Yan Xing (artist) explained

Yan Xing
Birth Place:Chongqing, China
Nationality: China
Field:Video art, Performance Art, Installation art, Conceptual art
Training:Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Website:www.yanxing.com
Yan Xing
C:鄢醒
P:Yān Xǐng
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Yan Xing (Chinese characters: 鄢醒, born 1986)[1] is an artist known for performance, installation, video and photography. He grew up in Chongqing and currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles.[2]

Early life and education

Yan Xing was born in Chongqing in 1986. He studied at the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute from 2005 to 2009. After receiving his B.A., he moved to Beijing.

Artistic career

Yan Xing is known for his interdisciplinary projects which have built a complex, compelling body of work that reflects critically on how history is manufactured today. He interrogates literature, history, and history of art. His work explores themes of negativity, resistance and order and the complexity of their connectivity.[3] Yan Xing's works involve an extremely broad range of media, including performance, video, photography, installation, and painting, among others.[4]

Yan Xing's career in art began with Daddy Project (2011),[5] it was an hour-long performance he gave an account of his absent “father”. The work was first performed in a group exhibition curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, art critic Holland Cotter wrote in the New York Times: “First-person public exposure of a personal life, particularly related to family, is relatively rare in China, and Mr. Yan has become a controversial star.”[6] The first institutional solo exhibition of his works was held on 2012 at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK;[7] On 2016, his first solo exhibition in America opened at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.[8] From June 2 through August 27, 2017, the Kunsthalle Basel presented Yan Xing: Dangerous Afternoon, curated by Elena Filipovic, this was the artist's first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland.[9] [10] [11] [12]

Yan Xing has exhibited and performed extensively, at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;[13] [14] Contemporary Arts Museum Houston;[15] Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen and the Power Station of Art, Shanghai. He has also been featured at 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012);[16] 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2012) and 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2015).

Yan Xing is both the initiator and a participant of artists’ collective COMPANY.[17] His works have been public collections include: Rubell Family Collection, Miami;[18] M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong;[19] Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen. Yan Xing has also curated exhibitions such as: Dream Plant, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing; Mummery, Art Channel, Beijing; and the Fact Study Institute, Yangtze River Space, Wuhan.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Awards

As a young artist, Yan Xing made an impressive result during recent years. He has received several notable awards, in 2012 he won the Best Young Artist Award by Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA).[30] The same year, he was a finalist in the Future Generation Art Prize by Victor Pinchuk Foundation[31] and Focus on Talents Project from Today Art Museum.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yan Xing. ArtFacts.net. en. 21 July 2018.
  2. Web site: Yan Xing. Campbell. Andy. artforum.com. en-US. 2018-07-21.
  3. Web site: Yan Xing. kadist.org. en-CA. 21 July 2018.
  4. Web site: Opening: Yan Xing. Dillon. Brian. artforum.com. Artforum. 21 July 2018.
  5. Web site: 2015 Future Great artist. Lin. Aimee. artreview.com. ArtReview. en. 21 July 2018.
  6. News: 'IN A PERFECT WORLD'. Cotter. Holland. 2011-04-28. The New York Times. 2018-07-21. en.
  7. Web site: Yan Xing's exhibition, 1 November – 8 December 2012. Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) Archive and Library. en. 2018-07-22.
  8. Web site: Yan Xing. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. en. 2018-07-21.
  9. Web site: A Dangerous Afternoon: Yan Xing. moussemagazine.it. 12 June 2017 . Mousse. en. 21 July 2018.
  10. Web site: Kunsthalle Basel opens exhibition of works by Yan Xing. artdaily.org. en. 2018-07-22.
  11. Web site: Yan Xing at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. 2017-08-18. ARTnews. en-US. 2018-07-22.
  12. Web site: Summer Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World. 2017-05-10. ARTnews. en-US. 2018-07-22.
  13. News: A Taste for Absence. Shen. Boliang. 2017-08-25. Flash Art. 2018-07-21. en-US.
  14. Web site: Yan Xing: Performance of a Massacre. e-flux.com. en. 2018-07-22.
  15. News: Perspectives 180 – Unfinished Country: New Video From China. 2012-10-18. Asia Art Archive in America. 2018-07-22. en-US.
  16. 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale. Ziherl. Vivian. 2012-10-01. Frieze. 150 . en. 2018-07-22.
  17. Yinghua Lu. Carol. September 2010. Little Movements. Yishu. 9. 86–100.
  18. Web site: Yan Xing. Rubell Family Collection. en-gb. 2018-07-21.
  19. Web site: M+ Collection: Yan Xing. westkowloon.hk. en. 2018-07-22.
  20. News: Yan Xing: Dangerous Afternoon. Kunsthalle Basel. 2018-07-22. en-US.
  21. Web site: "Spectrosynthesis": contemporary art and Asian LGBTQ issues at MoCA Taipei . artradarjournal.com . 21 July 2018.
  22. Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now. Li. Alvin. 2017-12-15. Frieze. 192 . en. 2018-07-22.
  23. Web site: Sui Generis. Dello Scompiglio. it-it. 2018-07-22.
  24. Web site: We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University. en. 2018-07-21.
  25. Web site: Ice Age. Drake. Cathryn. www.artforum.com. en-US. 2018-07-21.
  26. News: Review: Fantastic works of young Chinese artists bridge the bay. Bennett. Lennie. 2014-06-12. 2018-07-22.
  27. Web site: The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013. e-flux.com. en. 2018-07-22.
  28. Edward. Sanderson. September 2013. ON OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice. Yishu. 12. 5. 88–97.
  29. Web site: Perspectives 180 – Unfinished Country: New Video from China. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. en-US. 2018-07-21.
  30. Web site: ArtAsiaPacific: Winners Announced At The 2012 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards . artasiapacific.com . ArtAsiaPacific . 21 July 2018 . en.
  31. Web site: Shortlisted artists for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 – Announcements – e-flux . www.e-flux.com . e-flux . 21 July 2018 . en.

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