You Si

Shanghai, China

Known since the 80's to insiders and early fans of the Chinese avant-garde for his radically original and contentious works, You Si went abroad for some years to New York City, where he patiently honed his craft to a point of creating something completely unique, astoundingly beautiful. You Si, has expanded on this theme, creating a show without restraint, limitless in its celebration of evolution, biology and sexuality, and with daring and tremendously impressive juxtaposition of colors.

Exhibitions HIGH 5 - Five Years of ART LABOR September 09, 2011 - October 10, 2011 Unbounded Diffusion November 27, 2010 - January 08, 2011 2nd Impressions August 01, 2010 - August 25, 2010 Unbounded Redux September 07, 2008 - October 07, 2008 Unbounded June 16, 2007 - July 21, 2007

63 Works

Growth
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Ecology
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Whirlpool
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Unbalanced Infinity
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Tangerine Vein
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Stretched Evolution
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Stone
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Spawm Against Blue
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Space Time Curvature
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Smooth Spin into Void
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Slow Soft Growth
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Rite of Spring
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Rise
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Reorganized into Movements
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Rash Totem to Chaotic Expansion
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Previous Page: Ecology Space Time Curvation
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Pastel Rounds
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Organic Sprouting
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Opening onto Elsewhere
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Opening Folds of Jade
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Nova Terra
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New Fruit
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Neurosis Lost
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Mystery: You Me and the Other
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Morphe in Jangala
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Monochrome Foliage
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Mitosis without Scaffold
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Mistaken Marine
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Mapping Biology
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Loss of Control
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Living Landscape
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Internal Nuage
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Heavenly Depression
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Geometric Intrusion
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Floating Champagne Spine
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Dance of Genes
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Fluxus
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Choreography
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Cerebral Ribbon
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Busy in Alteration
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Blue Movement
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Bare Nerves
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Ballooning to Continuance
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Audience to Expansion
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Alienation in Swirl
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A Change in Circulation
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Yolks 2
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Yolks 1
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Whisper of Boundary
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Weightless Genesis
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Space Flowering
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Partition
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How it all got started 2
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How it all got started 1
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Formation of the Ornate
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Expectation of Spring
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Dynamic Breath
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Breath
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Solar Choreography
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Moving Through
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Becoming the Mass
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3 Dimension Cycle
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Making of Memory
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CV

BORN

1954 in Beijing

EDUCATION

1982
Theatrical Design, Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai

1978
Theatrical Design, Anhui Province School of Arts, Hefei, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Unbounded Diffusion, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2009
You Si, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York

2008
Unbounded Redux, Shanghai Sculpture Space, organized by ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2007
UnBounded, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2000
New Paintings: Ink on Paper, Abraham Lubeiski Gallery, New York

1994
You Si: Paintings, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston

1988
Beijing Young Artists Exhibition to New York and Boston, Multiple venues, USA
An Exhibition of Painting by You Si, Holdswoth Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

1987
Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash, Swedish Embassy, Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Beyond Representation – An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Tiancheng International Auction, Hong Kong

2011
XUAN, ETC, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

2010
2nd Impressions, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2008
Surfacing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
Material Links, TECHNOPOLIS, Athens, Greece
Continuance of Material Links, CACT Thessaloniki, Greece
Material Links, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai
3 Man Show, East Link Gallery, Shanghai, China

2004
Vacation Nation, Pierogi Gallery, New York

2003
The Best of Brooklyn Comes to Boston, Bernard Toale Gallery “Pierogi Presents”, Boston

2002
Boiled and Fried, Pierogi Gallery, New York

2001
International Ink-wash Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

2000
Big Apple Chinese Painting, Kalkodo Gallery, New York

1997
Overseas Artists Exhibition, Hong Kong City University, Hong Kong

1989
Contemporary Chinese Painting, Manhattan East Gallery of Fine Arts New York

1986
Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash, Beijing University and Qinghua University, Beijing

1985
Contemporary Ink Painting, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Beijing