Cui Xiuwen 崔岫闻
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[edit] Date & Place of Birth
Cui Xiuwen was born in 1970 in Heilongjiang, China.
[edit] Childhood & Family
Cui was born into a large family in Harbin, the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China. She fell in love with drawing as a young girl as she studied and copied the illustrated books of Van Gogh and Gauguin.[1]
[edit] Education & Development
1996 - Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
[edit] Art
After graduating from the Central Academy in 1996, Cui followed her instincts as a painting student to create oil on canvas works. Her bold, often controversial paintings included work like her “Intersection Series” (1998), which features a full frontal view of a naked man. This early work often presented women as the observers and men as the object of observation. These early feminist tendencies blossomed as Cui’s career developed.
In 1998, Cui’s career reached a turning point. After acting in a television episode and following the camera crew around for several months, she discovered the limitless possibilities of video as an art medium. At that moment, Cui made the decision never to paint again.[2]
In 2002, “Lady’s Room” was censured at the Guangzhou Triennial. The video, along with Zhang Huan’s performance “Twelve Square Meters” led to the first lawsuit in the history of Chinese contemporary art. Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art’s teacher Su Jian claimed that the shock and horror he experienced when seeing the works at the Guangdong Art Museum infringed on his health. He demanded a refund of admission, a public apology, and monetary compensation for his nervous shock of RMB 20,000 (about USD 2,500). The public lawsuit pushed Cui into the limelight.[4]
Since her social criticism in the early 2000s, Cui continues to create feminist videos and more recently, photographs. Her radical subject matter has undergone a transformation as she’s developed a new interest in womanhood and the issues related to pregnancy and maternity. Her recent work explores the anxiety, concerns, and vulnerability of women in China today.[5]
[edit] Exhibitions
Cui’s work has been exhibited around the world, most notably at the International Center of Photography and the Asia Society in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. For Cui’s CV, Click Here
[edit] Gallery Affiliations
ArtChina Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China
Adam Biesk, Inc, Los Angeles, CA, USA
E & R Cyzer, London, UK
Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, NY
F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, NY, USA; London, UK; Beijing, China
Willem Kerseboom, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Max Lang, New York, NY, USA
Magee Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain
Moss, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Wiegersma Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
YU Gallery, Paris, France; Taipei, Taiwan
[edit] Acquisitions & Auctions
Cui’s photographs often come up for auction and fetch impressive hammer prices. Photographs from her “Angel” series (2006) have fetched over USD 60,000. For Cui’s Resale Record, Click Here. For a list of collections containing Cui Xiuwen's work, click here.
[edit] References
China Art Book. Eds. Uta Grosenick and Caspar H. Schübbe. Cologne, Germany: DuMont Publishers, 2007.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/Cuixiuwen.php
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=424360001&page_tab=Dealers_selling
http://www.artzinechina.com/display.php?a=168
