Qian Jiahua

Qian Jiahua was born in Shanghai in 1987 and graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2011. Qian Jiahua’s work is based on the concerning for the aesthetics of Bauhaus design and architecture, translates her concerns and feelings about the objects around her into a flat visual language and a pretty sharp treatment. This treatment is also associated with the artist’s deliberate distance from the surrounding objects in order to maintain his sensitivity to different substances. Qian Jiahua often suggests these feelings to the viewer in the form of specific names. Qian Jiahua’s earliest works have a sense of framed drama; later on, the natural, utopian, romantic narrative is presented in a sense of breath between the lines and colours of the painting. More recent works highlight the artist’s concern for the experience of urban life. The cramped architectural space and living space of modern cities has replaced the natural tones of the past with a sense of architectural texture. Qian Jiahua’s work fills a system of abstraction with local attributes of the East, and it is for this reason that Qian’s work is not based on Western abstraction, but, along with other contemporary artists of the painting genre, constructs an inner emphasis on personal feelings that the process of creating is more concerned with, i.e. the changes in social forms.

1987 Born in Shanghai, China

2011 Graduated from China Academy of Art, B.A Degree

Currently lives and works in Shanghai

Solo Exhibition

2021 Jiahua Vision, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2018 Qian Jiahua: Antithetical, London, England

2017 Qian Jiahua: Breathe, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2014 Qian Jiahua Solo Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Qian Jiahua: Not Every Second Counts, MACASA Art Project, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

2013 Infinite Divisibility: Qian Jiahua’s Debut S<olo, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

Group Exhibitions

2020 The Salvation of Shahrazad: Memo of the New Generation Painting, 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

          Out for Summer, Simon Lee Gallery，HongKong, China

          New Abstraction: Chapter 2, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China

          Painting Interface, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China

          Flaneur’s Square, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Ideological Characteristics: Wei Xingye Collection Exhibition (Chapter 1), WXY Foundation, Xi’an, China

2017 Degree Zero of Art: the Rational Expression of Abstract Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          On Drawing Visibility of Power, J: Gallery, Shanghai, China

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

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

          The World is Yours, as well as Ours, White Cube Gallery, London, UK

          Silence, Pearl Lam Gallery, Singapore

          The Working of Non-figurative System, Zheng guan Museum, Beijing, China

          We, K11, Shanghai, China

          New Capital: Huang Yu Collection Exhibition, MOCA Chengdu, Chengdu, China

          Research Room Ⅲ: The Working of Non-figurative System, Rightview art museum, Beijing, China

2015 Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

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

          The Twelve Paintings, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

2014 Break: Set up/New Transform of the Painting, Long Museum, Shanghai, China

          Under the Rainbow: Exhibition of Three Young Artists, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China

          Up-Youth: China Young Artists Exhibition 2014, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China

          The Form Without Form: Exhibition of Contemporary Abstract Art in China, St. Urban Contemporary Art Museum, Switzerland

2013 Composition-Wandering, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

          Games: Group Exhibition of Young Artists, SanshangArt, Hangzhou, China

2012 Next Station: Group Exhibition in Winter, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China

          I don’t Know, I Know: Group Exhibition of Young Artists, Sanshang Art, Hangzhou, China