TONG Wenmin
TONG Wenmin’s work often focuses on the intersection between individual perception and the external environment, stimulating visual poetry and inspiring action through behaviors that at first seem counter-intuitive. Through often simplified or regulated movements, her work hints at the allegorical character of the body and action within a semantically rich context.
TONG Wenmin (b. 1989, Chongqing, China) received her BFA at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2012. TONG has recent solo / duo shows at Macalline Art Center, Beijing; Essence Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing; OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan; WHITE SPACE, Beijing; Thousand Plateau Art Space, Chengdu; Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing, and recent group shows / art festival at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; M+, Hong Kong; Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Gamle Strand, Copenhagen; Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer; HE ART MUSEUM, Foshan; OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; A4 Art Museum, Chengdu; House of Egorn, Berlin; BARRAK, Okinawa; Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting 2018, Tokyo & Fukushima; Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide; Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. She won the Grand Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award in 2018, the First Prize of the 8th New Star Art Award by Deji Art Museum in 2018, Nomination Prize of The 5th Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2017, the Accolade Artist by Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art in 2016. She has also been selected for MQ Artist-in-Residence Program: Art & Ecology Studio, Vienna (2024); The Swiss Arts Council Artists Residency, Switzerland (2023); Offshore Residency, Dinawan Island (2019) and other residencies project. TONG currently works and lives in Chongqing.
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
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Being Theoria: 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou Museum
2022.9.30 – 12.4
From South to North
Macalline Art Center
2022.7.10 – 2022.10.10
Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art
Lillehammer Art Museum
2022.5.13 – 10.16
Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
2022.12.1 – 2023.3.12
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2023.4.4 – 7.2
Dormant Landscape
Yuan Art Museum
2022.3.19 – 5.22
李姝睿 欲停再追光&童文敏 黄桷坪往事
MODERN WEEKLY
2022.3.12
ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress
He Art Museum
2022.2.4 – 4.17
A Show About Nothing
ART MATTERS
2021.12.25 – 2022.05.08
2021 OCAT Biennale “Boomerang”
OCAT Shenzhen
2021.12.19 – 2022.5.22
Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennale
Chengdu Tianfu Art Park
2021.11.6 – 2022.4.6
In the Midst of It All
G Museum
2021.7.17 – 11.28
To Be the Better One —The Methodology of the New Generation New Work, New Identity, New Life, New Direction
Wind H Art Center
2021.6.20 – 9.7
Stroll – from community to nature
Cloud Art Museum
2021.5.30 – 8.29
As if Gone from the World
OCT Boxes Art Museum
2021.5.25 – 6.23
Wisdom of Everyday Life-Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan
2021.4.24 – 6.17
TONG Wenmin | Gallery Weekend Beijing Public Sector
Gallery Weekend Beijing
2021.4.23 – 7.23
2020 A4 Artist in Residence International Exchange Program Exhibition: People Nearby
A4 Art Museum
2020.12.26 – 2021.4.17
A Tale of Two Cities Chengdu and Chongqing
Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum
2020.12.2 – 2021.4.4
The 13th Shanghai Biennale-Special Projects: TONG Wenmin: A Long Time Ago-PSA
Power Station of Art
2020.11.10 – 11.14
Koganecho Bazaar 2020
Koganecho Japan
2020.11.6 – 11.29
From the Mundane World: Launch Exhibition of He Art Museum
He Art Museum
2020.10.1 – 2021.2.28
Étude
Aranya Art Center
2020.5.23 – 8.23
Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art
NCAF Beijing Space
2020.5.22 – 8.30
童文敏：始于感知的行动
Art Frontier
2018.12.7