Yue Minjun

Art Types involved-in: Oil Painting

Yue Minjun Biography:

Yue Minjun (1962- ; Chinese name 岳敏君), a famous contemporary Chinese painter who was born in the city of Daqing, has held many solo exhibitions at home and abroad. 

His works are collected by many museums at home and abroad, for example, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Francois Mitterrand Cultural Center. His typical male images that close their eyes and smile exaggeratively with their mouth wide open are regarded as a kind of nationalization and marketization. They are often connected with the political amplification of “Self Image” that causes the reflection of the audiences. 

In 2007, Yue Minjun’s oil painting “Execution” was sold for 2.93 million Euro (44 million RMB) at the Sotheby’s Auction in London, which created the highest record of the contemporary Chinese artworks at auctions at that time. This piece was regarded as something connecting to the “Tiananmen Square protests” in June 4th, 1989. After finishing the work in 1995, the artist sold it to a Hong Kong painting-seller for only about 5000 RMB.

Yue Minjun's Representative Works Exhibitions:
In 2011, “Yue Minjun: Road” was held at the Pace Beijing Gallery.
In 2009, “Archaeological discoveries of the year 3009—Yue Minjun’s solo exhibition” was held at the Daily Museum in Beijing.
In 2007, “Yue Minjun: Iconic Smile” was held at the Queens Museum of Art in New York.
 “Yue Minjun: I Love Laughing” was held at the Asia Society in New York. 
In 2006, “Yue Minjun: Rework Series” was held at the Enrico Navarra gallery in Paris.
In 2005, “Yue Minjun: Post Auratic Self-Portrait” was held at CP Foundation in Djakarta, Indonesia.
In 2004, “Yue Minjun: Sculpture and Oil Painting Exhibition” was held at Schoeni Art Gallery in Hong Kong.
In 2003, “Yue Minjun” was held at the Meile Gallery, Switzerland. “Irony in Beijing” was held at the Prüss & Ochs Gallery in Berlin.
In 2002, “Bath in The Giggle” was held at Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore. “Rework” was held at the Shi Fang Art Center, China.
In 2000, “The Red Sea—Exhibition of Yue Minjun’s Paintings” was held by the Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery in London, UK

Graduation School: Hebei Normal University

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