陈开
简介Biography
陈开（Kai Chen），1990年生于中国武汉。2012年获得湖北美术学院油画专业学士学位，2018年获得旧金山艺术学院硕士学位。2018年，他获得Headlands艺术中心研究奖；2019年获得斯沃琪艺术和平饭店艺术家驻地项目，2020年获得狮语画廊艺术家驻地项目。陈开的作品曾展出于多个艺博会与画廊展览，包括香港狮语画廊、上海ART021艺博会、旧金山Untitled艺博会、Headlands艺术中心、福特梅森艺术文化中心、Root Division艺术中心、Live Worms画廊、CARe Doug Adams画廊、旧金山艺术学院等。其作品被美国纽约、旧金山、洛杉矶、澳大利亚布里斯班及中国上海的多个私人收藏。
Chen Kai (b. 1990, Wuhan, China) received his BFA in Oil Painting from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2012 and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018. He currently lives and works in Shanghai, China. Chen's paintings employ pointillism as a way to record light, memory, and time. Beginning with transparent color grounds, layers of oil-paint and oil-stick dots gather slowly across the canvas. Over time, this accumulation forms an organic structure that holds the painting together, giving rise to surfaces that shift in density, variation, and a quiet sense of breath. Color is not used to create optical effects, but to build depth through layered contrasts and subtle shifts within analogous hues. Chen's work grow out of memories of light, water, and landscape. He is interested in how memory exists over time: layered, fluid, and constantly in motion. His paintings resist immediacy and fixed interpretation, unfolding instead through sustained looking. From a distance, the works appear as atmospheres; up close, they break down into countless individual color dots, each moving with its own cadence. Chen was awarded the Graduate Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2018. He participated in the Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency in 2019 and the Leo Gallery residency in 2021, and will join the Viafarini residency in Milan in 2026. His recent solo exhibitions include: Adriatic, Leo Gallery, Shanghai (2025); In Silence, Leo Gallery, Shanghai (2022); Love, Pride, Deep-fried Chicken, Leo Gallery, Shanghai (2021); and Supernova, Leo Gallery, Hong Kong (2021). His works are held in numerous significant private collections worldwide, including that of H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Aldar Group and Swatch and Peace Hotel Art Center, etc.
代表作Selected Works
创作系列Series
《亚得里亚》系列平台收录 6 件6 works on ArtMatters
展览履历Exhibitions
- 2025ADRIATIC 亚得里亚上海市徐汇区武康路376号武康庭内三层 · 狮語画廊Leo Gallery
艺见洞察ArtMatters Insights
代表作与创作Selected Works & Style
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Based on the structured artist profile, Chen Kai (b. 1990, Wuhan, China) works primarily in an abstract and experimental vein, combining acrylic, oil, and mixed media on canvas. His paintings often evoke atmospheres of memory, emotion, and the natural environment, frequently drawing on themes of seascapes, light, and transitional moments—such as dawn, midday, and dusk—as seen in his *Adriatic* series. His visual language balances gestural mark-making with layered fields of color, creating a dreamlike, introspective quality.
**Representative works** include:
- *Adriatic (After Dawn)* (2023, oil and oil pastel on linen)
- *Adriatic (Sunny Day)* (2023, oil on linen)
- *Under the Sun* (2023, acrylic, oil, and oil pastel on linen)
- *Gap 1*, *Gap 2*, *Gap 3* (2024, oil on linen)
These paintings illustrate his characteristic blend of lyrical abstraction and material sensitivity, where figure and landscape dissolve into pure sensation and time is suspended.
展览与收藏Exhibitions & Collections
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Chen Kai has exhibited at a number of venues and events. According to his profile, his exhibitions include presentations at **Leo Gallery Hong Kong**, the **ART021 Shanghai** art fair, the **Untitled San Francisco** art fair, the **Headlands Center for the Arts**, the **Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture**, **Root Division**, **Live Worms Gallery**, the **CARe Doug Adams Gallery**, and the **San Francisco Art Institute**. He also had a solo exhibition titled *ADRIATIC* at **Leo Gallery Shanghai** in 2025.
Regarding collections, the available information states that his works are held in private collections in **New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (USA), Brisbane (Australia), and Shanghai (China)**. No specific public institutions are listed as collectors.
