Yu Hong
b. 1966, China
Yu Hong was born in 1966 in Xi’an, China. In 1984, she studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and graduated from the oil painting department in 1988. Since 1988 she has been a teacher at CAFA. Yu Hong’s first major exhibition in Europe, ‘Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust’ opened at the Chiesetta della Misericordia in Venice as a special off-site exhibition of the Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York in April 2024. Her first major American museum show was held at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, in 2023 and her work was featured in ‘Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World’ (2017) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions in China include: ‘The World of Saha’ (2019) at Long Museum, Shanghai; ‘Garden of Dreams’ (2016) at the CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; ‘Concurrent Realms’ (2015) at the Suzhou Museum; ‘Golden Horizon’ (2011) at the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai and ‘Golden Sky’ (2010) at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.