Meng Qingjun

Meng Qingjun, born in Harbin in 1997, received his MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2024. He regards temporality as the core issue of painting. By distilling the temporal qualities inherent in Chinese calligraphy (stroke order) and borrowing a Cubist perspective to explore the sequential nature of comic panels (reading order), he develops a ritualized mode of viewing led by time. Through the pictorial surface, he ultimately seeks to reproduce this sense of temporality in pursuit of a freehand, expressive approach to painting.

In daily life, Meng adopts an almost ritualistic approach to carry out this temporal mode of seeing. Figures, still lifes, and landscapes alike become ritual offerings that awaken a sense of spirituality. This spirituality, summoned through the act of viewing, serves as the very nourishment for his painting practice. Like writing, his work records these moments of awakened spirit on the canvas—each act of ritualistic seeing becoming the source of his gesture.

Born in 1997 in Harbin

Received MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2024

Currently lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibition

2025 Wait, and Wait Some More, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Indeed, Love, ArtPDF, Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, Shanghai, China

Whispers of Entropy, O2ART, Beijing, China

2024 T13 + Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition: Art, Myself, Reflections, ArtPro Beijing, China

Direction of the Heart, Central Academy of Fine Arts 2024 Graduate Exhibition, Beijing, China

2020 Instead of the Shining Stars, Building 23 Artist Community, Beijing, China