Yun-Fei Ji
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Yun-Fei Ji (born 1963) is a Chinese painter. He moved to New York in the late 1980s, and for a time worked as a scenic artist in the film industry.
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[edit] Biography
Yun-Fei Ji lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He paints on handmade rice paper with translucent ink or paint based on natural pigments, using ancient techniques, including calligraphy. His subject is the failure of the Communist utopia in China. He was a 2006 Rome Prize winner.
He is represented by James Cohan Gallery.
[edit] Selected solo exhibitions
- 2006: “Water that floats the boat can also sink it”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA.
- 2005: "Great news comes from the collective farm", Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout, Belgium.
- 2004: "The Empty City", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA and The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA (USA)
- 2002: "The Old One Hundred Names", Zeno X Gallery and Pratt Institute, New York, USA.
[edit] Selected group exhibitions
- 2008: Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
- 2008: Two Chinas: Chen Quilin and Yun-Fei Ji, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
- 2002: Whitney Biennial, New York.
He has works in the collection of Museum of Modern Art,[1] The Drawing Center in New York, and the Worcester Art Museum. He was a recipient of the 2005/6 Jules Guerin Rome Prize Fellowship.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- James Cohan Gallery - Yun-Fei Ji's entry works, biography, interview clip, articles and reviews
- Zeno X Gallery - Yun-Fei Ji works, biography and cv
