陈秋林 Chen Qiulin China, b. 1975

Chen Qiulin (1975 born in Yichang City, Hubei Province, now lives and works in Chengdu) graduated from Print Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Her uses various media to create, including video, photography, installation and sculpture. Her creation is always in a state of continuous development and advancement and discusses issues in a new perspectives, which represents a unique sensitivity to social issues.

The awards Chen Qiulin has won include: Emerging Artist Prize, Biennale Internationale d'Art Contemporain Chinois, Montpellier-Chine 1 (2005); Asian Cultural Council, Starr Foundation Fellowship (2006);  JP Morgan First Asian World Women Forum Rising Talents Programme (Nominated) (2008); The Fourth Annual AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art 2009-the Annual Young Artist (Nominated) (2010); Reshaping History Academic Award (Nominated) (2010); Loop Award of Loop Fair 2017.

The important exhibitions Chen Qiulin has presented include: The Wall: Two Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition; THIS IS NOT FOR YOU: Sculptural Discourses, T-BA21 Collection; The 7th Gwangju Biennale; 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; 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia, and other national and international exhibitions. She has presented solo exhibitions at many significant institutions, including 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 Museum, Chengdu. Her works has been collected by Astrup Fearnley Museum (Norway), T-BA21,Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Austria), Hammer Museum (USA), The Bohen Foundation (USA), Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), A4 Museum (Chengdu), and private collectors.