Fang Kai

Biography

Fang Kai, born in 1983 in Lu’an, Anhui Province, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Nanjing University of the Arts. He now lives and works in Nanjing.

Fang Kai draws nourishment from traditional Western paintings and exploits the interaction between different media to continuously push the boundaries of the language of painting. Through his portraits and landscapes, Fang Kai captures life in its dark and deep surroundings. The personal narratives shimmering in his images are intensely atmospheric and contagious. His works have been exhibited at institutions including Guangdong Museum of Art, Wuhan Art Museum, and Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, and he has held solo exhibitions in Lin & Lin Gallery, Yibo Gallery and MANGROVEGALLERY. Fang Kai’s works have been collected by private collections in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Solo Exhibitions

2023Firefly, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen

2018Absurdity of Figure – Fang Kai’s Painting, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai

2015Fang Kai, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing

Group Exhibitions

2023Artist·Curator·Gallery, Atmosphere Space, Nanjing

2022Floating Across the Shallow Clouds: About the seven states of painting, Jinchen YFM Art Gallery, Shanghai

2021Exiting the Country – The Fork in the Road of Painting, Guangxi Normal University Press Art Museum, Guilin

Hello Jingdezhen, Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum, Jingdezhen

On Painting, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing

Liquid – Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Lingang Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

The Garden of Apollo, ART404 GALLERY, Nanjing

Landscape of the Times, Dong Zuo Hui Art Museum, Nantong

Metamorphosis: A Charpter of Figurative Painting Since 2010, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing

2020Intervention and Redevelopment: The Imagery Means of Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

2019The Logos of Sense, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing

Method, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai

Virtual Image or Reality, Nanjing Amazing Beauty Art Space, Nanjing

2018Crossover: The Experience of Intersection, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan

Framework: Contemporary Painting Invitation Exhibition, Art Museum of SCAU, Guangzhou

Minjiang: Imagination about Water, SEEWELL International Art Center, Fuzhou

2017A Farewell to the River: Art Ecology of An Island, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing

2013Becoming: Mao Yan & FangKai, Atkins & Ai Gallery, Beijing

Polyphony – 21 kinds of state, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing

2012Dignity: The Opening Exhibition of Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing

Mao Yan and His Students, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei

2011Shanghai Now, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Wall: Contemporary Art Exhibition of Nanjing Youth Artist, Jinling Library, Nanjing

2007Spring Silkworm, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing

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Selected works

Exhibitions