Shen Yuan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Shen.

Shen Yuan (Chinese: 沈远; born 1959 in Xianyou, Fujian), is a Chinese-born French artist. She graduated from China Academy of Art in 1982, and then started to practice in the Xiamen Dada group, an artists group that is known for exploring radical avant-garde art in Southern China.[1][2] She moved to Paris, France with her husband Huang Yong Ping after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.[3]

As a contemporary artist, Shen Yuan's art often reflects on Chinese cultural and political realities. She has strong messages of feminism and gender roles in her artworks.[1][4] Topics include issues such as labor (child labor, women workers), slums, and social conflicts. Her artistic process often makes use of on-the-spot investigations and local creative methods to work together with local children or people to complete the work.

She has been featured in many exhibitions.[5] Her and her husband's works were featured in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's group exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, and in exhibition Hong Kong Foot at Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong.

  1. ^ a b "Initiartmagazine". www.initiartmagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  2. ^ "ART CITIES:Paris-Shen Yuan". www.dreamideamachine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  3. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 368. ISBN 978-0714878775. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "TANG CONTEMPORARY ART 當代唐人藝術中心". TANG CONTEMPORARY ART 當代唐人藝術中心. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  5. ^ https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/d6280e_d32140190ada42729cfb55d9579186c8.pdf [bare URL PDF]