An original founder of the avant-garde art Stars in 1979 and now vocal advocate for the 798 Art District, Huang Rui is an artist whose works avoids easy taxonomy. Over the years his works have taken on many forms. Most of them are characterized by a spirit of rebelliousness and an interest in exploring how the human condition faces up to the impenetrable walls of authority.
Huang Rui's works convey a daring simplicity, captured by the clean geometry and symmetry of his installation works and the consistent reliance on primary colors in his paintings and sculptures. All of his works stand alone as objects of beauty. At the same time, Huang Rui is a highly socially engaged artist who incorporates important political and historical references into his works. He has a particular fascination with Chinese political slogans from the 1980s reform era, which, using tidy, controlled brushstrokes, are deliberately enlarged on stark white canvases. Nearly three decades since the formation of the Stars, and fifteen years since his return from self-exile in Japan, Huang Rui's works continue to be inextricably linked to the society that he lives in.
1952 Born in Beijing, China
Editor of “798 in Beijing,” published by Timezone 8 and Thinking Hands Editions
One of the founders of Dashanzi Art District
Currently living and working Beijing, China as an artist and curator
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Chinese History in Animal Time, Museo delle Mura, Rome, Italy
Chinese History in Animal Time II, Beijing Angle Modern Art, Beijing, China
2007
Texts are the Legacy of Great Thought!, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Mao Zedong 10,000 Renmenbi, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing, China
One Country Two Systems - Unchanged After 50 Years!, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2000
KCAL Kansai Contemporary Art Laboratory, Amagasaki, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
1997
Ching + Planned Road, Anenosuji, Osaka, Japan
Erguotou (Spirits + Ruins), Guan Yuan area, Beijing, China
1995
Water – Wood – Paper, Ruine der Kunst, Berlin / Gallery Bellefroid, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2008
China Avant-Garde, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
2007
Individual Eras, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing, China
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2006
Ten Years, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing, China
Outside Context Problem, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Gallery Artists Group Show 6, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2005
2nd Dashanzi International Art Festival: language/fable, Beijing, China
Transboader Languages: Transboader language & performance art, Beijing, China
Convergence at E116°/N40° Beijing, China
Gallery Artists Group Show 5, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2004
1st Dashanzi International Art Festival: radiance/resonance signals of Time
Transboder Language: volume control, Beijing, China
Gallery Artists Group Show 4, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Gallery Artists Group Show 3, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2003
Transboder Language: Live Poetry/Performance Art, Beijing, China
Left Hand, Right Hand, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Gallery Artists Group Show 2, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Gallery Artists Group Show 1, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2002
Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Project Opening Exhibition, Beijing, China
The 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou Museum, Guangzhou, China
2001
Promenade in Asia AFTER KITCH, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Xing Xing exhibition by 6 artist”, Art Wave Gallery, New York, China
1980
The 2nd Xing Xing Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
1979
The 1st Xing Xing Exhibition, outside of the China Art Museum and Hua Fang Zhai Gallery, Beijing, China
