1989 Born in Guangdong China

2011 Graduated from the Hubei Institute of fine arts with a bachelor’s degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing China.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015

Xun · Chang - Heimi Solo Exhibition of etching,MERIDIAN SPSACE，Beijing

2017

Heimi Solo prints Exhibition,Ximao Sunshine Art Gallery,Beijing

Heimi Solo prints Exhibition,Ataraxia Studio,Shanghai

2019

Heimi Solo woodcut print Exhibition,Ximao Sunshine Art Gallery,Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015

Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava（BIB）,Bratislava

2016-2017 

Traveling exhibition in Japan Picture books with BIB 50 years,Japan

2018 

The 55th Bologna International Children's Book Fair, China's guest of honor Illustration exhibition,Bologna

2019 

Macau Literary Festival, non-word story illustration art exhibition,Macau

The 56th Bologna International Children's Book Fair & the 32nd Tehran International Book Fair Original Chinese Illustration Exhibition,Bologna/Tehran

2021 

Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava（BIB）,Bratislava

NAMI Concours2021 Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Exhibition,South Korea

AWARDS:
First picture book <Braids> was published in 2015 ,Which won the 25th BIB International Golden Apple Awards of the year 2015；Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Awards for Best Picture Book in 2016；2020 Russian “Image of the book” Original Picture book award.

<A manul who wants everything>was published in 2019；Which won the 2018 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustractors Competition Grand Award(China)；TOP10 original picture books of 2019；2020 Russian “Image of the book” Original Picture book award. Won the Purple Island of Nami Concours 2021.

Heimi’s works always have a direct sense of perception and delicate observation. Plants, animals, childhood memories and natural landscapes constitute the source of her energy and emotions, which react and leave traces in her pictures, and are invariably full of life.

From the creation of picture books to the language of printmaking, the narrative of images and the free dialogue with different materials are her unique composite qualities. While she explores and navigates between various media such as copperplate, woodcut and watercolor, she is also adept at building systematic visual narrative experiences with images. The characteristics, limitations and contingencies of different materials have almost become her language, and each interaction with the materials leads her to improvise output like making new friends, growing with her.

Heimi’s creations are mostly born from daily life and natural scenes, and she always captures the connection between things and her own life experience and memory, and presents a natural growth like a plant through allegorical image narrative, humbly and humorlessly expressing her understanding and perception of the complexity of the world.

The work is honest, it is a mapping of the dialogue between the creator's interior and exterior, and a channel through which each person can enter nature and self.