Artist CV

Selected studies- Academic:

 

1999                 Master of Fine Arts. China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

1991                 Bachelor of Fine Arts. China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

 

Selected Prizes/Awards:

 

2006              Merit Award "2006 ArtKudos International Juried Art Competition & Exhibition"

1995              Merit Award "1995 All China Contemporary Juried Fine Arts Exhibition"

 

Membership:

 

Member, Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (UNESCO)

Member, College Art Association, USA

 

Collections represented in: 

Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

General Consulate of Switzerland in Shanghai, China

Museum of Chinese Painting Institute, Shanghai, China

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

China National Gallery, Beijing, China

Gallery of China National Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China

Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Solo exhibitions:

 

"Dai-Yu's Paintings & Drawings"

Art Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA

2002

"Dai-Yu's Art Works"

Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2002

"Travel Plan"

Shanghai, China

2000

"Dai-Yu's Art Works"

Gallery of China National Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China

1999

"Dai-Yu's Painting Exhibition"

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

1993

 

Collaborative Exhibitions:

"Poem of the Natural World - Dai-Yu and Da Vaz"

Xintiandi Gallery, Shanghai, China

2001

(Sponsored by General Consulate of Switzerland in Shanghai)

"Space in Time - Dai-Yu and Da Vaz"

Museum of Chinese Painting Institute, Shanghai, China

2000

(Sponsored by General Consulate of Switzerland in Shanghai)

Invitational Exhibitions

"2006 ArtKudos International Juried Art Competition & Exhibition", Merit Award, USA, 2006

"2005 Faculty Exhibition", Art Department of the Cornish College of the Arts - Main Campus Center Gallery, Seattle, USA, 2005

"La Chine, sur place", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2003

"Comprehensive Painting Exhibition", Shanghai, China, 2001

"Comprehensive Painting Exhibition", Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 1999

"Postgraduate Student Art Exhibition", Gallery of China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 1998

"All China Nude Drawing Exhibition", China National Gallery, Beijing, China, 1998

"Postgraduate Student Art Exhibition", Gallery of China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 1997

"All China Etching Art Exhibition", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 1994

"All China Printmaking Exhibition", Shanxi Art Museum, X'an, China,1993

"All China Printmaking Exhibition", Jiangshu Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 1991

 

 

Books Published:

 

Drawing Technique

(ISBN 7-80536-667-5/J.375) 1999

Zhejiang Publishing House of Photography

Dai-Yu's Paintings

(ISBN 7-81019-796-7/J.736) 1999

China National Academy of Art Press

Drawings of Virtuosos

(ISBN 7-81019-641-3/J.585) 1998

China National Academy of Art Press

Dai-Yu's Painting Technique

(ISBN 957-8996-16-0) 1992 Taiwan

Dai-Yu's Drawing Technique

(ISBN 957-9058-34-2) 1991 Taiwan

 

Reviews:

Nouvelles D'Europe, October 22, 2003, 'Scenes from China'

Pariscope,  Paris-lle-de-France, Janvier, 2002 expositions nouvelles

Narada Lifestyle, October 2001, p5-9, 'Dai-Yu's Art and Life', 'My Love, My Family'

That's Shanghai, September, 2001, ArtyFacts, 'Obvious Orientalism'

Shanghai Weekly, December 9, 2000, cover picture; Yinyin, ' Interview with Artist Dai-Yu'

That's Shanghai, November, 2000, Art Movement, Review: 'Space in Time by Dai-Yu and Juerg Da Vaz'

Artscircle, November-December, 2000, p104-105, Liu Gang, 'To Control by Spirit and Soul - On Dai-Yu and His Works'

Wenzhou Times, November 27, 2000, 'Dai-Yu and His Art', 'Reviews on Dai-Yu's Art'

China Art Weekly, October 12, 1993, Gao Tianmin, 'True is the Plainness-on Dai-Yu's Oil-Paintings'

 

Select employment:

 

2006-Current  Painting and Drawing Professor, Art and Art History Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2003- 2006    Adjunct Professor, Art Department / Design Department, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, USA

2002- 2003    Adjunct Professor, Art Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

2001-2002   Artist in Residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 2001-2002

Pre-2002     Painting and Drawing Professor, Shanghai Institute of Design & China National Academy of Art, China  

Throughout my many years of practicing art, I have come to think of art as a type of language—as a type of exercise—a kind of practice and balance, like Chinese Zen.

 

I do not believe the main purpose of creating art is to sell it or to gain celebrity in society; rather it is to develop a healthy and self-improving system.

 

The work of art is to research, study, and create. Maybe that's why arts institutions exist today—before we throw something away, we need to take a closer look to see if there is a treasure there. In my home country of China, for example, an uneducated population once burned and destroyed all traditional art with revolutionary passion. This happened because people had no knowledge, respect, or appreciation for traditional culture or art.

 

My working process is a modest, courteous, natural learning process; in its ideal form it allows me to grow organically like a tree:

To be a root to respect the art traditions and diverse art forms and techniques;

To be a trunk to grow different branches and explore artistic styles in an adventurous journey;

To be a leaf to absorb sunlight as well as influences from the contemporary art world and its critical and theoretical issues.

 

Overall, only my artwork can be my exact statement.