Qin Yifeng Biography

Qin began painting abstract works in 1983 and participated in the 'Exhibition of Modern Art by Six Artists' at Fudan University, Shanghai in 1985.

That same year, he joined the 85 New Wave Art Movement, and in 1986 created cloth sculptures and participated in a performance with Ding Yi and Zhang Guoliang at the 'First Shanghai Concave-Convex Exhibition'. In 1989 Qin was included in 'China/Avant-Garde Exhibition', an show organised by the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Around 1992, he began a new series of abstract paintings titled 'The Cube', and in 1993 developed a further series titled 'Line Field'.

Qin was awarded the gold medal in the landscape design competition at the 10th National Art Exhibition, hosted by the National Art Museum of China in 2004. Following the 2009 launch of the publication Austere Style Furniture of Ming Dynasty at am Art Space, Shanghai, in 2010, Qin began to develop his'Negative' series of images.

Qin has held solo exhibitions in Mind Set Art Center, Taipei (2016); C-Space, Beijing (2014); Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai (2005); Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London (1999); Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (1997); and his first solo exhibition at the College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University (1994). The most important and recent solo exhibition 'Qin Yifeng's Works' was presented at Yuz Museum, Shanghai in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include "Negative Reading丨Reading Negatives" ,White Cube, Hong Kong (2019); "Xian Zai An Yin", MUD Gallery, Shanghai (2021). "Disillusion" \ LightSociety, Beijing (2022).

Selected group exhibitions include The Tenth Anniversary of The to Absoluteness Long Museum; LOOK Photo Biennial 2019 "Peer-to-Peer" (2019); the 1st Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong.

Text courtesy Magician Space.