Chu Chu is an accomplished ink painter, calligrapher, photographer, and oil painter. She is currently the Vice Secretary of Lanting Calligraphy Society and the Vice President of Zhejiang female Calligraphers Association in Hangzhou. She was born in 1975 in Hangzhou and graduated from the Department of oil painting at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou in 2000, where she also received her MFA in new media in 2007, and in 2015 attained her PhD in calligraphy under the tutelage of Wang Dongling. Since then, the artist has been devoted to ink painting and seeks to incorporate this art form with photography and calligraphy. She has received several prestigious awards since 2000 including the Shiseido Prize of Best Female Photographer, the Three Shadows Photography Award, Beijing, 2011; Yearly Cutting-edge Photographer, selected by www.xitek.com, Beijing, 2010; Creative Award of New Media, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2006; Excellent Works Award, New Century Oil Painting Exhibition, Hangzhou, 2001; Excellent Works Award, Zhao Mengfu Prize, National Painting Competition, China, 2000.
Read MoreChu's work has been widely exhibited in France, Germany, England, USA, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong. Important exhibitions include Jetlag: New Media Exhibition, Hannover Exhibition Centre, Hanover, Germany, 2012; FOTO Fever Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2014; Writing Non-writing, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2015; Out of the Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, USA; and her latest solo exhibition The Only Green: Chu Chu Solo Exhibition, Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake, Hangzhou, China, 2022.
Important collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA; The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Stavanger Museum, Stavanger, Norway, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Alisan Fine Arts first showcased her work in Beyond the Jade Terrace in 2014 and held her first solo show in Hong Kong in 2017. We also exhibited her works in Ink Asia 2015; Art Basel Hong Kong 2016/17/19; and Taipei Dangdai 2020 with great success.
Text courtesy Alisan Fine Arts.
