Artist Profile - 高小雲 GAO Xiaoyun
Gao Xiaoyun (Gao Jing, b.1977) was born in Shaan Xi province, China and graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, the China Academy of Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. Heparticipated in the development of the Shanghai Pudong Artist Village and Puxi Art District, and foundedthe “Cloud Gallery”, “3A Gallery” and “Xiaoyun Culture”. He successively created the "Landscape of Northern Shaanxi" series, the semi-abstract "Lady" series, the “Jiangnan Water Village" series, the "Question" series, the "Time" series, the "Chaos" series, and the "Scar" series. His works used to be selected into Venice Biennale 2015 and displayed in many international art shows. His works have been collected extensively in the UK, Holland, the USA, Germany, France, Australia, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan,Singapore, and China.
Artistic Concepts
For many years, I have been consistently searching for an ideal visual language and created the"Shaanbei Landscape" series, “Question” series whose subjects are mainly heads and hands. I am pursuing a sense of stillness and motion, objectivity and subjectivity and I never stopped.
Spontaneous, simple, clean, sophisticated, and touching are the first impressions that most people haveon my works. I am trying to create the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. With the highpressure of modern society, we are gradually losing touch with many instincts and becoming lesscompatible with nature. Hence I aim at emancipating man from such demise to re-embrace with every other natural beings.
In term of techniques, it is crucial to paint spontaneously and flexibly to achieve an effect that appears at once “dense and light, quick and slow, hard and soft, cold and warm”.
When I look at an empty canvas, I begin to feel excited and return to peace again. To me, learning to copewith the rise and fall in life is the highest form of existence. Every painting is a part of my life andachievements……I hope others can find their natural essence via my works as well. It is in itself a way of cultivation.
高小云（高靜），1977年生於中國陝西，畢業於中國美術學院油畫專業。生活工作於上海，曾參與發起上海浦東畫家村，浦西藝術家園等多個藝術家聚集地，先後創辦《雲海畫廊》，《3A畫廊》，《小雲文化》。是一名職業藝術工作者。多年來，我一直堅持並樂此不疲的在創作中尋找我要的語言，先後創作了《陝北風景》系列，半抽像《仕女》系列，《江南水鄉》系列，頭和手為載體的《問題》系列，《時光》系列，《亂》系列，《一塊傷疤》系列……
作品中我追求靜與動，主動性與被動性的介入作品語言，十幾年來從不停歇……
作品被英國、荷蘭、美國、德國、法國、澳大利亞、瑞士、以色列、台灣、新加坡，中國等收藏家收藏。
Exhibition History
2021 ART TAIPEI
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
Shenzhen International Art Fair
2020 “One Belt One Road” Shanghai International Art Fair
Art Revolution Taipei • Another Chapter
Gao Jianfu Memorial Hall Group Exhibition, Guangzhou
Essence Exhibition of Master Oil Paintings, Taipei, Harvest Art Gallery
2019 Ink Now, Taipei
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
Art Revolution, Taipei
Shanghai Art Fair
2018 ART TAIPEI
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
Art Revolution, Taipei
“Drunken Maple Dyed by Ink”, solo exhibition, Taipei, Harvest Art Gallery
Art Busan, Seoul
Shanghai Art Fair
2017 Art Expo Malaysia
Singapore Contemporary
Art Revolution, Taipei
Asia Contemporary Show, Hong Kong
“Quiet Good Days”, solo exhibition, Taipei
2016 Art Revolution, Taipei
Singapore Contemporary, Singapore
Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair, London
2015 Venice Biennale, Venice
2014 “Time is old”, solo exhibition, Tianzifang, Shanghai
“Civilian and Obscurity”, solo exhibition, M50, Shanghai
2012 “A Scar”, solo exhibition,London, Shanghai
2010 “Start over again”, solo exhibition, M50, Shanghai
2009 Cross-strait cultural exchange exhibition, Shanghai, Taiwan
2008 Spring Art Salon, Shanghai
2007 “Ingenuity”, solo exhibition, 3A Gallery, Shanghai
2006 “Unexpected Inspiration” solo exhibition, Cloud Gallery, Shanghai
2000 The Capital Art Fair, Beijing