Guojian Yuan's Profile

From: Flushing, NY
Joined: November 13, 2007
http://www.artbreak.com/binghamtonyoung

About binghamtonyoung:

Mr. Guo-Jian Yuan is born in 1953, Shanghai, China. He studied in the Fine Arts department of Anhui Normal University during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Although confined by an institution which strictly abided by Social-Realist artistic principles, Yuan stood out as a nonconformist ever since the nascent stage of his career. The restrictions he experienced in the university had finally caused him to leave school in his senior year to return to Shanghai, and established an individual fine arts studio, while taught painting to avid young art lovers. Yuan’s return coincided with the rise of Deng Xiaoping, the supreme leader in the post-Mao era who alleviated some of the severe cultural and intellectual restrictions. During the 1980s, Yuan actively participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and salons, as well as some of the most prestigious national arts competitions, and have been conferred with a number of honorary awards. Yuan stood out as an artist who inherited the Chinese tradition and also integrated elements of contemporary Western art, thereby distinguished him as a prominent representative of the New Wave of contemporary Chinese painters since post-Cultural Revolution era. In 1986, he and some of his fellow artists founded the Red-Yellow-Blue Painting Association in Shanghai, whose aim was to revitalize Chinese painting and rejuvenate Chinese art. He had also held exhibitions abroad in West Germany, the United States, and South Korea. In 1994 he immigrated to the United States with his family in the pursuit of his artistic ideals. Today he lives and works in New York City and continues to express his creativity in painting passionately.