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BIO
Zhu Yu Wenzhou / China
Zhu Yu was born on March 8, 1981, in Liushi Town, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 2008, she graduated from the Video Art Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts of China, and now mainly works and lives in Beijing, Wenzhou and Europe. The artist’s chief mediums are video, installation and photography. Moveable maps are her current artistic orientation. She says that her working is like looking for markers and relabeling them in the fog. Her social upbringing, interpreted as a meridian, while ceaseless in wiping off her immediate past, acts as a coordinate. And where is her latitude of cognition?
Liushi is a small Chinese town, where 90% of the inhabitants are engaged in manufacturing electrical appliances. The electrical products are sold all over China and all over the world. The region is somewhat alienated from the social and political system but in its drive towards modern civilization has continuously been hindered by political constraints and economical ideology. The ideological mindset of the community has undergone tremendous change but the special geographical environment often triggers some sensitive emotions. Zhu Yu’s artistic motifs often portray industrialization, the masses and children’s misplaced memory of factory production lines. Zhu remove from reality the void and the passive, and analyze their historical roots and current mechanical and networked/digitalized shadows or the reversal thereof.
CV
GROUP SHOW
2024 "A Tree" OFOTOANART Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024 "Face & Faceless" NOMAD NO MAD, Shanghai, China
2023 "New Concept Art 2 Tremor", Jinmao North Bund Art Space, Shanghai
2022 "Either or" Suning art museum, S hanghai, China
2021 Contemporary Exhibition of Great Artists, Piazza Turin, Shanghai
2021, "Memu, Dialogue on the Soil Context of Art", Exhibition Art Exhibition Planning, Italy China, Online Exhibition
2021 "Purificating of artworks "Shanghai Xuhui art museum
2020 "The landscapes of Form- The angelic to the Grotesque" Barker Howard contemporary London, England
2020 "Wind of change" Huamay Beijing
2019, “I Think Therefore I Question” Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019, “Slice” BACA Art Center / Nook Gallery, Beijing, China
2018.Youth Art Start Out Again, FFA Art Space, Nanjing, China
2017, “The sixth room” Josh harks gallery, Chicago, Americcan
2016, "From Desire to Desire" Jiali Gallery, Beijing, China
2016, “原绘画”，Enlai museum, Beijing
2016, "Latin American Art Festival" FREE ADMISSION NTC LIBERTY STATION, San Diego, CA
2015, ”REVISIÓN GLOCAL REVIEW” BEIJING-TIJUANA (2012-2015), Tijuana, Mexico Art
2015 "REAL/UNREAL" THE FIRST EDITION OF CHANGJIANG INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO BIENNALE, Chongqing Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing 2014,Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing
2014“Boxer Identity” The Gallery, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
2014 “2 Women+1Man”The 14th China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi
5. October-2. November 2013, "SOUL WHISPERS" KETTERER KUNST Gallery, Berlin/ VIA FARINI56-MODENA Italy
14 .September - 6 November 2013, "BETWEEN" EGG Gallery, Beijing
2012,"EXPLORING MEMORIES OF SELF" TJ in CHINA Project room ,Beijing
2011--2012, “20Years-Two Generations of Artists” at Red Gate Gallery Beijing, Liudao Gallery Shanghai,Manning Regional Art Gallery,Taree “Melbourne International Fine Art”, Lingtong&Kay Gallery, Perth
2015 , “Out of space” Jam work, Jiuxianqiao, Beijing
2011, "MUDAR" UNITONE / PICKLED ART CENTEN, Beijing
June 2011, “20Years-Two Generations of Artists" at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2008, “Blasting Milk” Group Show of TS1. Gallery, Beijing, China
2008, “Tian An Men and Guang Hua Men” Group Show in G&T Gallery Korea ; Beijing, China
2007, “Movement and Silence” in Court-Yard Gallery; Beijing, China
ART PROJECTS：
2023 Berlin Video Art Festival Video Unit, Chinese artist, Berlin, Germany
2021, Online Performance Art http://www.onlineperformanceart.com
2020 Behold Exhibition: the who of 2020, No Name Studio, Shanghai
2020 Vol. 2 “Strange conversation” New Asian Filmmakers collective, ON LINE
2020 "I was in China during the outbreak of Covid19", ONLINE
2019, “#We” The Other Society, Vienna, Austria
2019，Kuba residency program, Germany
2018, “Ring Railway Line 1” Huantie 1xian, Beijing
2017, KOBRA, SVT, Swedish National Television www.svt.se/kobra
12.6. 2018. “NUCLEARSUMMIT” Blue, Caochangdi, Beijing
7-9, 2017Art project “Three Capital Cities” Tibet, New York, Beijing
2017.Artist recidency at Josh harks gallery, Chicago
2016, Invito a Parete-Project, 2.0 gallery, Italy
2015.10- 12.2016, manage No Way Space:
10.2015-2.2016. “Meiguanxism”, ”Firebon”, “No Time Difference”, “Turn off Fire wall”, “Above 3000°” No way Space, 155 Caochangdi, Beijing, China
9.2015, Harks Gallery Beijing, 155Caochangdi Beijing, China
6.2013, “夜走黑桥”，我们说要有空间于是就有了空间， 北京
2013“反转基因” 唐人空间