Cai Yaling

1984 Born in Jinzhong, Shanxi Province

2007 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Art

2011 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Art

Currently works and lives in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2011  

Power of Repetition, Passage Gallery, CAFA, Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

2016 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

2015

Luo Zhongli Scholarship 10^th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

Taiyuan International Sculpture Biennale, Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing, Shanghai, China

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

2011

Selection of 2011 Zeng Zhushao Sculpture Fellowship Candidates and Winners, Datong, China

2010  

Young Artists Exhibition, Ming Gallery, 798, Beijing, China

Do it, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Cai Yaling: I am very interested in the details of subjects, such as the cracks of cement, the tip of a tree, the wrinkles got around my father’s eyes…I am also exceptionally sensitive to people’s moods and emotions, touched by those trembling fingers, lowered eyelashes, pursed lips…Those details and unique texture of various materials always fascinate me… I am obsessed with the folds appeared on a dampened paper, the tiny green buds emerged in early spring; I also love the dry branches and my mother’s dropped white hair… I used them in my works, in a simple and pure way, to bring out their peculiar charm that touched me. My works constitute a world that I am constructing, which is full of my sentiments. For me, the working process is more important; it bring me the inner satisfaction.