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Yue Minjun
ue Minjun (1962, Heilongjiang Province) is one of the chief proponents, along with Fang Lijun, of the Cynical Realist movement. His colorful and vibrant paintings of men with full-toothed laughter are now some of the most popular contemporary art works on the market. One of his works sold for over $4 million, the highest price ever paid for a work by a Chinese contemporary artist. Yue is now a global art star. His portrait has appeared in the New York Times and on the cover of Time magazine's Asia edition. His works, which appear to be self-portraits,show legions of cloned figures apparently caught in bouts of hilarious laughter with their mouths wide open and their eyes tightly closed. But the portraits are actually intended to be false expressions of joy masking the trauma and despair that swept China in the early 1990s, when youthful idealism gave way to cynical realism. Yue Minjun now lives and works in Beijing.



2000 A.D. , 2000, Painted polyester, 25 figures: 186×60×46cm



Vermeer-The Milkmaid, 2002, Oil on canvas, 143×122cm



Seeking for Terrorists, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 219×400cm



Seeking for Terrorists, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 220×300cm



Seeking for Terrorists, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 230×295cm



Look for, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 200×400cm



Laughing Across the Country, 1999, Brush drawing on paper, 108×78cm



sculpture



Hats,2004,oil on canvas,82×82cm



The Search for Terrorists-2



The Search for Terrorists-6,2006,220×300cm



Green Hat, 2004, Oil on canvas, 58×75cm



Backyard Pond,2006,220×292cm



Red No.3



Gweong-Gweong,1992,oil on canvas,182×250cm



On the Rostrum of Tian An Men, 1991, Oil on canvas, 190×200cm



The Scarecrow, 1996, Oil on canvas, 50×65cm



Eternal Goose,1998,180×210cm



Love Bird-2, 1995, Oil on canvas, 140×140cm

Exhibition list
Solo Exhibitions:

2007
“Looking for Art”——Yue Minjun,Beijing Commune,Beijing,China

2006
"Yue Minjun: Manipulation Series", Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France

Reproduction Icons: Yue Minjun works,2004-2006,He Xiangning Art Museum,Shenzhen,China

"Looking for Terrorists", Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

2005
Post Auratic Self Portrayal of Yue Minjun,CP Foundation,Jakarta,Indonesia

2004
Yue Minjun:Sculpture&Paintings,Schoeni Art Gallery,Hong Kong

2003
Yue Minjun:Beijing Ironicals,Prüss&Ochs Gallery,Berlin,Germany

Yue Minjun,Meile Gallery,Switzerland

2002
Soaking In Silly Laughter:one of Art Singapore 2002,Soobin Art Gallery,Singapore

Yue Minjun:Handling,One World Art Center,Beijing,China

2000
Red Ocean-Yue Minjun,Chinese Contemporary,London,England

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