Painter. Shanxi, China

Artist Statement

“My way of practicing art is focused on communicating with the world subconsciously. I discuss the topics of urbanization and China’s agricultural traditions. I am interested in the contrast between realism and illusion, order and chaos, light and darkness, happiness and depression, distortion and natural states, and being and non-being […]. I enjoy walking through reality and fantasy, and attempt to involve the audience in the plots that I create in my paintings, and I want to see the audience question my works, so that they are pushed to rethink the natural and social environment in which we exist.”

Experience is not creation, it is accessible to all. Art works are independent worlds, and the birth of each work is a creative miracle. My works are coincidental, subconscious, meditative, and fervently passionate. Some of the recent ones are titled, An Anonymous Place, Portrait of an Anonymous Person, and An Anonymous Afternoon, which are aimed to detach the works from specific places, people, and times, making them broader and more fluid, giving the audience more room for interpretation.

These works are not mere reflections of my life experience nor sketches of my visual experience—simple presentations and expressions like that would make the works straightforward and narrow. I think there must be more information and ideas behind every good painting, through which the audience can feel the excitement of the painter, facing the canvas, full of the desire to speak and articulate.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2020: A Rich Man of Time, Red Gate Gallery

• 2019: Anonymity, Red Gate Gallery

• 2018: Madness + Mayhem, Red Gate Gallery

• 2016: Montage of the Mind, Red Gate Gallery

• 2014: Scent of a Poppy, Xi Space, Beijing

• 2014: Golden Years, ART Gallery, Beijing

• 2013: Daily Koan – Oil Painting, Abstract Art Gallery, Beijing

• 2012: Reunion, 110 Art Space, Beijing

• 2012: Debris and Memories, MN Space, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

• 2020: Marching Forward, Red Gate Gallery

• 2019: Spring is Coming, Red Gate Gallery

• 2018: Unclassified, Dahe Gulf Art Museum, Beijing

2017

• Red Gate on the Move, Red Gate Gallery

• Alternative Contemporary Art, E+Hive Art & Design Gallery, Australia

2016

• Discards and Implements — Presentation of Individual Spirit, Dahe Bay Art Museum, Beijing

• Second Independent Character Nominations, Dahe Bay Award, Dahe Bay Art Museum, Beijing

• 2006–2016 Songzhuang Museum of Art 10th Anniversary, Beijing

• Secret Garden, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing

• All Rivers Run into the Sea, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing

• Third Back North, Beijing

• My Living Room – Red Gate Gallery 25th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery

• SPLURGE!, Red Gate Gallery

2015

• He for Her, Ginkgo Space, Beijing

• Captain Nong Shaohua and Jia Bei, Dahe Bay Art Museum, Beijing

• Chinese Contemporary Artists, Hokkaido, Japan

• Between Cold and Warmth, Milky Way Space, Beijing

• Under the Surface, SZ Space, Beijing

• Art is Borderless, Sunshine Museum, Beijing

2014

• Acknowledged: Gained and Felt, Chengming Wanhe Museum, Beijing

• Old Nong and Jia Bei, 3138 Ku A Space, Beijing