Qin Feng: The Founder

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1961, Xinjiang Province, China

Lives and works in Beijing

Founded the Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2006

Founded Ammonal Gallery, Beijing, China, 1993

Founded the Artist Circle BLUE, 1986

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016    Heavenly Dialogue: Qin Feng in Venice ;  Asia Art Center, Taipei; Pace Gallery  New York City

2015    Museum Artpavillon Haus, Kt. Luzern, Switzerland Basel Art Center, Switzerland  Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2014    Qin Feng: Ink Innovator, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, New York 
             Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaLonging Landscapes, Ode to Art, Singapore, Jan 10-20, 2014
            Dallas Asian Art Museum, Dallas, Texas    Qin Feng, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, Sept 11–Oct 6, 2014

2013   Qin Feng, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, May 17-25, 2013Qin Feng, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
             Hong Kong World Gallery, Hong Kong
             Shanghai Art Museum, China

            Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
            Shang Shang International Art Museum, Beijing, China

2011   Qin Feng, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
           The Opposite House, Beijing

2009   Qin Feng: Prints and Monoprints, Pace Prints, New York, Mar 12, 2009-Apr 4, 2009

2008   Asia Center, Harvard University
            Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
            Qin Feng: New Paintings, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, June 4-30, 2008
            Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York

2007  Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
           Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
           Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
           China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China

2006  Goedhuis Contemporary, New York/London
           Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, China
           Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2005  Toll Collect, Berlin, Germany
            Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

2004  Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
           Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong
            HaiShangShan International Art Center, Shanghai, China

2002 HaiShangShan International Art Center, Shanghai, China
            Tao Water Gallery, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2001  MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, U.S.
           Revolving Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
           Asian Society, New York
           Ministry of Federal Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany

2000  Tremont Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

1999   Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
           Leucorea, Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg, Germany
1997 Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
1996 Benario Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1994 Ammonal Gallery, Beijing, China

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS

2014  China & France, Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
            British Museum, London, UK
           Traveling Exhibition (Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Taiwan)
            A Fragment in the Course of Time – Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in the 1980s, Shanghai
            Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China, Feb 28-Apr 10, 2014

           Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, May 3-Aug 31, 2014
           Mana Monumental, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL, Dec 2–Dec 7, 2014
            Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict.: Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,
           CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), Miami, Florida, Dec 3-May 17, 2014
           Forms of the Formless, Exhibition of International Contemporary Art, The vibrARTion Project
           Hubei Museum of Art, China
           TEDA Art Museum, Tianjin, China
           Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
          Museum Artpavillon Haus, Kt. Luzern, Switzerland
          Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China
          Nanjing International Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China
          Infinite Ink: Contemporary Chinese Ink Exhibition, Art of Nature Contemporary Gallery, Hong  Kong, Oct 22-Nov 9, 2014
          Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
         Meijiang International Art Gallery, Tianjin, China
         MAD Art Gallery, Singapore
         Xinjiang International Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang
          Lin Yi International Art Exhibition（Shan Dong）

2013  Ink: The Art of China, Museum of Modern Art, New York & Hong Kong
          Shuimo / Water Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, Sotheby's S∣2 Gallery, New York
           The Zero State, First China Installation Art Biennale, MoCA Beijing, Tianjin Art Museum
           Insightful Charisma-Inaugural Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China, June 6-Sept 25, 2013

2012 Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, June 19-July 5, 2012  Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
          Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
           Original Shapes of Ink and Wash, Sanchuan Modern Art Museum, Nanjing, China, Oct 27-Nov 30, 2012
          Taiwan Ink Art Biennale, Tour Exhibition
          Re-coding Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China 
          Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
          Undoing Shuimo, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, Sept 2-Oct 7, 2012
          Prints: Art and Life Pace Masters of 50 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2011   Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
            Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
           Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dubai Art Center
            Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
           The Master Collection, Crossing Art Gallery, New York, Nov 5-Dec 7, 2011

2010  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
           Chinese Expression, Bloom Gallery, Beijing, China, Oct 16-Nov 16, 2010
           Winter Showcase, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, December 17, 2010-Jan 21, 2011
           Metamorphosis of Ink, Crossing Art Gallery, New York, August 7- September 26, 2010
           Goedhuis Contemporary, London; Contrasts Gallery, Beijing

2009  Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
          Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
          Asian Ink Masters, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
          Contemporary Mark Making: Blurring the Lines Between Drawing and Writing, Alpan Gallery,Huntington, New York, December 12, 2009 - January 23, 2010
        Shang Shang International Art Museum, Beijing, China

             Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, Connecticut
            Shang-Shang International Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007   The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
            Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
           Made in China, Contemporary Chinese Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
            Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
           We Are Your Future, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
           New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
           Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, ChinaChengdu Biennale, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

2006 Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
          Karl and Helen Burger Gallery, Kean University, Union, New Jersey
         Young Mandarins Exhibition, Christie’s, Miami, Florid

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES 

2000 Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, US
Creative Award, Boston Revolving Museum, Massachusetts
Residency, Boston International Art Institute
1998 Berlin Municipal Art Award, Berlin, Germany

Germany
1996 Guest Lecturer, Berlin University of the Arts (HdK), Berlin, Germany
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