Feng Zhengjie

Feng Zhengjie is a contemporary Chinese painter whose massive portraits of wandering-eyed women are recognized for their palette of crimson reds, electric pinks, and turquoise greens. Feng's work is often compared to Andy Warhol's screen-printed portraits of celebrities. “I mostly try to find a way to express my emotions, not to criticize or be provocative. Behind these images of women in my works can be found firstly emotion but also forms of criticism, provocation, introspection,” he has said. Born in 1968 in Anyue, China, he received his BFA and MFA from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing, China. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Today, Feng’s works are held in the collections of the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, the Busan Museum of Modern Art in Korea, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, among others.

Works

Biography

1968

Born in Sichuan, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

Primary Colours, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2006

Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, China

2005

Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Goethe Art Center, Taiwan, China

Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Galerie De Bellecour, Lyons, France

Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Marella Art Contemporary, Milan, Italy

2004

Kitsch As A Face Of Chinese Society, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore

Kitsch As A Face Of Chinese Society, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia

The Beautiful Poison, Suka Art Space, Korea

2003

Regards de gauche à droite, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France

Regards vers l'Est, Regards vers l'Ouest, Albert Benamou Gallery, Paris, France

2002

Paintings 1996-2001, Foundation 314, Bergen, Norway

Paintings of Feng Zheng-Jie, M K Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

Packaging, Xin-Dong Cheng's Space for International Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2001

Coolness, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada

1996

Recounting of Skin, Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

10 Years Awake, Hojinyuan Gallery, Songzhuang, Beijing, China

2006

A Beautiful Deception, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China

Very Red and Very Green, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The Art Museum of China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China

2005

Challenging the Traditional Visual Limits, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China

Beauty, Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

Chinese Contemporary Painting, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy

Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech

Good Girls - Bad Girls, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK

Grounding Reality - Chinese Contemporary art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Made In China, Willem Kerseboom Fine Art, Bergen, The Netherlands

ARCO' 05, Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre, Madid, Spain

China,Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna, Italy

2004

Chinart, Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland

New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Art Contemporary, Milan, Italy

China Avantgarde, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta

Chinart, Sa Llonja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

The First Nominative Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan, China

Hua Jia Di, China Art Seasons, Beijing, China

Chinese Contemporary Art, Marseille Contemporary Art Museum, Marseille, France

KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Forbidden Senses, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux, France

Young Artists from Korea,China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

The First Salon of Art in Autumn, National Museum of China, Beijing, China

2003

Image from Image, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Femmes de Chine, Galerie Albert Benamou

Chinese Avant-garde, Foundation Culturegest, Lisbon, Portugal

Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China

2002

International Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia

Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China

Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France

The 1st Chengdu Biennial - Beijing Invitation Exhibition, Art Museum of China Century Monument, Beijing

Korea Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, Korea

Dialogue with Asia, Vika Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Chinese Modernity, Fondacion Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), Sao Paolo, Brazil

International Contemporary Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2001

Dialogue with Dali, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China

Next Generation - East Asia Contemporary Art, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

A myth of China - Portraits of a Consumer Culture, Yi Dian Gallery, Shanghai, China

Portrait of China, Loft Gallery, Paris, France

Rouges, Loft Gallery Paris

New State, Florence Gallery, Beijing, China

The 1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Art 2001, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore

Who am I?, Kempinsky, Beijing, China

Contemporary Chinese Art, Valle Quintana Gallery, Spain

On boys and girls, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China & Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore

2000

Plane, China Women Center, Beijing, China

The Academic Exhibition of Beijing Oil Painting, Huanyu Sutra Gallery, Beijing, China

1999

The Academic Invitation Exhibition of 46 Chinese Contemporary Artists, Shanghai, China & Hoke Art Gallery, Taipei & Arts Sans Frontiers International Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia

Food for thought - Hedenhaage multimediale Chinese Kunst, Mu Art Foundation & ARCTIC Contemporary Chinese Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Foundation, De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Open channels, Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

Ouh la la Kitsch!, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China

1998

Personal Touch, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China

The Invitation Exhibition of Beijing Youth Oil Paintings, Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, Beijing, China

1995

The 3rd Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing

1994

The 2rd Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing

Works by Fine Arts Students in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1992

Present State, 1992 Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Sichuan-jie Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China

Modern Chinese Art Research Documents Exhibition, Library of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China