BIOGRAPHY RUIJUN SHEN
Ruijun Shen was born in 1976 in Guangzhou, China. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Oil Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 and her two Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Montclair State University in 2004 and School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. She studies the history of self-reserved land in China, commenting on the power of self-cultivation as well-being and healing. She believes human beings live in situations where every object and event are interconnected, including our relationship to land and produce, which is forefronted in her gardening practice.
Shen has exhibited as part of The 6th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China; The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; and the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions including at Pace Gallery, Beijing, China; Times Art Museum, Beijing, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; MACRO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Roma), Rome, Italy; National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy; CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; among others.
Shen’s works are in the permanent collections of the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy; Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Israel; White Rabbit Collection, Australia; and Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA. Ruijun Shen is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship as well as a Joan Mitchell grant. Shen currently lives and works in Guangzhou, China.
CURRICULUM VITAE RUIJUN SHEN
b. 1976, Guangzhou, China; lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, NY
Education
MFA, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2007)
MFA, Montcalm State University (2004)
BFA, Oil Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (2000)
Curatorial Positions
China Program Director, KADIST, San Francisco, CA / Paris, France (Current)
Chief Curator, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China (2014–2017)
Selected Public Collections
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI), Rome, Italy
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Israel
The White Rabbit Collection, Chippendale, Australia
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA / Paris, France
Selected Exhibitions
6th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2019)
By Moment, By Chance (Solo), Kui Yuan Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2014)
Polit-Sheer-Form! (Curated/Exhibited), Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY (2014)
8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2013)
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China (2013)
Gentle Wave in Your Eye Fluid – Pipilotti Rist Solo Exhibition (Curated/Project), Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China (2013)
6th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Art, Chengdu, China (2013)
Contemplations and Conjectures, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY (2012)
(Un) Forbidden City – La Rivoluzione della Nuova arte cinese, MACRO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Roma), Rome, Italy (2012)
Pulse-Reaction Series, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China (2012, 2016)
Irrelevant, Arario Gallery, New York, NY (2010)
Go, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2010)
Post-Tradition: The Magnified Slice, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China (2010)
New Insight, Art Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, IL (2007)
New Chinese Occidentalism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY (2007)
Outrageous (Solo), Look Gallery, New York, NY (2006)
Illinois Women Artists 2005, Cage Gallery, Chicago, IL (2005)
Tian Lai – Sounds From Heaven (Solo), Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong / Mu Project, Washington D.C. (2005)
Krispy Juicy, White Box Annex Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
Meat / Young Blood, S.I.C.A. (Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts), Long Branch, NJ (2004)
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ (2003)
17th Asian International Art Exhibition, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea (2002)
Mark Vs Face, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China (2002)
