Past
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Iconology of Life
Lao Tongli's Experiential Semiotics of Living Systems 20 Sep - 1 Dec 2024 INKstudio is proud to present “Iconology of Life,” the first solo exhibition for the Guangdong-born visual artist Lao Tongli (b. 1982). Read more -
Observing My Distant Self: Kang Chunhui
25 May - 30 Aug 2024 “Observing My Distant Self: Kang Chunhui” marks the artist’s premiere solo exhibition at INKstudio, offering an immersive journey into a crucial juncture in her artistic development. The exhibition unfolds in two distinct sections: “Observing My Distant Self” and “Undeniably Me”. Read more -
Bingyi: The Eyes of Chaos
18 Nov 2023 - 28 Apr 2024 INKstudio is proud to announce the opening of Bingyi’s third solo exhibition at the gallery entitled “Bingyi: The Eyes of Chaos.” Read more -
Taipei | Contemporary Ink, Global context
Bingyi, Jeong Gwang Hee, Li Huasheng, Jennifer Wen Ma, Wang Tiande, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chonbin 18 - 24 Oct 2023 Virtual Exhibition INKstudio is delighted to present the exhibition 'Global Ink, Contemporary Contexts' in Taipei. INKstudio selected seven artists based in various regions across continents, including Western Europe, the United States, and East Asia. Each artist develops a distinct intrepretation of creating contemporary art from the traditional East Asian language... Read more -
Grand Synthesis: The Extraordinary Flower-Landscapes of Peng Kanglong
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 INKstudio’s first solo exhibition after the re-launch of its program in China this June will be the Mainland Chinese debut solo exhibition for the classically-trained flower and landscape painter Peng Kanglong... Read more -
Global INK: INKstudio’s Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition
Bingyi, Chen Haiyan, Huang Chih-yang, Li Jin, Li Huasheng, Liu Dan, Peng Kang-long, Wang Dongling, Wang Tiande, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 17 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 The current exhibition, Global INK, is our opportunity to share with everyone what we have discovered over our first decade of programming. It is not a group show but instead a special exhibition consisting of twelve separate solo presentations by twelve artists who we believe define the new global contemporary INK. Read more -
New York | Every One Every Where Every When
Li Jin and the Art of the Portrait 15 - 19 Mar 2023 Ukrainian Institute of America 2 E 79th Street New York, NY 10075 Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Li Jin (b. 1958 in Tianjin, China) is perhaps best known for his lush and colorful chihenannü 'Eat Drink Man Woman” series depictions of sensory pleasures in contemporary China. In his banquet... Read more -
New York | Many Splendored Spring
The Extraordinary Flower-Landscapes of Peng Kanglong 15 - 19 Mar 2023 Ukrainian Institute of America 2 E 79th Street New York, NY 10075 Peng Kanglong’s Flower-Landscapes Peng Kanglong彭康隆 (b. 1962 in Hualien, Taiwan) is classically-trained artist who paints in the traditional landscape and flower genres. Landscape and flower painting are two distinct genres with their own metaphoric languages, painting techniques, representative... Read more -
New York | Bingyi: Land of Immortals
14 - 26 Mar 2022 Los Angeles-based artist, writer, film-maker, curator, cultural critic, and social activist Bingyi (b. 1975, Beijing) will premier Land of Immortals a new body of contemporary ink painting in a joint exhibition between INKstudio (Beijing) and Joan B. Mirviss (New York) during Asia Week New York 2022. Bingyi’s contemporary ink paintings will be shown alongside the contemporary ceramics of master artist Kondō Takahiro (b. 1958, Kyoto) in his concurrent solo exhibition Kondō Takahiro: Making Waves. Read more -
Painting the Heart-Mind: The Art of Inoue Yūichi and Li Huasheng
5 Jun - 1 Aug 2021 INKstudio, Beijing, Shibunkaku, Kyoto, and the Li Huasheng Art Foundation are co-organizing a dual artist exhibition of modern calligraphies by post-war, Japanese calligrapher Inoue Yūichi(1916–1985) and abstract paintings by post-Cultural Revolution literati ink painter Li Huasheng(1944–2018). Read more -
Same Line Twice
Hung Fai & Wai Pong-yu 25 Jul - 12 Sep 2020 Ink Studio is excited to present the Beijing debut of Same Line Twice, the acclaimed series of experimental collaborative drawings by Hong Kong artists Hung Fai and Wai Pong-yu. Read more -
Visual-log
Su Huangsheng 25 Jul - 12 Sep 2020 Ink Studio is proud to present the Beijing debut of Taiwanese artist Su Huangsheng’s solo exhibition Visual-log, showcasing his recent works that demonstrate his unique approach to incorporating contemporary visual experience into traditional formats of Chinese painting. Read more -
Winter of Longing
Wang Tiande 16 Nov 2019 - 10 Jan 2020 In an installation designed to foster quiet contemplation, Wang Tiande's latest and most ambitious burned landscapes uncover sedimentary layers of culture across time. Read more -
One Breath – Infinite Vision
Choi Ildan & Cho Duck Hyun & Jeong Gwang Hee & Kim Ho Deuk & Kim Jongku & Lee In & Lim Hyun Lak & Lim Oksang & Ahn SungKeum 21 Sep - 3 Nov 2019 INK studio Beijing is pleased to present One Breath–Infinite Vision, an exhibition of Korean ink art curated by Yu Yeon Kim.
The exhibition includes twenty-six works by nine Korean artists, Choi Ildan, Cho Duck Hyun, Jeong Gwang Hee, Kim Ho Deuk, Kim Jongku, Lee In, Lim Hyun Lak, Lim Oksang, and Ahn SungKeum. Read more -
Undersong: Secrets, Dreams, Truths and Power
Chen Haiyan & Tao Aimin 22 Jun - 1 Sep 2019 INK Studio is proud to present Undersong: Secrets, Dreams, Truths, and Power, a two-person solo exhibition of artworks by Chen Haiyan (1955 –) and Tao Aimin (1974 –), which explore the power that is constituted by ordinary women when they share their intimate stories, secrets, truths, and dreams. Read more -
Flesh and Bone
Li Jin 22 Mar - 2 Jun 2019 Flesh and Bone uncovers the full story of renowned painter Li Jin’s artistic development during the 1980's and 90's, particularly the impact of his self-exiles in Tibet. This experience transformed his thinking about selfhood and corporeal existence as manifested in his pictorial language and approach to figuration, and lies at the heart of both his colorful pleasure scenes and his freehand monochrome ink paintings. Read more -
Four Accomplishments in Ink
Liu Dan | Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat | Xu Lei | Zeng Xiaojun 13 - 29 Mar 2019 Beijing-based gallery INKstudio marks its debut in the official program of Asia Week New York with a selection “Four Accomplishments in Ink”—a gathering of four great ink artists who are themselves noted connoisseurs and collectors of art. Read more -
Impossible Landscapes
Bingyi 13 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 INK studio is honored to present Bingyi’s second solo exhibition at our Beijing gallery Bingyi: Impossible Landscapes. An artist, architectural designer, curator, cultural critic, and social activist, Bingyi (b. 1975, Beijing) has developed a multi-faceted practice that encompasses land and environmental art, site-specific architectural installation, musical and literary composition, ink... Read more -
Language and Nature
Xu Bing 14 Jul - 23 Sep 2018 “. . . facing a real mountain, I wrote ‘mountain’ . . . where there was river water I wrote the character for ‘water’. The clouds shifted, the mountain colors changed, the wind blew and the grasses moved, the life around me appeared and disappeared; with a feeling of excitement,... Read more -
Walking Penumbra
Zheng Chongbin 24 Mar - 3 Jun 2018 INK studio Beijing is proud to announce a major solo exhibition entitled Walking Penumbra for California- and Shanghai-based artist Zheng Chongbin. Opening on Saturday March 24 on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Beijing 2018 and running through May 27, 2018, the exhibition for the first time presents the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice—including his newest video and immersive light and space installation, his acrylic and video sculptures and a selection of his most recent paintings—as an integrated exploration of our living material world and how we, as conscious perceiving beings emergent with and within this world, construct ourselves and our reality. Read more -
Luminous Shadows
18 Nov 2017 - 19 Jan 2018 The group exhibition Luminous Shadows explores spirituality and transcendence in the sensory engagement with the material world, recuperating dimensions of art repressed by a modern aesthetics of detached contemplation. The work of art is here ritualized anew as a vehicle for salvation and awakening, a self-conscious theatrical illusion, a sensuous body of pleasure and pain, and an object of pious devotion and yearning. Read more -
Making Traces
Dai Guangyu 10 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Making Traces: The Arts of Participation and Refusal is the first conceptual retrospective of path-breaking artist Dai Guangyu's performance art practice. Read more -
Earth Roots
Yang Jiechang 10 Jun - 12 Aug 2017 Earth Roots, the first systematic survey of Yang Jiechang's influential One Hundred Layers of Ink series, traces its formation and evolution from the 1980's through the 1990's. Read more -
Speculative Cosmologies
Tai Xiangzhou 18 Mar - 14 May 2017 Tai Xiangzhou's ink paintings of cosmic scenes subvert pictorial conventions and remove the viewer from ordinary reality, reinvesting vision with visionary potential and images with imaginative power. Read more -
Songs of the Phoenix Mirror
Wei Ligang 10 Dec 2016 - 12 Feb 2017 Songs of the Phoenix Mirror is the first exhibition to explore the full range and cultural significance of Wei Ligang’s current calligraphic practice. Read more -
Writing Chaos
Wang Dongling 17 Sep - 20 Nov 2016 Writing Chaos unfolds the significance of Wang Dongling's Chaos Script—a new calligraphic script style that overturns the very foundations of the art. Read more -
Being
Li Jin 28 May - 14 Aug 2016 In a new series of boldly expressive monochrome ink paintings, Li Jin departs from his familiar scenes of sensory pleasures and returns to a state of unencumbered creativity. Read more -
Ink and the Mind
Ink and phenomenology. Exhibition No.2 19 Mar - 12 May 2016 Ink and the Mind explores the myriad connections between ink painting and cognition, perception, affect, and imagination. Read more -
WATER FORMING STONE
HE YUNCHANG 17 Oct 2015 - 6 Feb 2016 Water Forming Stone marks a critical transition in the career of performance artist He Yunchang: in his own words, an expansive opening after summiting a peak and a tranquility following a mortal confrontation. Read more -
WALL OF SKIES
ZHENG CHONGBIN 30 May - 23 Sep 2015 "Wall of Skies," Zheng Chongbin's second solo exhibition at Ink Studio, presents his latest paintings and his new light-and-space practice, including a new rendition of his concurrent exhibit at the European Cultural Centre, Venice. Read more -
INTENSIVE/EXTENSIVE
BINGYI 21 Mar - 3 May 2015 Ink Studio is pleased to announce the opening of Bingyi's first major solo exhibition in China Intensive/Extensive on March 21, 2015. Read more -
PROCESS, MIND, AND LANDSCAPE
LI HUASHENG 29 Nov 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 Li Huasheng: Process, Mind, and Landscape Read more -
INK AND THE BODY
Ink and Phenomenology, Exhibition No. 1 21 Sep - 15 Nov 2014 Ink Studio’s premier group show, Ink and the Body, launches a planned series of three exhibitions examining ink painting in terms of the relationship between the subject and both the artist and viewer, from a phenomenological perspective. The series consists of Ink and the Body, Ink and the Mind, and... Read more -
THIS IS STILL LANDSCAPE PAINTING
YANG JIECHANG 18 May - 31 Aug 2014 This Is Still Landscape Painting features new works by artist Yang Jiechang (b. 1956 in Foshan, Guangdong province, China). With this exhibition, Yang presents his audience with a range of paintings that are both disturbing and beautiful. Power, violence and terror are central concerns in Yang’s art and yet so... Read more -
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE: CHAPTERS IN A COURSE OF STUDY
HUANG ZHIYANG 29 Mar - 11 May 2014 Ink Studio墨齋 is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition The Phenomenology of Life with works by the eminent ink painter Huang Zhiyang (b. 1965, Taipei, Taiwan). In conjunction with the National Museum of China in Beijing, where Huang's oeuvre will be subject of a solo show with the same name,... Read more -
THE ORIGINS OF ABSTRACTION
WANG DONGLING 9 Nov 2013 - 5 Jan 2014 // Installation Video Works can fall short of one's ideals, but a successful work must embody my true feelings because this work is not created by my hand but by my heart. (2006) The Beijing art gallery Ink Studio is delighted to announce its third exhibition: The Origins of... Read more -
Carving the Unconscious
Chen Haiyan 4 Sep - 3 Nov 2013 The newly established Beijing art gallery Ink Studio is delighted to announce its second exhibition, of prints and paintings in ink on paper by artist Chen Haiyan. Chen Haiyan (b. 1955) is widely recognized as one of the most important Chinese artists carving woodcuts today. She is also an accomplished... Read more -
IMPULSE, MATTER, FORM
ZHENG CHONGBIN 26 May - 4 Aug 2013 Zheng Chongbin (b. Shanghai, 1961) is one of the most notable artists in the emerging field of contemporary Chinese ink art. Throughout his career, Zheng has systematically deconstructed and interrogated the origins of abstraction in both traditional Chinese and contemporary Euro-American artistic practices. Without abandoning his rigorous early 1980s training as an ink painter in China, Zheng has embraced precepts of American Abstract Expressionism, field painting and Minimalism. A fresh and dynamic synthesis of approaches from both traditions, Zheng's paintings resonate with both Eastern and Western art history, playing one against the other to break free of both. Read more
