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TuHongtao Art Studio

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Biography

Tu Hongtao CV

Tu Hongtao

Born 1976 in Chengdu, China
Lives and works in Chengdu and Hong Kong

Education

Education

  • 1999
    Oil Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024
    Beyond Babel, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York
  • 2022
    Dusk, LGDR, Paris
  • 2021
    Drunken Forest, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
  • 2020
    Twisting and Turning, Lévy Gorvy, London
  • 2019
    Tu Hongtao, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
  • 2018
    A Timely Journey, Long Museum, Shanghai (traveled to Long Museum, Chongqing) (exh. cat.)
  • 2017
    Melting Point of Desire, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
  • 2016
    The Landscape, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
  • 2014
    Asides, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
  • 2013
    The Road Not Taken, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
  • 2011
    The Desire of the Plants, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (exh. cat.)
  • 2008
    Phantasmic Paradise, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid (exh. cat.)
    Labyrinth, Chinese Contemporary, New York (exh. cat.)
  • 2007
    Exploration, Olyvia Oriental Gallery, London
    Interlace, Soka Art Center, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2022
    Polyphonic Writing: The Group Exhibition of Four Artists (Yang Shu, Qi Lan, Tu Hongtao, and Li Qing), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
  • 2021
    Eternal Seasons: Part II, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
    Nature Loves to Hide, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
    No Line on the Horizon, Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
  • 2019
    Return to Nature, Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
  • 2018
    The Clouded Peach Blossom Spring, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    Déjà vu: Painting as the Art of Signification, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
  • 2017
    Chinese Narrative: Special Exhibition of the 21th Anniversary of the HKSAR, HKCEC, Hong Kong
    Crisscrossing East and West, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum, Yinchuan
    Prague Biennale 4: China Box, Karlín Hall, Prague
  • 2016
    The Painting to Language, Today Art Museum, Beijing
    Unrealities in the Reality: The Intellectual Dimension of Daily Life, Boxes Art Space of OCT, Shenzhen
    A Ride to Combine, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    For an Image, Faster Than Light: Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan Modern Art Museum, Yinchuan
    Too Loud a Solitude, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
  • 2015
    Notes on Paintings, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
    Black Dimension: The Gaze of Orpheus, Ying Art Center, Shanghai
    Paintings, Poly Art Museum, Beijing
    Break Through, Vanvory Gallery, Shanghai
  • 2014
    Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
    Social Landscape: The "Landscape Narration" in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Chengdu International Communication Center, Chengdu
    Beautiful Summer, re-C Art Space, Chengdu
    Tunnel of Inspiration, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu
    The Immortal Scenery, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
  • 2013
    Scenery and Pure Views, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona
    Bloom, Pan-China, Shanghai
  • 2012
    Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
    Recoding: The Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narrative, World Art Gallery, Beijing
    Looking Away: The Unconscious in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    Cynical Resistance, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
    Lust and Love of the Young and Liberated, 798 Space, Beijing
    Weather Stains on the Wall: The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
  • 2011
    In the Heat of the Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
    Fly through the Troposphere: Memo of the New Generation Painting, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    Ephemeris vis-à-vis Stabilitas, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu
    Uninhibited Scenery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu
    Chinese Style Calligraphy, Today Art Museum, Beijing
    No Way to Be Absent, Century City Expo Center, Chengdu
    Scenery and Pure Views, Asia Art Museum, San Francisco
  • 2010
    Reshaping History, National Convention Center, Beijing
    Filter Window, Beyond Art Space, Beijing
    The Visible, re-C Art Space, Chengdu
  • 2009
    Prague Biennale 4: China Box, Karlín Hall, Prague
    Personality of Dialect, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
    Reflection: Further Development of New Art, West Lake Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou
    Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    Paradise Lost, Fun Art Space, Beijing
    Thought, Touch?, Today Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2008
    Time-Lag: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid
    The Disappearance of Nature, J & Z Gallery, Shenzhen
    Painting & Sculpture in Digital & Photographic Time, No. 10 Gallery, Chengdu
    The Shape of Life, Fenghuang Museum, Nanjing
    Images of Desire II, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
    Art in Two Cities, Tianyuan Museum of Art, Qingdao
    Corresponding: Nanjing – Chengdu, Qinghe Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing
    Landscape Topology, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing
  • 2007
    Three Years In Blue House, Blue Roof Art Museum, Chengdu
    Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
    Whither, The University of Hong Kong Museum, Hong Kong
    Guizhou Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum, Guiyang
    Images of Desire, Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing
    Animation Aesthetics Biennale, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
  • 2006
    Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
    My Days at Santai Mount, Line Gallery, Beijing
    Unclear and Clearness, HEYRI Art Foundation, Seoul
    Overstep of Degree: Contemporary Art, Nanjing Square Museum, Nanjing
    Varied Images: Exhibition of China's Contemporary Oil Painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
    Lian Cheng Jue: Visual Creativity in Urban City, Shanghai Zhengda Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
  • 2005
    Living in Chengdu, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
    18 Artists: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
    Under the Sky of Beijing, Yijingyuan Gallery, Beijing
    Two People's Painting: Tu Hongtao & Wu Jianjun, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
    Ten Eras Ten Colors, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
  • 2004
    Bin gui, cuo gui: Contemporary Art Exhibition, East Railway Station Art Studio, Chengdu
    Living in Chengdu: Shenzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
  • 2001
    Up-Down-Right-Left, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu

Selected Awards

Selected Awards

  • 1998
    Honorable Mention, Li Zhongsheng Foundation, Taiwan

Selected Public Collections

Selected Public Collections

  • Simian Foundation,
    Hong Kong
  • Musée D'Art Moderne de Paris,
    Paris
  • Buffalo AKG Art Museum,
    Buffalo
  • Black Flag Collection,
    Belgium
  • Long Museum,
    Shanghai
  • Power Station of Art,
    Shanghai
  • Museum of Contemporary Art,
    Yinchuan
  • White Rabbit Gallery,
    Sydney
  • Zhi Art Museum,
    Chengdu
  • Powerlong Museum,
    Shanghai
  • Longlati Foundation,
    Shanghai
  • Fosun Foundation,
    Shanghai
  • LYC Collection Foundation,
    Guangdong
  • Blue Roof Museum,
    Chengdu
  • Shenzhen Art Museum,
    Shenzhen
  • Guangdong Museum of Art,
    Guangzhou