Art Beijing, Beijing, ChinaPure Views- New Painting from China, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2010  Shanghai Art Fair- Emerging Artists Exhibition, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, ChinaPure Views- New Painting from China. LBF Foundation, London, U.K.Negotiations: The Second Today’s Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, ChinaYouth on Upstairs - Young Critics Nomination Exhibition, Times Art Museum, Beijing, ChinaReshaping History- China Youth New Art Invitational Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China 
2009  Observation of Reality, Joyart, Beijing, ChinaLi Xiaojing and Pan Jian Joint Exhibition, Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008  Lovely Blossoms and Full Moon: Yuz Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Jakarta,IndonesiaA Tale of Two Cities, Beijing Space, Beijing, ChinaDistinctive Landscape, 3818 Cool Gallery, Beijing, ChinaContemporary Art Document Exhibition - New Prominent Exhibition. Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006  Unusual Landscape. Gaodi Gallery, Beijing, China
2004  China New Vision – Chinese Contemporary Youth Artists Group Exhibition, International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China  
2003  The 3rd China Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China 
2002  Dissimilation Realism - Contemporary Art Exhibition, Upriver Loft Gallery, Kunming, China
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Tu Xi
Tu Xi was born in 1982 in China, graduated from Renmin University of China School of Arts in 2006, and graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009. Currently living and working in Beijing. 

In Tu Xi's creations, lines, strokes, and color blocks, while possessing the beauty of form, also have a sense of being swarmed by information, eroded by data, and transformed by technology, people/art have become the reality of the broken elements of the digital age, but at the same time, they have found a latent, holistic order in the pile of brokenness. At the same time, the plants and mountains presented by Tu Xi exist as “natural symbols” or “landscape symbols”. In his expression, these elements are no longer purely products of the natural environment, but become a kind of pattern and cultural symbol. When these natural elements are placed in his creations, and deconstructed and constructed by Tu Xi in different ways, a humanistic reflection based on “technology” is formed. It includes man and nature, man and technology, nature and artifacts, illusion and reality, and so on.
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Wang Mengsha
Wang Mengsha was born in 1982 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and grown up in an artistic family. In 2006, she graduated from design department in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China, studying Animation. Wang then studied in Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, and University of Southampton, UK for advanced education. Currently she Works and lives in Beijing, China. In her practice of painting, she never considers the connection between herself and the ink painting in the past, nor did she think about the similarities and differences between them. In Wang Mengsha’s art, the mood of naïve and childlike coexist with the feeling of vigorous and free. She sees the world in the perspective of child, searching for the nature of mankind that is most valuable however almost fading away. 
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Xu Hong
It is also at this juncture, that the work by Xu Hong connects to a modernist abstract painting tradition in the West. This might not be so surprising as it seems. A lot of Western artists in the past have looked towards Asia for inspiration and Zen Buddhism has been widely popular amongst modernist artists. Richard Tuttle comes to mind, or Raimer Jochims from Germany. What is important to understand, however is that Xu Hong´s work comes from experience not from looking at other art. It is the sincerity of his work that makes it so convincing.
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Xu Hongxiang
Xu Hongxiang was born  in 1984 in Changsha, Hunan, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a bachelor´s degree, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree, and now lives and works in Beijing.

Xu Hongxiang’s artistic practice often revolves around painting. Project-based painting series with narrative contents and oil paintings centered on landscapes are the two parallel creative approaches that punctuate his career. "Image",  "body", and "the relationship between painting and reality" are the overarching themes he has been trying to explore in his multi-media painting projects throughout the years. The traits of his highly stylized painting, which included a signature saturated palette, are the fragments that reflect such themes.

Xu Hongxiang’s  selected  solo  exhibitions  and  projects  includes: "Xu Hongxiang: Wander"  (Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2024), "Xu Hongxiang: Ancient Posts"  (Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, 2023), "Xu Hongxiang: Displaced  Images"  (Triumph  Gallery, Beijing, 2022), "Xu  Hongxiang: An  Exuberant View" (Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, 2021), "Xu Hongxiang: One Night While Hunting for Faeries" (Loft8  Galerie,  Vienna,  2019), "Not Dark Yet - Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, 2018), "Shuffling the Cards" (Parallel Vienna, Vienna, 2018),  "Li Qiang" (Changsha,  2016), "In the Field"  (Changsha,  2016),  "Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (SZ Art Center, Beijing, 2014). Selected group exhibitions includes:   "Follow the Rabbit - Talking stock of a collection and its reception through contemporary Chinese art"  (Museum Liaunig, Austria, 2023),  "History and Reality: Contemporary Art of China"  (Bulgarian National Museum of Art, Sofia, 2018),  "Visual Questions" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, 2017), "Oriental Story" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2017),"Centripetal Force" (SCA Galleries, Sydney, 2017), "In Silence - China Contemporary Art" (Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, 2014).
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Yang Liming
Yang Liming was born in 1975 in Sichuan, China. He graduated from the Art College of Sichuan Normal University in 1999 with bachelor degree on oil painting. Currently lives and works in Beijing

Yang Liming’s paintings are abstract, in the same time having a stable, firming ground structure. Nevertheless, by closer perception there are many different aspects, parts that show reflection, sigh and some light moments of joy. Here is maybe the point to connect with Franz Schubert’s music with its delicate points like open wounds, melancholic meditations of questions without answers given. Yang Liming’s paintings take the viewers into their deep universe, in case the viewer permits to be carried away.  Just as well as in Schubert’s music are questions rising, involving the observer into their matter.  What is melancholia in Schubert’s music stays as a mystery in Yang Liming’s paintings.
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Zhang Jian
Early in his career Zhang Jian was inspired by the Impressionists particularly Édouard Manet and the Russian Valentin Serov. Zhang Jian became fascinated with representations of sunlight and outdoor themes, striving to demonstrate introspective, calm and peaceful moments in everyday life. In the early 2000s Zhang Jian began to use photography as a starting point for his paintings and employed techniques of ‘flatness’ and blurred figuration in his work - evocative of the work of Gerhard Richter - that resulted in his Houhai, Chang’an Avenue and Tiananmen series. Public spaces, linked with social history and each carrying special symbolic meaning, became the focus for many of his works.  In recent years, his paintings have become more subjective and free - more expressionistic - creating a confusion of reality, dream and abstraction.
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Zhou Chunya
 ZHOU CHUNYA 
1955 Born in Chongqing, China
1982 Graduated from the Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, Chongqing, China
1988 Graduated from Experiment Art department of Kassel Academy of Fine Art, Kassel, GermanyNow lives and works in Chengdu and Shanghai, China 
Solo Exhibition:
2019
The Splendours of the Southeast,Long Museum,Shanghai,China
2018
Spring‧Sprout,POLY GALLERY II, Hong Kong, China
Zhou Chunya: Hong Kong Solo Exhibition, Amanda Wei Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2015
Zhou Chunya New Works 2015, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
2013
2013 New Works by Zhou Chunya, Art Museum of Nanjing University the Arts, Nanjing, China2012New Works by Zhou Chunya
2012,
Zhou Chunya Art Academy of Shanghai, Shanghai, China20101971-2010
Forty Years Retrospective Review of Zhou Chunya, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2008
Zhou Chunya, Green Dog, Jakarta, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
Blooming Stories: Paintings & Sculptures by Zhou Chunya, Beijing Today Art Museum, China
2006
New Works by Zhou Chunya”, Shanghai Gallery of Art at Three on the Bond, Shanghai, China
2002
Zhou Chunya, Museum of Modern Art Contemporary, Trento, ItalyZhou Chunya Art Show: Green Dogs, 314 international Art Centre, Bergen, Norway 
GroupExhibition:
2018
Being Hale and Hearty Invitation Exhibition to Retired Artists of Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu Art Academy, Chengdu, China
Zhou Chunya & Fang Lijun’s Joint Solo Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
Turning Point-40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China
Art History Shaped by 40 Artists:40x40 from 1978-2018, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
The Research Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Masters’Manuscript(First Chapter)The 10th Anniversary of Triumph Gallery,Beijing,China
2016
What About The Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery ALRIWAQ, Doha, Qatar
2015
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 , Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk Province, Korea
2014
Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China
Social Landscape---The Landscape Narration in Chinese Contemporary Painting as well as its Cultural Concept Changes, Chengdu Art BondedFacility, Chengdu International Cultural Art Exchange Centre, Chengdu, China
2013
Art Changsha 2013, Changsha Municipal Museum, Changsha, China
Passage to History—20 Years of La Biennale Di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale Di Venezia Nappa 89, Italy
2012
Through All Ages: Long Museum Opening Series Exhibitions, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Chinese Expressionism, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011
5th Chengdu Biennale: Pure View, Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu, China
2010
Pure Views: New Painting From China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
Martell Artists of the Year 2010, joint-exhibition in: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Reshaping History: China art from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2009
A Collateral Event For The 53rd Biennale Di Venezia: A Gift To MARCO POLO, VIU(Island of San Servolo), Italy
2007
Beyond Icons: Chinese Contemporary Art in Miami, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
Post-Martial Law vs Post-89: Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, Taiwan Art Museum, Taiwan, China
2006
Expanded Realism-Oil Painting of Mainland China Since 1978,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
2005
2nd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
The First International Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art Montpelier, Montpelier, France
Focus on China, WBK Vrije Academie, Den Haan, Hague, Holland
2004
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation - Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Britain.
2003
ALORS, LA CHINE?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Dream-Contemporary Chinese Art, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, England
2001
First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
5 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Towards a New Image:Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Touring Show in National Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum, China
2000
Chinese Oil Painting in 20th Century, National Art Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1998
East meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997
The Nature of Portraiture, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, ChinaQuotation Mark—Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Singapore
1996
China!- Chinese Contemporary Art, Bonn Art Museum, Bonn, Germany
First Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaThe First Academic Invited Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art 1996-1997,
Touring Show in National Art Museum, Beijing and Hong Kong, China
1994
The Annual Exhibition of Works of the Artists Nominated by Art Critics, National Art Museum, China
1993
Chinese Experiences, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China1993-1997 China New Art, Post-1989, Touring Show in Hong Kong, UK. etc
1992
Guangzhou The First 1990s' Biennale Art Fair(Oil Painting Part), The Exhibition Centre of Guangzhou Hotel, Guangzhou, China
1985
Chinese Youth Art Exhibition in Forward, National Art Museum, Beijing, China1981The Second China Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
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