HU Jiayi

Hu Jiayi is a conceptual artist who mainly creates performance art, video, picture photography, installation, and painting. Her practice delves deeply into the intricaciesof personal experience and the environments she encounters. Utilising an array of mediums, including video, performance, painting, installation, and sculpture, she constructs narratives that intertwine metaphor, intimacy, and alienation through the lens of the physical body.

 

1993  Born in Xinjiang, China
2011-2015  BA in New Media Art, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China
2015-2018  MA in New Media Art, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China
Lives and works between Chongqing and Xinjiang, China

  • Selected Solo and Duo-Exhibitions

    2024
    Camera Obscura, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
    Her Mustache, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2023
    Caltrops, Ox Warehouse, Macao, China

    2017
    Who is Right, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024
    Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year Nominees Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
    Black Box, Yavu Gallery, Singapore
    Living in the New Century: Chinese Media Arts since 1989, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
    The Good Life, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Unnamed River, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

    2021
    Impersonating Myself/Becoming Myself, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
    Emering as Meterial, 501 Xu Art space, Chongqing, China
    Bodies of Water, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    15th Macau International Art Performance Festival, Ox Warehouse, Macau

    2020
    Witness/Evidence, He Duoling Art Museum, Chengdu, China
    Stylish, Staw Art Center, Beijing, China
    Obscurity, Here I Am Art Space, Dalian, China
    Innovation and Regeneration, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
    iStart Children’s Art Festival, A4 Art museum, Chengdu, China
    Walking with History, Exhibition for The 80th Anniversary of The Building of SCFAI, 1940-2020, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China
    Flow Boundary, Globally Localized Chinese Contemporary Art, Hunan Art Museum, Hunan, China
    Twelve Years: The archives of scene, UP-ON International Live Art Festival 2009-2020, Luxehills Art Museum, Chengdu, China
    Intimacy, Terra Nova bookstore in Toulouse, France
    Intimacy, Leofanti film festival in Venice, Italy

    2019
    Intimacy, Syndicat Potentiel, art center in Strasbourg, France
    From Streets to methodology, Performance Art in Southwest Area of China Since 2008, Luxelakes·A4 Art museum, Chengdu, China
    Becoming – Experimental Video Works, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, America
    180 Years of Photography in China, MOCA·Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
    Impersonating Myself/Becoming Myself, Photographs and Video by 20 Chinese and Israeli Women Artists, Shanghai Tech University Library Multifunction Area, Shanghai, China
    Becoming Myself, The Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, Michigan, America
    New Art History, MOCA·Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
    The Vanished Night, and the Returning of Square, 24Hours Art Museum, Nanjing, China

    2018
    Luo Zhongli Scholarship 2018, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Museum of Art, Chongqing, China
    Take it, Embrace it, Xu Space, Chongqing, China
    Post ‘she’, Van Art Space, Hangzhou, China
    Voyage china arts academies graduation works exhibition, Guangdong Calligraphy Garden, Guangzhou, China
    Yes or no, 2018 Art Nova 100 Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

    2017
    Young Artists promotion program, 2017 National Young Artist Annual Exhibition, Himalayas museum, Shanghai, China
    Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Mexico’s Narional Cultural Digital Center, Mexico City, Mexico
    British Film Screening Tour, Ten Places in the UK, UK
    Texture of Time, The artwork exhibition of Sichuan fine arts institute, National art museum of china, Beijing, China
    Trace in the Hidden Silence, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
    Wall Power: Wall Post Artist Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
    SAYA Embrace Project Art Annual Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China

    2016
    Thirty Years of Body Art Performance Happening Project: Art Documents, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
    Negotiating Space, I never thought you were like that, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    Fire Within, A New Generation of Chinese Women Artist, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, America
    Indeterminate Expression, Hong museum, Chengdu, China
    Parabiosis, International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016, Chongqing, Chang Jiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China
    Crossing Border, Border Crossing, International Festival of crossing Media, Hong Kong, China

    2015
    Silent Signal, QUAD’s Main Gallery Space, QUAD & FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
    TPA 4, video performance section, Torino Performance Art, Torino, Italy
    Inward Gazes, Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
    Cutting Edge: New Art From The Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, New Media Department Peikin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
    Power of education-11 cases of contemporary art education in China, Himalayas museum, Shanghai, China
    Asian new Media art Festival, Seoul, Korea
    The 3rd Up-On International Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China Shi Fei, Chang Jiang International Image Biennale, Chang Jiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
    10th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

    2014
    Meta 2014, 501 Xu Space, Chong Qing, China
    Double Vision, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shen Zhen, China
    Zi Guan Gu Yu Action, Xi’an, China
    Body Consciousness Bai Lu Xi Action, Chengdu, China
    Ice skate, New Media Art Center of Sichuan Fine art Institute, Chongqing, China
    Xin Huo, Live Art3, Chongqing, China (Curator)

    2013
    Xin Huo, Live Art2, Chongqing, China (Curator)
    Generating and Resonating perform dance section and action art section, Chongqing, China
    Generating and Resonating, perform dance section, Nanchong, China
    Mipaf 14, Macao, China
    Xin Huo, Live Art, Chongqing, China (Curator)

  • Awards

    2018
    Luozhongli Fellowship
    Voyage, China Arts Academies Graduation Works First Prize
    National Scholarship 2017–2018

    2017
    SAYA Embrace Project Annual Award
    Wall Power, The Second Wallpost Artist Award

    2016
    New Star Art Festival Award

    2015
    Luozhongli Fellowship