Feng Chen

Feng Chen was born in 1986 in Wuhan, China. He graduated from the Department of New Media Art of the China Academy of Art in 2009, and in 2014 he joined a two-year program at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (Netherlands). He currently works and lives in Hangzhou, China.

His solo exhibitions Feng Chen Solo Show, Moment by Moment and Pretend It’s a Game have been presented in 2017 and in 2019 and in 2023 at Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, China). In 2018 he participated at Art Basel Hong Kong Discoveries with the solo project The Darker Side of Light - Color (Hong Kong, China). A new iteration of this work, titled The Darker Side of Light - Shadow, was exhibited in 2018 at the Annex Project Space of the Fosun Art Foundation (Shanghai, China). Recent group shows include White Holes, 798 CUBE (Beijing, China), A Call to Attention, UCCA Dune (Aranya, Beidaihe, China), The 6th Guangzhou Triennial - As We May Think: Feedforward (Guangzhou, China), City Unbounded - Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project (Shanghai, China), and 8102 - On Reality at the OCAT Shanghai (Shanghai, China) in 2018. His work was presented in 2015 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten OPEN 2015, (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Video Art | June Edition, at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Mumbai, India).

Feng’s institutional collections include the White Rabbit Contemporary Art Collection in Australia, the China Art Museum and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. His work has been written about on Artforum, Randian, Art China, Flash Art among others.

Courtesy Capsule