Yuan Gong
1961 Born in Shanghai,China
Education
2012 Graduated from Chinese National Academy of Arts,PHD in theory of art,
He
is a Chinese contemporary artist. He has immersed himself in
different aspects of Chinese
contemporary art since the 1990s. Being both creator and researcher,
designer and planner, Yuan Gong is a multiple facets artist playing at the
interface of conceptual
art,performance and fine arts.
Using a large variety of media, his artworks address many philosophical questions,
reflecting his concerns about the Chinese society and impugning the art system,
the exhibition format and the status of the artwork.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
※A New Kind of Individual - Release§, Zendai Contemporary Art Space,
Shanghai, China
※Mechanism§, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
※Butterflies
fly once more§,Bund18 Ailing Foundation, Shanghai, China
※It＊s also
good without a title§, Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Beijing, China
※Reappearance§,Tian Ren He Yi Art Center, Hangzhou, China
1997
※Yuan Gong Solo Exhibition§,Hong Kong Arts Centre,
Hong Kong, China
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2014
※China ARTE Brasil§, Oca Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
16th edition of the Armory Show※Focus: China§ Pier 94, New York, U.S.A
Opening Exhibition of the T-Museum: ※Fusion-Convergence§, Hangzhou,
China
※ WE-The Contemporary Painting Exhibition of 8 artists§, Shanghai, China
2013
※Voice of
the Unseen§ 每 Collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice,
Italy
※Individual Growth§ - The Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Museum
of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
※Chinese Contemporary Art Documenta§ 每 Contemporary Art and Process of
the Society,Circle Art Center, Shenzhen, China
※Embark! Beyond The Horizon§,Hong Kong Visual
Arts Centre 每 Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, China
※Truth,
Beauty, Freedom and Money§, Chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2012
※Copenhagen Art Festival§, Kunstrad Museum, Copenhagen, Danmark
※ JETLAG -
Chinese Culture Year in Germany§, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
※RE-INK §Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2010-2012, Today Art Museum & Hubei Museum of Art, Beijing, Wuhan, China
※The 4th Guangzhou Triennial§, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2011
※The 4th Sino-European Cultural Dialogue§, Neum邦nster Abbey,
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
※ The 6th Prague Contemporary Art Festival每 TINA B§, Prague,
Czech Republic
※ Pervasion§ - 54th Venice Biennale, The China Pavilion, Venice,
Italy
※Unexpected issues§, Art Channel, Beijing, China
2010
※ 3+X People And Things Around§, China Art Archives and Warehouse CAAW,
Beijing, China
※The 6th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang - CROSSOVER
2010§, China Art Archives and Warehouse CAAW, Beijing, China
※3+X Can Be
More Poetic§, Shandong Center of Contemporary Art, Shandong, China
※3+1
Monolog§, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Of Art and Archaeology, Peking University,
Beijing, China
2009
※Drifting Communities, 798 Biennale§, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
※Narrating
China, 4th Chengdu Biennale§, Chengdu, China
※REFLECTION每
New Art Invitational§, West Lake Museum of Art, Zhejiang & Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008
※Through the Wild, 4th Songzhuang Art Festival§ㄛBeijing,China
※What is Art? 798 Art
Festival§,798 Art
District, Beijing, China
※Virtual City, New Power 每
China Contemporary Art Biennale§, Yuan Gong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2007
※Transparent Scene§,Tibet Museum,
Lhasa, China
2006
※New Power§ㄛShanghai, China
2000
※14th Asia
International Watercolor Exhibition§,Zhengzhou Museum, Henan, China
※1990s The Popular Image§,Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Awards and grants
2007 Awarded the Culture China Person of the Year Award.
2011 Awarded the ICS City Beat EDGE Artist of the Year Award.
The work "Sounding off 5/12 with Dong Feng" was included in the book ※60 Years of New China Art Interview 1949-2009§, edited by the Chinese art theorist Shao Dazhen.
Collections
His artworks have been collected by the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Hubei
Museum of Art, the Arthur Sackler Museum of Peking University, and are part of
the Sigg＊s collection of Chinese
contemporary art.
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