My Generation: Young Chinese Artists

Traveling Exhibition thru Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art.

2014- 2015

Installation view at Tampa Museum of Art

To Be Young, Gifted and Chinese

by Barbara Pollack

Stepping off the plane at Beijing’s new Norman Foster–designed All have studied at major art schools, both in China and abroad. All are Terminal 3 for the first time can be a shock. Beneath a roof designed to mimic a dragon’s tail, your first encounter is with a bank of luxury boutiques—Chanel, Ferragamo, and Lacoste—surprisingly commercial venues in a Communist country. There are no red flags, and the only scrap left of the Cultural Revolution is the Shanghai Tang outlet hawking silk versions of Mao jackets. The taxi line awaits you, obviously free of rickshaws, and a brand-new VW sedan speeds you to the city on an eight-lane superhighway. It is all unabashedly modern, even futuristic, especially when compared with the decades-old infrastructure of most American cities. 

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Sun Xun Installation at St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida


Participating Artists

Birdhead, Chen Wei, Chi Peng, Cui Jie, Double Fly Art Center, Fang Lu, Guo Hongwei, Hu Xiangqian, Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Ran, Irrelevant Commission, Jin Shan, Liang Yuanwei, Liu Chuang, Liu Di, Lu Fang, Ma Qiusha, Qiu Xiaofei, Shi Zhiying, Song Kun, Sun Xun, Wang Yuyang, Xu Zhen (MadeIn), Yan Xing, Zhang Ding, Zhao Zhao, and Zhou Yilun

View of installing monumental tapesstry by Xu Znen at St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts


Reviews

Exhibit Showcases 27 Young Artists, China Daily, 2013

Talking About “My Generation”, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, November 2014

REVIEW: "My Generation: Young Chinese Artists" @ Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Arts Asia Pacific on Artsy, September 2014

My Generation, Radian, September 2014

Young Chinese Artists Make U.S. Debut At 2 Tampa Bay Area Art Museums, 83 Degrees, June 2014

A New Generation of Chinese Artists, Art in America, July 2014

My Generation: Young Chinese Artists On Display In St. Petersburg/Tampa, WUSF NPR, June 2014

This art critic just can't wait to gush about young Chinese art exhibit, Tampa Bay Times, June 2014

Review: Fantastic works of young Chinese artists bridge the bay, Tampa Bay Times June, 2014

My Generation, Arts Districts, 2014

Groundbreaking Exhibition Features 27 Emerging Artists from China, Art Fix, Daily 2014

Young Chinese Artists, Huff Post, 2014

The Ends of the Earth, Art Forum China, 2014

A New Generation of Chinese Art Visits Tampa and St. Petersburg, Buddhist Art News, 2014

The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Co-Hosts "My Generation: Young Chinese Artists", WTSP Tampa, 2014

Artscapes: Chinese Art Gets West Coast Debut at OCMA, Newport Beach Indy, September, 2015

China's Millennial Women Artists: A New Generation, Artist Talk at Asia Society, 2015

My Generation: Young Chinese Artists at OKCMOA, Kolaj Magazine, January 2015

The Young Generation of Chinese Artists and Their Ambitions, California State University, Fullerton, August 2016