Xi Chen (b.85) is a versatile artist dedicated to crafting fictional worlds that explore contemporary and personal experiences.
He is an expert in painting and a maker of animation.
Xi Chen is among the few individuals in the world capable of single-handedly producing feature animations, from concept art, story and asset production, all aspects of sound, every frame of animation. Films that weren't supposed to be made can be made.
Xi Chen's previous feature animations have been honored in the Competition categories at prestigious festivals such as Annecy IAFF, Ottawa IAF, New Chitose Airport IAF, Oporto IFF, International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, Cartoons On The Bay, Anibar IAF, Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic de Ponent, ANIMA, FIRST IFF, and Denver Digerati, among others. Chicken Of The Mound was awarded the Jury Special Prize at the Seoul Independent Animation Festival among others. Additionally, many of Xi Chen's short animations have been selected by renowned festivals such as Ottawa IAF, VIENNA SHORTS, New Chitose Airport IAF, TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest, Fest Anča IAF, Athens ANIMFEST, Animist Tallinn, Animatricks IAF, Stuttgart IAF, and Rencontres internationales among others. Sometimes, two different works by Xi Chen are featured in the same year's edition, and Chen has achieved four Double Official Selections at various festivals.
https://vimeo.com/chenxifilm
FILMOGRAPHY
( FILMS THAT ARE WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PRODUCED, and MADE by Xi Chen )
2015 impure stars (Short Animation)
2015 i am your voices (Short Animation)
2015 Painting Collapsing (Short Animation)
2016 PEW (Short Animation)
2017 DOn’t catch me (Short Animation)
2017 Guo Guo (Short Animation)
2018 Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators (Feature Animation)
2020 Carrot Feeder (Short Animation)
2020 New Furniture of Little Swallow (Short Animation)
2020 NPC Has To Follow The Heart (Short Animation)
2020 Squirrel Fulfillment (Short Animation)
2021 Chicken Of The Mound (Feature Animation)
2021 Good Placement Of Seeds (Short Animation)
2022 my private volcano (Short Animation)
2024 The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant (short Animation)
MUSEUM SHOWS
2024 "Screening Project 1, Spring Chamber" Start Museum Shanghai
2021 "Rituals in Rituals of the Future" Yuz Museum Shanghai
2021 "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2019 "From Bauhaus to Our House" UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
2017 "Shanghai Project Seeds of Time" Shanghai Himalayas Museum
2017 "Moments and More" OCAT Shanghai
2016 "An All-Encompassing All Sounds" CAFA Art Museum
2016 "Take Me Out" K11 Art Museum
2015 "The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition" CAFA Art Museum
2015 "No Apple No Show" Shanghai V Art Center
2013 "Design Shanghai" Power Station of Art
2013 "Machine Vision" Shanghai V Art Center
2012 "TIME OF THE DRAGON" Rauma Art Museum
Festivals
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the RETROSPECTIVE program at the 2024 edition of the Stoptrik Festival.
Short Film "The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024.
Short Film "The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant” has been selected for the Competition program at Digerati Emergent Media Festival 2024. (9th festival Decode Recode!).
Short Film "My Private Volcano" has been selected for the Animated Short Film Competition of 23rd TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest. (October 17-22, 2023)
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at Digerati Emergent Media Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at Animist Tallinn 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Outlandish Competition series at Animatricks International Animation Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at ATHENS ANIMFEST 2023.
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Competition program at Supernova 7th Dimension of Denver Digerati. Starting Wednesday Sep. 21st @ 6 pm.
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for International Competition at ANIMA2022. Córdoba, Argentina (2022 10.04 -10.06).
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for Mirinae Road Competition at Seoul Indie-AniFest 2022 (2022 09.22 - 09.27).
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for The Official Feature Films Section at Galacticat 2022. Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic de Ponent. In cinema from August 15 to 21, 2022, Tàrrega.
“Chicken Of The Mound” has been selected to be part of the Feature Film Competition at the 13th edition of Anibar International Animation Festival, starting from the 13th until the 19th of July in the city of Peja, Kosovo.
Good Placement Of Seeds is selected for the competition program of the Animist Tallinn 2022. The film will be screened on the 18th of August at Cinema Sõprus in Tallinn, Estonia.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for the finalists of the Pulcinella Awards for the feature film category at Cartoons On The Bay (International Festival of Animation, Transmedia and Interactive Art Forms). From June 1rst to 5th, Pescara, 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for the non-competitive section at the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILMS, MAY 10 - 15, CZECH REPUBLIC. ANIFILM 2022.
Short Film “Carrot Feeder” has been selected for the Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films at the 15th edition of the International Animation Festival Fest Anča.
Short Film “Good Placement Of Seeds” has been selected for the World Panorama at the 15th edition of the International Animation Festival Fest Anč.
Short Film “Good Placement Of Seeds” has been selected for the international competition Animation Avantgarde at VIENNA SHORTS 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" screened at Image Forum ( Theater 1, January 7 ) ( Theater 1, April 2nd to April 8th ) 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Competition” at Fantaspoa - International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Official Section Fantasy Film” at Oporto International Film Festival – Fantasporto 2022.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected for Future Vision Festival - A celebration of unusual animation 異色アニメ映画祭 2021.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected and screened at Animae Caribe International Animation & Digital Media Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Feature Film Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021.
Short film "Squirrel Fulfillment” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021.
Short film "Good Placement Of Seeds" is selected for the World Panorama at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Feature Film Competition at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Contrechamp Feature Film Competition at Annecy 2021.
Feature film "Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators" was shortlisted at the FIRST International Film Festival 2018.
Short film "NPC Has To Follow The Heart" has been selected by
28th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film to take part in the special programme Animation of the Extreme.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been selected and screened at Festival Internacional de Animação da Bahia 2021.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been screened at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020.
Short film "PEW" has been screened at "CO-OPTING ENTITIES" IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands 2019.
Short film "Guo Guo" has been screened at "Film" Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2019.
Short film "A Single Life in Multiple lives" has been screened at "Looking for Mushrooms " Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2018.
Short film "Impure Stars" has been screened at "FILM data, algorithm and beyond" Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2017.
Short film "PEW" has been selected for "RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN new cinema and contemporary art" Gaîté Lyrique PARIS and Haus der Kulturen der Welt BERLIN, 2017.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "Mythos in Ink: A Symphony of Creatures and Contradictions", CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “Ideal Person”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
2016 “∞”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
2015 “Preserved Wilderness”, A307, Beijing
2014 “Perception of Home”, Home Inn, Beijing
2009 “New works by Chen Xi”, Museum of East China Normal University, Shanghai
Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2024
"Gangwon International Triennale 2024, Ecological Art from Beneath: Gangwon, Learning from the Ant Tunnels" Pyeongchang, South Korea
"Righteous Market" Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing
"Screening Project 1, Spring Chamber" Start Museum, Shanghai
"A Restless Heart", Cycle Space, Beijing
2023
"Walking Guides", Long March Independent Project, Beijing
2021
"Rituals in Rituals of the Future", YUZ Museum, Shanghai
"Contrechamp feature films competition of Annecy 2021", Pathé 4, Bonlieu Petite Salle, Pathé 2, Annecy, France
"Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021", Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
"New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020", Sapporo, Japan
"VIDEO XINTIANDI", West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
"Videotage Media Art Collection — Paranormal“, ONLINE
2019
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film”, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“30-min forecast”, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing
2018
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film”, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2017
“Closer to the Beautiful World”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
“Shanghai Project Chapter 2 – Seeds of Time”, Shanghai Himalayas Museum,
Shanghai “Moments and more”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, Shanghai
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film – Data, Algorithm and Beyond”, Art Basel Hong Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN new cinema and contemporary art”,
Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2016
“An All-Encompassing All Sounds”, Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts,
Beijing “Take Me Out”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
“BLAST!”, chi K11 Art Museum, MoCA Pavilion, Le Royal Méridien Shanghai Hu Bar & Lounge,
The Mix Place, CREATER SPACE | Hua Shan, CITIC Square, Shanghai
“Community of Celibates”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2015
“Evolution of Model”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
“0.10”, Unicorn Centre for Art, Beijing
“Absurd Utopias-Cine City”, Brighton Film Festival, Brighton, United Kingdom
“No Apple No Show Second Part”, We Gallery, Shanghai
“No Apple No Show First Part”, V Art Center, Shanghai
“Twisted Modernist Fantasies”, Intelligentsia, Beijing
“Ode to Joy”, Star Gallery, Beijing
“The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition”, Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2014
“Ministry of Truth II: The Factitious and Its Realm”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
“Uneasy Trip in Asia 2014”, Star Gallery, Beijing
2013
“Design Shanghai”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
“Machine Vision”, V Art Center, Shanghai
“Nonexistent Reality”, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
2012
“Time of the Dragon”, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
“The New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2011
“Art Exchange with Arkansas State University”, Museum of Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, USA
“Pattern-Vortex-Encounter”, Space Station, Beijing
Awards:
Seoul Independent Animation Festival • Jury Special Prize • Chicken of the Mound
[Mirinae Road Jury’s Comment]
This film combines a dystopia and utopia. A utopia can mean a perfect place with the best conditions, but it can also mean a place that doesn't exist. Meanwhile, a dystopia doesn't only exist in science fiction but is being experienced in the real world all around the globe. This film unfolds in a space and time that can be called "virtual," which is something that is artificial but can also be something that is "latent" or exists "in actuality." This animation shows vision in combining its imagery and narrative in an experimental and original way, making us look forward to the director's next work. The jury special prize is awarded to a film that was woven together with the talent and passion of an independent artist. - SHIN Eun-shil
Focal Competition of Supernova 7th Dimension
3rd Place: Xi Chen for “Chicken of the Mound”
[Comment]
There’s almost no way to adequately describe the visual colossus that is Chicken of the Mound, it is a creation of ceaseless, astounding levels of visual creativity and digital prowess in motion-art. - Ivar Zeile (Founder, Artistic Director of Denver Digerati)
Chicken of the Mound won the "Feature Animation Special Mention" at ANIMA 2022 - Córdoba International Animation Festival in Argentina.
[email protected]
He is an expert in painting and a maker of animation.
Xi Chen is among the few individuals in the world capable of single-handedly producing feature animations, from concept art, story and asset production, all aspects of sound, every frame of animation. Films that weren't supposed to be made can be made.
Xi Chen's previous feature animations have been honored in the Competition categories at prestigious festivals such as Annecy IAFF, Ottawa IAF, New Chitose Airport IAF, Oporto IFF, International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, Cartoons On The Bay, Anibar IAF, Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic de Ponent, ANIMA, FIRST IFF, and Denver Digerati, among others. Chicken Of The Mound was awarded the Jury Special Prize at the Seoul Independent Animation Festival among others. Additionally, many of Xi Chen's short animations have been selected by renowned festivals such as Ottawa IAF, VIENNA SHORTS, New Chitose Airport IAF, TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest, Fest Anča IAF, Athens ANIMFEST, Animist Tallinn, Animatricks IAF, Stuttgart IAF, and Rencontres internationales among others. Sometimes, two different works by Xi Chen are featured in the same year's edition, and Chen has achieved four Double Official Selections at various festivals.
https://vimeo.com/chenxifilm
FILMOGRAPHY
( FILMS THAT ARE WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PRODUCED, and MADE by Xi Chen )
2015 impure stars (Short Animation)
2015 i am your voices (Short Animation)
2015 Painting Collapsing (Short Animation)
2016 PEW (Short Animation)
2017 DOn’t catch me (Short Animation)
2017 Guo Guo (Short Animation)
2018 Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators (Feature Animation)
2020 Carrot Feeder (Short Animation)
2020 New Furniture of Little Swallow (Short Animation)
2020 NPC Has To Follow The Heart (Short Animation)
2020 Squirrel Fulfillment (Short Animation)
2021 Chicken Of The Mound (Feature Animation)
2021 Good Placement Of Seeds (Short Animation)
2022 my private volcano (Short Animation)
2024 The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant (short Animation)
MUSEUM SHOWS
2024 "Screening Project 1, Spring Chamber" Start Museum Shanghai
2021 "Rituals in Rituals of the Future" Yuz Museum Shanghai
2021 "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021" Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2019 "From Bauhaus to Our House" UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
2017 "Shanghai Project Seeds of Time" Shanghai Himalayas Museum
2017 "Moments and More" OCAT Shanghai
2016 "An All-Encompassing All Sounds" CAFA Art Museum
2016 "Take Me Out" K11 Art Museum
2015 "The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition" CAFA Art Museum
2015 "No Apple No Show" Shanghai V Art Center
2013 "Design Shanghai" Power Station of Art
2013 "Machine Vision" Shanghai V Art Center
2012 "TIME OF THE DRAGON" Rauma Art Museum
Festivals
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the RETROSPECTIVE program at the 2024 edition of the Stoptrik Festival.
Short Film "The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024.
Short Film "The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant” has been selected for the Competition program at Digerati Emergent Media Festival 2024. (9th festival Decode Recode!).
Short Film "My Private Volcano" has been selected for the Animated Short Film Competition of 23rd TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest. (October 17-22, 2023)
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at Digerati Emergent Media Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at Animist Tallinn 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Outlandish Competition series at Animatricks International Animation Festival 2023.
Short Film "My Private Volcano" is selected for the Official Selection at ATHENS ANIMFEST 2023.
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Competition program at Supernova 7th Dimension of Denver Digerati. Starting Wednesday Sep. 21st @ 6 pm.
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for International Competition at ANIMA2022. Córdoba, Argentina (2022 10.04 -10.06).
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for Mirinae Road Competition at Seoul Indie-AniFest 2022 (2022 09.22 - 09.27).
"Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for The Official Feature Films Section at Galacticat 2022. Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic de Ponent. In cinema from August 15 to 21, 2022, Tàrrega.
“Chicken Of The Mound” has been selected to be part of the Feature Film Competition at the 13th edition of Anibar International Animation Festival, starting from the 13th until the 19th of July in the city of Peja, Kosovo.
Good Placement Of Seeds is selected for the competition program of the Animist Tallinn 2022. The film will be screened on the 18th of August at Cinema Sõprus in Tallinn, Estonia.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for the finalists of the Pulcinella Awards for the feature film category at Cartoons On The Bay (International Festival of Animation, Transmedia and Interactive Art Forms). From June 1rst to 5th, Pescara, 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for the non-competitive section at the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILMS, MAY 10 - 15, CZECH REPUBLIC. ANIFILM 2022.
Short Film “Carrot Feeder” has been selected for the Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films at the 15th edition of the International Animation Festival Fest Anča.
Short Film “Good Placement Of Seeds” has been selected for the World Panorama at the 15th edition of the International Animation Festival Fest Anč.
Short Film “Good Placement Of Seeds” has been selected for the international competition Animation Avantgarde at VIENNA SHORTS 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" screened at Image Forum ( Theater 1, January 7 ) ( Theater 1, April 2nd to April 8th ) 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Competition” at Fantaspoa - International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre 2022.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Official Section Fantasy Film” at Oporto International Film Festival – Fantasporto 2022.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected for Future Vision Festival - A celebration of unusual animation 異色アニメ映画祭 2021.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected and screened at Animae Caribe International Animation & Digital Media Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" has been selected for “Feature Film Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021.
Short film "Squirrel Fulfillment” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021.
Short film "Good Placement Of Seeds" is selected for the World Panorama at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Feature Film Competition at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021.
Feature film "Chicken Of The Mound" is selected for the Contrechamp Feature Film Competition at Annecy 2021.
Feature film "Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators" was shortlisted at the FIRST International Film Festival 2018.
Short film "NPC Has To Follow The Heart" has been selected by
28th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film to take part in the special programme Animation of the Extreme.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been selected and screened at Festival Internacional de Animação da Bahia 2021.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been screened at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021.
Short film "New Furniture of Little Swallow” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020.
Short film "Carrot Feeder” has been selected for “International Competition” at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020.
Short film "PEW" has been screened at "CO-OPTING ENTITIES" IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands 2019.
Short film "Guo Guo" has been screened at "Film" Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2019.
Short film "A Single Life in Multiple lives" has been screened at "Looking for Mushrooms " Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2018.
Short film "Impure Stars" has been screened at "FILM data, algorithm and beyond" Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition centre Theatre, Hong Kong, 2017.
Short film "PEW" has been selected for "RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN new cinema and contemporary art" Gaîté Lyrique PARIS and Haus der Kulturen der Welt BERLIN, 2017.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "Mythos in Ink: A Symphony of Creatures and Contradictions", CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “Ideal Person”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
2016 “∞”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
2015 “Preserved Wilderness”, A307, Beijing
2014 “Perception of Home”, Home Inn, Beijing
2009 “New works by Chen Xi”, Museum of East China Normal University, Shanghai
Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2024
"Gangwon International Triennale 2024, Ecological Art from Beneath: Gangwon, Learning from the Ant Tunnels" Pyeongchang, South Korea
"Righteous Market" Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing
"Screening Project 1, Spring Chamber" Start Museum, Shanghai
"A Restless Heart", Cycle Space, Beijing
2023
"Walking Guides", Long March Independent Project, Beijing
2021
"Rituals in Rituals of the Future", YUZ Museum, Shanghai
"Contrechamp feature films competition of Annecy 2021", Pathé 4, Bonlieu Petite Salle, Pathé 2, Annecy, France
"Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021", Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
"New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020", Sapporo, Japan
"VIDEO XINTIANDI", West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
"Videotage Media Art Collection — Paranormal“, ONLINE
2019
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film”, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“30-min forecast”, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing
2018
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film”, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2017
“Closer to the Beautiful World”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
“Shanghai Project Chapter 2 – Seeds of Time”, Shanghai Himalayas Museum,
Shanghai “Moments and more”, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, Shanghai
“Art Basel Hong Kong Film – Data, Algorithm and Beyond”, Art Basel Hong Kong Convention &
Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN new cinema and contemporary art”,
Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2016
“An All-Encompassing All Sounds”, Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts,
Beijing “Take Me Out”, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
“BLAST!”, chi K11 Art Museum, MoCA Pavilion, Le Royal Méridien Shanghai Hu Bar & Lounge,
The Mix Place, CREATER SPACE | Hua Shan, CITIC Square, Shanghai
“Community of Celibates”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
2015
“Evolution of Model”, A+ Contemporary, Shanghai
“0.10”, Unicorn Centre for Art, Beijing
“Absurd Utopias-Cine City”, Brighton Film Festival, Brighton, United Kingdom
“No Apple No Show Second Part”, We Gallery, Shanghai
“No Apple No Show First Part”, V Art Center, Shanghai
“Twisted Modernist Fantasies”, Intelligentsia, Beijing
“Ode to Joy”, Star Gallery, Beijing
“The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition”, Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2014
“Ministry of Truth II: The Factitious and Its Realm”, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
“Uneasy Trip in Asia 2014”, Star Gallery, Beijing
2013
“Design Shanghai”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
“Machine Vision”, V Art Center, Shanghai
“Nonexistent Reality”, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
2012
“Time of the Dragon”, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
“The New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2011
“Art Exchange with Arkansas State University”, Museum of Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, USA
“Pattern-Vortex-Encounter”, Space Station, Beijing
Awards:
Seoul Independent Animation Festival • Jury Special Prize • Chicken of the Mound
[Mirinae Road Jury’s Comment]
This film combines a dystopia and utopia. A utopia can mean a perfect place with the best conditions, but it can also mean a place that doesn't exist. Meanwhile, a dystopia doesn't only exist in science fiction but is being experienced in the real world all around the globe. This film unfolds in a space and time that can be called "virtual," which is something that is artificial but can also be something that is "latent" or exists "in actuality." This animation shows vision in combining its imagery and narrative in an experimental and original way, making us look forward to the director's next work. The jury special prize is awarded to a film that was woven together with the talent and passion of an independent artist. - SHIN Eun-shil
Focal Competition of Supernova 7th Dimension
3rd Place: Xi Chen for “Chicken of the Mound”
[Comment]
There’s almost no way to adequately describe the visual colossus that is Chicken of the Mound, it is a creation of ceaseless, astounding levels of visual creativity and digital prowess in motion-art. - Ivar Zeile (Founder, Artistic Director of Denver Digerati)
Chicken of the Mound won the "Feature Animation Special Mention" at ANIMA 2022 - Córdoba International Animation Festival in Argentina.
[email protected]