Xiong Wenyun

Born in Chongqing in 1955, she graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1983 with a B.F.A., studied at the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the China National Academy of Arts from 1985 to 1987, and graduated from the University of Tsukuba with an M.F.A. in Japanese Painting in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, she had worked as a guest researcher at the Asakura Naomi Research Laboratory of Bunkyo University in Japan.

From 1998 to 2001, she implemented a large experimental art project called Moving Rainbow, and then she created the Kongkong series and started researching and practicing children’s art and education. In 2020 she began to record things around her on the back of the medicine boxes her mother used, and during the three years after her mother was discharged from the hospital she created the Hospital series, the Arrow series, and the Medicine Box series. In her decades of artistic creation her works have been deeply influenced by her early experience of going to the countryside in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang areas, and the themes of human and nature, and the cycle of life and death have always been an important presence in her works.

Her works encompass a wide range of media, including painting, installation, performance, and mixed media, and have participated in important exhibitions such as the 2021 Chengdu Biennale, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Triennial in Japan, and the A Thousand Rainbows Solo Exhibition of Xiong Wenyun in Shenzhen, and have been collected by many collectors both at home and abroad.

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