November 8, 1968
Born in Xiangyang city, Hubei province
The Han nationality
Department of arts and crafts, central China normal university
She now lives and works in Beijing
As one of the earliest female painters in China who devoted herself to abstract painting in the late 1990s, du jie’s creative practice is centered on the beautiful lines painted on canvas and paper, exploring and visualizing the personal, psychological and subconscious world, thus delineating the inner flow of consciousness.
Du jie usually dips a brush into the solid acrylic paint to carefully draw a continuous complex loop of curves, which is an infinite cycle and full of freedom and constraints at the same time, and the work is usually named with the creation of the beginning and the end time, highlighting the concept of time.
Unlike other Asian conceptual artists such as kawara wen or xie deqing, she did not discuss time in artistic practice, thus triggering political discussions at that time or discussing personal identity in a non-native context. Instead, she exposed the inner world of artists through abstract visual expression in a more introspective, private and aesthetic way.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | sixteen return, Beijing zonal space Beijing |
| 2012 | The line without end, Beijing pan-space Beijing |
| 2008 | farewell, Beijing mailer gallery Beijing |
| 2004 | journey of gratitude Mailer gallery, Switzerland |
Group exhibitions
| 2019 | The Subtle Relationships, Shanhai Art Museum, Beijing
New abstraction: The second exhibition, HDM gallery Beijing |
| 2018 | All This – coexistence Nan hai Art Center, San Francisco, USA
Second exhibition of abstract painting, Slake Gallery no. 9 Teck street, Essen, Germany |
| 2016 | Out of the peony pavilion: Chinese contemporary women art exhibition, Russian national museum, st. Petersburg |
| 2015 | Chinese contemporary abstract, Gallerie Frank Schlag & Cie.Germany |
| 2014 | Beijing international design exhibition Beijing hotel convention center Beijing
1964-2014 Paris invitational exhibition of works by 50 contemporary Chinese artists in 50 years of france-china friendship , Paris |
| 2012 | The first weibo exhibition, Song zhuang Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2011 | Red embroidery, Beijing 110 space, Beijing
Slow art, Chinese abstract singh museum, Netherlands 10 years of the white rabbit, Sydney, Australia |
| 2010 | Purity·Archive of invitational exhibition of contemporary art, Beijing museum of contemporary art, Beijing |
| 2008 | Women’s art exhibition in Songzhuang, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2007 | Living in Songzhuang, songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing
Mahjong – hickey collection of Chinese contemporary art, Modern art museum, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2006 | Mah-jongg – hickey collection of Chinese contemporary art, Hamburg art museum, Germany |
| 2005 | Mah-jongg – hickey collection of Chinese contemporary art, Bern gallery, Switzerland |
| 2004 | Silk web: a new Chinese artist, meyler gallery, Switzerland
Asian women’s art exhibition, Tokyo women’s fine arts institute, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Rosary beads and brush strokes, Beijing Tokyo art project, Beijing |
| 2002 | Contemporary oil painting exhibition of Beijing female artists, Beijing red square show, Beijing |
Publications
2015 Chinese abstract art
2010 Mahjong – xike collection of Chinese contemporary art
2010 White rabbit Chinese contemporary collection
2009 Slow art
2008 Goodbye
2003 Rosary and brush strokes
