Yuan Yuan was born in 1973 in Zhejiang, China. Yuan Yuan graduated from China Academy of Art in Hangzhou from oil painting department and a Master of Fine Arts in 2008. He was granted with Luo Zhongli scholarship, a highly valued art award. Yuan yuan’s subjects are mainly interiors, forming his agenda on the relationship between architectural buildings and the residual traces of what a place used to be in the past. The depiction of humid environment and a sense of abandonment are often seen in his paintings, in which the viewers would share a sense of passing time, of transition and history. Collection: Pomeranz, Vienna, Austria; DSL Collection, Beijing, China; White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese art collection, Sydney, Australia. Selected solo exhibtions: 2009 “Luo Zhongli Scholarship Exhibition”, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China; 2009 “Polar Night”, Xiaoping Gallery, Shanghai, China; 2010 “Daily”, Nanjing Qinghe Contemporary Art Museum, Nanjing, China; 2011 “Steam Rooms”, JGM Gallery, Paris, France; 2014 “Yuan Yuan”, Art Basel Hong Kong 14, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong; 2015 “Yuan Yuan”, Galerie Malingue, Paris, France.
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YUAN Yuan 袁遠