Artist
Chinese (Chengdu)
Shu Qun received a BA in Chinese Painting from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. In 1984, he co-founded the Northern Art Group in Harbin with artists including Wang Guangyi, Ren Jian, and Liu Yan, and became its chair the following year. In the same period, he served as an editor at Northern Literature, a magazine of the Heilongjiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He also co-founded Selected Foreign Fiction with Lü Ying, and hosted the column “Appreciation of Foreign Art.”
Since 1983, Shu has proposed key concepts such as “Rational Painting,” “Northern Culture,” and “Post-Frigid Zone Culture,” and authored influential texts including The Spirit of the Northern Art Group, Reflections on Northern Civilization, and The Birth of a New Civilization. In 1986, together with Wang Guangyi, Gao Minglu, Liu Xiaochun, and others, he co-organized the “Slide Exhibition and Symposium on the ’85 Youth Art Movement” (the Zhuhai Conference). His 1984 painting work Absolute Principle is regarded as a representative example of Rational Painting within the ’85 New Wave. He currently lives and works in Chengdu.
Shu Qun’s works have been exhibited at museums and art institutions in China and internationally, including Germany, the United States, Australia, Russia, South Korea. His works are held in institutional and private collections, including Minsheng Art Museum, UCCA, Long Museum, YUZ Museum, Star Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Yuelai Art Museum,Guangzhou Art Museum.
