About | Chen Fankuan

Artist, writer and researcher Chen Fankuan was born in Hangzhou, currently resides and works in London. Mr. Chen is the founder of the investment firm Taifi Capital and the artistic director of the Wulin Academy of Arts.

‘Diving in the billows of history, I am always immersed in the elapse of past dynasties and the elegy of constant political movements that shaped contemporary China. Haunted by the phantoms of impermanence and drenched in the tides of time, a hazy shade of somniloquy flows between myself and my homeland. Shapes of the landscape become integrated as the unspoken sounds of my familial encounters lost in the vicissitudes of inextricably entwined, overlapping histories.’

EDUCATION

MA with Distinction, Major in Fine Art
Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
BFA, Major in Oriental Mural Studies
China Academy of Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 Tribute to Moon Spring, Yuequan Academy, Pujiang
2019 New Camberwell Art, Camberwell Space, London
2019 Outstanding Works of CAA Graduates, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou
2019 Veni Vidi We Young, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2018 The Exhibition of Teaching Works 2018, Institute of Rock Art, Hangzhou
2017 From Tibet to Burma, Swart Gallery, Hangzhou
2017 Dust on the Lily of the Moon, Zhejiang World Trade International Exhibition Center, Hangzhou
2016 Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

2019 Six Ruins of Mount Wu; Series. CAA Art Museum
2019 Cosmic Landscape; Series 2. New Century Hotel Group
2018 Cosmic Landscape; Series 1. Wulin Academy of Arts
2018 She·Phoenix·Mountains. Art Institute of Jingning She Autonomous County
2017 Lakshanas of Sentient Beings; Series. Department of Mural Painting, China Academy of Art
2017 Somniloquence Between Illusion and Reality; Series. Centre of Psychology, China Academy of Art
2016 The Anger of Dharmapalas; Series. School of Foundation Studies, China Academy of Art

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2019 Chongli Art Prize, The Council of Chongli Foundation
2019 New Century Scholarship, New Century Foundation