Chen Qiaoxi

1989 Born in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province

2012 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree

2016 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Royal College of Art with a master’s degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

Solo Exhibition      

Penumbra - Chen Qiaoxi Solo Exhibition, Galerie OVO, Taipei, China

Group Exhibition

2017

2017 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

The 4^th Young Artist’s Printmaking Exhibition, Shenzhen, China

2016

Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

Off Print, Tate Modern, London, UK

RCA Secret 2016, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, London, UK/Dubai, U.A.E

F-ling, Hockney Gallery, London, UK

2015

The Open West, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Wilson, UK

Chen Qiaoxi: My art explores the relationship between the personal and intimate aspects of lived experience and the cultural ideology of humanity, and steps into the infinite possibilities of objects that can potentially be personified. The work deals with transforming intangible yet intense pieces of information into concrete visual language. Observation of anxiety and a sense of loss are explored along with the way individuals manage hidden desires and inner shame. The media chosen to carry this concrete visual language are always closely associated with humans, bodies and objects. I consider my works to be executions of giving form to intangible concepts. The creation of images and description of objects are for me about exploring the limits of the relationship between our inner consciousness and our ability to speak the unspeakable.