CHEN   PAIAN

Chen Paian (b. 1988, Guangzhou, China; lives and works in Guangzhou) earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Since then, he has engaged in interdisciplinary art practices, recently focusing on the intersection of contemporary art and commercial design. His artistic transformation breaks traditional paradigms by innovatively integrating advertising visual syntax and methodology into contemporary art discourses, constructing systems of deconstruction and reconstruction of commodity symbols that offer profound insights into consumer culture. Rooted in multimedia experimentation, his work employs humorous and incisive linguistic strategies to examine the dialectical relationship between nature and constructed landscapes. Through playful visual narratives, he reveals the sublime essence lurking beneath the surface contradictions of these realms—critiquing consumerist semiotics while redefining aesthetic values in the age of material symbols.

Solo Exhibitions: Be An Artist Then?, Gene Gallery, Shanghai, China (2021); What Kinda Joke Is This, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2019); Breeding in the Last Room, 1a Space, Hong Kong, China (2018);

Selected Group Exhibitions: Meme to Jam, X sign Space, Hangzhou, China (2024); Silo Dreams, Keyi Gallery, Hefei, China (2024); ASPHALT, Gene Gallery, Shanghai, China (2024); Passing Between Reality and Falsehood, Gene Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022); Fellows, SNAP, Shanghai, China (2022); 60169019, Brownie Project, Shanghai, China (2019); Prepositive Future, Dongguan Culture Center, Dongguan, China (2019); From Its Course Into Channels, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, America (2019); Big Workout, AMNUA, Nanjing, China (2018); “Chen Paian, Wong Wing Sang, Wu Sibo”, TABULA RASA, Beijing, China (2018);