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Zhang Wen (张闻), born in 1988 in Henan province, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Ink from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. After completing a one-year foreign residency program in the United States, she moved on to her post-graduate studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts at the Department of Chinese Ink under the supervision of Liu Qing He.
Zhang Wen’s works are filled with the nostalgia, experiences, and revelations inherent in growing up, and it is almost as if through her art she can hold off that moment when the innocence of childhood is broken by the realities of adulthood.
Zhang Wen’s brushstrokes are simple and forthright, a style that amplifies her narrative about childhood innocence. Her use of color, tonal variation and color saturation is reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink, and her exceptional composition and perspective reveal an uncommon intelligence. Her art has the distinctive feel of Chinese ink, yet at the same time is distinctive with her own intimately personal and experimental language.
Wen’s works were awarded and collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009, 2011 and 2014.
Zhang Wen (张闻), born in 1988 in Henan province, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Ink from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. After completing a one-year foreign residency program in the United States, she moved on to her post-graduate studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts at the Department of Chinese Ink under the supervision of Liu Qing He.
Zhang Wen’s works are filled with the nostalgia, experiences, and revelations inherent in growing up, and it is almost as if through her art she can hold off that moment when the innocence of childhood is broken by the realities of adulthood.
Zhang Wen’s brushstrokes are simple and forthright, a style that amplifies her narrative about childhood innocence. Her use of color, tonal variation and color saturation is reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink, and her exceptional composition and perspective reveal an uncommon intelligence. Her art has the distinctive feel of Chinese ink, yet at the same time is distinctive with her own intimately personal and experimental language.
Wen’s works were awarded and collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009, 2011 and 2014.
| 1988 | Born in Zhengzhou, Henan province |
| 2016 | MA in Chinese Painting (under the supervision of Liu Qing He), Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| 2012 | One-Year Foreign Residency, Savannah College of Art and Design, United States |
| 2011 | BA in Chinese Painting Freehand Brushwork Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2017 | Trilogy: The Other World of Zhang Wen, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai |
| 2015 | Mo Courtyard – Ink Exhibition, Wu Shi Space, Beijing |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | 7th Art Changsha Exhibition, Changsha Normal University, Art and Design School Art Museum, Changsha Water, Ink Silence – College Experimental Ink Exhibition, Shui Du He Art Festival, Art and Design College of Changsha Normal University, Changsha ELEGANCE of ABSENCE 空.間，ION Art Gallery, Singapore |
| 2018 | All Things Grow – Thinking and Living Together, Fuyuan Commune, Beijing |
| 2017 | Xishuangbanna international art exhibition, Xishuangbanna National Museum, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Vipassana – Post-80s Outstanding Chinese Painting Art Exhibition, Grand Millennium Center for Contemporary Art |
| 2016 | Luo Zhongli Scholarship Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum, Luo Zhongli Art Museum In Between Days VI: Group Exhibition from Gallery Collection, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai The 2016 Beijing Youth Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing Denominating Power & Game Art Festival, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen Whiplash!!! Reverberation of Light, Celebrating Ten Years of Emerging Art, Hongmen Gallery, Beijing Post-Graduate Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum, China Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong Ink Art in Change, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing The 80s, Chinese Contemporary Artist Nomination Exhibition，CPPCC Culture and History Museum, Beijing |
| 2015 | CAFA Chinese Ink Department Post-Graduate Students Work Exhibition, Beijing International Exhibition Center, Beijing Coexistence: The Fourth Central Academy of Fine Arts Postgraduates’ Art Works Exhibition, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing Ink – Chinese Contemporary Ink Artists Exhibition, ION Art Gallery, Singapore Ink Field – Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting by Outstanding PostGraduates, Da Yun Tang Art Museum, Beijing Singapore Affordable Art Fair, Singapore F1 Racetrack VIP Hall, Singapore Poly Cup Ink Grand Prix Exhibition, 798 Yidian Art Space, Beijing |
| 2014 | Resonance, The Third Central Academy of Fine Arts Postgraduates’ Works Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing Youth Ambition – The First Beijing Young Artists’s Carnival Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, China Gallery of Art, Beijing The 12th National Art Exhibition, Hebei Museum, Shi Jiazhuang Hedge- Making Dopamine, National Art Museum, Beijing; Hebei Cangzhou Art Museum, Cangzhou The Realm of Advaita Annual Nomination Exhibition for Students of Contemporary Art Academies, Today Art Museum, Beijing Experimental Field: The Second Central Academy of Fine Arts Postgraduates’ Art Works Exhibition, Yuan Dian Art Gallery, Beijing |
| 2011 | A Start of a Long Journey, CAFA Excellent Graduates’ Works Touring Museums of Eight China Art Academies A Start of a Long Journey: China Central Academy of Fine Arts Outstanding Graduates’ Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing |
AWARDS
| 2016 | Beijing Youth Art Biennale Third Prize Outstanding Beijing Graduates China Central Academy of Fine Arts Outstanding Graduate Outsdanding Postgraduate Artwork for the work “World” , Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Arts Museum, Beijing |
| 2015 | Postgraduate National Scholarship, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
| 2014 | The First China Poly Cup Ink Grand Prix, First Prize Youth Will-The First Young Artist Art Festival, Winner of the Outstanding Artworks Awards, Today Art Museum，Beijing Footprints – Youth, Third Prize, China Central Academy of Fine Arts |
| 2011 | “That City” received the Outstanding Graduate Artwork Award by Central Academy of Fine Arts; the work is now in the collection of CAFA Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2009 | Ye Xian Yu Sketching Scholarship, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
