In CHEN Mo’s creative process, he often treats himself and others as a fictionalised concept of “individual”. In “de-civilisation” and “de-materialisation”, different conditions and individuals are unitised and databased. So that experiments can be carried out on the relationship between the “individual and the whole”, and the results can be expressed in graphic and realistic arguments. In this pictorial visual space, he treats human beings, matter, nature, time and space as local data conditions for a grand experiment on the ‘whole’. He interprets the relationship between “time and space” from a perspective that removes limitations, attempting to describe an “invisible violence” nurtured in space and time. Against this grand worldview, his work is no longer constrained by the medium and is ultimately free in its loss of freedom.
Born in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, China.
2017 Obtained a bachelor’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy.
2021 Obtained a master’s degree in plastic arts from the University of Paris Worked in The 56th La Biennale di Venezia in charge of exhibition installation.
Worked for L’Association Sino-Française d’échange d’art.
Founder of Art Meets Ideas.
Currently lives and works in Shanghai.
2022 | “Enclosure Between Time and Space”, Art Meets Ideas, Shanghai, China |
2021 | “Natural Sequence: Feeling Reality”, Object Momento Gallery, Shanghai, China “Full of Friends and Foils”, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China “Cactus Project 2021”, Dalian City Art Museum, Dalian, China Shanghai Youth Art Fair, Shanghai World Trade Center, Shanghai, China “Blue Dream – Human and Ocean”, Nordic Contemporary Art Center, Xiamen, China “Underground Branches”, Now Artist Space, Guangzhou, China “Absence and Attendance”, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai “Pain of Pain”, Huten Gallery, Shanghai, China “Table Talk”, ultramontane gallery, Hangzhou, China “Hundred Shadows of Art”, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China “La Division : Individualisation Ecologique Silencieuse – The Division: Silent “Infinite Limit – Restart International Contemporary Art Exhibition” Restart Project, Hangzhou, China “A Little Stories”, London, UK “Momentum”, London, UK “#Heurt”, London, UK “Project: Art box”, Zurich, Switzerland “Redirecting”, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China |
2019 | “New Star Power” National New Young Artists Exhibition, Wuhan, China |
2018 | “The Wonderland” Returnee Art Exhibition, Guicheng Art Museum, Foshan, China |
2017 | “Siamo Qui”, Venice, Italy |
2016 | “Edizione Clown di Frontiera”, Venice, Italy “Azonos Utakon”, Budapest, Hungary “Adriatica La Via Dell’arte”, Macerata, Italy |
2015 | “Interaction Generation”, Young Chinese and Italian Artists Exhibition, Venice, Italy. “Gaining Momentum” Young Artists Group Exhibition, Changzhou, China “Studio Aperto”, Venice, Italy |
2021 | Finalist for “SAP Art Award” Nominated for “FAPA 7th edition of Fine Art Photography Awards” |
2020 | “International Pioneer Visual Art Award 2020”, Bronze Award “Chinese-Italian Youth Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Art Competition” (Concorso per Giovani Cinesi e Italiani per Celebrare il Cinquantenario delle Relazioni Diplomatiche tra Cina e Italia), Excellence Award Finalist for “Xu Qinsong Art Award” |
2019 Nominated for “The 10th New Star Art Award” |
2018 | The work “Blue Afternoon” was collected by Guicheng Art Museum, Foshan, China |