Cheng Ran (

Chinese language Chinese ( or ) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and List of ethnic groups in China, many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora. Approximately 1.39& ...

: 程然) is a Chinese contemporary artist known for his film and video works.

Biography

Cheng Ran was born in 1981 in

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

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. In 2004, he graduated from

China Academy of Art The China Academy of Art (CAA; ) is a provincial public college of fine arts in Hangzhou. Zhejiang, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Zhejiang. The academy is part of the Double First-Class Construction The World First-Class Un ...

. Currently he lives and works in

Hangzhou Hangzhou, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly romanized as Hangchow is a sub-provincial city in East China and the capital of Zhejiang province. With a population of 13 million, the municipality comprises ten districts, two counti ...

, China.

Work

Cheng mainly focuses on new media and his artworks are mostly videos and films. Cheng's works are created by applying basic cinematic techniques like simple cutting, rearranging, montage, full length shot and so on. Usually, his videos do not have complete and coherent storylines, and sentiment is the main part to show. In 2012, Cheng Ran participated in artist Michael Lin's exhibition "Model Home" at

Rockbund Art Museum The Rockbund Art Museum (RAM, zh, s=上海外滩美术馆 , t=上海外灘美術館 , p=Shànghǎi Wàitān Měishùguǎn, l=Shanghai Bund Art Museum) is a contemporary art museum in central Shanghai. The museum is on Huqiu Road, in the former ...

in Shanghai. Working with Lin, Cheng recorded the whole process of the preparation and the construction work of the exhibition and then presented the videos in the final show. Cheng Ran is represented by LEO XU Projects.

Awards

In 2011 he won the "Best Video Artist" in Dead Rabbit Awards held by online art magazine Randian. The winning piece "Chewing Gum Papers” is a simultaneously hypnotic and sinister combined with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech as the background sound; and it is also a piece of commissioned work for LEO XU PROJECTS's inaugural show "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". In 2019 Cheng won the Nomura Emerging Artist Award, valued at 100,000 USD.

Solo exhibitions

2016 *The

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, New York. 2011 *"Hot Blood, Warm Blood, Cold Blood", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing *"Circadian Rhythm", Qingying Gallery, Hangzhou 2009 *"Immersion and Distance",

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art UCCA Center for Contemporary Art or UCCA () is a leading Chinese independent institution of contemporary art. Founded in 2007 and located at the heart of the 798 Art District in Beijing, China, it welcomes more than one million visitors a year. ...

, BeijingArticle of "Immersion and Distance" in UCCA's website
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References

External links

Cheng Ran's page at LEO XU PROJECTS

Cheng Ran's entry in ARTLINKART
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