Chunming Yu Selected Paintings of Chinese Traditional Folk Houses
June 22, 2009 to November 5, 2009Beautiful Home, Wonderful Life: Oil Painting Exhibition of Chunming Yu
June 22, 2009 at 11am to June 28, 2009 at 6pm
Chinese Culture Foundation Artist Network
San Francisco, CA, USA 中華文化基金会艺术家联盟
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- Where are you located? 你的居住地區？
- San Jose, CA
- Art medium or relation 藝術體裁或联系：
- Painting/繪畫
- About Me (bio) 個人簡曆:
- Chunming Yu Resume
- Member:
Chinese Fine Artists' Association
Chinese Lacquer Arts Association
Chinese Watercolor Association
Chinese National Cultural and Arts Association
Chinese National Association for Painters & Calligraphers
National Watercolor Society
1955 Born in Jiangxi province, China
1982 Graduated from China Academy of Art
- Personal Exhibition:
1990 • HK International Exhibition Center
1992 • Beijing Tianqiao Hotel and Rongbaozai
1993 • Art gallery in Tokyo, Japan
1995 • Jiangxi BaDaShanRen Museum
• Washington D.C. Fishscale Ousetooth Art Gallery
1996 • Los Angeles East Art Gallery
1999 • Los Angeles East Art Gallery, "100 Religious and Spiritual Leaders of the 20th Century Exhibition"
2002 • Palo Alto Dragon Seed Art Gallery
2004 • Parliament of the World's Religions 2004 in Barcelona, Spain
2006 • North California World Journal Art Gallery
• Stanford East Asia Library
• North California Silicon Valley Art Center
- Group Exhibition:
1984 • 6-Day Arts Exhibition of Nanchang
1985 • China Lacquer Arts Exhibition in Beijing
1986 • China Youth Architectural Painting Exhibition in Beijing & Xi'an
1989 • China Youth Oil Painting Exhibition in Beijing
1992 • China Arts Exhibition in Beijing
1994 • China Arts Festival Exhibition in Hangzhou
2007 • Coastal Arts League Museum 23rd Annual Juried Show
- Awards:
1986 • Two First-place and three Excellence prize in the "China Youth Architectural Painting Exhibition"
1993 • National Outstanding Artist award of the 20th Century
1994 • "Chinese Artists" Outstanding Artist award
1995 • Outstanding Disquisition award by "China Folk-custom Proseminar"
- Activities:
1983-1996 • Visited Chinese folk villages across China and painted more than 3000 paintings and sketches
1995 • Invited to the "International Folk-culture Proseminar"
1996 CCTV 3 special topics program - "Yu Chunming and his folk house paintings"
1997 • Invited by UCLA to lecture on Chinese architectures and culture
• Interview by the International TV channel 26
1997-2001 • Painting series "the 100 Religious and Spiritual Leaders of the 20th Century" consisting more than 160 oil and watercolor paintings
2000 • Finishes oil painting "Election Oath" for presidential election first-day issue and is collected by American National Postal Museum
2002 • Begins the watercolor painting series "Best American Universities"
• Art History lecture series in Stanford University
2003 • Guest of the KTSF 26 TV Channel "China Crosstalk" Program
2004 • Exhibition of the "100 Religious and Spiritual Leaders of the 20th Century" in the Parliament of the World's Religions, Barcelona
2006 • Guest of the KTSF 26 TV Channel "Talk Tonight" Program
- Occupation History:
Professor of Nanchang University in China
UCLA visiting scholar
Artist
- Art Collection by:
China Art Museum
Sapporo Beer Co.
Taipei Baptist Theological College
Research Center of Arts in Jiangxi Province, China
Art Association of Jiangxi Province, China
Former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher
Stanford University East Asia Library
Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
City of Cupertino
Collected by individual collectors around the world
- Publications:
1991-1992 Columnist for "People's Daily - Overseas edition" folk houses section
"Yu Chunming's Chinese Folk House Paintings" -- Jiangxi Kexue Publish
"Zhouzhuang" -- Taiwan Jinxiu Publish
"Front Doors of Folk Houses in Southern China" -- China Architecture & Building Press
"From Children's Drawing to Painting" -- China Architecture & Building Press
"American Universities Watercolor Painting" -- China Architecture & Building Press
"Live in America Series" -- China Nanfang Daily Press
"American Modern Design Series" -- China Architecture & Building Press
"Chinese Folk Houses" postcards -- China Architecture & Building Press
"Stanford Library Watercolor Painting" postcards -- Stanford University Libraries
- Website 網站:
- http://chunmingarts.org
- What language do you speak? 你通曉哪些語言？
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Are you a member of Chinese Culture Center? 你是中華文化中心的會員嗎？
- NO
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The Art of Chunming Yu: An Omniscient View - Preston Metcalf
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Chunming Yu is an artist of two worlds. Trained in the traditional art forms of his native China, Yu has also been greatly influenced by traditions of the West, particularly those of European artists of the Baroque era. His paintings are a stylistic fusion of Eastern iconography, vantage points, and perspective coupled with a devotion to the subtleties and emotional power of light… Continue
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Thanks,
Wendy
My name is Wendy Norwood and I'm the Marketing Manager for the Hilton San Francisco Financial District hotel, where the Chinese Culture Center is located. We are putting together an exhibition and we'd like to potentially hang some of your work, specifically the pieces titled "Home of the Poems" and "Reminisce". Please let me know if you are interested in participating.
Best regards,
Wendy Norwood
(415) 765-7833
wnorwood@sanfranciscohiltonhotel.com