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WU YI

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B. 1966, Changchun City, China

 

Wu Yi now serves as associate professor at the mural painting department under Central Academy of Fine Arts, Graduate student Supervisor, Chief of Studio.4 Deputy director. The artist graduated from the department of traditional Chinese painting under Central Academy of Fine Arts, with a bachelor's degree in 1989 and he graduated from the department of traditional Chinese painting under Central Academy of Fine Arts, with master’s degree with professor Lu Chen as tutor.

 

His selected and recent solo exhibitions include: “Prague,” Song Art Museum, Beijing, China and “Portrait of a Scene,” Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China, 2021; “Wu Yi's solo exhibition – XIUZHEN TU,” XUN WAY Art Space, Shanghai, China,2019; “A Carefree Excursion: Wu Yi Solo Exhibition,” Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China,2014; “The summer of Prague,” Galerle Vaclava Spaly, Prague, Czech, 2013. Artist selected group exhibition include: “Re-Jiangnan|Homepage: The Golden Age Never Gone,” The Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Nanjing, China, 2022; “The Curtain Call of Theater and the Return of Mediu,” MOFEIM, Qingdao, China, “Diversified Expressions——Contemporary Chinese Ink Art,” Daqian Gallery, Beijing, China and “Famil,”, Tong Gallery + Projects, Beijing, China, 2021.

 

Invited by Xinhua News Agency, Wu Yi drew the paintings for the cover of Japanese monthly magazine Shorinji Kempo published by the Mainichi Shimbun in 1992. He was selected in the List of the Powerful Chinese Modern Artists by L’officiel Art (2009) and (2014). Wu Yi’s collection published by The American art publisher TIMEZONE8 was first launched at Frankfurt Book Fair. He is the first Asian artist drawing the illustrations (2 volumes) for Laozi -Tao Te Ching in Czech version which has been included into the National Library collection.