Hui Xin’s new works see him taking traditional Chinese motifs, and transforming them into kitschy, gaudy, artificially beautiful paintings.

His work is deliberately instantly comforting to the eye. It’s prettiness is in-your-face and superficial. It is almost as if he is poking fun at his generation who are so easily attracted to the bright lights of the big cities, and to loud, colourful window displays.

Making use of an airbrush gun to spray the paint evenly over the canvas, he then uses his brush to finely etch out the details. His painting technique adds to the highly stylized, artificiality of his paintings that might remind us of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. His work is hyper-realistic, yet we know it is not real at all. Perhaps he is reminding us of how much traditional Chinese culture and heritage has been watered down and diluted in the last fifty years that these symbols and motifs have become merely pretty yet vulgar images.

1977
Born in Xinjiang, China 
2003
Graduated from Sichuan fine arts institute
Resides in Chongqing, China 

Solo Exhibitions
2004
“SPLENDOUR OF GOLD” Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore

Group Exhibitions
2003
“Power is Young” Shanghai, China
The Second Oil Painting Biennale of Guizhou, Guiyang, China
The Turning - The First Annual Invitation Exhibition by Contemporary Artists, Chongqing Art Museum, China
Art Education of Experiment Opening Exhibition of Chongqing Museum, Chongqing, China
The First Oil Painting Exhibition, Chongqing Museum, China 
2004
“CHINA NOW”, Art Seasons Gallery Singapore
“ARTSingapore 2004” Singapore
China International Galleries Exposition,Beijing, China
L’un, L’autre, Toulouse, France 
2005
“ZHUA ZHUANG DING” Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China 
2006
The Contemporary Art Association Exhibition, Ming Art, Taiwan
Beyond Dimension – New Chinese Painting, Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art
Frolic Picture — 2006 Contemporary Art of China Invitation Exhibition, Shen Zhen Art Museum, China 
2007
“The Pit Change” Art Exhibition, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy