Born in Chengdu of Sichuan, Xiong Yu graduated from the attached middle school of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1995, and rose up into the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In 1999, he graduated from the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts to admit as the plastic arts of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts to be professional graduate student of oil painting in the same year. In 2002, he captured the Sichuan Art Academy oil painting fastens Master’s academic degree and began to teach to the artistic academy of Sichuan University. Xiong is a new talent of Chinese oil painting from “Sichuan School of Painting”, who is after Luo Zhongli, He Duo-Ling and Zhang Xiaogang. His work participated and awarded in “Youth Art Exhibition of Sichuan Province” in Chengdu. In 2004, his works got Bronze Prize in “Mood of the Youth-Exhibition of Reworded Paintings of Chinese Newly Emerging Artists” in Shenzhen.
1975 Born in Chengdu, Sichuan
1995 Graduated from the attached middle school of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and entered the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
1999 Bachelor’s Degree from the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
2002 Master’s degree in oil painting from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and began to teach in the Arts Academy of Sichuan University
2002 Excellent Works Prize in the “Young Artists Exhibition of Sichuan Province,” Chengdu, China
2004 Bronze medal at the “Ideal of New Generation: Chinese New Generation Artists Award Exhibition,“ Shenzhen, China
Currently lives and works in Chengdu
Selected Exhibitions
2011
Mirror of the Heart, VA Galley, Hong Kong(solo)
Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, Ravenel, Taipei, China
2010
Horizons, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009( China National Covention Center) , (Today Art Museum), (Araio Gallery)
The Official Opening of Minsheng Art Museum- Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Big World: Recent Art from China，Chicago Cultural Center，U.S.A.
The 10th Havana Biennial，Havana Cuba
2008
Tarot, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China(solo)
MAPPING ASIA: 33 YOUNG ASIAN ARTISTS’ SOLO SHOWS,
CIGE, China World Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China(solo)
China: Construction/Deconstruction–Chinese Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo Museum of Art,Sao Paulo, Brazil
Asian Contemporary Art Fair (ACAF), New York, USA
MAPPING ASIA: 33 YOUNG ASIAN ARTISTS’ SOLO SHOWS,CIGE, China World
Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
The Disappearance Of Nature, J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Beyond Cartoon, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China
2007
Human Ability, Hakgojae Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Chinablue In Berlin, Berlin Art Centre, Berlin, Germany
NEW YOUTH OIL PAINTING, Jianghan University Art Museum, Wuhan, China
A+A 2007-THE 2ND TRAVELLING EXHIBITION, Chongqing
Art Museum / Sichuan University Art Museum / Chinese Central Academy Art Exhibition Hall / 798 Art Lab, Beijing, China
A Retrospective of The Sichuan School From 1976-2006: RURAL MODERNITY TO URBAN UTOPIA, Sino
Foreign Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2006
The Self-made Generation: a Retrospective of New Chinese Painting 2005, Shanghai
The Picture of Variation, Shanghai Art Museum
Running on Tranquilly, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)2005 Next stop: cartoon, Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen/Chongqing
2005
The Game of Being Low and Shallow: The Rise of the Cartoon Generation, 3818 Cool Gallery, Beijing, China
Collection records
Art Museums
National Art Museum of China
Sichuan Art Museum
Today Art Museum
Mingsheng Art Museum
National Museum of Singapore
Grand Palais
Museu Paulista (Museu du lpivanga)
Collector
Wang Wei
He Ju Xing
Yu De Yao
