Biography
Yirui Fang is an artist from Shandong Province, China. His practice is based on exploring the balance between chaos and harmony, energy and matter, bodily experience and abstract thinking. In his works, Fang brings together the aesthetic and philosophical traditions of East and West: Baroque expression and the fluidity of modernism, the Chinese painting tradition, and the visual codes of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Rome. In his works, chaos and nature become interpenetrating forces striving for equilibrium. The artist develops his own visual language in which abstract lines, multilayered compositions, and the free breath of form create a sense of inner movement and becoming.

Education

• 2020–2024 — Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Italy
• 2015–2019 — “Lu Xun” Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA), Shenyang, China

Artistic Method and Position
Fang views art as a synthesis of emotional experience and intellectual understanding:
“Art is the result of uniting emotion and contemplation. It is important to feel the poetry of a work and allow it to evoke reflection and new meaning.” Fang finds points of convergence between Daoist philosophy, classical Chinese aesthetics, and Deleuzian post-structuralism, creating painting as a space of multilayered reality, where each level becomes breath, movement, and an open field for interpretation.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2025 — Contamination, Arturo Palomba Gallery, Dubai
• 2024 — Taming the Elements, JK & Triangle Project, Galleria Umberto Benappi, San Sicario, Turin
• 2024 — Taming the Elements, Triangle Gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Approdi Umbratili, AF Gallery, Bologna

Residencies

• 2024 — La Chapelle, Greece
• 2024 — JK & Triangle Project, Turin and San Sicario, Italy
• 2023–2024 — FABRICA, Treviso, Italy
• 2023 — PARATISSIMA, Turin, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025 — Prisma Art Prize (Honorable Mention), Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome
• 2025 — Premio Luigi Candiani SAC, Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Milan
• 2024 — COSMOSCOW, Triangle Gallery
• 2024 — Milan Design Week, The Address Gallery, Milan
• 2024 — Blooming in Embers, Fabrica, Treviso
• 2023 — 14th Biennial of Young Artists / Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, North Macedonia
• 2023 — Human Rights? #Hope, Fondazione Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto
• 2023 — Next Generation, Monfort Gallery, Slovenia
• 2023 — Venice Art Night / Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
• 2022 — MoCDA Digital Summer Show

Awards and Scholarships

• 2024 — Premio Luigi Candiani (Residency Prize), Italy
• 2023 — Arte pubblica e Metaverso MIRNArte (1st Prize, Visual Art)
• 2023 — Mediterranean Art Prize (3rd Edition)
• 2023 — Premio Combat Prize, Livorno
• 2022 — 27° SaturARTE (2nd Painting Prize), Genoa
• 2022 — Premio Viviani (Special Mention)
• 2022–2024 — Scholarship, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia