SHI Zhiying
Shi Zhiying has become well known in her native China for stark monochromatic paintings of uniform vistas in open ocean water, sand, grass… she deals with objects’ state of existence in her painting practice. Emphasized in her practice is the interchange of appearance with disappearance: the quality and scale of water, rock, containers, the figure of buddhas, beads are described in painterly strokes. However, the shapes are not definite, but formed by independent lines, brushstrokes, and the paints, conveying an immanent rhythmic logic, stablishing a stable and sensational structure in the process of interacting with the visual experience. The artist demonstrates, via her smooth and insightful paintings, the transience of a being’s life, captures the extremely gradual transition that happens in the space between objects, the painting surfaces, and the present experience.
Shi Zhiying (b. 1979, Shanghai, China) received her MFA from the Department of Oil Painting at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University (SHU). Main solo exhibitions include: Stones II, Leo Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2018); Stones, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2017); SHI ZHIYING, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA (2017); Dust as Light, White Space, Beijing, China (2014). Main group exhibitions include The Return of Guests: Selection from the PSA Collection, Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China (2019); Relative Distance, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2018); This moment, Liu Hiasu Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Visual Questions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China(2017); The 1st Yinchuan Biennale, MoCA Yinchuan, Ningxia, China(2016); New Capital, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China(2016); My Generation – Young Chinese Artists, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), California, U.S.A (2015); Aura of Poetry, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai, China (2014). Shi Zhiying currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
SELECTED WORKS
NEWS
Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennale
Chengdu Tianfu Art Park
2021.11.6 – 2022.4.6
The Return of Guests: Selections from the PSA Collection
Power Station of Art
2019.9.20 – 2020.3.8
Relative Distance
Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute Art Museum
2019.9.6 – 9.22
The Kind Stranger
UNArt Center
2019.8.24 – 10.20
Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscape
Guangdong Museum of Art
2018.3.23 – 4.26
The Glass Bead Game
MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai
2017.12.23 – 2018.1.20
Yinchuan Biennale: For an Image, Faster Than Light
MOCA Yinchuan
2016.9.9 – 12.18
Transcendence
SPSI Art Museum
2016.3.4 – 3.23
SHI ZHIYING
David Hinton
2015.12.31
A Long Stroke
Zhu Zhu
2015.12.20
Grains of sand in the Universe
Half the Sky
2015.12.18
Let Feelings Fly in Space & Time
White Wall
2015.9.18
The universe is a mirror
Art World
2015.7.24
SHI ZHIYING
Global Times
2015.6.26
SHI ZHIYING: 在绘画中建立一个感性又稳定的结构
art.ifeng.com
2015.6.16
About Perception
Jewelvary Art & Space
2015.6.5 – 8.10
INNER PAINTING
私家CIRCA
2015.3.7
SHI ZHIYING: 朽与不朽
Hi Art
2014.7.10
SHI ZHIYING To the Infinity
Artist
2013.10.23
Visibility
SPSI ART MUSEUM
2013.9.24 – 11.30
SHI ZHIYING: 用“珠子”探索时空与宇宙
Artron
2013.6.16
A Sprinkle of Salt
MOT/ARTS
2012.12.15 – 2013.1.13
Sea change
TimeOut
2012.10.17
形式与符号的对比，空白空间双个展
Hi Art
2012.6.8
Palomar by SHI ZHIYING
Zhang Bing
2010.3.20
SHI ZHIYING: 心中有大海
UCCA
2009.7.16