Ye Funa
Born 1986 in Kunming, China.
EDUCATION
2023
Practice led Ph.D., Slade School of Fine Art, London
2010
M.A., Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
2008
B.A., Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Ye Funa: Meet My Better Self, Caijin Space, Beijing
Ye Funa: The Smart Galley, C5cnm, Beijing
Ye Funa: The Peach Spring Beyond This World, Ame Nue, Hamburg, Online
2019
Ye Funa: Flying Dance, Bilsart, Istanbul
2018
Ye Funa: From Hand to Hand, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Ye Funa: Selfiction, Longmen Art Projects, Hong Kong
2017
Ye Funa: Alternative Cinema, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
2016
Ye Funa: Nailhenge, Space Station, Beijing
2014
Ye Funa: Zha Golden Flowers – News from Nowhere, V Art Center, Shanghai
Ye Funa, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris
2013
Ye Funa: Where Are We From? Where Are We Going?, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
2012
Research of Lost Time: Funa Ye Installation & Video Exhibition, Dialogue Space, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Renew: A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
ONLINE: Connections, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, online
2021
The Circulation of Images: A Study o Medium Identity, Voyage UCCA Lab, Shanghai
Manque de Recul: Interdisciplinary Trends in Art, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
Where are we? Where is the future?, CAFA Museum, Beijing
The Photography is Not What’s Important, CAFA Museum, Beijing
The Photography is Not What’s Important: Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, China
Handcraft:Teachers from school of Experiment art, CAFA Museum, Beijing
Guerrillas in Flatland: Unite! Digital Voyagers, Emerging Curators Project 2O2Online, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2020
True Self, AMO Gallery, Beijing
A Room of Her Own, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces, Chronus Art Center; Art Center Nabi; Rhizome of the New Museum, online
When Speed Become Form - Live in Your Screen, Wind H Art Center, Beijing
La Belle Noiseuse, MOCUBE, Beijing
2019
Immortal on Screen, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Berlin Peking Visual Exchange, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Influence, BACA Art Centre, Beijing
Nana Power, Today Art Museum, Beijing
New Art History – Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
Oscillation - New Media Art Exhibition, 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China
Flow Out, Bilsart, Istanbul
Chinternet Ugly, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, United Kingdom
2018
The New Masses, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Collage, C5+86 Space, Beijing
Oscillation – New Media Art Exhibition, 33 Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou, China
Collecting the Contemporary, The Lens of Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Chengdu, China
STèLES II - Vive Sans Temos Mort, Ying Space, Beijing
Notes on Region, Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Kunming, China
Line – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Cultural Centre in Sydney, Sydney
True Me, 798 Art Factory, Beijing
2017
Intermediary Video Art from China, Edna Carlsten Art Gallery at UWSP, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
In Progress - The Annual Exhibition of Teachers In CAFA School of Experimental Art, Shanshui Museum, Beijing
Your Selfie Stick (and You) - 2017 Lian Zhou Foto, Lianzhou, China
Home, Sweet Home - PSA 2017 Emerging Curators Project, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
DGTL Ldn, Unit 5 Gallery, London
The Short Analysis of Uncertainty, Suseong Artpia, Daegu, South Korea
Drawing Pogo, Taikang Space, Beijing
Friends Circle +, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
Digital Samples or A New Generation Deep Dive into Into Internet Superposition, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
Virtual/Visual Contemporary Art Exhibition, Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey
2016
Silk Road International: AMNUA International Project II, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China
Ausstellung: Superfetish S/S, Goethe-Institute China, Beijing
ACAW FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice, Asia Society, New York
HISTORICODE: Scarcity & Supply - The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, 100 Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
Illusion of Reality, L-Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
Zero for Conduct, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing
We, K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
Community of Celibates, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Re-, FLUX Factory, New York
2015
The Ballad of Generation Y, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
Future of Today, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Copyleft: Appropriation Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Folklore of the Cyber World, CAC & the Chinese’s Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Base, UCCA Store, Beijing
The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer - Creator, 798 Space, Beijing
2014
Ten Year in One Inspection, CAFAM, Beijing
Contact: Through the Body, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Tomorrow's Party, UCCA, Beijing
Big Life Theory: Nail’s Hub, Ying Space, Beijing
Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Busan Biennale Special Exhibition Asian Curatorial: Going, Going, Until I Meet the Tide, Kiswire Sooyoung Factory, Busan, South Korea
3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts/Re-Modernization, Hubei Museum, Wuhan, China
Poker Face: Wu Junyong/Ye Funa, Ray Art Center, Shanghai
Go Mars, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing
2013
Art That Heels, V Art Center, Shanghai
1st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing
NO DIFFERENCE II - Floating, Li Space, Beijing
The 6th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu MOCA. Chengdu, China
Enlightened Nature, Amy Li Gallery, Beijing
Facing Face, Bottega Veneta Art Space, Shanghai
Point at a Deer Call It a Horse - Zhi Lu Wei Ma, Cul De Sac Gallery, London
Action... Cut! Liu Xinyi, Wang Taocheng, Ye Funa Joint Exhibition, Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
9th Shanghai Biennale Special Project: On the Way Home, T2 Pudong International Airport, Shanghai
Machine Vision, V Art Center, Shanghai
2012
Vanguard Class, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The First “CAFAM · Future” Exhibition, CAFA Museum, Beijing
Get it Louder - Future, Liang Dian Design Center, Beijing
Sensation, V Art Center, Shanghai
Concrete Mirrors, Crypt Gallery, London
Nowhere to Live, Star Gallery, Beijing
Looking Back, Sky Moga Art Museum, Beijing
Luan Feng Qi Ming, Tree Museum, Beijing
Photo Beijing Thematic Exhibition - “Isomer”, Agricultural Exhibition Center of China, Beijing
2011
2nd Academy Documentary of Experimental Art - Harmonious Differences, CAFA Museum, Beijing
FOCUS: Tank Loft Youth Art Series, Tank Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art center, Chongqing, China
FOUR Everyday Life, Hanmi Gallery, London
PERIPHERIES - 2nd Asian Art Triennial Manchester, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, UK
ARG (Art Redistribution Group), Arcadia Missa Gallery, London
Future Pass - Collateral Event of the 54th Venice Biennial, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice [itinerary: Rotterdam, Dutch; Taipei; Beijing]
We! – The Second Show, 798 Creative Art Zone, Beijing
Friends Come From Far Away, Erju Contemporary Art Museum, Dali, China
Make It New, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
UK China Art & Design Festival – The Catalyst, Great Western Studios, London
2010
Bridge – Four Artist Photography and Video Show, Me Photo Art Gallery, Beijing
Onion, Xiangguaxia Commune, Shanghai
2009
Necessary Illusions - Ma Fine Art In-term Show, Bargehouse, London
Enliven - In Between Realities and Fiction - Animamix Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The mARkeT- in the making, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing
The Matrix: An Unstable Reality - 28th Graphic Biennial, Mednarodni grafični likovni center Ljubljana, Slovenia
Une peut en cacher Un autre, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris
2008
Little Things, R–Space, Beijing
100 Tales in Animamix, Linda Gallery, Beijing [itinerary: Indonesia; Singapore]
Shanghai MOCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2007
Something of the Space, Sen Primary School, Tokyo
Wu Yu Wu Yu, 798 Art Zone, Jindu Gallery, Beijing
Sketch Life, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2006
1st Academy Documentary of Experimental Art – Coming from Daily life, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
All together - In Unison, 798 K–Art Space, Beijing
The Students’ Exhibition of the 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Picturing the Frontier --The Changing Covers of Ethnic Pictorials since its inception, China National Exhibition, Shanghai
2015
News From Nowhere. LIAN Cultural Development Co. Ltd, Shanghai [Catalogue]
2013
Action... Cut! – Lilu Xinyi, Wang Taocheng, Ye Funa Joint Exhibition. Yuz Foundation, Shanghai [Exhibition Booklet]
2012
Research of the Lost Time – Solo Exhibition. Dialogue Space House Ltd, Beijing [Catalogue]
SELECTED AWARDS
2017
Finalist, The 11th Award for Art China (AAC)
2016
The Wall Paper Artist Award
2015
Recommend Young Artist of Today Art Museum in 2015
2014
The Judges’ Choice Award, 2nd Hua Yu Youth Award
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2019
Hello Future!, Japan
2018
Prohelvetia Swiss Council 2018 studio Residency, Bern, Switzerland
New Artist in Commune Project, Residency at Great Wall Commune, Beijing
2017
K11 Foundation Online Residency
2016
Kunst gemeinsam gestalten! [GeKA] Artist-in-Residence, Berlin and Beijing
2012
Red Gate Residency, Perth, Australia
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2021
Presentation Addiction: Shamate Salon, C5CNM, Beijing
2017
Self-Created Universe: Ye Funa, Liang Banshuang, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
One Second Film Festival, K11 Art Foundation, Beijing
2016
Prasentationssucht–Fingernägel-‘Bank, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai
2015
Be| My| Own| Sex: Peep Stream, A307, Beijing
Curated Nail Residency, MoCA Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
All of My Friends Are Having Intense Smog Debates and I’m Over Here Like “oooohhh look at my new nail polish!”, AMNUA No.0 Hall, Nanjing, China
SELECTED TALKS
2022
Zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures, Manchester China Institute, Manchester, UK
2021
MULTIMEDIA ENCOUNTERS EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, UCL Multimedia Lab, London
2018
Gender in China, Tate Modern, London
2016
Field Meeting at the Asian Contemporary Art Week [ACAW], Asian Society, New York
2014
EXHIBITIONIST, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art [UCCA], Beijing