Shen Jingdong

Shen Jingdong was born in 1965 in the town of Nanjing (province of Jiangsu), China. Shen graduated from the Nanjing Xiaozhuang Normal School in 1984 and from the Nanjing Arts Institute in 1991. After many years of studies in Fine art, Shen was conscripted to the Military Drama Troupe of Nanjing Military Area, where he made his career over a span of sixteen years until 2007.

In 2008, his Chinese and international artistic career evolved quickly; Shen become an important contemporary artist of the new wave, with his Hero series. He created into different kinds of people the image of the soldier and of the icons of Chinese life as represented in new forms, sometimes diverted in expressive colors (Blue, Green, Red or Yellow).

His painting The Bugle realized in 2012 illustrates perfectly his work, allowing each observer to have a new look on the contemporary art, but also a reflection and interpretation intellectual, sensitive and emotional.

Shen Jingdong – The Bugle
The artworks of Shen can be seen in private and public collections worldwide. One of the most famous collectors of Shen’s works is actress Zhang Ziyi.

1965 Born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
1984 Graduated from the fine art class of Nanjing Xiaozhuang Normal School
1991 Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Nanjing Academy of Art
1991—2007 Serving in the Battlefront Art Troupe of the Political Department of Nanjing Military
Region
At present living in Beijing

■ Solo Exhibitions
2010 We could be HeroesⅡ (The Rotunda,Exchange Square,Central, Hong Kong)
2009 Hero (Volta Art Fair, New York, USA)
2008 Hero (China Square Gallery, New York, USA)
The Most Beloved People (Today Art Museum & New Millennium Gallery, Beijing, China)

2007 Making of Heroes over 10 Years (Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China)
We could be Heroes (Yan Gallery, Hong Kong)
2006 Images of Heroes (New Millennium Gallery, Beijing, China)
Exhibition of One Painting (88 Art Document Storehouse, Beijing, China)

■ Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 ST-ART, Foire Internationale d’art contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2011 East/west: Visually Speaking, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, United States
2010 “RESHAPING HISTORY Chinart from 2000 to 2009” China National Convention Center Beijing
“East/West — Visually Speaking”
(Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum,University of Louisiana at Lafayette,USA)
(Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville,Florida,USA )
2009 Tension at Poles – Invitational Exhibition of Works of Masters from Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu (Luodai Town, Chengdu, China)
Trust – Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (Star Factory Art Center, Beijing)
Context – Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (Beijing Foundery Museum of Art, China)
Memory of China – Exchange Exhibition of Chinese and Spanish Artists’ Works (Time Space in 798 Factory, Beijing, China)
Strength of Practice, the Third Documenta of Contemporary Chinese Prints (Nanjing Museum, China)
Red Memory (Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China)
China-Korean Exchange Exposition (798 Yan Gallery, Beijing, China)
Invitational Exhibition of Experimental Contemporary Arts (Museum of Contemporary Art, Songzhuang, Beijing, China)
Chengdu Biennale (New International Convention & Exposition Center, Chengdu, China)
Visual Presentation of Identity (Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China)
2008 Multiple Perspectives – Exhibition of 11 Chinese Contemporary Artists’ Works (Beijing You Gallery, Beijing, China)
Assembling under the Five Rings (Legend Hotel, Beijing, China)
Up North – Exhibition of Jiangsu Artists’ Works (Egret Art Center, Beijing, China)
Up North, Down South (Art for All Society, Beijing , China)
Post-Modern Expression of Red Classics (Dong. Coffee. Event in 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China)
Strength of Practice – the Second Documenta of Contemporary Chinese Prints (Nanjing Museum, China)
Drifting – China – Korean Exchange Exposition (Top Gallery, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China)
2007 Body · Impression – The Human Body in Contemporary Chinese Art (Red Gate Gallery, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China)
Revolution (China Square Gallery, New York, USA)
Tie – Path (You Gallery, Beijing, China)
Progressive Tense (New Millennium Gallery, Beijing, China)

2006 Ash and Red – Contemporary Art Exhibition (Beijing New Art Project, China)
Consumerist Time (Sart Gallery, Beijing, China)
Imagine Gallery Group Exhibition (Beijing Imagine Gallery, China)
Qingzhou International Plastic Arts Exhibition (Museum of Qingzhou, Shandong, China)
Under the Rainbow – Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art (South Korea)
The Breadth of Painting Determines Attitude, Photography Biennale (Pingyao, China)
2006 China International Gallery Exposition 2006 (Beijing China World Trade Center, China)
You Gallery Group Exhibition in September (You Gallery, Beijing, China)
2005 Exhibition 3N Group Works (Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China)
The Second Dashangzi International Art Festival (798 Art Zone, Beijing, China)
Look Ahead, March On – Exhibition of Four Contemporary Soldiers’ Works (Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China)
String – Exhibition of Works of 5 Visiting Artists at Red Gate Gallery (Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China)
I Love Beijing (Suojia Village International Arts Camp, Beijing, China)
Produce Clouds with One Turn of the Hand and Rain with Another: Contemporary Art Exhibition (TSI Art Museum, Beijing, China)
Illness – Our Todays Art (Nanjing Art Museum, China)
2004 Art Exhibition to Mark the 30th Anniversary of Jiangsu Art Monthly (Nanjing Museum, China)
Exhibition of Works of William J. Andersen and Shen Jingdong (Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China)
Eight Minus One Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition (88 Art Document Storehouse, Beijing, China)
UN World Peace Art Exhibition (South Korea)
Angle – Exchange Exhibition of Works of Artists of Three Places (Red Classic Art Gallery in Nanjing, Andres Gallery in Shanghai, and China Blue Gallery in Beijing)
2003 “Shadow” Art Exhibition (Art Storehouse, Kunming, China)
Measuring Pupil Distance – Video Exhibition (Shenzhen, China)
Are You Familiar with Them? – Modern Oil Painting Exhibition (Nanjing Shenghua Art Center, China)
China Today Art Exhibition (China Millennium Altar, Beijing, China)
Chatting – Chinese and Belgian Artist Exchange Exhibition (European Cultural Exchange Center, Xiamen, China)
Dissimilar Sameness – Chinese and Slovenian Artist Exchange Exhibition (Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China)
2002 Basking in the Sun (Nanjing, China)
“Open Platform” the Third International Performance Art Festival (Xi’an, China)
Daydream – Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art (Nanjing Museum, China)
2001 China Performance Photography Exhibition (Asian-Pacific Contemporary Art Archives, Italy)
The Second Asian-Pacific International Contemporary Art Biennale (Genoa National
Modern Art Gallery, Italy)

China Plan – Circumrotating 360℃ (Haishangshan Art Gallery, Shanghai, China)
“N Roles” Exhibition (Nanjing Navy Commanders’ Academy, Nanjing, China)
2000 “Sea Horizon” Conceptual Photography Exhibition (Xiamen, China)
“Partial Clicking” Conceptual Photography Exhibition
(Daguangming Mall, Nanjing, China)
“Ink, Ink, Ink” Art Exhibition (Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China)
Asian International Peace Modern Art Exhibition 2000 (Nanjing Museum, China)
Communication of Intentions
– Chinese Conceptual Photography Exhibition (Asian-Pacific Contemporary Art Archive, Italy)
1999 The Third Itinerant Exhibition of “Borderline Vision” (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)
“A Hundred People, a Hundred Names over a Hundred Years” Exhibition (School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University and Yi Bo Hall in Shanghai)
1997 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art (Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China)
The Second Itinerant Exhibition of “Borderline Vision” (Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China)
1996 The First Itinerant Exhibition of “Borderline Vision” (Jiangsu Gallery, Nanjing, China)
1995 “Period of Time ‘95 – Breaking through” Exhibition (Exhibition Hall of Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China)
Art Exhibition to Mark the 30th Anniversary of Jiangsu Art Monthly (Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China)
1994 “New Face” Art Exhibition (Exhibition Hall of Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China)

■ Art Fair
2014 Art Paris – Art Fair, “France-Chine 50” (la Chine à l’honneur), France
2013 Art Basel – Miami Beach, Exhibition Miami FL, États-Unis
Art Basel – Hong Kong, Exhibition China
New Art Fair, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France