Exhibition
Fang Kai Firefly
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2023.10.28-12.16
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
2023
Firefly, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2018
Absurdity of Figure – Fang Kai’s Painting, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai
2015
Fang Kai, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing
Group Exhibitions
2023
Artist·Curator·Gallery, Atmosphere Space, Nanjing
2022
Floating Across the Shallow Clouds: About the seven states of painting, Jinchen YFM Art Gallery, Shanghai
2021
Exiting 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
2020
Intervention and Redevelopment: The Imagery Means of Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2019
The 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
2018
Crossover: 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
2017
A Farewell to the River: Art Ecology of An Island, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
2013
Becoming: Mao Yan & FangKai, Atkins & Ai Gallery, Beijing
Polyphony – 21 kinds of state, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
2012
Dignity: The Opening Exhibition of Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Golden Eagle Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing
Mao Yan and His Students, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
2011
Shanghai Now, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Wall: Contemporary Art Exhibition of Nanjing Youth Artist, Jinling Library, Nanjing
2007
Spring Silkworm, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
Exhibitions