Doctor & assistant professor of the Department of Sculpture
Research fields:
Experimental Art Creation, Contemporary Wood Sculpture Creation, Contemporary Figurative Sculpture Creation and Theoretical Research
Educational background:
Undergraduate: Sep. 2001-Jul. 2006 Department of Sculpture, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Graduate: Sep. 2006—Jul. 2009 Department of Sculpture, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Doctoral: Sep. 2004—Jul. 2017 Department of Sculpture, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Academic standpoint:
The core of materials and language during sculpture creation lies in philosophical thinking.
Researches over traditional art are interconnected with those over contemporary art.
Contemporary artists should be visual art researchers who are capable of creation and practice.
We need to make creative re-adjustment to lead contemporary sculptures into our society.
“Experimental art” is a breakthrough of artistic notions and conventional mindset under a new value system. It goes beyond the exploration of expressive forms and artistic language and expression. With different planning motives, many experimental art works inject new value and inspiration to familiar things. “Experimental art” in experimental art teaching is experimental, because it aims at the creation motive, mindset, perspective, working process, and expressional method during traditional art creation. It is not a closed practice system. The mindset of experimental art can blend into any established method of traditional art creation for integration, connection, and transformation.
Additional academic posts:
Deputy Secretary-General of the Professional Committee of Sculpture of the China National Arts & Crafts Society
Distinguished Sculptor of the Young Sculptors Creation Center of the China Academy of Sculpture of the Chinese National Academy of Arts
Editorial Board Member of Almanac of Chinese Sculpture
Planning Consultant of Public Art of the National Centre for the Performing Arts
Member of the China Artists Association
Member of the Chinese Urban Sculpture Artists Association
Member of the China Sculpture Institute
Academic achievements:
Solo exhibition
2016 “Innocent Eyes––Ma Wenjia Sculpture Exhibition” at Tsinghua University Art Museum
Major exhibitions
2016 Exhibition of Youth Artworks Collected by the National Art Museum of China
2016 Breath––Nanjing Museum Sculpture Exhibition
2016 Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale
2016 “Drift Apart” National Young Sculptor Invitational Exhibition
2016 Youth Recommendation Program Exhibitions of China Sculpture Institute
2015 Datong Sculpture Biennale
2015 Pilgrimage to Dunhuang·The First International City Sculpture Exhibition
2015 Finalist for the 5th National Youth Art Exhibition
2015 Invitational Exhibition in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War
2015 Artist Couple’s Exhibition at the Dayuntang Art Museum
2014 Finalist for the 11th National Artwork Exhibition
Beijing Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2011 4th National Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China
2009 11th National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Awards:
2014 Top prize of the National Modeling Newcomer Exhibition (by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC) and China Artists Association)
2009 Nomination Prize of the 11th National Artwork Exhibition (by CFLAC and China Artists Association)
2013 3rd Prize in the CCTV National Sculpture Competition (by CCTV and Chinese National Academy of Arts)
2011 Newcomer Award of the 2nd China Sculpture Exhibition (by China Sculpture Institute)
2016 Chinese Government Scholarship in Tsinghua University (by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China)
2015 Chinese Government Scholarship in Tsinghua University (by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China)
2015 Finalist Award of Pilgrimage to Dunhuang·The First International City Sculpture Exhibition (by Chinese Urban Sculpture Artists Association)
2015 Inheritance Award of the Originality Exhibition (by four universities including Central Academy of Fine Arts)
Course in charge:
Experimental Art Teaching
