YAO Qingmei

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1982 Born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

2005 Bachelor's degree in Management (Marketing), Zhejiang Ocean University, China

2011 Bachelor of Arts (DNAP), Limoges-Aubusson National Art School, Limoges, France

2013 Master of Arts (DNSEP), Villa Arson National Art School, Nice, France

Currently lives and works in Paris

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Awards

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2025 – Artistic Project Grant, CNAP (National Centre for Visual Arts), Paris, France

2023 – Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship, New York, United States

2022 – Individual Creation Fellowship, DRAC Île-de-France (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs), France

2018 – The 68th Prix Jeune Création of Paris, Paris, France

2017 – Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year, Shanghai, China

2014 – Special Jury Prize, 59th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

2014 – Individual Creation Fellowship, DRAC Limousin (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs), France

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Solo Exhibition

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2023

• Yao Qingmei: Mole, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China

2021

• Yao Qingmei: The burrow, Magician Space, Beijing, China

2019

• Alienation. Who finishes first? Graz, Switzerland

2018

• La commerce du parole, Atelier Blanc, Villefranche de Ruge, France

2017

• The Ecdysiast, Magician Space, Beijing, China

2016

• Sanzu Ding and its motif, OCAT Xi'an Contemporary Art Terminal, Xi’an, China

2015

• One Hour Occupy Parking Art, Work in progress, Paradise, Nantes, France

• Professor YAO, Magician Space, Beijing, China

2014

• Palais de Tokyo, as part of Modules Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France

 

Group Exhibition

2025​​

• Lie Between, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, China

• Qingtian, HdM Gallery, Paris, France

• ​Charging Guide, Ming contemporary art museuM, Shanghai, China​

• Intervention in the labyrinth, ASTER Curator Museum, Kanazawa City, Japan

2024 ​

• 目(mù) China, A new generation of artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

• We will meet again -- France -- China art exhibition, Art museum of Sichuan fine arts institute, Chongqing, China

• Intervention in the labyrinth, Mikke Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

• Prosodic grains, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China

• A Century of Art Between China and France – A Perpetual Path, Hongmei Art Space, Shenyang, China

• In Harmony With The Way, Shangh ART Gallery, Shanghai, China

• The Enlightenment, CLC Gallery, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

• Mean time to failure, l’Espace Le Carré, Lille, France

• Study toward the new era, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

• Scales in Flames, Shanghai Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China

2023

• Engaging with the World: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Since the Dawn of the 20th Century, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China

• A Story of a Merchant, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

• Mediated Body: Among Objects and Fields, ShangART Gallery, Shanghai, China

• Sur le feu, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

• Voice, Musée Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany

• Microcosm: Emotions in the Age of Technology, Chengdu Art Museum, China

2022

• Floating, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

• The Intimate Revolt, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China

• Alice in Wonderland, 69 Art Campus, Beijing, China

• Rythme and Refrain, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China

• The Real Show, Brétigny Centre d’art de Brétigny, Brétigny, France

2021

• Boomerang–OCAT Biennale 2021, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

2020

• Play societies: wolves, lynx and ants, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing, China

• Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China

• Un point complet sur la situation, Espace A VENDRE, Nice, France

• Artiste Film Internation, Whitechapel Gallery, London

• I wish you could swim, like the dolphins can swim, Taipei, Taiwan

2019

• Factories, machines and the poet’s words, 798 Art Zone Buildings, Beijing, China

• Bicycle Thieves, Para Site, Hong Kong, China

• The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay, Time Museum, Guangdong, China

• Bicycle Thieves, Para Site, Hong Kong, China

• Reverberation from crystallized revolution, Tete, Berlin, Germany

• Under the sign of saturn, CLC space, Beijing, China

• Chinese landscape, Taikang Collection, Beijing, China

• Shards from the Mirror of History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States

• Yellow reflection, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France

2018

• Disappearing Archive, Mocube, Beijing, China

• Danse with it, Taikang SPACE, Beijing, China

• New metallurgiste, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Here/There, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, China

• Respire – Works from the Lemaitre Video Art Collection, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

• Traces of Abandonment, Mstudio, Beijing, China

• Brace for Impact, De Appel Curatorial Programme, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Jeune Création 2018, Palais des études (Beaux-arts de Paris), Paris, France

• NOW Chinese female contemporary artists, HOME (Manchester) and Tate Research Centre: Asia (London), England

• Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Art center, Shanghai, China

2017

• A separation, Gallery Yang, Beijing, China

• Festival The spectre of communism, Musée Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany

• The unknown future, Niu Centre d’art, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

• Deconstructing Buyology, Centre d’art Bai Ta Si, Beijing, China

• La pensée du tremblement, Galerie Jeune Création, Paris, France

• Young Chinese Artiste of the year, Yicang Musem, Shanghai, China

• A Chemical Love Story, Tang Contemporaray Art, Beijing, China

• Every Skyscraper, 2nd Changjiang Photography/Video Biennale, Chongqing, China

• Festival l'OEil d'Oodaaq, Renne, France

• The New Normal: Art and China in 2017, UCCA, Beijing, China

2016

• Vidéo d'artistes, festival Ville au Corps, le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

• Scarcity and Supply, Baijiahu Museum, Nanjing, China

• J’ai des certitudes sur mes doutes, Artothèque, Caen, France

• Pixel Park: contemporary vidéo art exhibition, Shanghai, China

• Not early Not late, Gallerie PACE, Beijing, China

• Jeune Création Européenne 2015／2017, Latvia

• Yes, I can ! , Centre d’art contemporain Walter-Benjamin, Perpignan, France

• Jeune Création Européenne 2015/2017, Poland

• Jeune Création Européenne 2015/2017, Kunst bygningen vraa, Denmark

• We Refugees - Of the Right to Have Rights, Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

2015

• La leçon, Espace à vendre, Nice, 2015

• (et pour) quelques minutes de plus, la Générale en manufacture, Sèvre, France

• Le JCE Biennale 2015/2017, Montrouge, France

• L'Art-o-Rama, Show Room 2015, Marseille, France

• Zamin Time, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

• Zoom contemporary image art invitational exhibition, Glorious Plaza, Xi'an, China

• Loop Video, Barcelona, Spain

• Art Basel Hong Kong, Film sector, Hong Kong, China

• Fundamental Labor, KaoLa Space, Tianjin, China

• Pavillon blanc, Centre d’art de Colomier, France

• Traverse Vidéo 2015, Galerie Concha de Nazelle, Toulouse, France

• Brussels Cologne Contemporaries 2015, Brussels, Belgium

• Un monde léger et profond, Art Up 2015 (Carte Blanche à Stephane Corréard), Lille, France

2014

• FIAC, (OFF)ICIELLE, Cité de la Mode et du Désign (Stand de FMAC, Fond Municipal d'art contemporain de Paris), Paris, France

• Le commerce de la parole, Musée de Rochechouart, France

• The player, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

• Deux trois mouvement, Les Charpentiers de la Corse, Corsica, France

• La Comédie de l'Art, Fondation de doute, Ville de Blois, France

• 59e Salon de Montrouge, Ville de Montrouge, France

• Traverse Vidéo 2014, Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse, France

• Mauvaise herbe, Galerie La Vitrine, Limoges, France

• La bricologie, raumLABOR, Braunschweig, Germany

• ENTRACT 11, pad/ studio Loba (organisé par le collectif blast), Angers, France

• Collection Les Maitres, Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris, France

• Festival Vidéo Vidéo, Bourgogne, Paris, France

 

Performances

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2024

• The rising sun, Asia Now, Monnaie de paris, Paris, France

• Blowing a feather, Asymmetry Art Foundation, Asian Forum, official Collateral Events of the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia,  Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

• Blowing a feather (work in progress), Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, United States

2023

• Gozilla can't be killed, Macalline Center of Art, Shanghai, China

2021

• Quarantine diary, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China

• Fight Landscape, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China

• A better life, Aranya Art Centre, Qinghuangdao, China

• One rehearsal (live show), Cache Space, Beijing, China

2017

• Specters of Communism, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2016

• 12 minutes de performance, Rue française by Miss China, Paris, France

2015

• Miss Weather for the Plateau discussion 'Contemporary in the Making,' la Générale en manufacture, Sèvre, France

2014

• The Ceremony of Animal Liberation, Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris, France

• Professor Yao's Conference: The Sanzu Ding and its motif, in the "Partition Conference" program., Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France

• Street Therapy for the INACT Festival, Strasbourg, France

• Street Therapy (Opening Cocktail), Intervention in the city of Limoges, France.

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Residences

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2023

• New York Residency Program, Asian Cultural Concil, New York, United States

• The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

2021

• Today Art Museum residency program, Beijing, China

• Cache Space, Beijing, China

2016

• Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal

• The Artistic Residence House of Amarante, Portugal

• Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

2015

• Paradise, Nantes, France

• Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

2014

• Les charpentiers de la Corse, Corsica

• L'Atelier de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

• Cité internationale des arts (2014 – 2016), Paris, France

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