Sun Xun

Sun Xun
Native name 孙逊
Born 1980 (age 37–38)
Fuxin, China
Nationality Chinese
Occupation Visual artist
Years active 2005-present

Sun Xun (born 1980) is a Chinese artist who works across many mediums including but not limited to acrylic, ink, pastel, traditional animation, and many forms of printmaking. Sun is considered one of China’s most prolific young artists and has received international acclaim.

Early life

Sun was born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, China just after the end of the Cultural Revolution.[1]

He studied printmaking at the China Academy of Art, graduating in 2005.

Career

While at the Academy he wanted to make films but could not afford a camera. He decided to hand draw his films and began to create his first animations. The traditional mediums of painting, woodcuts, traditional Chinese ink and charcoal drawings are often combined to create the foundation of expressionistic, contemporary stop-motion animated films. His animated film, “Shock of Time”, was made in 2006, a year after he graduated and met with great acclaim. The after effects of the Cultural Revolution have had a significant influence on the work he has created. He used newspapers from the 1950’s to be the background of each frame in “Shock of Time”. He founded an animation studio called Pi after achieving some success from “Shock of Time”.

More recently in 2014 he had a solo show called Time Vivarium at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City. (1) The show was a commentary on how history can be different based on the position and perspective of the person telling it. He frequently uses the perspective of regular people to be part of his work. He creates works using many different mediums and often-using symbolic subject matter. He will often acknowledge or reference key moments of history in his work. (2) He also will depict animals in order to symbolize different people, places or ideas. He captures many different themes in his work such as the past versus the present, and reality versus fantasy. He has had a number of solo exhibitions at prestigious museums and galleries in Asia, Europe and North America including the Hayward Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Vancouver Art Gallery. His films have been shown at major film festivals, including the Torino Film Festival and The Seoul International Film Festival. In 2016 he was commissioned to do a piece called “Tales of Our Time” for the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum.[1] (3) In 2010 he was received both the Best Young Artist award by the Chinese Contemporary Art Award and the Young Art Award by Taiwan Contemporary Art Link, and in 2013 he received the Arts Fellowship by Citivella Ranieri Foundation (Italy). (4), (5)

His major animation works include: "Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined yet in the Revolution"(2011), "Clown's Revolution"(2010), "Beyond-ism"(2010), "21 KE (21 GRAMS)"(2010), "People's Republic of Zoo"(2009), "New China"(2008), "Coal Spell"(2008), "Requiem"(2007), "Heroes No Longer"(2007), "Lie"(2006), "Mythos"(2006), "Lie of Magician"(2005), "A War About Chinese Words"(2005). (6)

Personal life

He currently lives and works in Beijing.

References

  1. 1 2 "Sun Xun 孙逊". Artsy. Retrieved 3 May 2017.

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

  1. ↑ "Sun Xun on 'Brilliant Ideas'". Bloomberg. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Sun Xun". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  3. ↑ "Sun Xun: Tales of Our Time". Guggenheim.org. 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  4. ↑ "Sun Xun - Artists - Sean Kelly Gallery". Skny.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  5. ↑ "Hammer Projects: Sun Xun - Hammer Museum". Hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  6. ↑ "Sun Xun 孙逊". Shanghartgallery.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
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