 | Yun-Fei Ji |
Painter Yun-Fei Ji has been named the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery for the 2004-2005 academic year.
The residency gives artists the opportunity to interact with Yale's scholars in a wide range of disciplines as well as investigate the research and technological facilities of the University. At the same time, both undergraduates and graduate students are able to observe the artistic process and learn to explore interdisciplinary connections in their own studies through their interaction with the resident artist.
"Yun-Fei Ji's process is particularly interesting for both art historians and studio artists," says Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. "He makes use of traditional techniques of Chinese landscape painting to portray events in China's cultural history, such as the Boxer Rebellion and the current Three Gorges Dam project."
Ji was born in Beijing, China, in 1963 and trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts there before coming to the United States in the mid-1980s. He earned a M.F.A. from the Fulbright School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas in 1989 and the following year moved to New York, where he lives and works in Brooklyn.
Since 1990 Ji's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Europe, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and the artist has received numerous prestigious awards. A traveling exhibition, "Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City," organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, is currently on view at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University.
The two previous artists-in-residence at the Yale Art Gallery were Janine Antoni, the New York artist known for performance and installation works, and California-based William T. Wiley, a creator of satiric art in a variety of media. Last year Antoni organized an exhibition, "Treasure Maps," which she described as "visual thinking from outside the field of fine art," shown at apexart in New York, and ArtSpace in New Haven. Among the unusual works exhibited were two by Yale professors whom Antoni had discovered during her residency: mathematician Tim R. Riley and molecular biophysicist Vinzenz Unger.
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