He Sen
He Sen was born in 1968 in Yunnan Province, China. He graduated in 1989 from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing. From 1995 untill 1999 Sen studied at the Kunsthochschulle in Kassel, Germany. Currently the artist also teaches at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
He Sen is famous for his paintings of young girls lacking interest in the society and are totally not motivated. Girls who only want to shop and watch soap television. The figures reflect the negative sides of the new Chinese society which is too much focussed on consumerism. He Sen works are wordwide exhibited, Noticably is his presence at the Chinese Pavilion at the 53d Venice Biennal in Italy.
Selected collections: Los Angeles County museum of Art, Los Angeles; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
He Sen 200 by 250cm
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Selected Exhibitions
2010
He Sen – Scenari Illusori, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
2009
The Second Reality – Chinese Contemporary Art Group Exhibition Meridian International Center, Washington, USA
Chinese Pavilion at the 53d Venice Biennal, Italy
Cina. Rinascita contemporanea. Pralazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Beijing Art Now gallery, Beijing (solo)
ShContemporary 2009, Beyond Art Space, Shanghai
2008
Do You Have Time Tonight, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Germany (solo)
Come Together, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
3rd Nanjing Triennial, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Beyond Reality, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China
Free Zone: China, BSI Art Collection, Lugano, Italy
La Cina e’ Vicina, Pan-Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Artists in Art History, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Painting Rebellion, Gallery TN, Beijing, China
86 Steps to Nine Layers Heaven, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China
Today’s China, Belvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Guiyang Biennale, Guiyang Museum, China
Now and Then, Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Remixed & Revisited: New Visions on China, Arndt Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
Starting from the Southwest Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China 1985-2007, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Made in China-Contemporary Chinese Art, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black White Grey-A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Floating-New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
On the Yellow Sea, Gallery A Story, Seoul, Korea
Wakening From A Ten-Year Long Sleep, HJY Art Center, Beijng, China
“Remixed & Revisited”, New Visions on China, Arndt Partner, Zurich
2006
ARCO 06, Madrid JIANG HU, Tilton Gallery, New York; Los Angeles, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland “Unclear and Clearness”, Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Heyri Art Space, Seoul, Korea “Made in China”, Opera Gallery, London “Varied Images”, Invitation Exhibition of China’s Contemporary Paintings, Shanghai Art Museum,
Shanghai “The Blossoming of Realism” – The Oil Painting of Mainland Chian since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2005
China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague The Seond Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing “Grounding Reality”, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea “Good Girl, Bad Girls”, Red Mansion Foundation, London
2004
Wuhan The First Nominative Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts Museum,
Wuhan “Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai – Painting and Photography”, Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany “China Avantgarde”, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia “New Perspectives in Chinese Painting”, Marella Art Contemporary, Milano, Italy
2003
“Out of the Red – China Art Now”, Marella Art Contemporary, Milano; Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Italy “Modernization & Urbanization”, Opening Seoul–Asia Art Now Exhibition, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2002
New York Asia International Art Fair, New York “Golden Harvest – Chinese Contemporary Art”, National Museum of Contemporary, Zagreb, Croatia “He Sen Solo Exhibition”, Piltzer Gallery, Paris, France
2001
“On Boys and Girls”, UpRiver Loft, Kunming Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore “Up Down Left Right”, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
2000
“Gate of the Century 1979-1999″, Chinese Art Invitation Exhibition, Shanghai “Individual and Society in Art”, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
1999
“Sharp New Sights from Young Artists Born around 1970″, Beijing Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
1997
“The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art”, Beijing/ Hong Kong
1995
“The 3rd Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting”, Beijing “Urban Idealist – New Art from Sichuan”, Hong Kong Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings: From Realism to Post Modernism”, Theoremes Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1994
“Sliced”, Chongqing
1993
“The First Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting”, Beijing
1992
First Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, Hong Kong “The First Biennial Art Exhibition”, Guangzhou “The Second Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art”, Guangzhou
1989
Sichuan Provincial Fine Art Exhibition, Provincial Gallery, Chengdu