Jiang Pengyi

Jiang Pengyi’s works cover both digital and film photography. He is known for challenging the widely accepted definition of photography, in which works he makes use of light to depict the invisible time and record the traces that the object leaves by the means of long exposure or the film’s autonomous photoreception from fluorescent paper, like a resolute adherent to Heidegger and also a master in manipulation of light and time. Jiang’s works are the visual expression of the inherent vigor and time that belong to the objects, which are, their abstract essences. In his series such as “Everything Illuminates”, he deprives the object of its representational attributes including its function and form through utilizing the fluidity of fluorescent matter to present the vitality of daily objects in the darkness, stripping down the appearance to the core.

1977    Born in Yuanjiang, Hunan. Now lives and works in Beijing, China

Education

2014    Graduated from China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

1999     BFA in Sculpture the Central Institute of Art & Design, Beijing, China

Awards

2011     ‘Premio Aletti’, Verona, Italy

2010     ‘Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards’, Paris, France

2009    ‘The Tierney Fellowship’, New York, USA

2008     ‘Three Shadows Photography Award’, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2015    ‘Intimacy’, ShangART Singapore, Singapore

2014     ‘Jiang Pengyi’, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
            ‘Glimpses’, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, USA

2013    ‘Everything Illuminates’, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2012     ‘Jiang Pengyi Solo Exhibition’, booth of AIKE-DELLARCO in SH contemporary 2012: M13, Shanghai, China

2010    ‘The Tender Truth – Jiang Pengyi and Maleonn’, Hong Kong Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2009     ‘Immersion and Distance’, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2008     ‘Jiang Pengyi Solo Exhibition’, Paris-Beijing photo gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015    ‘China 8 – Works in Progress, Photography in China 2015’, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
            ‘To Be Confirmed’, Jewelvary Art & Boutique, Shanghai, China

2014    ‘Chinese Contemporary Photography: 2009-2014’, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
            ‘Photo Shanghai 2014’, Booth D07, Shanghai, China
            ‘Art Basel 2014’, Hall 2.1, Booth Nr. K15, Basel, Switzerland
            ‘Art of Living – ‘Breaking Down the Wall’ ’, Jing An Kerry Center, Shanghai, China
            ‘In & Out Réel ShanghART’, Réel Department Store, Shanghai, China
            ‘Perceptions of Space – Justin Collection’, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield, Australia
            ‘Three Shadows First Experimental Image Open Exhibition’,
                   Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

2013    ‘1st Photo Beijing 2013: Aura & Post Aura’, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
            ‘West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art’, Shanghai, China
            ‘Revel – Celebrating MOCA’s 8 Years in Shanghai’,
                   Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
            ‘ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice’,
   Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2012    ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Contemporary Visions on China’, Yi&C, Taipei, Taiwan
            ‘Architekturfotografie – Made in China’, MAKK, Köln, Germany
            ‘No Exit- Urban Space’ , Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012, Hakasalmi Villa, Helsinki, Finland

2011          ‘Recurrent Shadows – Selected Works from the Three Shadows Photography Award 2008-2011’,
                   He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
                  ‘Daybreak’, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
                  ‘Gallery Hotel Art Project’, Gallery Hotel and Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
                  ‘People and the City’, WINZAVOD Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Moscow, Russia
                  ‘Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China (1988-2011)’,
                   Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
                  ‘SH Contemporary 2011’, Shanghai, China
                  ‘0° Space’, AIKE-DELLARCO, Shanghai, China
                  ‘Extract the 3rd stall keeper show’, C5 Art, Beijing, China

2010          ‘Get It Louder 2010 Sharism’, Sanlitun SOHO, Beijing, China
                  ‘The mARKeT 2010 – ‘I’m’ ’, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
                  ‘Will to Height - Contemporary Art Exhibition’, epSITE, Shanghai, China
                  ‘New York Photo Festival 2010’, New York, China
                  ‘Top of Dopamine’, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
                  ‘The Butterfly Effect’, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
                  ‘Digital Generation’, Paris-Beijing photo gallery, Beijing, China

2009          ‘First Annual Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition’, Beijing, China
                  ‘Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2009’, Guangdong, China
                  ‘Immersion and Distance – Cheng Ran, Jiang Pengyi Group Exhibition’, UCCA, Beijing, China

2008          ‘Seeing China Beijing Imperial City Art Museum Urban Episodes’, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China
                  ‘1th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art’, Moscow, Russia
                  ‘Zoology’, Osage, Hong Kong, China
                  ‘Contemporary Photography Art Fair’, Beijing, China

2007    ‘Lianzhou International Photo Festival’, Guangdong, China

2006    ‘New Folk Arts Movement The Reconstruct of Commonality’, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China

Public Collection

Fondazione Banca Aletti, Italy

Unicredit Art Collection, Italy

Unicredit Art Collection, Germany

Societe Generale Collection, France

Everything Illuminates No.1 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 119 cm	Everything Illuminates No.2 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 70 x 51.5 cm	Everything Illuminates No.3 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 100 x 80 cm
Everything Illuminates No.4 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 47.3 x 65 cm	Everything Illuminates No.5 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 47.3 x 65 cm	Everything Illuminates No.6 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 100 x 80 cm
Everything Illuminates No.7 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 73.3 x 210 cm	Everything Illuminates No.8 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 121 x 155 cm	Everything Illuminates No.9 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 240 x 177.4 cm
Everything Illuminates No.10 \| 2012 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 210 x 150 cm	Polaroid Film No.2 \| 2014 \| Archival inkjet print \| 10.8 x 8.5 cm	Unregistered City No.1 \| 2008 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm
Unregistered City No.2 \| 2009 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm	Unregistered City No.3 \| 2009 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm	Unregistered City No.4 \| 2010 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm
Unregistered City No.5 \| 2010 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm	Unregistered City No.6 \| 2010 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm	Unregistered City No.7 \| 2010 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm
Unregistered City No.8 \| 2010 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 150 x 209 cm	The Second Reincarnation of Dream No.3 \| 2005 \| Archival Inkjet Print \| 59 x 90 cm

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