Feng Zhengjie (born 196) Sichuan Province, is one of China’s best-known painters because of his gaudy, futuristic portraits of fashionable women. Feng’s portraits are splashed with neon like colors, featuring women with red hair, luscious lips and zany, wild-eyed expressions. The images painted by Feng, a graduate of the distinguished Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, are believed to be portraits of rampant consumerism, the emergence of pop culture and the glamour of the new age. His paintings have sold at auction for as much as $3,000,000 HKD a piece.
His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made “more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China”.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Mourning in Gaudy Color – Feng Zhengjie Work Exhibition, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
Floating Floras – Feng Zhengjie Solo, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009
Feng Zhengjie Solo Exhibition, Yuz Museum, Indonesia
Feng Zhengjie, Floral Life, Die Galerie, Korea
2008
Every Color you are, Weathered Death and Birth- Feng Zhengjie’s Solo Exhibition, Tang Exhibition Art Beijing
Magic Women, Art & Public, Switzerland
Radiancy, Tang Contemporary Art Beijing
Primary Color
2007
The Alteration of vision, Tang Contemporary Art Beijing
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Tilton Gallery, New York
2006
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Very Red and Very Green, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
A Beautiful Deception, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
2005
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Goethe Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, Galerie De Bellecour, Lyon, France
2004
Kitsch As A Face of Chinese Society, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta, Indonesia; Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Kitsch As A Face Of Chinese Society, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
The Beautiful Poison, Suka Art Space, Korea
2003
Regards vers l’Est, Regards vers l”oust, Albert Benamou Gallery, Paris, France
2002
Paintings of Feng Zhengjie, M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania Packaging, Xin Dong CHENG’s Space for International Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2001
Coolness, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada
1996
Recounting of Skin, Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2012
Faces, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The New Classic – Feng Zhengjie Transnational Joint Exhibition
2011
Contemporary Art 2
Mourning in Gaudy Color, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
Fabricator, Soka Art Center, Beijing
Prints From Contemporary Masterpiece, K Gallery, Chengdu, China
2010
Recycling of the classic – limited edition art famous Carnival – Gallery Yang,
Beijing
Liebhaberstücke – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus fünf Mülheimer Privatsammlungen –
Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mühlheim/Ruhr
East meets West through Pop Art – Die Galerie – Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
Passion fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection – me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Chasing Flames – Chinese Group Show – Zadok Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Back to Beijing I – Willem Kerseboom Modern & Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
On Love? On War?: Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists – Stux Gallery, New York City, NY
Face à faces – Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris
‘How do I know about the world? By what is within me’ – Willem Kerseboom Modern & Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
In the Mood for Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing
China, A New Year, Robischon Gallery, Denver
2008
Chinese Contemporary Art Today – Gallery Road to the Museum, Seoul
China in Transition – Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte / Kestner Pro Arte, Hannove
The Revolution Continues: New Art from China – The Saatchi Gallery, London
Rendez-Vous- Primo Marella Gallery Beijing
Red, Smooth and Luminescent-Xin Dong Cheng- Beijing
Fluxion Stars – Triumph Art Space, Beijing
The Sichan Movement – Linda Gallery ,Singapore
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon, Works on paper F2 Gallery, Beijing
3.15 Let’s Consumel – Xin Dong Cheng – Beijing
Beijing New Convenant Exhibition of Early Works by Contemporary Chinese artsts, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Face East, Chinese Contemporary Art Robischon Gallery, Denver C
2007
Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
China Onward, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebak, Denmark
Starting from the Southwest-Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Chinese Contemporary SOCART, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006
Varied Images, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Node of Art, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha, China
Basel International Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery HYUNDAI, Basel, Switzerland
Jiang Hu: Part I, Tilton Gallery, Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York. Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles,
USA
Beyond the Canvas, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Four&Gate, Gallery Gate, Beijing, China
1st Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing,
China
Vanity Beauties, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China
2005
Good Girls – Bad Girls, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Grounding Reality — Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Made In China, Willem Kerseboom Fine Art, Bergen, Netherlands
Challenging the Traditional Visual Limits, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
Beauty, Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Chinese Contemporary Painting, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czechoslovakia
ARCO’05, Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre, Madrid, Spain
China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna, Italy
2004
Young Artists from Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
The First Salon of Art in Autumn, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Chinart, Sa Llonja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The First Nominative Exhibition of Fine Arts Literature, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan,
China
Chinart, Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland
New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Art Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Hua Jia Di, China Art Seasons, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art, Marseille Contemporary Art Museum, Marseille, France
Forbidden Senses, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux, France
2003
Image from Image, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong Province, China Chinart, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary Chinese Art Today, The Art Museum of China Millenium Monument, Beijing, China Femmes de Chine, Veronique Maxe Gallery, Paris, France
2002
Dialogue with Asia, Vika Gallery, Oslo, Norway The First Chengdu Biennial: Beijing Invitation Exhibition, Art Museum of China Century Monument, Beijing
Korea Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
2001
The First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Who am I? Kempinsky, Beijing, China Dialogue With Dali, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Next Generation: East Asia Contemporary Art, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2000
The Academic Exhibition of Beijing Oil Painting, Huanyu Sutra Gallery, Beijing China Plane, China Women Center, Beijing, China
Selected Collections
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Italy Busan Museum of Modern Art, Korea FC MOCA, Manchester, England Musee Royal des Beaux-Arts du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Musee d,Arts Contemporain d,Ivry-sur-Seine, France The Estella Collection, New York, USA Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China The Olenska Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
