Shen Yuan
Born in 1959 in Xianyou (China), SHEN YUAN lives and works in Paris (France) since 1990. After being graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Zhejiang in China, Shen Yuan participates in the Chinese “avant-garde” movement. Shortly after participating in Beijing’s historical exhibition, she left China in 1990 and moved to Paris, where she joined her husband, the artist Huang Yong Ping. Shen Yuan expresses her feelings about immigration, language, and the relationship between the body and politics. Her works create places for poetical encounters between cultures. The artist invites the public to reflect without imposing value judgements.
Her work has been shown in numerous solo shows, both in France and abroad at the UCCA – Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009), the Centre A, Vancouver (2007), the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2001), and the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland (2000). She took part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum (2019), the MAXXI, Rome (2019), the SF MoMA (2019), the Guggenheim Bilbao (2018), the Guggenheim NY (2017), the Monnaie de Paris (2017), the Musée Cernuschi, Paris (2011 and 2021); as well as Shenzhen Biennale (2017), the Busan Biennale (2016), the Shanghai Biennale (2012), the Venice Biennale (2007), the Gwangju Biennale (2006), the Liverpool Biennial (2004).
In 2017 and 2018 she benefited from two major exhibitions celebrating her work in China, her solo presentation Without Wall at Mingsheng Museum, Beijing, and HON, in dialogue with Niki de Saint Phalle at Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
Her work Fragments de mémoire exhibited at the Musée Cernuschi in Paris and her exhibition Matteo and I at the Zoo Zone Art Forum in Rome are on view until January 30th 2022. Her work Eau-Lit is part of the inaugural exhibition at M+ Hong Kong until October 2022.
Works
![Exhibition view, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-red-brick-art-museum-beijing/ffd8c26966-1675694877/04a7883-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-red-brick-art-museum/618364e608-1675694652/04a7982-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-kamel-mennour-paris-2/e6cb364037-1639492649/6-400x.jpg)
![Pêcher l'air de Paris - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/pecher-l-air-de-paris/5f832a9efb-1639491928/1-2020-pecher-l-air-de-paris-sy-68-photo-archives-kamel-mennour-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-kamel-mennour-paris/ab2dca2da5-1639492620/13-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, Musée Cernuschi, Paris - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-musee-cernuschi-paris/0a09183d05-1634308760/3-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-power-station-of-art-shanghai-china/f6f571224b-1575989192/14-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, Power Station of Art, Shanghai - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-power-station-of-art-shanghai/5a4bcef2ee-1575988979/07-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, Power Station of Art - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/exhibition-view-power-station-of-art/e72bab51da-1575988907/6-400x.jpg)
![Tentacules - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/tentacules/c0f9ee23c3-1568303375/sy15-400x.jpg)
![Hair Saloon - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/hair-saloon/01d000e27e-1568305493/sy56-400x.jpg)
![Pont - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/pont/99c9436b5a-1568304979/sy33-400x.jpg)
![Racines prolongées - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/racines-prolong-es/86fac78789-1568303578/sy22-400x.jpg)
![Uncomfortable shoes (Elles sont parties pourtant elles n'ont nulle part où aller) - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/perdre-sa-salive/92ed78c7ef-1568302774/sy7-400x.jpg)
![Paroles brèves - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/paroles-breves/1ad41f60d0-1568305599/paroles-breves-400x.jpg)
![Paysage - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/paysage/4926fd1744-1568905966/sy23-paysage-400x.jpg)
![Poïkilotherme - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/po-kilotherme/eb7dcb7417-1568895773/poikilotherme-2-400x.jpg)
![Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/etoiles-du-jour/cfc35343f2-1568305199/sy47-01-400x.jpg)
![Ventre de pierre - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/ventre-de-pierre/9c15769268-1568305107/sy37-400x.jpg)
![Sans titre (2009) - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/sans-titre-2009/b49595332d-1568303701/sy26-400x.jpg)
![Le degré zéro de l'espace - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/artists/shen-yuan/le/95d5e15548-1568303199/sy8-400x.jpg)
Exhibitions & News
![Huang Yong Ping - Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/huang-yong-ping-musee-de-l-histoire-de-l-immigration/24ce673cc6-1695725711/affiche-asie2-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Being Art Museum - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-being-art-museum/19b07effe0-1699353251/sy68-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Red Brick Art Museum - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-red-brick-art-museum/6c4d957265-1674486775/04a7966-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-wurttembergischer-kunstverein-stuttgart/ecc4ffa550-1662566230/7-2017-yellow-umbrella-parasol-sy-63-photo-archives-kamel-mennour-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Musée Cernuschi - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-musee-cernuschi/08bbfe8976-1634308444/8-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Zoo Zone Art Forum - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-zoo-zone-art-forum/373afe45f9-1638271205/img-1882-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan & Éric Lefebvre - Musée Cernuschi - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-eric-lefebvre-musee-cernuschi/e2212a6f41-1635956242/31-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Centre Pompidou Shanghai - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/centre-pompidou-shanghai/1bb54902cf-1574176786/unnamed-png-1724-png-9745-north-655x392-transparent-400x266-crop.png)
![Shen Yuan Red Brick - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-red-brick/e86b9ee0fe-1569253812/capture-decran-2019-09-23-a-17-47-58-400x266-crop.png)
![Shen Yuan - Power Station of Art - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-power-station-of-art/d3c90cd366-1563278514/260-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - Beijing Minsheng Art Museum - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-beijing-minsheng-art-museum/577a519df5-1563278873/4-400x266-crop.jpg)
![Shen Yuan - UCCA - © Mennour](https://mennour.com/media/pages/news/shen-yuan-ucca/29e789b241-1568905152/sy23-paysage-400x266-crop.jpg)