Chen Dongfan
Works
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Sailing at Night / 夜间航行, 2024 -
Travel on Foot/徒步旅行, 2023
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Untitled Landscape 06/无题⻛景 06, 2023
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You made me forget about past and pain/你让我忘记了过去和痛苦, 2023
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Avocado Man/牛油果人, 2020
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Sailing at Night / 夜间航行, 2024
Chen Dongfan (b. 1982 Zibo, Shandong, China), graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2008. The artist presently works and resides between New York and Hangzhou. Chen’s painting practice entails a multitude of experimentation, encompassing various forms and
themes, incorporating concept, action and site, among various other elements, taking these as means to substantiate a both complex and robust system of practice. The artist’s easel-based painting manifests two clear practical trajectories. In the first, narrative themes and a naiveté of form are deployed to express insights into a lived reality; in the second, both expressive and abstract forms serve to uncover potentialities within painterly discourse. His practice also encompasses works produced for public space, along with
collaborative happenings incorporating live painting, music and performance.
themes, incorporating concept, action and site, among various other elements, taking these as means to substantiate a both complex and robust system of practice. The artist’s easel-based painting manifests two clear practical trajectories. In the first, narrative themes and a naiveté of form are deployed to express insights into a lived reality; in the second, both expressive and abstract forms serve to uncover potentialities within painterly discourse. His practice also encompasses works produced for public space, along with
collaborative happenings incorporating live painting, music and performance.