Chen Haiyan 2008-11-27
China Academy of Art,
Hangzhou
“We didn’t have music class, but in literature class, we would sometimes play music that sounded like figure-skating music. We listened to such beautiful melodies; we all enjoyed it very much. At that time, we were students. In the evenings, well-known people would come to our school and give lectures. After dinner, we’d walk around West Lake, then come back and fight for seats at the lecture. The atmosphere was great back then. After listening to the lecture, we would return to the classroom and take turns being the model. It didn’t matter whether you were male or female—today it might be you, tomorrow it might be me.”
Biography:
Chen Haiyan (b. 1955, Fushun, Liaoning Province) is an artist and lecturer in the Printmaking Department at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
From 1980 to 1984, Chen was a student at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) where she continues to teach.
Chen is known for her traditional Chinese ink painting and woodblock prints. Her copperplate etching Horizon was awarded the Third Prize at the ‘National Exhibition of Young Artists’ in 1985. Chen’s works have been shown at two exhibitions at the Pacific Asia Museum in California: ‘Beyond the Open Door: Contemporary Paintings from the People’s Republic of China’ (1987) and ‘I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese New Wave and Avant-Garde Art of the Eighties’ (1991). In 2004, the Asia Museum in Daejeon City, South Korea, presented a solo exhibition of Chen’s work, ‘Chagall & Chagall: The Artworks of Chen Haiyan’.
