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She currently lives and works in Beijing.
From 1982-1986, she took a 4 years professional study in painting at the primary art school affiliated to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. disCONNEXION (2002-2003) and DUPLICATON (2003) take this a step further, as Xing used found objects such as technological waste and discarded toy parts to speak about environmental concerns and aesthetics, and how China interacts with the rest of the world on these issues.
In another series of her works, disCONNEXION, the artist shows large piles of computer trashes, criticizing the consumer society and environment nightmares, but succeeding to extract a kind of beauty from these residues.
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Born in Xi'an, China, the artist Xing Danwen currently lives and works in Beijing.
She started her visual art practice with the painting medium in her teens.
In her current art practice she works, besides photography, also in the field of mixed media, video and multi-media installations.
Xing Danwen exhibits domestically and internationally, including Whitney Museum of American Art, Pompidou Center, International center for Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st Yokohama Triennale and Sydney Biennale 2004, etc.
She was one of the few artists exploring the boundaries of photography and using photography as an art form in late 80s and 90s in China. She was also selected for the top 25 “Asian Female Power” by Japan Harper's BAZAAR Art in 2019.
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Xing Danwen began her artistic education in her teenage years with formal painting training, as this was the most widely respected and accepted medium in the People’s Republic of China during this time.
Many of the male artists that she included in this photo series built their careers using her photo documentation of their performances, however, she was not credited for these widely circulated photos. In addition to these subjects, she documents the performances that took place in the burgeoning underground art scene of East Village, a suburb of Beijing in A Personal Diary.
In her more recent works Urban Fiction (2004) and Wall House (2007) she incorporates elements of theatre, casting herself as the protagonist in stories of urban China as she simultaneously addresses themes of solitude and modernisation.
In addition to her extensive record of solo exhibitions, Xing’s work has also been collected by some of the most prestigious art institutions in the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Fnac) in Paris, and the SF MoMA in San Francisco.
Throughout her career, Xing has exhibited her unlimited artistic range, capturing subjects and themes from large to small scales, and addressing universal issues such as pollution and urbanisation while also offering profound intimate introspection.
She also engages in the juxtaposition of fiction and reality, placing each of these subjects in different narratives and settings of her own creation, so as to even further explicate their universal meanings.
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Suburbia has always been conceived of as an oppositional realm.
In addition to photography, Xing works with mixed media, video, and multimedia installations to address various issues on humanity, gender identity, and generation gaps. Later in 1998, she went to New York with a fellowship and grant received from Asian Cultural Council in New York. She incorporated techniques such as video installation and unedited panoramic photography, wherein she uses the image in its original condition without any editing or distorting, to examine the Chinese experience with a new and provocative lens.
However, she quickly became taken with photography in her late teens. From 1988-1992, she continued painting and completed her BFA at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
In 1998, she went to New York with a grant and fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. From 1998-2001, she did her MFA at School of Visual Arts in New York with a chairman grant from SVA.
This New York period challenged and enriched her artistic experience.Her works are collected widely by these institutions, and in many notable private collections such as Sigg Collections, UBS Bank, and the French National Art Fund.
With her artistic achievement, Xing's works have been widely published in many important volumes as part of the academic discourse in the international art world, including the latest masterpiece "Great Women Artists” by Phaidon UK.
Xing has also received many awards, including the 2003 Arles International Art Festival award of the Best Publishing Project, the 2008 Netherlands ING Photography Award for the finalists, and the 2018 AAC China Silver Trophy for the Best Artist of the Year.
With this stratagem, Xing Danwen attracts our attention on the consequences this important upheaval the China urban universe is currently subjected to: the disappearance of the inheritance and the references to the former generations, this new world of cold buildings where the human appears terribly ridiculous and alone.
China opened up to a market economy in the late 70s and early 80s, and the rest of the world flooded in to take
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Xing Danwen
was born in Xi'an, China.
The artist started her visual art practice with painting medium in her teens. As a self-taught photographer, she was the one of a few artists in late 80s and 90s in China that was exploring the bounderies of photography and using photography as an art form.
From 1982-1986, she participated in a 4-year program of professional study in painting at the primary art school affiliated to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts.