Huang Yuxing is that kind of artist who relies on an instinctual nature to paint; and he does anything but hide from this instinct, he is equally as open about his worship of pop star Jay Chou or Marlene Dumas. With gloomy hues he manifests feelings of trepidation and the excitement of spying, creating paintings capable of arousing nervous hormonal palpitations from the very depths of our hearts.

Huang Yuxing venerates a high degree of freedom in his lifestyle; he enjoys travel and a consumer's lifestyle, and has a downcast and restrained manner in any social interaction. His hobby is raising cold- blooded animals, a past time that reveals a psychological repulsion to intimacy–– his lizards will never become attached, and likewise he never needs to get cuddly. This nature of lukewarm intimacy penetrates Huang Yuxing's works. His "Diary" series touches upon a broad range of content from internet suicide to a bird's eye view of Hainan island, each one is painted on a keyhole shaped board. No matter if the depicted landscape is a bedroom or the sky, viewers invariably become peeping toms, interlopers, and treated to at least one greedy glance via Huang Yuxing's flat keyholes. In 2007, he began using printing ink and spray paint on 25cm Ikea ready - made clocks in completing his series "When I Need Love". He attempts to lead viewers into spying onto a secret garden of desire - physical brutality, recreation and loneliness are equally represented within his unique painting vocabulary. Behind each painting, the endless tick-tock of the clocks are a cruel and vivid thread that pull these works together.

Huang Yuxing's goodness lies in his purity and truthfulness; he is never hypocritical and never evil, but is invariably naked, stimulating our senses with his innocent candor. As a queer artist, at the very least he can be like the great modernist masters, strive for a profound transformation of human life and fate.

Huang Yuxing

1983
Born in Beijing, China

2000
Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Mural Department

Currently lives and works in Beijing

Solo Exhibitions

2010
Light - Huang Yuxing's Drawing Exhibition, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Light - Huang Yuxing's Drawing Exhibition, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China

2008
Life History in Changing , Red Bridge Gallery H&H SPACE, Shanghai, China

2007
Hole, Star Gallery, Beijing, China

2003
Adventure, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China

Group Exhibitions

2010
DU- CROSSOVER, Around Space, Shanghai, China

2009
Weaving A Chinese Dream - Chinese Elements in New Generation Art, Star Gallery Beijing, China
From Zero to Hero, Star Gallery, Beijing, China

2008
Rebuild, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Looking for Me, Minsheng Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Youth China, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China
MAPPING ASIA 33 Young Asian Artists' Solo Shows, CIGE 2008, Beijing, China New Interface Ⅳ － Here comes Spring, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China

2007
A Generation far away from Center, 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2006
New Interface 2, Red Bridge Gallery, Shanghai, China & Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China Naughty Kids, Star Gallery, Beijing, China

2005
Next Station, Cartoon?, Star Gallery, Beijing, China & He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2002
Dialogue? 100 Years?, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China Midsummer Fruits: Nine Young Chinese Artists, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China Three Person Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China

2000
Second Generation, Yunfeng Gallery, Beijing, China