Leng Guangmin

Leng Guangmin is one of the outstanding painters born in the 1980s. He had already begun consciously exploring a peculiar way to break the traditional painting paradigm as early as he was studying in the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Contrary to the brushstrokes piled up with paint, Leng Guangmin introduces a brand new physical space in the painting with the action of cutting. Cutting is not only his artistic method but also his attitude towards art. It is sharp, decisive, and not tolerant of beaks. Leng Guangmin uses relatively constant painting techniques to continuously dissect materials or images. They may be drawn by certain clues, but there has never been a subject that can be accurately summarized. The most charming feature of Leng Guangmin’s paintings lies in the ubiquitous tension formed by confrontation in the painting, which is the collision and complementation of colors, the smoothness and traces of the material, and the firm edges and gradual changes of the texture, and the negative and positive shapes of the structure. Leng Guangmin is precisely using this to refine the inner order under a certain complex diversity, an extremely abstract state of constant flux that only borrows the image to reveal its shape.

1986 Born in Qingzhou, Shandong, China

2009 Graduated with B.F.A from the 3rd Studio, Oil Painting Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts 

2012 Graduated with M.F.A from the 3rd Studio, Oil Painting Department, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts

Currently works and lives in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Leng Guangmin: Entropy, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China

2018 Leng Guangmin: Ripples, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2017 Leng Guangmin: Perfect Destruction, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2014 Leng Guangmin, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2013 Hive · BecomingⅡ, See the Appearance: The Solo Exhibition of Leng Guangmin, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2021 Shadow Lover, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China

2020 The Salvation of Shahrazad: Memo of the New Generation Painting, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2019 Light Profoundness: The Worldlet of East Asian Artists, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Summer Fling, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2018 The Clouded Peach Blossom Spring: Selected Works of Chinese Contemporary Artists as Exemplars, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Saudade, China & Portugal – Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

          The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2017, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

2017 Full of Tigers on the Roof, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

          Degree Zero of Art: the Rational Expression of Abstract Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2016 A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Painting as Strait Gate: Post 80s Artists Invitation Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

          Unrealities in the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhen, China

          Each to his Own, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, Shaanxi

2015  Sensibility, Distance Gallery, Tianjin, China

          Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Invitation Exhibition for the Tenth Anniversary of Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China

          The Cabinet of Wonder, Heiqiao Art District, Beijing, China

          An Anonymous Exhibition: A Visual Game Dominated by Small-sized Works, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China

          The Boundaries of  Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          The System of  Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

          The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer – Creator – The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

2014 Mesolittoral: Contemporary Art Exhibition of Young Artist, Sanya, Hainan, China

          Artron-Poly New Power Nominees Exhibition, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China 

          IVY Art, Inside – out Art Museum, Beijing, China

          Polyphony II: Ecological Survey of Chinese Art – Beijing, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

2013 Bidirectional Punctum: As an Entry Point of Representation, One Kind of Painting, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          On the Road: Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists’ Works, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2012 Dispersed Subject -9th Annual Exhibition of Dissertation Works in Painting from National Art Academies Across China, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

          Blow Up: The Exhibition of China Young Artists Project,  Beijing Guanghua5 Art Exhibition Space, Beijing, China

          Art Nova 100 Exhibition, Beijing, Ordos, Shenzhen, Chengdu, China

          Exhibition of  John Moore New Painting Grand Prix, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, China

          46cm: Exhibition for Students and Teachers of  the Tianjin Academy of  Fine Arts, Tianjin BMW 4S Shop, Tianjin, China

2011 New Academy Spirit, Huantie Times Gallery, Beijing, China

2009 Falsification: 6th Annual Exhibition of Dissertation works in Painting from National Art Academies Across China, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

          Openly Express: 2009 Shanghai Youth Biennial, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China

Award

2014 First prize of Artron Poly New Power Nominees Exhibition

2013 Candidate of annual youth artist, The 7th Award of Art China

2012 Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Chongqing Art Museum & Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

2009 Grand Prize of Winsor Newton Arts Scholarship, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts

          The Earl of Cromer Scholarship Award, Chongqing Art Museum & Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

2008 Grand Prize of Marley arts scholarship, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts

Public Collection

Gallery of TAFA, He Xiangning Art Museum, Yuz Museum Shanghai, White Rabbit Collection