Pei Yanqing

Pei Yanqing was born in Foshan in 1991, and lives and works in New York, USA. She graduated with her BFA and MFA in Chinese Painting in 2014 and 2017 respectively from the China Academy of Art, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2021, from the Pratt Institute. Pei works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her practice is an exploration of the intimate and symbiotic relationship between human beings and their surroundings with the focus on nature, as well as imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters. Pei’s pictorial vision is a chaotic yet harmonious representation of human communication, both with each other and the world around us.

1991 Born in Foshan, China

2014 Bachelor’s degree from China Academy of Art

2017 Master’s degree from China Academy of Art

2021 Master’s degree from Pratt Institute

Currently lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Hive – Becoming XLV Pei Yanqing: Beings that grow out of time,Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai

Group Exhibitions

2023 The Shape of Time, Lindon & Co, London, UK

Fifteen Leaves, 3rd Year Exhibition of Prisma Art Prize, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy

Moonlit Beings, Soka Art, Beijing, China

Terrain of the Skin, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2022 Surface Scope, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, Agger Fish Building, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York

Liminality: 2022 Visual Art Exhibition of Asian Artists in America, group exhibition, Liminality Art Space, New York

The Next: International Juried Exhibition, online group exhibition, Li Tang Gallery,  New York

2021 Shin Haus: Armory Week, group exhibition, Shin Gallery, New York

Shin Haus June, group exhibition, Shin Gallery, New York

Unfkd, Fine Art and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York

2020 Ignition, online group exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York

2019 PLa Welcome Back Show, group exhibition, Steuben Gallery of Pratt Institute, New York

I’d Rather Struggle, group exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2017 In and Outside the Door: The Second Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition, Yourun Museum of Art, Nanjing, China

Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition of China Academy of Art, The Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Marching Lound, Graduation Exhibition of China Academy of Art, The Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

The Approach to Cyan: Art Works of Wei Xiaorong and His Students, Henglu Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China

The Spring of China: China Academy of Art Excellent Art Works Touring Exhibition, Dunkirk, France

The Dream-Quest of the West Lake: Invitation Exhibition of Calligraphy and Chinese Painting, Hangzhou Chinese Painting Institute, Hangzhou, China

2016 Beautiful Zhejiang· Beautiful Hangzhou—Symphony of Urban Beauty : Invitation Exhibition of Calligraphy and Chinese Painting, Hangzhou Chinese Painting Institute, Hangzhou, China

2015 Time·Animal: 4-Man ArtWorks Group Exhibition,  Songpin Tea Academy,  Hangzhou, China