Artist Biography

Fang Xu 方旭

Born in China in 1987, Fang Xu graduated from the Sculpture Departmentof Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. He currently lives and works inPrinceton and Beijing. Fang is a prominent sculptor in the Chinese contemporaryart scene, whose works merge the structural rigor of Cubism with the expressiveintensity of Expressionism, forming a distinctive artistic language he definesas Linear Cubism.

He has received multiple national sculpture awards, and his works are in the collections of the German-Chinese Young Artists Development Fund, theChangchun Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Several of his major pieces were selected for the “Star Project – Young Contemporary ArtistsExhibition” and have toured internationally.

1987年生于中国,2013年毕业于鲁迅美术学院雕塑系,现工作、生活于普林斯顿与北京。方旭是中国当代艺术界备受瞩目的雕塑家之一,其作品融合立体主义的结构精神与表现主义的情感张力,形成独具个性的“线性立体主义”语言。

他多次荣获中国重要雕塑奖项,作品被德中青年艺术家发展基金、长春艺术收藏馆及洛杉矶美术馆等机构收藏,多件作品入选“中国明星工程”并随国际巡展展出。

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