Hongyu Zhang

1990, Born in Liaoning, China.

2014, Graduated from Comprehensive Painting Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts with Bachelor of Arts, Shenyang, China.

2017, Graduated from the Comprehensive Painting Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts with a Master of Arts, Shenyang, China.

Price:
2014, Selected into the “Jin Shangyi Special Fund” Outstanding Graduate Support Program, Beijing, China.

2017, “Lushan Art Museum Rookie Award”, Chengdu, China.

Personal exhibition Personal exhibitions (Selections).

2013 "Walking Away", Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China.

2015 “Action”, Art Museum of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China.

2016 "Action II Rebirth", Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China.

2020 "Fabric on paper", Shekou Gallery, Shenzhen, China.

Group exhibitions / art fairs / residencies (selections).
2012 Guangzhou University Student Art Fair, Guangzhou, China.

2013 "Return", Art Museum of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China.

2014 "We are here" International residency program for young artists, 1905 Art Space, Shenyang, China.

2014 "Diversity of artistic practices - Collective exhibition of post-85 artists", Shenyang, China.

2015 “Blind Eyes” Lumei Group Six-person exhibition, 798 Liahona Art Space, Beijing, China.

Post-action group exhibition "Extract from Reality", Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

Shanghai Young Artists Fair, Shanghai, China.
2016 “New Power of Lumei”, 798 Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China.

2017 "Academy Spirit", Excellent Exhibition of Graduate Student Works of the Eighth Academy of Fine Arts, Yiwu Art Museum, Yiwu, China.
“Northeast Art View” Shenyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang, China.

2018 "Today·Wall Power" 3rd Poster Artist Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.

“Abstract Era” Young Artists Painting Research Exhibition, 1905 Art Space, Shenyang, China.

2019 “Youth Project”, Guantang Art Museum, Beijing, China.
Shanghai Young Artists Fair, Shanghai, China.

Shenzhen Art Fair 2021, Shenzhen, China.

Shanghai Youth Art Fair, Shanghai, China.

Art Xiamen, Red Space, Xiamen, China.

“Abstract Invisibility”, KINGSARTS, Hong Kong, China.

2022 "Northern Abstraction, Transcendence", China (online).

Artistic approaches:

"The subject of painting research is a subject of long-term painting experimentation that was summarized and determined during the creative phase of obtaining the undergraduate degree, because during the last years of university , too many forms of expression were tried. Naturally also expressed in the history of art. There were so many forms that I eventually discovered that even if I spent my whole life practicing to learn, it did not would only be a process of imitation and mastery. Therefore, the four years of university were a relatively painful process for me. Of course, each stage of learning the determination of my own pictorial language is also the result of "because" and "therefore". Continuous summarization and reflection at each step will naturally extract some clues about my own creation, that is, "painting is a process of constant addition and subtraction. "so much so that I spent three years of my postgraduate studies in this state...

2. Many people will wonder what "paintability research" is. In fact, the concept of paintability contains too much information. It can be said that the entire history of the art of painting can be discussed around this concept. The original reason was simply that I didn't want to, I limited myself to a certain expression language, so I borrowed the word "painting character" commonly used by many academy teachers to define the name of my series of works, because one thing I can be sure of is that creation must evolve in stages, and the current work is also the result of continuous brushstroke practice. It will take a lot of time to explain it in detail. To put it simply, it’s “subtraction” at the moment.

3. The most important thing in the essence of painting research is not the meaning of the painting form, nor the result, but the process. This process can also be seen as an intuition of sight, a moment of feeling, which is in the painting process, reflected upon and constantly to be deliberately optimized, the interpretation of the painting itself is certainly not a result. ..”