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Sun Yitian

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  • Sun Yitian
  • Birthdate: 1991
    Birthplace: China | Zhejiang
    Gender: Female
    Lives and Works in: China | Beijing
    About:
    Sun Yitian (b.1991, Zhejiang, China) graduated from the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) in 2015 and earned her Master Degree in 2018. She is now completing her doctorate of Literature at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her practice, which spans painting, installation, performance, and fashion, employs material objects as metaphors of labor and production to reveal the inner mechanisms of our consumer society. Sun's often photo-realist works examines the secret, increasingly tenuous connection between seduction and fear as well as the sculptural 'thingness' of her subjects.

    Sun was selected for the Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2019, and received the WSJ China's ON THE FIELD Creator of the Year Award and "BOB Best of the Best" 2022 Young Artist Award. Her works have been exhibited at BANK Gallery, Esther Schipper, Mine Projects, Almine Rech, Paris and major organizations such as the Lion Palace, Berlin; Samaritaine, Paris; Macao Museum of Art; UCCA Edge, Shanghai, as well as Frieze London and FIAC. Her work is held in the following collections: White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; M WOODS, Beijing; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing and Long Museum, Shanghai, etc.

    Recent exhibitions include Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Projection, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); Nián Nián :The Power and Agency of Animal Forms, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); The Infinite Conversation: 2022 Beijing Biennial "Symbiosis", National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing (2022); "Summer 22", Esther Schipper, Berlin (2022); The Pieces I Am, Shanghai, UCCA Edge (2022); "Art's Language, Artists Game", OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen (2022); The Disconnected Generation, Song Art Museum, Beijing (2022).
    Education:
    2011 -2015    Graduated from the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA)
    2015 -2018    Earned Masters Degree
       She is now completing her doctorate of Literature at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University
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  • Exhibitions
    • Art Basel Hong Kong
      Art Basel Hong Kong
      Mar 26, 2024 - Mar 30, 2024
      Artists: The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Huai-Kuei Song, Tang Song , Chico da Silva , Shi Hui, Bony Ramirez, Liang Hao , Zhang Yibei , Sun Yitian , Bai Yiyi , Wenjue , Lu Yang , Ching Ho Cheng
      • Art Fair
    • 2024 Frieze Los Angeles
      2024 Frieze Los Angeles
      Feb 29, 2024 - Mar 3, 2024
      Artists: Patty Chang, Sun Yitian , Lin Ke, Chen Tianzhuo, Bai Yiyi , Liang Hao
      • Art Fair
    • BANK 10th Anniversary Show "Birthday Party!"
      BANK 10th Anniversary Show "Birthday Party!"
      Nov 10, 2023 - Feb 24, 2024
      Artists: Bony Ramirez, Oliver Herring, Patty Chang, Michael Najjar, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Hito Steyerl, Ching Ho Cheng , Tim Crowley , Lin Ke, Sun Yitian , Chen Tianzhuo, Wang Rui, Liang Hao , Lu Yang , Jin Shan, Geng Yini, Wenjue , Zheng Haozhong, Zhang Yibei , Bai Yiyi , Petra Cortright, Ma Daha, Heman Chong, Polit-Sheer-Form Office, Austin Lee, Nik Kosmas, Mit Jai Inn , Marina Abramović, Xie Qi, Liao Guohe , Heidi Voet, Marc Lafia, Xu Bing, Laurent Grasso
      • Group Exhibition
    • Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Sep 6, 2023 - Sep 9, 2023
      Artists: Tang Song , Ching Ho Cheng , Bony Ramirez, Geng Yini, Sun Yitian , Nik Kosmas, Lu Yang , Michael Lin, Liang Hao , Bai Yiyi , Anastasia Komar
      • Art Fair
    • ART SG
      ART SG
      Jan 12, 2023 - Jan 15, 2023
      Opening: Jan 11, 2023 Wednesday
      Artists: Sun Yitian , Michael Najjar, Michael Lin, Busui Ajaw, Lin Ke, Xu Bing, Tang Song , Ching Ho Cheng , Lu Yang , Tawatchai Puntusawasdi
      • Art Fair
    • ART021 Shanghai Contemporary
      ART021 Shanghai Contemporary
      Nov 10, 2022 - Nov 13, 2022
      Opening: Nov 10, 2022 Thursday
      Artists: Ching Ho Cheng , Tim Crowley , Sun Yitian , Lin Ke, The Estate of Maryn Varbanov , Hito Steyerl, Zheng Haozhong, Michael Lin, Austin Lee
      • Art Fair
    • Basel Social Club
      Basel Social Club
      Jun 13, 2022 - Jun 19, 2022
      Opening: Jun 13, 2022 08:00 Monday
      Artists: Sun Yitian , Zhang Yibei
      • Art Fair
    • Art Basel Hong Kong 2022
      Art Basel Hong Kong 2022
      May 25, 2022 - May 29, 2022
      Opening: May 27, 2022 14:00 Friday
      Artists: Sun Yitian , Tim Crowley
      • Art Fair
    • Fly only when the shades of night gather
      Fly only when the shades of night gather
      Nov 10, 2021 - Jan 30, 2022
      Opening: Nov 10, 2021 14:00 Wednesday
      Artist: Sun Yitian
      • Solo Exhibition
    • ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
      ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
      Nov 11, 2021 - Nov 14, 2021
      Artists: Lin Ke, Tang Song , Austin Lee, Sun Yitian , Tim Crowley , Oliver Herring, Michael Lin, Jin Shan, Nik Kosmas
      • Art Fair
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