Born in Chongqing China
1979~1983
Graduated From The Dept.of Chinese Painting,Art Institute of Sichuan Prov.
1991~1993
M.A.student of the Japanese Painting in the Art Research Dept .of Tsukuba University.
1994~1997
Guest Research Member of Fine Arts Research Section of Bunkyo University, Japan
Solo Exhibition
1994.4
Personal Exhibition, Tsukuba Art Museum , Japan
1995.10
Personal Exhibition, O Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996.11
Personal Exhibition, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing
1998.4
Chuo Wei, National Fine Arts Museum of China, Beijing
2002.5
"Rainbow Road" Exhibition at the FUJIKAWA Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2006
"Cai Hong" Exhibition , Galleria dell'Arco, Palermo, Italy
2008
Ten Years of Moving Rainbow: Photography by Xiong Wenyun , Three Shadows photography art centre, Beijing China
Group Exhibition
1984
6th Edition of Chinese Art Exhibition, National Fine Art Museum, Beijing
1985
Youth Chinese Art Works Exhibition, National Fine Arte Museum, Beijing
1993.2
19th Soga Spring Exhibition, National Art Museum, Tokyo
1993.3
28th Liqi Spring Exhibition, National Art Museum, Tokyo
1998.10
"Rainbow Road" Earth Art Works on the Sichuan Prov. - Tibet Prov Line China
1999.3
Media Intervention, Contemporary Art Exhibition,Hong Kong,China
1999.11
Tachikawa International Art Festival,Japan
2000.4
Group Exhibition - Tokyo Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001.12
Chinese Contemporary Photography, Gallery Steinek-Halle, Vienna, Austria
2004
Between Past and Future-New Photography and Video from China,NewYork,Chicago,Seattle,London,Berlin,Santa Barbara
Golden Harvest—Chinese Contemporary Art, Croatia
2005
Chengdu Biennale,Chengdu
"A cartoon"taikang top space gallery,beijing "The other end"He Xiang Ning Museum, Shenzhen
2006
Group Exhibition,1/2 Space,Chong Qing,China "Art game—An experience of agency in contemporary art" He Xiang Ning Museum,Shenzhen
2007
Dragons_Evolution:Chinese Contemporary Photography New York Boundless Reality Beijing Floating-New Generation of Art in China Seoul Korea
2008
"DIE WAHREN ORTE II"exhibition , ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES, Berlin Greman
Comment
Religion has been a powerful spiritual force dominating Xiong Wenyun’s art and providing the basis for her selection of art form and theme.
In her early years in the countryside, Xiong Wenyun fell for an atmosphere created jointly by the gloomy and vast nature, the primitive Tibetan and Qiang ethnic culture and the strong religious belief. This atmosphere, in turn, became the soil wherein her interest in religion grew. To a large extent, her artworks can be seen as a transformation of imagery that evokes this atmosphere. Using certain physical media and corresponding ways of expression, she converts the imagery into something visual and, in this process, gains a sense of satisfaction like religious cultivation. When one art language cannot meet the need for expression anymore, it is necessary to substitute it with another. She has experienced different phases in her way of thinking fed by her interest in religion, from expression of pure personal experience to expression more broadly and closely linked to the outside world, just like different phases in religious cultivation. The ever-existing spiritual force has helped Xiong Wenjun’s artwork retains its vitality instead of being trapped in any fixed form.
