Chen Yujun ( B. 1976, Putian, Fujian Province), graduated from Department of mixed media of China Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, taught mixed media and oil painting in Chinese Academy of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2004, and now lives and works in Shanghai.

In the past decade, Chen Yujun’s work focuses on the conflicts between the inner-self and the external influences. He attempts to examine how the individuals from contemporary Asian countries face their own fragmented and shifting identities under the influence of globalization and its evolving cultural position. Among his works, the most well-known series is Temporary Family in creation since 2010.

Brought up in Putian, Fujian Province, Chen Yujun is very interested in the identity shifting experience of his grandfather’s and his father’s generation. In fact, this experience is more common to Chen Yujun and his contemporaries since the “Reform and Opening up” Policy in 1978 made diverse cultures and new concepts accessible. He believes that the reconciliation between the pre-existing internal systems and the ever-changing realities has become a challenge as well as a daily routine for today’s individuals in asian countries. He tries to understand and examine the struggling generated therein, and establishes internal order in the creation of each new work.

With the academic background from Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Chen Yujun manages to use the tecniques of oil painting, collage, installation and other media with ease. He believes that all materials from life can become a medium of painting or art, and these materials from everyday life will not create a sense of strangeness or distance. Chen Yujun embeds his paintings and collages within the installation that invites the viewers into the work and its logic behind. The concept of space is often emphasized in his work; as the audience can not enter the interior space of the paintings to get a sense of scale, they are forced to experience the transformation between the exterior and interior space.


陈彧君，1976年出生于福建莆田，1999年毕业于中国美术学院综合艺术系并留校任教。1999年至2014年先后在中国美术学院综合艺术系及油画系任教，现生活工作于上海。
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在过去的十几年中，陈彧君的创作致力于展现内在自我与外部影响之间的冲突。他试图检视当代亚洲国家中的个体在全球化和其日益形成的文化立场的影响下所面对的支离破碎并且一直变化的身份问题，其最为广为人知的作品是始于2010年的《临时家庭》系列。

成长于福建莆田的陈彧君对他的祖父辈所经历的身份转换的问题很感兴趣。这种体验对于陈彧君的同代人来说更为熟悉，由于1978年开始的“改革开放”令他们更早的接触到了多种文化和新的概念。他认为对于当代亚洲的个体、地区以及国家来说，内在或者原先存在的系统和日益变化的现实之间的相互协商已经成为一种挑战和常态。他试图理解和审视其中所产生的挣扎，并在创作每件新作品的过程中建立内部秩序。

出自中国美术学院的综合艺术系的陈彧君对油画、拼贴以及装置等各种形式的媒介运用自如。他认为生活里边所有的材料都有可能变成绘画或者是艺术创作的一种媒介，而这些来源于日常生活的材料不会产生陌生和距离感。陈彧君将他的绘画和拼贴作品嵌入装置作品之内，邀请观者亲身进入作品及其思维模式。他的作品中常常会强调“空间”这一概念，因为观众的视觉无法进入画作空间内部去获得尺度感，这就迫使他们去体验外部和内部空间的转化。
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