Fireflies
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2020 Washington University in St. Louis
MFA in Visual Art
2018 Indiana University Bloomington
BFA in Painting and Drawing
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Color Field: Blue, Dodomu Gallery, NewYork, USA
2023 AQUA, Gallerium Art Exhibitions, Toronto, Canada
2023 Hello Tomorrow, HMVC Gallery, New York, USA
2022 Nature & Technology, An Inevitable Interconnectedness, Visionary Art
Collective, New York, USA
2022 Black, White & Infinite, Bruxelles Art Vue Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2022 ALL Abstracts Art Exhibition, Camelback Gallery, Arizona, USA
2022 Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2022 WE CONTEMPORARY Art Show, Piazza di S. Egido, Rome, Italy
2022 ORIZZONTI TRASVERSALI, M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan, Italy
2022 Night of Contemporary, Chania, Crete, Greece
2022 Artist on Standby, Belgrade Art Studio, Belgrade, Serbia
2021 WEAVING VOID, S.M.G Art Space, Wuhan, China
2021 INK Neon, S.M.G Art Space, Wuhan, China
2021 Face & Place, Dodomu Gallery, NewYork, USA
2021 A Thing Like You and Me, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2020 PARABOLA: Extraterrestrial, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, USA
2020 Consent/Dissent Alt+Space, St.Louis, USA
2019 Child’s Play, Foundry Art Centre, St.Charles, USA
2018 MFA Group Exhibition Des Lee Gallery, St.Louis, USA
2018 ZI BU YU, BFA Thesis Show, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, USA
2017 National Society of Arts & Letters Exhibition, Bloomington, USA
2017 I will be Your Mirror, Fuller Project Exhibition, Bloomington, USA
2017 Tevin Sleep Show, Fuller Project Exhibition, Bloomington, USA
2017 IUAM Printmaking Group Exhibition, Bloomington, USA
2016 OIS International Art Showcases, Bloomington, USA
2016 BFA Group Exhibition, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, USA
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS
2023 2023 edition of ART FILM AWARDS
2022 Art Show International Gallery’s 3rd WATER art competition
2022 5th annual All Abstracts 2022 International Juried Art Competition
2022 6th International Juried Art Competition
2022 World of Co Artist Residency
2021 Belgrade Art Studio Residency
2020 The Edmund Henry Wuerpel Scholarship
2019 Sam Fox School of Visual art Graduate Scholarship
2019 AXA Art Prize
2019 Berlin Sommerakademie Seminar
2019 The Edmund Henry Wuerpel Scholarship
2019 Foundwork Artist Prize
2018 AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts
2018 Sam Fox School of Visual art Graduate Scholarship
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize
2017 Executive Dean’s List
2017 Pygmalion’s Awards
2017 SoAAD Scholarships
2017 OIS International Art Showcases Award
2016 Hutton Honor Oversea Study Scholarship
2016 Florence Oversea Study Program
ARTIST TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2022 Belgrade Art Studio, Artist’s talk, Belgrade, Serbia
2022 Utah Tech University, Artist’s talk, St George, USA
2021 Shan Art Museum, Print Workshop & Artist talk, Wuhan, China
2020 Kemper Art Museum, Tracing the Past, Drawing the Present, artist’s talk, St.
Louis, USA
2020 College Art Association Chicago, Seminar, Chicago, USA
2019 Berlin Sommerakademie, Seminar, Berlin, Germany
2019 Deutsch Kinemathek, Museum für Film und Fernsehen, gallery talk, Berlin,
Germany
2019 Susan Philipsz Studio, artist’s talk, Berlin, Germany
2019 MICROLOGIES, panel with DXIX at Scharaun, gallery talk, Berlin, Germany
2019 Gallery Rasche Ripken, artist’s talk, Berlin, Germany
2019 Krist Gruijthuijsen, KW Institute, Seminar, Berlin, Germany
2019, me collectors room Stiftung Olbricht, artist’s talk, Berlin, Germany
2019 College Art Association NYU, Seminar, NewYork, USA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Artwork featured in Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine 30th Issue
2023 Featured artist, The Book of Arts: AQUA publication, Gallerium Art
2022 Artwork featured in Black, White & Infinite Colors 2022 edition
2022 Artwork featured in Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 109
2022 Artwork featured in Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 108
2022 Featured artist, Artist’s Directory Listings, Aestheticamag
2022 Featured artist, We Contemporary Art Catalog 2022
2022 Featured artist, Studio Visit Magazine, Volumes 51 & 52
2021 Artwork featured in Artnet News
2020 Featured artist, A Thing Like You and Me, MFA Catalog 2020
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 – 2022
Lecturer, Wuhan University Of Technology, Wuhan, China
2018 – 2020
Associate Instructor, Washington University in St. Louis, St.Louis, USA
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practice explores personal and collective issues surrounding the pace of urban and technological progress, and its impact on nature and human behavior. The work also considers societal shifts and how they affect our connections with the natural world and those around us.
Ancient Chinese artists painted landscapes in order to project their own thoughts and feelings into the mountains and rivers in nature. The landscape builds a reclusive space for them to run away from secular matters. I use traditional materials, ink on xuan paper, to create an abstract landscape, linking traditional Chinese philosophy to the contemporary context. The neon color and unpredicts movement of the space relate to the unstable reality that we lived in. Full of insecurity and mystery. However, it synchronously triggered us to explore the unknown future.
Immersing in a futuristic natural environment with flashing neon colors, we just free all of our sensations. We feel grounded at this moment, then the next second loses the balance. Losing in a strange space, but we also enjoy the free feeling of weightlessness. The view provides a vision of a glowing forest and had different sensations: astonishment, curiosity, change of direction in movements, and upon me, sometimes warm, sometimes cold. The mixed jumping colors bring us to travel through various sensations in a glowing forest. It is a utopian space to escape reality, go against gravity, and explore the possibilities of the natural environment in a dreamy way.
I wish to bring forth an ethereal ambiance in my works, to convey the ambiguous and alarming vision of nature. The public is confronted with the existence of conflicts between nature and man and is called upon to take a stand in this regard.