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  • Dong Shuai
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1984 Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province

2008 Graduated from the Watercolor Department of Qingdao University with a bachelor´s degree

2012 Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Shandong College of Arts with a master´s degree

Currently works and lives in Qingdao

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2018

2018 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

2017

Poor Art - International Art Exhibition, Quan International , Beijing /138 Art Warehouse, Qingdao, China

2016

The Fifth National Fine Art Exhibition For Young Artists,  China Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

2014

Mount Tai - National Landscape Painting (Chinese painting), Watercolor Painting Exhibition, Tai'an Art Museum, Tai’an, China

The 12th National Art Exhibition, Shandong art exhibition, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China

2012

The 7th Western China Exhibition of traditional Chinese paintings and oil paintings, the Cultural Palace of the working people in Beijing, Beijing, China

Urumqi International Convention and Exhibition Center, Urumqi, China

2011

China Contemporary Art Literature Award Exhibition, China Contemporary Art Documentation Center (DCCCA), Chengdu, China

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After graduation, I was sent to a branch of Beijing Film Academy in my hometown, where I knew few fellow painters. Most of my friends focused on photography or video. Though the town lacked a certain atmosphere required for painting, my eyes opened and I took the chance to try things I’ve never tried before. In 2017, I received an order for a wall painting measuring more than 10 meters long, for the refurbishment of the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution. I climbed up and down on the stairs like a machine to paint on the wall, which brought me back to those days of hand-painting stage sets in the 1980s. Later, TV host Jing Yidan and I cooperated on a program broadcast on CCTV Channel 4. It was the first time in my life that I have worn make-up.  Therefore, after these experiences, something changed in my mind when I returned to painting –– I carefully tried to build my own utopia.

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