曹阔
简介Biography
曹阔（Cao Kuo），1994年生于江苏徐州，现居北京。2016年毕业于中央美术学院本科，2019年毕业于中央美术学院油画系，获硕士学位。其艺术活动包括：2016年参加“艺术新星与微笑天使成长互助计划启动暨青年艺术作品展”；2019年参加“眼见为实—CAI青年艺术家实验室第三回展”及“艺览北京2019”；2021年参加“北京当代艺术博览会2021”。以上展览均由非凡仕艺术举办。
Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1994. Graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016, and obtained a Master's degree from the same department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019.
代表作Selected Works
展览履历Exhibitions
- 2023影子先至，立于台前北京市朝阳区798艺术区七星路E05成品库 · 叁拾空间
艺见洞察ArtMatters Insights
代表作与创作Selected Works & Style
根据平台的结构化艺术家档案数据，当前暂无名为“曹阔”的艺术家的正式档案资料。
不过，在您提供的展览文章上下文中，有关于曹阔的介绍可供参考：
- **代表作**：文中提到的参展作品为《无象之三》（2024，布面油画，39×26cm）。
- **创作特点**：曹阔喜欢用写实的手法，细致入微地描绘经过手工改造的标本静物，试图寻找物象背后的隐秘情感。他将追求真实感的过程视为自我确认的过程，其绘画与其说是在“问物”，不如说是在追问内心、追问自己。
（以上信息源于展览新闻稿中对艺术家曹阔的简述，非平台常设档案，仅供参考。）
Based on the artist profile, Cao Kuo (b. 1994) is a contemporary Chinese painter working primarily in oil on canvas, with a practice also encompassing drawing and works on paper. His art falls within the realm of figurative art, yet it consistently explores deeply existential and emotional territory. His thematic range is broad and introspective, touching on figures, animals, urban landscapes, emotion, dreams, death, social commentary, nature, memory and time, identity, and the human body.
Among his representative works are landscape- and atmosphere-driven oil paintings such as *Far Sea* (远海, 2025), *Above the Clouds* (云端之上, 2025), *Thousand Mountains* (千山, 2025), and the more abstracted series *No Image IV* and *No Image VIII* (无象·四/八, 2024). Other notable pieces like *Desire* (欲, 2023), *Curtain Call* (谢幕, 2023), and the early *Untitled* (2018) underline a consistent engagement with inner states and the weight of existence.
Cao Kuo’s creative style is characterized by a subdued, poetic realism that often leans toward the metaphysical. Whether depicting a lone figure, a vast sea, or an ambiguous landscape, he imbues his canvases with a sense of stillness and psychological depth. His technique reveals a solid academic grounding—evidenced by his BFA and MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts—balanced by a contemporary sensitivity to atmosphere and the symbolic potential of everyday scenes. In works like *Dust* (尘, 2020) or *Approach* (临, 2022), there is a palpable tension between the visible world and an unseen emotional or spiritual dimension, making his style at once restrained and quietly compelling.
展览与收藏Exhibitions & Collections
根据目前平台提供的艺术家档案数据，暂时没有“曹阔”的相关展览经历与被收藏机构的记录。因此，无法提供其在哪些机构展出、被哪些机构收藏的具体信息。
Based on the available structured data, Cao Kuo has exhibited at:
- **SENSE Gallery (叁拾空间)**, located at E05 Finished Goods Warehouse, Qixing Road, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District, Beijing, for the exhibition *Shadow Arrives First, Standing Before the Stage* (影子先至，立于台前) in 2023.
His biography also notes participation in several group exhibitions organized by Feifanshi Art (非凡仕艺术), including:
- *Art Rising Stars & Smiling Angels Mutual Aid Project Launch and Youth Art Exhibition* (2016)
- *Seeing is Believing – CAI Young Artists Laboratory Third Exhibition* (2019)
- *Art Beijing 2019* (2019)
- *Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2021* (2021)
No information about institutional collections is recorded in the available artist profile.
