SGA 沪申画廊 上海｜「反光体」艺术家简介

Liang Manqi (b. 1986, Zhuhai Guangdong) graduated from the department of Art Education from the School of Public Art at the China Academy of Art in 2009 and received her Master’s Degree from the department of Painting at Chinesisch-Deutshe Kunstakademie (CDK) in China Academy of Art, in 2012. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Liang Manqi’s work has been exhibited in major art museums, including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing; chi K11 Museum of Art in Shanghai; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Shanghai; Arario Gallery in Jeju, Korea; Westbund Art and Design Fair in Shanghai; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture; and more. She was invited to numerous art project collaboration with leading brands and celebrities, including “Lady Dior As Seen By” exhibition; DS AUTOMOBILES Paris vehicle marque x Art collab; “Mickey: The True Original & Ever Curious” Exhibition World Tour; Zhou Penchang’s “Lunar Phases” art exhibition, and more.

Ni Zhiqi (b.1957, Shanghai) studied MFA at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium and won the first prize at the Karel Veslat Art Exhibition. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. Ni’s works have been widely collected and featured in exhibitions across Asia and Europe.

Xuan Chenhao (b.1989, Shanghai) graduated from the East China Normal University College of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.

‘My paintings draw inspiration from the binary relationship between animals and plants living in the rainforest. Like an inward-blooming syconus that lures the wasp with its fleshy seeded stalks into its bud to breed, I attempt to convey this lively vigor that has propelled our genealogy and thoughts to evolve over the centuries through my art. The intention is less about creating; instead, it is an exertion to be freed after portraying these entities, the process rejects meaning, and the work fuels itself with menace and unsettledness. My memory weaves these animals, plants and symptoms of life together. The march toward creation is brutal. All organisms are naturally diverse in their mode of expression, with difference and sameness that vary in scale.’

Zheng Wenxin (b. 1975, Shanghai) received BA from the department of art at Xiamen University in 1997, and MA at Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK, in 2001. She taught at Xiamen University from 1997 to 1999. She currently lives in Hangzhou and teaches at China Academy of Art. 

The artist participated in artist residencies at Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK, from 2001-2003; and the PILOTENKUCHEN International Lepzig, Germany, in 2019.

Shi Zhiying (b.1979, Shanghai) received her MFA in Oil Painting from The Fine Arts College of Shanghai University in 2005. She is a first-class national artist and currently works at Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute.

Her works are held in the public collections of: Power Station of Art, Shanghai; China Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; Shanghai Fosun Foundation; CC Foundation; Yuz Museum Shanghai; Liu Haisu Art Museum; Orange County Mu-seum of Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Pizzuti Collection, etc.

Shao Wenhuan (b.1971, Hotan Xinjiang) studied in the department of Mixed Media and Painting at the China Academy of Art in 2002 and continued his studies at the École National des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. The artist primarily focuses on the study and experimental nature of photography as a medium. Shao currently lives in Hangzhou and is associate professor in the photography department at the China Academy of Art. 

His works are exhibited widely in China and abroad, including: China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou; Folkwang Museum, Germany; the First Biennial of Contemporary Art in Milan, Italy; Beijing Photography Biennial, Beijing; the Lucerne Art Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland, among others. His works are part of many private and public collections around the world, including the Uli Sigg collection.

Li Wenguang (b.1985, Shanghai) currently lives and works in Shanghai. The self-taught artist has gone through several stages of diversifying his visual language since he started his artistic journey in 2004. 8 years ago, Li developed a representative geometric pattern, one that he continues to evolve to this date.

Yang Xi (b.1988, Shanghai) graduated with MA from Goldsmiths, University of London. She currently lives and works in Shanghai. Yang has previously participated in Nottingham Art Festival, UK; London Art Festival, and more. 

Yang Xi primarily focuses on sculpture; and is adept in capturing and summarizing abstract forms based on intuition. Her work is inspired by memories and emotions from personal behaviours or the slits of perception. Yang pays close attention to the developing ecology of objects and events created and evolved by human beings and nature. By re-imagining and re-defining history and ecology, as well as experiences accumulated in daily network and real life, she captures the potential scenes, forms, and materials from actual experiences, then collects, overlays, and reprocesses them into her re-contextualized sculptures. The artist eliminates the timeliness in sculptural language and imbues the medium with new generation logic and possibilities of re-ecology. Together, her work marks a search for a rational co-existence with space and a new effective mode of viewing.

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