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
2022
"A Game A Dream" Zhang Wen’s Solo Exhibition, Daqian Gallery, Beijing
"Animal Fables - Zhang Wen and Liu Shaodong Double Solo Exhibition", Nan Feng Bei Youth Art Project, Shanghai
"The Warriors - Works by Zhang Wen", Hemi Space - Zhongdian Light Valley, Qingdao
2017
Trilogy: The Other World of Zhang Wen, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
2015
Mo Courtyard – Ink Exhibition, Wu Shi Space, Beijing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Art Material and Rhetoric” 2023Art Invitational Exhibition of National Academy of Fine Arts, Hebi City Art Museum, Henan
2022
"Diversified Expressions (Second Exhibition)- Contemporary Chinese Ink Art", Daqian Gallery, Beijing
2021
Academic Community - Contemporary Academy Chinese Painting Figure Painting Teaching Research Exhibition, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou
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