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BIOGRAPHY | SELECTED WORKS | RECENT EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED PRESS
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BIOGRAPHY
Inspired by Orson Welles’ multi-perspective, Cui Jie‘s (b. 1983 Shanghai, China) painting evolves from her previous expressionist take on absurdities in contemporary China to the mediation between China’s Urbanism and personal aesthetics. Inspired by Orson Welles’ multi-perspective, she applies various layers of images—some realistic, some imaginary—on canvas. Each layer comprises sculptural impastos and is meticulously executed to represent the transformation of China’s Urbanscape through time and politics. Executed with calculated and deadpan brushwork and a warm and affective palette, Cui’s landscapes and interiors make comparative studies of cities as distinctive model/laboratories of China’s open-and-reform, which also visualizes a personal history that is informed by the aesthetic madness in one time and place, for instance, the architectural confusion of Bauhaus, Chinese propaganda, Soviet communist aesthetics. In other words, Cui Jie’s painting is a time capsule that re-imagines the past and the present.
Cui Jie graduated from China Academy of Art. She has been included in Phaidon Press’s publication Vitamin P3 as one of the leading painters nowadays. Her works have been included in many exhibitions, among many others, the upcoming “Past Skin”, MoMA PS1, New York, 2017; “The New Normal: Art and China in 2017”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2017; “Hack Space”, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai and K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2016; “A Beautiful Disorder”, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, 2016; “My Generation: Young Chinese Artists”, touring at Tampa Museum of Art and Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2014; “1st CAFA·FUTURE: Sub-Phenomena”, curated by Xu Bing and Alexandra Munroe, CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2012; “Face”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2012; 4th Prague Biennale, 2009; “Poetic Realism: An Reinterpretation of Jiangnan – Contemporary Art from South China”, Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Madrid, 2008; “Notes of Conception”, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008.
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SELECTED WORKS
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
“Past Skin”, MoMA PS1, New York, USA, 2017
“The New Normal: Art and China in 2017″, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2017
“Hack Space”, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China, 2016
“A Beautiful Disorder”, The Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK, 2016
“Latter, Former” (solo), Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland, 2016
“Cui Jie” (solo), Start Gallery, Jaffa, Israel, 2015
“A Beautiful Disorder”, Cass Sculpture Foundation, New Barn Hill, Goodwood, West Sussex, UK, 2016
“Hack Space”, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, China, 2016
“The World in 2015″, UCCA, Beijing, China, 2015
“The Proposals For Old and New Urbanism” (solo), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China, 2014
“My Generation: Young Chinese Artists”, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma; Tampa Museum of Art & Museum of Fine Arts, Florida, USA, 2014; Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA, 2015
SELECTED PRESS
IART, “Cui Jie: Deconstruct the Constructed View”, by Wang Xiaorui, April, 2017 [download pdf]
Frieze, “Where Next?”, by Gary Zhexi Zhang, April, 2017 [download pdf]
Artsy, “17 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2017″, December, 2016 [download pdf]
Popeye, “Cui Jie”, by Ryohei Nakajima, Issue 836, December, 2016 [download pdf]
Phaidon, “Cui Jie – Why I Paint”, by Phaidon, November, 2016 [download pdf]
Vitamin P3, “Cui Jie”, by Carol Yinghua Lu, November, 2016 [download pdf]
Artsy, “20 Chinese Emerging Artists You Should Know”, by Frances Arnold, July, 2016 [download pdf]
New York Times, “Art Basel Shows How Far Hong Kong Has Come”, by Joyce Lau, March, 2016 [download pdf]
New York Times, “Art Basel Hong Kong Opens to Less Frenzy”, by Amy Qing, March, 2016 [download pdf]
Ideat, “CUI JIE”, February, 2016 [download pdf]
Leap, “The Proposals For Old And New Urbanism”, by Venus Lau, Issue 156, January & February, 2015 [download pdf]
Pipeline, “Unpredictable constructions”, by Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva, September & October & November, 2015 [download pdf]
Surface, “Boundless Beijing”, by Iona Whittaker, December & January, 2014 [download pdf]
Iart, “Cui Jie: Bring New Content to Spaces”, by Lv Ye, May, 2014 [download pdf]
Huffington Post Arts & Culture, “10 Chinese Artists You Should Know”, by Katherine Brooks, February, 2014 [download pdf]
Modern Lady, “Keep Pure Thought”, by Tu Yihui, Issue 215, January, 2013 [download pdf]
Shanghai Weekly, “Architectural Structures”, by Yang Yang, Issue 638, February, 2013 [download pdf]
Numéro, “Cui Jie: A Partial Fantasy about Urban Life”, by Ralph Yu, April, 2012 [download pdf]
Jing Daily, “Artist Cui Jie: China’s “Post-80s” Generation Making Art Outside of Mao’s Shadow”, by Bundpic, translated by Jing Daily Team, January, 2012 [download pdf]
The Bund, “None Tag Girl”, by Huang Jun, January, 2012 [download pdf]