Qu Yan's resume

Contemporary artist Qu Yan. 1955 was born in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and 1985 graduated from the Art Department of Shanxi University, majoring in oil painting. Now living and writing in Beijing. He is currently the director and researcher of the Institute of Urban and Rural Art Construction of Guangdong University of Technology. Adjunct professor and tutor of master students in Academy of Fine Arts of Shanxi University. Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, China University of Mining and Technology.

Qu Yan, as one of the most representative avant-garde artists in contemporary China, has been devoted to the new ideological movement of modern art in China since 1980s, advocating independent artistic spirit. From 65438 to 0992, he went to Europe to study and work, and served as a professor at Prague Academy of Fine Arts in Czech Republic, teaching oriental art. 1997, he returned to China and now lives and works in Beijing. As the first batch of avant-garde artists in China in 1980s, Qu Yan actively participated in the "85 New Wave" art movement, and was one of the famous artists who started the "Life Stream" of China avant-garde art in 1980s. His works and artistic experiences have been introduced, published and collected by many books and papers on the history of contemporary art in China. Qu Yan is also a famous contemporary cross-border artist. His works cover painting, installation, multimedia and photography. The works directly reflect acute social problems and collide with the public mind, resulting in a strong * * * sound. Qu Yan participated in many important international and domestic contemporary art exhibitions, including: In the new century, Qu Yan turned from painting, installation and multimedia to photography. Qu Yan takes photography as the main medium of contemporary art to complete his creative transformation. His works are famous for facing the sharp contradictions in China's real society. His Trilogy of the Earth, including Space of Power, Space of Belief and Space of Life, has aroused great repercussions in the contemporary art and photography circles in China in recent years.

Since 2007, Qu Yan has embarked on an ambitious plan and practice to promote rural revitalization through art. All the legends began in Xu Cun, an ancient village in Taihang Mountain. Qu Yan continued the tradition of ancient philosophers and intellectuals going to the countryside in the last century. As a volunteer, he went deep into Xucun for a long time, starting from picking up garbage in Xucun, influencing and improving the civilized quality of villagers, protecting and restoring traditional houses and buildings, and injecting new cultural elements into Xucun as a way to rebuild China's traditional cultural spirit and belief. With the means of "art promotes rural revitalization" and "art restores the countryside", through several years' efforts, Qu Yan has built Xucun into an international art village and artist creation base with international influence, and has become an important place to study the rural movement in China and restore the countryside by art. As Wang Nanming said, "Qu Yan Xucun Plan is different from the gathering of cultural celebrities and the general record of rural customs, and even different from ordinary rural fields. It has been affirmed by the society and widely praised and supported by the local government and villagers. 20 12 CCTV 12 channel "witness" filmed and recorded the Qu Yan documentary "One Man's Village", and the first and second episodes of the film were broadcast nationwide.