Biography
Hou Yijie (b. 1996, Chengdu, China) graduated from the Department of Printmaking at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He currently lives and works in Chongqing.
Hou Yijie’s practice draws on the sensations and emotions of lived experience, dismantling and reassembling narratives from history, legend, and reality to create a field of tension between order and chaos. Through layering, fragmentation, and disruption, he destabilizes narratives, relationships between figures, and spatial structures. His paintings balance spontaneity with precision while retaining a sense of hesitation in the brushwork. Rawness, recklessness, and imbalance are integral to his visual language. Multiple temporalities, spaces, and identities intersect, opening up possibilities for interpretation.
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2026 Our Fervor and Solitude, MANGROVEGALLERY @ Art Collaboration Kyoto 2026,Kyoto, Japan
The Pulse and the Pause,He Art Museum, Foshan, China
Fumika Tsuchitori & Hou Yijie : I Recognized Myself Through You, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2025 Draw a Bow Slowly, TC101 SPACE, University Arts Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China
2024 Compass Pointing to the Secret Treasure, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2023 Journaling, MANGROVEGALLERY Artist-in-Residence Programme, Nantou City, Shenzhen, China
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2025 SPRING SHOW – Drawings -, WAITINGROOM (Tokyo), Tokyo, Japan
The Stranger, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2023 Tree of Fire, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
“Sprouting! The Future of Printmaking Art”; The 13 Years of Zhou Chunya Scholarship, Long Museum, Chongqing, China
I-Define II: 7 Questions,A Thousand Plateaus Art Space,Chengdu, China
The Nomatic Diamond Hearts,ArtDepot, Beijing, China
2022 Nap-of-the-Earth, The Young Artist Residency Program of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institude, Chongqing, China
2021 Spirit of Youth,2021 Triennial of Chinese Industrial Art Prints, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Annual Exhibition of Works 2021, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
The 6th China Youth Prints Exhibition, The China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China
“The Gifts”,The Awards Nomination of Students Works, The Schools of Fine Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2019 The Third International Print Biennial, The Xuyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Start of a Long Journey, Outanding Works by Graduates of 2018 from Key Art Academies in China, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Awards (Selected)
2021 Luo Zhongli Scholarship “The Gifts”,The Awards Nomination of Students Works, nomination award
The First Constellation Award
2020 The 8th Zhou Chunya Scholarship

