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Yun-Fei ji: upcoming gallery show

Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout
November 15 - December 23, 2023
Opening: Saturday November 11, 4-7 PM

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei ji: upcoming gallery show

Yun-Fei Ji at TheMerode, Brussels

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES

TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
January 9 - July 14, 2023

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at TheMerode, Brussels

Yun-Fei Ji at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo

TALL TALES AND A SCAVENGER

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, United States of America
June 12 - September 5, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo

Yun-Fei Ji at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION OF VISUAL ARTS

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, U.S.A.
March 5 - April 5, 2020

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Yun-Fei Ji at University Art Museum, Lafayette

LOOKING FOR LEHMAN BROTHERS

University Art Museum, Lafayette, United States of America
February 3 - May 6, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at University Art Museum, Lafayette

Yun-Fei Ji at the Honolulu Museum of Art

THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, United States of America
September 29, 2016 - February 5, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at the Honolulu Museum of Art

Yun-Fei Ji at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

SHOW AND TELL: STORIES IN CHINESE PAINTINGS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
October 29, 2016 -  August 6, 2017
ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Yun-Fei Ji at The Cleveland Museum of Art

LAST DAYS OF VILLAGE WEN

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States of America
February 12 - July 7, 2016

ZENO X GALLERY - Yun-Fei Ji at The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Yun-Fei Ji, b. 1963 in Beijing (CN), lives and works in New Jersey (US).

Yun-Fei Ji is a storyteller who takes historical and present-day events and the lives of ordinary people as the subjects of his work. Accounts of displacement, natural disasters and corrupt authorities in villages are turned into semi-fictional narratives. Ji paints, according to traditional Eastern art-making practice, on handmade rice paper with translucent ink or paint based on natural pigments. His peculiar draughtsmanship draws on centuries-old techniques, including calligraphy. His subjects evoke traditional Chinese landscape painting: figures and scenes recall tales and epics from Chinese folklore and history. His work echoes the oeuvre of the ancient Dynasty Masters, whose paintings combined compositional and technical brilliance with the expression of sorrow and melancholy, conveying an underlying political message. Ji depicts the internal difficulties of Chinese culture – the human tragedies caused by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, for instance, or the failure of the communist utopia – while at the same time expanding his focus by referring to the societal disruptions following Hurricane Katrina, the invasion of Iraq and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. By borrowing past events to comment on present problematic developments, the artist creates particularly layered works illustrating both a personal and symbolic fantasy and a more global, existential human tragedy and beauty.

Yun-Fei Ji has had solo exhibitions at Pratt Institute (New York), Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University (Waltham), The Hilliard Art Museum (Lafayette), Honolulu Art Museum, UMCA (Amherst), Richard E. Peeler Art Center (Greencastle), Krannert Art Museum (Champaign), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Worcester Art Museum and ICA Philadelphia.

Yun-Fei Ji has participated in the Whitney Biennial in New York (2002), the Lyon Biennale (2011), the Biennale of Sydney (2012) and the Shanghai Biennale (2014). His work has featured in group shows at The Drawing Center (New York), British Museum (London), MoMA (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Marta Herford, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Vancouver Art Gallery, S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Menshikov Palace/State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and FRAC Picardie (Amiens).

Yun-Fei Ji joined the gallery in 2002.

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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Works on Paper I
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 24.02 2018
Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 24.02 2018
Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 24.02 2018
Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Last Days of Village Wen
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States of America | 12.02 - 31.07 2016
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.11 - 19.12 2015
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Part historical painter and part documentarian, Yun-Fei Ji is a storyteller who takes past events and lives of ordinary people as the subjects of his paintings. Accounts of displacement, natural disasters and corrupt power in the villages are turned into semi-fictional narratives in his works.

Yun-Fei Ji was born in Beijing (°1963) and moved at a young age to America, where he currently lives and works, in Columbus, Ohio. Ji draws on handmade rice paper using remarkable traditional Chinese techniques, and narrates the historic and present-day situation of China. The new series of drawings on view tell the story of an ancient Chinese village that was destroyed because of pollution and the grandstanding operations of the government.

Yun-Fei Ji belongs to a generation of artists educated in the official state style of Socialist Realism. Traditional techniques are used to illustrate the dogmatic propaganda of the Cultural Revolution. After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, a Chinese avant-garde movement arose that actively reacted against the traditional imagery of Socialist Realism. Inspired by this movement Yun-Fei Ji started using oil rather than ink. In the late 1980s he moved to America and travelled throughout Europe; it is here that he discovered Western tradition and contemporary art. This turned out to be of great influence for the artist’s work.

It proved to be a hard decision for Ji to eventually return to traditional techniques. It would have felt more coherent to continue in oil paint, which clearly brought his critical voice to the fore, whereas his personal and political message, now translated in soft pastel and ink drawings, became more diluted. Moreover, the traditional technique is time consuming and demands a lot of patience and skill.

In the past Yun-Fei Ji has made other series of works that were critical of Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’-campaign. New scientific methods of fertilization, the adaptation of modern technologies and forced collective farming promised the liberation of the Chinese farmers and an abundance of crops. The reality turned out quite different, with thirty million deaths and the biggest famine in human history. Another series narrates the construction of enormous dams and the often disastrous consequences for the surrounding people, environment and agriculture. Yun-Fei Ji shows us a country in transition and a painful process of urbanization and industrialization.

The works that are currently on view at the gallery tell a similar chronicle. Yun-Fei Ji decribes the story as follows:

“Trying to escape the heavy surrounding smog and the crowded noisy life of the city, I would often go deep into the mountains to a village to live for a period of time whenever I could. Many years later, this village has become my daily longing and comfort. Every time when there is unpleasant or stressful situations, the only thing I need to do is close my eyes and see myself in this village and very soon my mood will improve. The people in this village are the toughest people I have ever met. Even during the Great Famine of the 1960s, most of these people survived. Yet, the last few years they had unprecedented difficulties with developers and the village officials sold land from the people. The villagers petitioned. All along the river the water is getting worse and more polluted, and the wells are contaminated. I never expected this little village, which survived for hundreds of years, to be like the thousands of other villages in China; disappeared overnight.”

Next year, Yun-Fei Ji will have solo shows at the Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton (US) and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland (US).

Yun-Fei Ji took part in the Whitney Biennale in New York in 2001. ‘The Old One Hundred Names’ at Zeno X Gallery in 2003 was Yun-Fei Ji’s first European exhibition and was successfully adopted by the Pratt Institute in New York. The solo exhibition ‘The Empty City’ opened at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and travelled further to The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center in Greencastle. Solo exhibitions dedicated to his work were organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, UMCA in Amherst, Krannert Art Museum in Illinois and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.

His work has featured in group exhibitions such as the New Orleans Biennial, Sydney Biennial, Lyon Biennial, Mercosur Biennial and at The Drawing Center in New York, British Museum in London, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Menshikov Palace at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, FRAC de Picardie in Amiens and MoMA in New York, amongst others.

Yun-Fei Ji’s work is part of public collections such as MoMA in New York, Hammer Museum in LA, New Museum in New York, Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and others.

Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 12.11 - 20.12 2014
Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.02 - 09.03 2013
Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 17.02 2007
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 17.02 2007
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 12.05 - 04.06 2005
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Zeno X Gallery | 23.01 - 23.02 2003
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Selected solo exhibitions

2022
The Sunflower Turned Its Back, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States of America
2021
Yun-Fei Ji: Tall Tales of a Scavenger, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, United States of America
2018
Rumors, Ridicules and Retributions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States of America
2017
Yun-Fei Ji: Looking for Lehman Brothers, The Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafeyette, United States of America
2016
The Intimate Universe, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, United States of America
The Intimate Universe, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, United States of America
2015
Migrants, Ghosts, and the Dam, University Museum Of Contemporary Art (UMCA), Amherst, United States of America
2013
Yun-Fei Ji: Selected Works, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, United States of America
2012
Yun-Fei Ji: Water Work, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2010
Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States of America
Ghosts and Men from Badong, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008
Two Chinas: Chen Qiulin and Yun-Fei Ji, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, United States of America
2006
The Water That Floats the Boat Can Also Sink It, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States of America
2005
The Empty City, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, United States of America
2004
The Empty City, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, United States of America
The Empty City, Provisions Library GAEA Foundation, Washington D.C., United States of America
The East Wind, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
The Empty City, Pierogi, New York, United States of America
The Empty City, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, United States of America
Boxers, SAFN Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003
The Old One Hundred Names, The Pratt Institute, New York, United States of America
2002
The Boxer, the Missionary, and their Gods, POST, Los Angeles, United States of America

Selected group exhibitions

2023
The man who planted trees, TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Dialogues Across Disciplines, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, New York, United States
2021
Reflect: Modern and Contermporary Highlights, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, United States of America
2020
International Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, United States of America
Between the Mountains, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, United States of America
2019
Hand Drawn, Action Packed, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Global Conversations: Art in Dialogue, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, United States of America
A Decade at the Center: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, United States of America
2018
Hand Drawn, Action Packed, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Hand Drawn, Action Packed, New Museum and Art Gallery, St Albans, United Kingdom
Worlds Apart: Nature and Humanity Under Deconstruction, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, United States of America
Biennial of Painting: On Landscapes, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deinze, Belgium
Convergence: Anila Quayyum Agha, Lalla Essaydi, Yun-Fei Ji, and Fred Han Chang Liang, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, United States of America
2016
Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
2015
Harmony and Transition, Chinese Landscapes in Contemporary Art, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
2014
10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, United States of America
Beyond Earth Art, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America
2013
A Sense of Place, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, United States of America
2012
Medals of Dishonour, Menshikov Palace - The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
All Our Relations, 18th Bienniale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2011
11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born, Lyon, France
2010
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Displacement, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durnham, United States of America
2009
7th Mercosur Biennal: Gritto e Escuta (Screaming and Hearing), Mercosul Visual Arts Biennal, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Medals of dishonour, British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York, United States of America
2008
Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
Un monde d’images, FRAC de Picardie, Amiens, France
Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, United States of America
2007
An Atlas of Events, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Hammer Contemporary Collection - Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
2006
Now, Voyager, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, United States of America
2004
Drawn, Contemporary Drawings, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore Colllege, New York, United States of America
open house, Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States of America
2003
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Brush with History, The Newark Museum, Newark, United States of America
2002
The Drawing Center. 25th Anniversary benefit Selections Exhibitions, The Drawing Center, New York, United States of America
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, New York, United States of America
2001
Selection, The Drawing Center, New York, United States of America
Best of the Season, Selected Work from the 2000-01 Manhattan Exhibition Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America

Public collections

Asia Society Museum, New York, United States of America
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States of America
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, United States of America
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America
List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge, United States of America
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, United States of America
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, United States of America
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, United States of America
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, United States of America
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States of America
New York Public Library, New York, United States of America
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, United States of America
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States of America
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, United States of America
The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, United States of America
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, United States of America
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, United States of America
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States of America
Westport Arts Center, Westport, United States of America
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, United States of America
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States of America

Press

“An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement”
www.hyperallergic.com, article by John Yau (online)
May 2018

“Yun-Fei Ji’s Ghost Stories of the Living”
www.hyperallergic.com, article by Danni Shen (online)
June 2016

“Yun-Fei Ji – the village and its ghosts”
<H>ART, no.149, article by Grete Simkuté (p.25)
December 2015

“Water Work Yun-Fei Ji”
Time Out Beijing, no. 93, article by Clare Pennington (p.53)
July 2012

“Part Traditionalist, Part Naturalist, Part Dissident”
The New York Times, article by Dorothy Spears (online)
February 2010

“Watercolored. Demons and Detritus in Yun-Fei Ji’s restive landscapes”
Modern Painters, article by Francine Prose (p.3;17;78-83)
March 2007

“Kick not against the pricks lest thou go lame. Nikanor Teratologen. Paintings Yun-Fei Ji”
Loyal Featuring, no.7, article by Martin Lilja
2003

“Grasping the Ungraspable: Yun-Fei Ji’s classical forms document China’s controversial modernization”
Art Papers, article by Mel Watkin (p.18-19)
September/October 2003

“Yun-Fei Ji: Moral Vistas. The New York-based Chinese painter presents densely figured landscapes and interiors as a form of social critique”
Art in America, no.6, article by Robert Knafo (p.104-107;137)
June 2003

Yun-Fei Ji
Books
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe

Wellin Museum of Art
New York, United States, 2016
16 pages

Wellin Museum of Art<br />New York, United States, 2016<br />16 pages
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe

Prestel
Munich, Germany, 2016
175 pages, ISBN 9783791355634

Prestel<br />Munich, Germany, 2016<br />175 pages, ISBN 9783791355634
Yun-Fei Ji: Last Days of Village Wen

Yale University Press
New Haven, United States of America, 2016
84 pages, ISBN 9780300220322

Yale University Press<br />New Haven, United States of America, 2016<br />84 pages, ISBN 9780300220322
Yun-Fei Ji: Water Work

UCCA Books
Hong Kong / Beijing, China, 2012
180 pages, ISBN 9789881622341

UCCA Books<br />Hong Kong / Beijing, China, 2012<br />180 pages, ISBN 9789881622341
Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City

Pierogi
New York, United States, 2004
95 pages, ISBN 0971219532

Pierogi<br />New York, United States, 2004<br />95 pages, ISBN 0971219532
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