Chen Shuxia 陈淑霞
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Chen Shuxia is a painter living and working in Beijing. She also serves as an associate professor in the Art Education Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
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[edit] Date & Place of Birth
Chen was born in 1963 in Zhejiang Province, China.
[edit] Education & Development
In 1987, Chen graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
[edit] Art
Art Intern journalist Xi Chuan argues in a 2008 article that if there were one word to describe Chen Shuxia’s paintings, it would be “poetic.” In fact, she makes this word self-update to accommodate her paintings. Viewers feel something beautiful, quiet, self-sufficient and free as they view her canvasses. Among those painters of the new generation with works commonly flaunted as cynical, intranquil, dangerous, angry, satiric, and ugly, there is no place for Chen Shuxia.[1]
[edit] Emergence & Reception
In 1992, Chen Shuxia began drawing portraits of family members and good friends, with the background always fixed as the same familiar room of her house. Chen has carried this personal approach through to the present, just recently explaining in an interview: “I learn that the meanings of the two words "to draw" and "to live" are mixed up." Chen has since traded that room for a large studio on the outskirts of Beijing that borders the studio of her husband, artist Liu Qinghe.[2]
[edit] Awards & Honors
In 2006, Chen was a candidate for “Xiao Shufang Art Fund” Excellent Female Painter award. In 1999, she was awarded the Bronze Medal a The 9th National Art Exhibition Excellent Award of Literature Works Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. In 1995, she earned the Bronze Medal at the 3rd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition. In 1991, she was rewarded the Silver Medal at the 1st Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition. In 1985, she won the Bronze Medal at the Academy Show of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
[edit] Exhibitions
Chen has held solo shows at such distinguished venues as the National Art Museum of China and the Shanghai Art Museum, both in 2006. She has participated in many group exhibitions including Excellent Artists Nomination Exhibition at Today Art Museum in 2004 and The Blossoming of Reality at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2006.
For Chen's full exhibition history, click here.
[edit] Gallery Affiliation(s)
Chen is represented by Eli Klein Fine Arts in New York.
[edit] Acquisitions & Auctions
Chen's works have sold at both Ravanel and Poly International auction houses. For Chen's full auction record, click here.
[edit] Interviews
To view Chen's video interview with Studio Door China in Beijing, click here.
[edit] References
http://chinavarts.com/en/artists/106/chen-shuxia
http://art.china.cn/huodong/2007-05/09/content_1565678.htm (Chinese and English)
http://en.artintern.net/index.php/artist/main/html/20
http://www.pyoart.com/artist/chenshuxia/html/criticism_eng2.html
