1988 Born in Lanzhou

2013 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts New Media Department with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts

Currently works and lives in Chengdu and Mianyang

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022

“Live as a Thorn”, Yellowbox Art Museum, Qingdao, China

“Body，Alchemy In the Dark”, 501 Xu Art Space, Chongqing, China

2021

“Post-Truth: Fool Others as well as Oneself”, The Ox Warehouse, Macau, China

 “Golden Fable”, Kong Art Space, Kunming, China

“Live as a Thorn”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China

GROUP EXHIBITION

2022

“Rewilding Art & Nomadism & MetropolisM - II ”,Chinese Contemporary Art Museum，Chongqing, China

“Touch the Truth” - Chinese youth art since 2010，Qionglai Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Unfamiliar Place, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

2021

Chinese New Art Slice Research Exhibition，Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China

"Cell Plan" of Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai Xinhua Community Public Art Project, Shanghai, China

Macau International Performance Art Festival MIPAF 2021，Old Courthouse，Macau, China

2020

Border Crossing - International Festival of Intermedia 2020, JCCAC Art Center, Hongkong, China

National Art Fund Project: 2020 "Deep Life" Young Artists Joint Exhibition，Chengdu, China

Twelve Years: The Archives of Scene, Luxe Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2019

“From the Street to the Language: Southwestern Performance Art since 2008”, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China

The 7th Up-on International Live Art Festival, Luxe Art Museum, Chengdu, China

“Waste Topbow” iART Youth Art Project, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2018

Thai International Performance Arts Festival, Bangkok Art & Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand

VAFA 2018 - The 6th Video Art for All International Video Art Festival, MACC, Macau, China

Fukushima Project - “Responding International Performance Art Festival”, Fukushima, Japan

Blue Roof Museum Exchange Exhibition: Shift, Waikato Museum of Art, Hamilton, New Zealand

2017

Asia International Performance Art Festival NIPAF, Nipaf space in Tokyo, Japan

Taiwan Live Art Festival, Tainan art space, Tainan, China

"Permanent Moment of Sichuan Performance Art Exhibition", Adelaide Art Center, Australia

Budapest/Slovakia International Performance Art Festival，Budapest/Slovakia

AWARDS

2019

The 1st Prize of the 9th New Star Art Award

2018

Slovakia, Hungary and Poland for Behavioral Art Projects, Performance Made in Public Space

2017

SAYA Supporting Active International young Artist Annual Awards

LAN Qingwei (curator, art history scholar, art doctor):

Starting from the body, Wang Yanxin constantly discusses the body and the relationship between the body and the other. In the process of continuous discussion, he also constantly adds realistic care and humanistic care. He has a unique personal understanding of the exploration of body language and the definition of the scene, and thus strives to present his unique artistic language to the audience. The first is the abandonment of language. The sound in the works is no longer artificial, but natural; The second is the change of space, from white box or architectural space to public space and natural space, which completes the transition of artists' self construction to self liberation; The third is the conversion from the use of the body to the use of the body. The body is placed in the environment, which expresses the body that exists as a question prompt. At the same time, Wang Yanxin is constantly enriching the ways in which individual bodies intervene in space, such as visual poetic bodies, social landscape bodies, and hidden bodies.

Li Guohua (independent curator and art critic):

Wang Yanxin is an artist who takes his body as an art battlefield. From all his works, we can feel that he is an artist who constantly experiences and explores the world with his body. Of course, the instincts of touch and lust are not the ultimate goal he wants to show. He takes his own body as a tool, that is, he manipulates and marks external objects through his body and physiological functions, so as to obtain the exploration of the unknown world and grasp and discover some accidental cultural phenomena and opportunities from the boring daily life or repeated behaviors.

Cui Fuli (independent curator and art critic):

Wang Yanxin is an artist who is extremely sensitive to behavioral language and pays attention to the relationship between the thinking and action of the presence and the environment, field and history. What is important is that Wang Yanxin has his own way and method in this process, and his behavior often hides interaction and integration in an inappropriate place of confrontation and separation. Just like the wolf and explosive power are the impressions of most people on Yan Xin's works, but the warm and poetic tranquility after the wild moment is even more moving.

Luo Fei (independent curator and art critic):

Wang Yanxin's works give people an impression of mixing the heroic feeling of personal heroism and the excited feeling of joking games. They are usually unfolded in the form of short act plays, but then they will make people fall into inexplicable sadness. Some angry emotions spread among his strong actions and his determination to express. If he punishes himself, provokes the audience or gives vent, he will act on the edge of losing control. His scene looks very wild, and it often makes people feel shocked or even frightened.

Wang Chunchen (Professor of the Central Academy of fine arts, doctor of art history, curator):

Wang Yanxin's behavior takes place in public space or natural environment in a seemingly absurd manner in the form of strong intervention, which increases the absurdity of space or gives the environment discontinuity. His behavior is full of strong on-site appeal.