xiaowei chen

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• Field/Industry Drawing, Film and Video, Fine Arts, Painting, Sculpture
• Bio Xiaowei Chen (1978, Beijing, China) grew up in China, before moving to America to further her artistic explorations. She has created a fusion of Eastern and Western artistic outlooks that transcending the basic tools of her art making. After graduating from Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication in 2000, she worked in video and multimedia design. In 2006 Chen began to focus on expressing her inner thoughts through the tactile form of drawing. Using the most simple of tools - an ink pen, Chen has explored concepts of a future world and natural disasters through the use of botanical forms and bodily organs. Her most recent work is more overtly conceptual as well as it is visual. Through her vast knowledge of drawing and its infinite applications, Chen’s new work is interested in contrast and color reproduction. Her drawings have taken on an atmospheric quality as she explores transition through layering.
  
  Her commonly used media include live video interaction, short documentary, sculpture, ink on paper and ink and color painting on fabric.
  
  Chen is currently in the Artadia NY Artist Residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, NY. Selected exhibitions include Facets of Figuration, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2011); Group exhibition, Mallick Williams and Co,Chelsea,NY(2011); a solo show at TLGUTS Gallery, Lynn, MA (2010); Mother/mother-*, A.I.R gallery, Brooklyn, NY(2009); Tufts Sixth Annual Summer Juried Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (2009); Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (2009); Xiao Ye Bought a House, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (2008); Present Tense, artSPACE@16, Malden, MA (2006); Works of Song Zhuang Artists, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China (2005); Traditional Chinese Painting Show, Catsup Gallery, Beijing, China (2004).
  
  www.xiaowei-art.com
  xiaoweichen_jc@hotmail.com