Chen Jiaye

1988 Born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province

2012 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015

Cross the Boundary - "Art Nova 100" Youth Art Exhibition, One Art Space, Beijing

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing

Silent Poetry – Chinese Contemporary Youth Art Tour Exhibition, China Cultural Centre in Sydney / Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia

2014

Landscape of Mind, Group Exhibition of Young Chinese Artists, ART MIA, Beijing

2014 Art Nova 100, Beijing/Macau

Highly Prized Flowers by Zhang Zheyi and Chen Jiaye, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Reconstruction of Memories, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing

2013

China: Chinese - A Visual Explanation of Life in China, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Life in Art, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing

Altered Shan Shui States, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Chen Jiaye: Most of the works I’ve done express my reflection as a Chinese citizen on my experience facing the process of urbanization. Gradually from the creation of my work, I’ve also realized simple that conflicts between Eastern and Western culture or between tradition and modernity are not what I’m most interested in. What draws my attention recently is finding the most suitable method of expression for the spiritual part of Chinese traditional culture in modern times, that is, to better convey this spiritual connotation through the language of painting. Chinese people often use a kind of metaphysical “landscape” to depict a kind of metaphysical contemplation, which I find to be the most interesting element in Chinese culture. Therefore I concentrate on the intrinsic logic of artistic creation, which clearly implies the process of change in each artist’s thinking and interests, or put in other words, the revelation of the artist as an individual.