Yu Hong

Yu Hong

A teacher of the Central Academy of fine arts, born in 1966, he entered the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1980, entered the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988, and graduated from the master's class of the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1995. He is currently teaching in the oil painting department of the Central Academy of fine arts.

Take part in the exhibition

In 1986, the oil painting "self portrait" participated in the first "Chinese oil painting exhibition" held in Shanghai.

In 1988, the oil painting "Silence" and others participated in the "oil painting human body art exhibition" held in Beijing China Art Museum.

In 1989, the oil painting "self portrait" participated in the "Monte Carlo International Art Exhibition" held in Monte Carlo, Monaco; "butterfly dream" participated in the "Seventh National Art Exhibition" held in Nanjing; "hair salon" and others participated in the "elite exhibition of Chinese female artists" held in Macao; "golden portrait" and others participated in the "works exhibition of Chinese female artists" touring in Japan.

In 1990, the oil painting "Beige Xiao Xiang" and other works participated in the "World Exhibition of female painters" held in Beijing; more than 20 works such as "nostalgic portrait" participated in the "Yuhong oil painting exhibition" held in Beijing for the first time.

In 1991, oil painting "beginners" and others took part in the "new generation Art Exhibition" held in Beijing; "the sun in the sky" took part in the "annual exhibition of Chinese oil painting" held in Beijing; "lovers" and others took part in the "20th century China" exhibition held in Beijing. In 1993, the oil painting "beginner" and others participated in the "Chinese avant-garde art exhibition" touring in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and Denmark; "Chinese Princess" and others participated in the "Venice Biennale" held in Venice, Italy; "Beige portrait" participated in the "Chinese Modern Art Exhibition" held in Z Gallery, SOHO, New York, USA; "portrait with rose" and others participated in the "Venice Biennale" held in the United States "Red star shines on China" art exhibition in Soho, New York. In the same year, he made the film "days of winter and spring".

In 1994, the oil painting "sunny day" and others participated in the recent works exhibition of Yu Hong and Liu Xiaodong held in the East Village of New York; sleepwalk and others participated in the "transformation" exhibition held in the West Village of New York; golden surprise participated in the "works exhibition of Chinese and Korean female artists" held in Beijing; nostalgic portrait participated in the "East meets West" exhibition held in the Connecticut Museum of the United States; go to the west "exhibition "Steel wire" took part in the "94 new foundry cup Chinese painting and oil painting exhibition" held in Beijing and won the excellent award; "Saint baby" and others took part in the "Central Academy of fine arts oil painting teachers' Works Exhibition" held in Beijing; "pregnant women in the forest" and others took part in the "world of female painters" second exhibition held in Beijing International Art Garden; "sunny day" took part in the first "Chinese oil painting" held in Beijing "Portrait of yellow flower" participated in the "Centennial Exhibition of Chinese painting portrait" held in Beijing, and "early summer" participated in the "joint exhibition of contemporary Chinese female artists" held by art Misia Gallery in Chicago. Candidate for the first art and Design Grand Prix.

In 2002, Yu Hong's works exhibition was held in Beijing ocean Art Center and Shenzhen He Xiangning Art Museum.

Some individual exhibitions:

2016, Yu Hong: a dream in the garden, Art Museum of Central Academy of fine arts, Beijing, China;

2015, parallel world, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China;

2013, worry cloud, long march space, Beijing, China;

2011, golden world, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, Beijing;

2010, golden skyline, eurens Center for contemporary art, Beijing, China

Part of the joint exhibition:

2016, between mountains and rivers, Shanghai Museum of contemporary art, Shanghai, China;

2015, freehand brushwork in China: Academic invitation exhibition of China Art Museum, China Art Museum, Beijing, China;

2014, 2014 Brazilian exhibition of Chinese art, Sao Paulo, Brazil;

2013, portrait of the times: 30 years of contemporary art, Shanghai Museum of contemporary art, Shanghai, China;

2012, open portrait, Minsheng Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China;

2011, looking back 60, Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of fine arts, China;

2010, oil painting art and contemporary society: Chinese oil painting exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China;

Character review

Yu Hong is certainly not that kind of enthusiastic painter, not that kind of artist who pursues form and creates effect. It seems that on the contrary, her theme has been hovering in the small world composed of details in reminiscence of the past. With her pure Soviet realism, every picture is vaguely immersed in the narrative atmosphere of mind. When she became famous as a new generation painter in the early 1990s, Yu Hong's paintings were considered autobiographical, even if she did not paint herself. She is fully aware of this: "I live in a crowd and find many things that are touching and unspeakable. These are stories about human sensitivity, vulnerability, dignity, separation, helplessness, sincerity and love Everyone is driven by it, so there are all kinds of stories in life. They became the theme of my work. "

Important exhibitions

After graduating from the Central Academy of fine arts, Yu Honggang took part in the body exhibition in 1989, the "world of female painters" and personal painting exhibition later. These opportunities usually inspire a kind of responsibility to art and Society for other artists, especially when they are full of desire for sensational events or ideas. The reason why Yu Hong has not been involved in the discussion of style and language since then is at least partly due to her vigilance to any fashion and her interest in narration. As she said: "painting is to speak, is parallel to language means of expression." Since she was listed as a new generation painter, she has nothing to do with her questioning about style, insisting on a rare calm and subjective straightforward narration on the screen. The more so, the more prominent her subjective tendency in composition and color gives people an unusual impression. Those characters are extremely simple and ordinary, but as long as you pay attention, you will feel that they are transitional substitutes. They always have a kind of temptation. However, you will resist the temptation out of shame to fall into the trap or for some reason. In the process of half pushing, it will make you connect with some kind of air, which is the real core of the story.

In June, in the exhibition hall of the ocean Art Center in Beijing, "witnessing growth" resonated with many people. From any of these 45 works, the appearance of narrative and autobiography is clearer than her previous works, especially the composition of standard family photos. It is still the subjective narrative style of Yu Hong style that makes these pictures transplanted from photos separate from the nature of photos. The time distance between photos and viewing is fixed. Even if it was taken yesterday, the viewing is generally accompanied by a vague sense of nostalgia, but there is no time distance between painting and viewing. Because of the difference between memory and fact, the painting of narrative memory has more emotional reality than the photo of recording fact.

Photo utilization

At the same time, Yu Hong's successful use of another series of photos is on display, and a historical photo at the same time is juxtaposed with each work. At the age of half a year, Yu Hong, who was sitting in a baby carriage, juxtaposed a picture of Chairman Mao inspecting the cultural revolution army for the first time in the people's pictorial in 1966; at the age of two, in the park, she wore a picture of Chairman Mao going to Anyuan on her chest, and juxtaposed a celebration of the publication of the oil painting Chairman Mao going to Anyuan. When she was six years old, she was going to school. She began to have social consciousness. She posed to learn from Li Tiemei. She didn't know that at that time, Chairman Mao was talking to Nixon. Things in the world were far more complicated than Li Tiemei. At the age of 8, she began to learn painting. At that time, the standard in her heart was to draw the poster of criticizing Lin and Confucius juxtaposed together. In 1984, at the age of 18, she was holding a guitar to imitate petty bourgeoisie sentiment. In that year, the PLA pictorial published a military parade on the second page of the 35th anniversary of the national day. When she married Liu Xiaodong in New York in 1991, Shandong pictorial reported on the first prize sales. The records after 1994 are composed of two paintings, one of which is her daughter, who has witnessed her growth.

After the exhibition, Yu Hong said, "look, there are big things every year." From the trial of the gang of four to the great Xing'anling fire, the Three Gorges Emigration, the great flood, and the construction of large villas, the last group is the cover of the "9.11 incident" reported in the 37th issue of Sanlian Life Weekly in 2001. That year, she and her classmates returned to the high school affiliated to the Academy of fine arts to sit in their seats 20 years ago, and her daughter was walking on the way to school wearing a red scarf

According to Yu Hong, "being born in this place and at this time, being a woman has already decided the vast majority of people, and all people can do is fine tune." Therefore, in this exhibition, she adopts the structure that historical photos and growing self portraits are juxtaposed in the same space and time, so as to resolve the closeness of both sides in their respective sense, and dredge an open context that can be used for mutual reference. Even so, the text and vision here are like two parallel energies - record and memory, objective and subjective, far and near, grand and ordinary, authority and private - almost have no real intersection, nor do they respond to each other's cause and effect. The weight of social history and the tenacity of human nature, which one is urging life?

A review of the characters

Yu Hong named the latest solo exhibition "golden sky". The four works are placed on the zenith of the Ullens Art Institute and need to be looked up and appreciated.

"Whether in life or in art, a subtle adjustment of angle will bring about a change in our view of the world." Artist Jerome sang

Chinese PinYin : Yu Hong