Gong Xu

Gong Xu’s excellent at in painting is falsifying, altering, scrawling or fabricating the classical or directional resources of art history or packaging them with a narrative layer. This working procedure of his takes apart the histories of Chinese traditional painting and Western modern and contemporary painting, or, more specifically, some major questions in these histories that intrigue the artist, like the Song-Dynasty art of Dragon painting explored in the new works he presents in this exhibition, and they are restructured under his extremely personalized and somewhat fortuitous reasons. We can also find some Dadaist touch in Gong Xu’s painting, like his piercing and purposeful frankness, and, most importantly, he’s not doing this dully or seriously but comically like playing games.

1986   Born in Shanghai, China

2006   Graduated from China Academy of Art Secondary School

2010   Graduated from China Academy of Art, Department of Oil Painting with Bachelor’s Degree

Currently works and lives in Shanghai

Solo Exhibitions

2018 The Momentary Temple: Gong Xu×SHDK, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

          Lineage: Gong Xu Solo Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2016 Zodiac Explosion-East Resurgence: Gong Xu Solo Exhibition, Space Station, Beijing, China

2015 Zodiac Explosion: Gong Xu Solo Exhibition, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China

2012 The Flight of Birds and Crawling of Snakes: Gong Xu Solo Exhibition, Aether Space, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2018 Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2017 2017 Mercedes-Benz Art Exhibition, Shaoxing Science Museum, Shaoxing, China

          Cabinet of Curiosities, Duo Yun Xuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2016 Annals of Floating Island, HanartTZ Gallery, Hongkong, China

2015 I’m Your Labyrinth, 1933 Contemporary, Shanghai, China

          Post-Tradition and Its Origins, UCCASTORE, Beijing, China

          Evil, SpaceStation, Beijing, China

2014 Art Sanya-Mesolittoral-Contemporary Art Exhibition of Young Artist, HuaYu Resort, Sanya, China

          The 1^st PSA Emerging Curators Program—Memorandum for Gaia, Power Station of Art Shanghai, China

2012 Freewill Questions–Hangzhou Young Artists Joint Exhibition, SanShang Contemporary Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China

          Youth Ambitions–8090s Zhejiang Youth Art Exhibition, Museum of Ningbo, Ningbo, China

          Future Pass-From Asia to the World- Beijing Stop, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China