XIN SONG

 

EDUCATION

1994      Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1990      Fine Arts, Beijing Haidian Art Vocational School, Beijing, China

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014      Salon Art 2014, National Society of Fine Arts, Carrousel de Louvre, Paris

2014      Finding New Realities, Pace University, New York

2014      Asia Art Fair, Asia Art Week, New York

2014      Art Beijing 2014, Zhanzhou International, Beijing, China

2013      Cut Out the Darkness Project with Panasonic

2013      On Paper/Grand Central at 100, Grand Central Terminal, New York

2013      Darkness Visible, Chinese & American Artist Group Show, National Museum of China, Beijing

2013      Five Elements, installation, Broadway Plaza, New York

2013      Living in a Material World, Chinese & Chinese-American Artists, SUNY Orange, New York

2012      Cutting Dreams, installation, Prow Art Space, Flatiron Building, New York

 

AWARDS

2012      Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks, MTA Arts for Transit, Bronx

2012      Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks, MTA Arts for Transit, Brooklyn

2010      Design for Laminated Glass Work, MTA Permanent Arts for Transit, Brooklyn

2010      Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks, MTA Arts for Transit, Brooklyn

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Selected)

2012      Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

2012      Chinese Paper Cutting Techniques Workshop, Flushing Town Hall, New York

2010      Artist-in-Residence, Art E, Art Enlightenment for Children, Cheryl McGinnis, New York

2010      Shadow Puppet Workshops, Flushing Town Hall, New York

2010      Shadow Puppets and Paper Cutting Workshop, P.S. 166

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent work borrows pictures from all kind of magazines, in the service of large questions about social and political values. Many of the issues are discussed in these magazines because they are questions people already think about everyday: Current affairs, politics and war, health, beauty and fashion, population, poverty and luxury, the environment and the beauty of nature, modern life and technology, as well as sex and taboo.

While I am collecting images for my paper cut collage, I consider each small piece and its meaning, and when each piece finds its way into my work, it brings that message and connection to the world into my work.

Every day I see, hear, feel and think about the world through magazines which people glance through and then throw away. For me, I have found importance and value in these materials as in many ways they mirror the world around us.

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