Today we’d like to introduce you to Shuai Xu. Them and their team share their story with us below:
Born in Henan, China, Xu Shuai graduated with a BFA in Painting from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University in California. As a multi-medium artist traversing multiple boundaries of culture, geography, and disciplines, Xu’s works engage with human emotions and life against the broad background of vanity and universality independent of identities and temporalities while exploring the possible alternatives for observing and living the macrocosm. In his artistic practice, the universe, science, and perception are recurring themes throughout every process of making and performing. With a current commitment to the contemporary experiments of oil paint and ready-made installations, Xu questions in a theatrical manner the fixated realities of Western societies while returning in a poetic way to the Chinese traditions of relativity and naturalism.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
This is not a completely smooth road. Until now, I have been trying to find cooperation opportunities with gallery, museums and so on so that more people can know my works. The last two years since the pandemic have been a little bit better for my artwork, and I founded the Whosmuseum Art Team, which aims to promote art into life. Our art team painted a lot of wall paintings and made some public sculptures in the past two years, which is also very important to me.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My works focus more on the invisible world, such as dreams, subconscious, the relationship between individuals and the universe and so on.
Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
We can make full use of network resources to better publicize our own works. Interestingly, the Internet itself is an invisible world, but it takes our limited visual area and makes it almost infinite.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.shuai-xu.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xushuai_studio/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuai-xu-171158211/
