Shen
Yuan
Born in 1959 in Xianyou, China
Lives and works in Paris, France

Since graduating from the Fine Arts Academy of Zhejiang in China, she has participated in the Chinese “avant-garde” movement. Shortly after participating in Beijing’s historical exhibition in 1990, she decided to leave China, installing herself in Paris where she’d join her husband, the artist Huang Yong Ping. Shen Yuan expresses her feelings about exile and melancholy with modesty and decency. She invites the public to think and reflect on complex situations without imposing a value judgment. Her works evoke the moving, the language, the memory, and the omission. They create places for poetical encounters between cultures.

portfolio
2022
“Angling”, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Yellow Umbrella/Parasol”, Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2021
“Huang Yong Ping, Shen Yuan, Is Paris Burning? 2019”, Mennour, Paris
“Matteo and I”, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Rome
“Fragments de mémoire”, Musée Cernuschi, Paris
2018
“HON: Shen Yuan / Niki de Saint-Phalle”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

© Shen Yuan, Adagp, Paris, 2025.