Artist: Ni Youyu

Project Director: Wang Yamin

Organizer: AMNUA

Opening: 2014.10.10 15:30

Exhibition Dates: 2014.10.10 – 2014.10.30

Venue: Hall No.0, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts

Ni Youyu will present his annual independent project Inches of Time in Nanjing University of the Arts on October 10, 2014. This is Ni Youyu's third solo project centering on his thematic research, following Form and Matter held at Beijing Hive Center for Contemporary Art and Zilch held at 9 m2 Museum in Shanghai Goethe Open Space last year.

This also will be the first time the artist exhibits his works in Nanjing with many new works yet to be published. The exhibition will include the entire corpus of "rulers" executed in the past two years, a latest special installation comprised of eighty-one Japanese archaic lotus seats, a set of old photography collages, and a miniature as well as the premiere of a short film documenting its creation. All the exhibition works revolve around the coordinates of "consuming time" and "interrogating standards", imprinting the artist's unique retrospective sensitivity in his creation. The works also manifest this young artist's active exploration of artistic language in recent years and his distinguished mastery over different kinds of media and material.

The exhibition will last till the end of October. In addition, the second volume of Ni Studio series of monographs Inches of Time would be edited and published at the end of the year.

Ni Youyu,born in 1984.Graduated from the department of Chinese Painting, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University in 2007. Currently works and lives in Shanghai.

Solo Exhibitions

2014    Inches of Time - Ni Youyu Independent Project (Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China)

2013    Form and Matter - Ni Youyu（Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China）

          Zilch - Ni Youyu Independent Project（Department for culture and education of the German consulate - General in Shanghai            9m2 Museum Project Space, Shanghai, China）

2012    A Brief History - Ni Youyu (Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China)

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2014    Outside The Lines - New Art From China (RH Contemporary Art, New York, USA)

          The Sociology of Oneself (Eslite Gallery, Taipei, China Taiwan)

          Broken ? Stand - The New Painting to Order (Long Museum, Shanghai, China )

          Thinking of Landscape - Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection (Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore LASALLE                College of the Arts, Singapore)

          Confronting Anitya - Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art(Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany ; Yuan Art Museum,                  Beijing, China, Kunstwerk Charlshuette, Buedelsdorf, Germany)

          Present - Ing Recital Louder Than Pain(Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China)

2013    Painstaking Painting (“St.Moritz Art Masters”Project Space,St.Moritz,Switzerland)

          Bidirectional Punctum: As an Entry Point of Representation, One Kind of Painting(Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing,              China)

          The Moment,We Awe.(Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea)

          Seven Sunsets,Waiting Dawns, All in One. How to Kill a Wondrous Time Not Wanting a

          Thousand Hours. (Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China)

          The Sixth Chengdu Biennale (New International Convention & Exposition Center Chengdu Century City, Chengdu, China)

          Nature of Speed (Gallery EXIT, Hongkong, China )

          Break and Breathe - Hands On No.5（College of Fine Arts Shanghai University, Shanghai, China)

          The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen (Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China)

2012    Ctrl+N - The 9th Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea)

          The First “CAFAM Future” Exhibition Sub–Phenomena: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art Nomination (CAFA Art                  Museum, Beijing, China )

          Sattva (Bogota Morden Art Museum, Bogota,Columbia; Wifredo Lam Museum,Havana,Cuba)

2011    ShanShui - Poetry without Sound ? Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection (Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland)

          Magic Space (Today Art Museum, Beijing, China)

          Learning Method - Hands On No.4 (V Arts Centre Space, Shanghai, China)

         The End of the Brush and Ink Era: Chinese Landscape (True Color Museum, Suzhou, China)

          Pattern - Encounter ? Museum Of Unknown (Space Station, Beijing, China; Times Museum, Guangzhou, China)

2010    Big Draft - Shanghai Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection (Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

          Obsessive Compulsive Disorder（OCD）- Hands On No.3 (DDM, Shanghai, China)

          Reflection of Minds - MOCA Envisage Biennale (MOCA ShangHai, Shanghai, China)

          John Moores New Painting Prize(China) (Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China)

          Post Traditions (Duolun Museum, Shanghai, China)

          San Sheng Wan Wu - Inaugueation of the Exhibition of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall (Zendai Contemporary Art                Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China)

2009    Material Link - Technopolis (City of Athens, Athens, Greece)

          Parallel - Hands On No.2 (M50 Art District, Shanghai, China)

2008    Material Link - A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists (MOCA ShangHai, Shanghai, China; Greek State Museum of                  Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece)

2006    Lian Cheng Jue - Visual Creativity in New Urban (ZhenDai MOMA, Shanghai, China )

          With the Way We Game - Hands On No.1 (Bin Jiang Creative Enterprizes Centre, Shanghai, China)