陈秋林 Chen Qiulin China, b. 1975

Biography

Chen Qiulin (born in Yichang, Hubei Province in 1975) experiments in various mediums including video, photography, installation and sculpture. Chen graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2000, and her creation process is constantly in the state of continuous development and progress. With a unique sensitivity, Chen keeps introducing new viewpoints and perspectives into frequently discussed social issues.

Chen Qiulin's awards include: The Best New Artist Award of the first Montpellier Chinese Contemporary Art Biennale (2005), the recipient of ACC (Asian Cultural Council in New York) grant at China (2006), the First Asian World Women Forum Rising Talents Programme Nominee (2008), The Fourth Annual AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art 2009 - the Annual Young Artist Nominee (2010), Reshaping History Academic Award Nominee (2010), Loop Award of Loop Art Fair (Barcelona) (2017).

Important exhibitions Chen Qiulin participated in include: “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art", THIS IS NOT FOR YOU: Sculptural Discourses, T-BA21 Collection exhibition, the 7th Gwangju Biennale, the 6th Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Triennial (APT6, Australia), China Power Station Part Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ, The Land Between Us (The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England), Moving Image in China: 1988 - 2011 (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China), the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and a series of important international and domestic exhibitions. Chen Qiulin’s several influential solo exhibitions were held in Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Max Protetch Gallery, Long March Space, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) and A4 Art Museum (Chengdu). Her works were collected by The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collections (New York), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), T-BA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), The Bohen Foundation (New York), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), A4 Art Museum (Chengdu), Tsinghua University Art Museum and many other art galleries and private collectors.

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Works