Huang Kunxiong

1990 Born in Guang’an, Sichuan Province

2014 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a bachelor´s degree

Currently works and lives in Chengdu and Chongqing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2016

2016 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

Zi Zai Er Wei - Mid-show of 2015-2016 Youth Artists Residency Program of SCFAI, Museum of Contemporary Art Sincere, Chongqing, China

Si Dian Si Se - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Issue Gallery, Taipei, China

Eyeing - New Chinese Youth Art Exhibition, Jean Mountain Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Composite Identity - Contemporary Young Artist Exhibition, the Peninsula Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

The 3^rd Asian Youth Artist Nomination Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Evolution and Co-Presence - Chinese New Reality Painting, Florence of Paso Castle, Florence,Italy

The Civil Power - Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, MSAM Beijing, Beijing, China

Huang Kunxiong: My works focus on the continuous and repetitive modern architecture. They are the foundation of my paintings. Within a seemingly redundant structure, I look for its variations and try to achieve a balance in those chaotic variations. Through strong formalistic images, I strive to illustrate the sense of coldness and distance among people and between people and objects nowadays. The painting technique I used is purely flat. It appears almost programed and mechanized, eliminating traditional painterly features. Without free and lively brushstrokes, the painting is left with cold and sharp layers of color. These different color layers were lay on each other to create an image that is both flat and three-dimensional. The repetitive nature of the pictorial structure and the framework of architecture itself lent a strong abstraction to the otherwise figurative architecture.