# Chen Yujun

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> Chen Yujun (陈彧君) was born in 1976 in Putian, Fujian, and lives and works in Shanghai. This is his own site: recent works, the exhibitions he selects, and the galleries that represent or hold him. It is his house, not a shop, not a catalogue raisonné, and not the official gallery. No prices. Photographs are works published by Arario Gallery. This site is managed by ABM AI & BRANDOMINATION. This file does not grant crawl rights. Crawl rules are in robots.txt.

Chen Yujun (陈彧君). Born 1976, Putian, Fujian. Lives in Shanghai. China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Brother and sometime collaborator: Chen Yufan (陈彧凡).

## Pages

- [Home](https://chenyujun.art/): The house. What is open, recent works, and a first row of galleries.
- [Works](https://chenyujun.art/works): Paintings and collages on this site.
- [Galleries](https://chenyujun.art/galleries): Directory. Represents, holds, or hosted. The word on the site is gallery, not chapter, except when quoting the 2022 exhibition ARTHOUSER.
- [Exhibitions](https://chenyujun.art/exhibitions): Yujun’s selection. Not the whole CV.
- [CollaX 跨界合作](https://chenyujun.art/collax): Houses he works with outside the gallery. Published seats: Yangyun, Aman Yangyun, Youwei, Juzhi. In the room, no published object yet: Shang Xia, Zhuoyu. Not a shop.
- [Story](https://chenyujun.art/story): Short public biography.
- [In/Space](https://chenyujun.art/inspace): Shanghai residence. Reserved visit only. Not a street address. Twelve studios across twenty-three years, counted by In/Space.

## Works

- [A Midsummer Dream 仲夏之梦](https://chenyujun.art/works/midsummer): 2024–2026. Dream. Recorded with Arario Gallery. Titles include No.260609 (2026) and NO.251002 (2025). The 2026 portfolio also lists 2024 sheets: No.1, 230 × 300 cm, and No.2, 200 × 300 cm, mixed media on canvas; and acrylics NO.240722 and NO.240802, each 228 × 292 cm, NO.240909, 200 × 300 cm, and NO.241017, 235 × 300 cm.
- [L'Étranger 局外人](https://chenyujun.art/works/etranger): 2024–2026. Outsider. Recorded with Arario Gallery. Includes NO.25260226 (2026), NO.250923 (2025), NO.241226 (2024), and NO.24250216 (2024–2025), multiple materials on watercolor paper, 100 × 150 cm. The 2026 portfolio adds NO.241026 (2024), 150 × 100 cm, NO.250313 (2025), 65 × 100 cm, and a 2022 sheet, 302 × 266 cm. NO.241226 stays.
- [First Lunar Month 正月](https://chenyujun.art/works/lunar): 2025. Ritual. First Lunar Month 2007–2008, dated 2025 on the Arario record. A return to the years the Ritual works began.
- [Growth 生长](https://chenyujun.art/works/growth): 2021–2025. Forest. Growth No.250916 (2025) is on the Arario record. The museum exhibition of the same name, Growth: Continuity and Variation, was at Guangdong Museum of Art in 2021. Sheng Zhang at Long Museum West Bund opened in 2021. The 2026 portfolio describes the series as his own ink landscapes cut into scraps, set again — side by side, through one another, upside down — until they grow back.
- [Time Forest 时间森林](https://chenyujun.art/works/forest): 2025. Forest. Time Forest No.251215 (2025), recorded with Arario Gallery.
- [Our Homeland, Ourselves 家园与我们](https://chenyujun.art/works/homeland): 2024. House. Our Homeland, Ourselves No.241027, 2024. Comprehensive material on watercolour paper and wood, 100 × 55 cm. Arario Gallery, via Ocula.
- [Sea Flowers 海上花](https://chenyujun.art/works/sea): 2022. Dream. 海上花 NO.20220816 (2022), recorded with Arario Gallery.
- [The First Scenery 第一道风景](https://chenyujun.art/works/scenery): 2021. Map. The First Scenery NO.20218126 (2021), recorded with Arario Gallery.
- [Space of 11 Square Meters 11平方米的空间](https://chenyujun.art/works/eleven): 2018–2019. House. Shown with Each Single Self at Arario Gallery, Seoul, 9 January – 22 February 2020.
- [Temporary Building 临时建筑 / 错屋](https://chenyujun.art/works/temporary): 2014–2020. House. Temporary Building (2014–2020) and the Wooden House / 错屋 works (2015–2019) are on the Arario record. The temporary room is also the spine of ARTHOUSER at Long Museum Chongqing, 2022.
- [Asia Map 亚洲地图](https://chenyujun.art/works/asiamap): 2008–2019. Map. Includes Asia Map No. 190611 (2019), Asia Map – Illusion No.1 (2019), and Asia Map No. 180301 (2018), on the Arario record. The 2026 portfolio carries the series back to 2008: No.14, No.5, and No.080925 (2008); No.140711 (2014); No.201507, No.150907 (266 × 142 cm), No.150423, No.150215, and No.151206 (2015); No.160827 (2016); and No.190120 (2019), 209 × 91.5 cm, with an old door.
- [Unstable Faith 摇摆的信仰](https://chenyujun.art/works/faith): 2019. Ritual. Unstable Faith (2019), recorded with Arario Gallery.
- [Room 502 502房间](https://chenyujun.art/works/room): 2017. House. Room 502 No.171110 (2017), on the Arario record. The same season as The River Never Remembers / The House Cannot Forget in Shanghai.
- [The Mulan Never Remembers 木兰溪](https://chenyujun.art/works/mulan): 2008–2017. Ritual. The Mulan (Magnolia) River runs through Putian and has organised the work since 2008. Solo exhibitions include Mulan River – Unsettled (Zhong Gallery, Berlin, 2012), Mulan River – Cuò (Petah Tikva Museum of Art, 2017), and The River Never Remembers (Arario Gallery, Shanghai, 2017). Rite / 仪式 is dated 2014 on the Arario record.
- [Each Single Self 每个自己](https://chenyujun.art/works/eachself): 2007–2020. Self. Early works dated 2007 on the Arario record. The solo of this name, more than thirty newer works, opened Arario Gallery Seoul on 9 January 2020.
- [Wedding Banquet 喜宴](https://chenyujun.art/works/banquet): 2018–2024. Ritual. Wedding Banquet No.4 (2018), 200 × 300 cm, acrylic on canvas, recorded with Arario Gallery. A related Banquet painting was discussed in Frieze’s 2017 review of the Shanghai rooms. The 2026 portfolio also lists No.181002 (2018), 200 × 110 cm, two panels; No.6 (2019); No.230425 (2023), on paper; No.231207 (2023); and No.231205, No.240227, and No.240328 (2024), the last 280 × 300 cm.
- [L’Exil et le Royaume 流放与王国](https://chenyujun.art/works/exile): 2022. Mediterranean. L’Exil et le Royaume, 150 × 224 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio, in the Mediterranean body of work.
- [Caligula 卡利古拉](https://chenyujun.art/works/caligula): 2022. Mediterranean. Caligula, 150 × 266 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [The Absurd Walls 荒谬的墙](https://chenyujun.art/works/walls): 2022. Mediterranean. The Absurd Walls, 150 × 225 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [Le Petit Prince 小王子](https://chenyujun.art/works/prince): 2022. Mediterranean. Le Petit Prince, 302 × 266 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. The 2026 portfolio ties Terre des Hommes to Saint-Exupéry. This sheet is not that one.
- [Regeneration 再生](https://chenyujun.art/works/regen): 2023. Mediterranean. Regeneration No.230422, 150 × 266 cm, 2023. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio. This painting is not the 31 December 2024 Regeneration evening with Youwei.
- [Terre des Hommes 人的大地](https://chenyujun.art/works/terre): 2025. Mediterranean. Terre des Hommes No.250301, 56 × 100 cm, 2025. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. Named with Fluid in Forms. Not the L’Étranger frame from that exhibition. The sheet here is from the 2026 portfolio.
- [L’État de Siège 围城状态](https://chenyujun.art/works/siege): 2022. Mediterranean. L’État de Siège, 151 × 266 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [From the South Blows a Mild Breeze 凯风自南](https://chenyujun.art/works/breeze): 2022. Poem. From the South Blows a Mild Breeze, 214 × 160 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on linen. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [Behold by the Riverside 瞻彼淇奥](https://chenyujun.art/works/riverside): 2022. Poem. Behold by the Riverside No.2, 200 × 110 cm × 3, 2022. Multiple materials on paper. The portfolio also lists No.1, two panels, the same year. This picture is No.2.
- [The Shape of Hometown 家乡的形状](https://chenyujun.art/works/shape): 2023. Poem. The Shape of Hometown No.20230616, 160 × 260 cm, 2023. Multiple materials on paper. From the 2026 portfolio. A separate sheet, 50 × 288 cm, carries the same Chinese title.
- [The Shape of Hometown, a long sheet 家乡的形状，长卷](https://chenyujun.art/works/shape-long): 2023. Poem. The Shape of Hometown, 50 × 288 cm, 2023. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. Same Chinese title as No.20230616, a different sheet. Not Our Homeland, Ourselves No.241027.
- [Unbrageous Tree of Sweet Pear 蔽芾甘棠](https://chenyujun.art/works/pear): 2022. Poem. Unbrageous Tree of Sweet Pear, 200 × 110 cm × 2, 2022. Multiple materials on linen. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder 如三秋兮](https://chenyujun.art/works/absence): 2022. Poem. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, 168 × 151 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [My Lord Cannot Be Seen 未见君子](https://chenyujun.art/works/lord): 2022. Poem. My Lord Cannot Be Seen, 202 × 217 cm, 2022. Multiple materials on watercolour paper. From the 2026 portfolio.
- [Nine Songs 九歌](https://chenyujun.art/works/ninesongs): 2014–2022. Poem. Nine Songs, 200 × 140 cm × 10, 2014–2022. Multiple materials on linen. From the 2026 portfolio.

## Galleries and museums

- [Arario Gallery Shanghai 阿拉里奥画廊 上海](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai): Shanghai. Represents. The living floor. This is the gallery where the practice is speaking in public right now.
- [Arario Gallery Seoul 阿拉里奥画廊 首尔](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-seoul): Seoul. Represents. The gallery that opened a year with the self, counted one by one.
- [Arario Gallery Cheonan 阿拉里奥画廊 天安](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-cheonan): Cheonan. Hosted. A gallery of wind. Beijing weather, installed inland in Korea.
- [Long Museum, Shanghai 龙美术馆 西岸](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/long-shanghai): Shanghai. Holds. West Bund. Two solos, and a place on the public collection lists.
- [Long Museum, Chongqing 龙美术馆 重庆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/long-chongqing): Chongqing. Hosted. Twelve studios, told as twelve chapters. The exhibition was already a house plan.
- [M+ Sigg Collection M+ 希克收藏](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/mplus): Hong Kong. Holds. M+ Sigg Collection. Named on several public lists. No object page on M+ itself.
- [Brooklyn Museum 布鲁克林博物馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/brooklyn): New York. Holds. Brooklyn Museum. On Eli Klein’s list and on Tang’s. No accession here.
- [LACMA 洛杉矶郡艺术博物馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/lacma): Los Angeles. Holds. LACMA is on the 2025 list. Another Place, 2015, was not this museum.
- [DSL Collection DSL 艺术基金会](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/dsl): Paris. Holds. DSL Collection, Paris. Named on several lists. A private holding, not a shop.
- [White Rabbit Gallery 白兔收藏](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/white-rabbit): Sydney. Holds. White Rabbit, Sydney. Their own artist page, plus I Loved You in 2022.
- [Guangdong Museum of Art 广东美术馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/guangdong): Guangzhou. Holds. Guangdong Museum of Art. A 2021 solo, and a place on the 2025 list.
- [Yuz Museum 余德耀美术馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/yuz): Shanghai. Holds. Yuz Museum, on the same West Bund water. Named on several lists. 洄游, 2023, is on the portfolio.
- [He Xiangning Art Museum 何香凝美术馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/hexiangning): Shenzhen. Holds. He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen. On Eli Klein’s list since before the 2025 round.
- [He Art Museum 和美术馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/hehongyi): Foshan. Holds. He Art Museum, 和美术馆, Shunde, Foshan. The later name. The older spelling stays visible.
- [TANK Shanghai TANK 上海](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/tank): Shanghai. Holds. TANK Shanghai. On the 2025 list. Not on the Eli Klein list checked here.
- [Deji Art Museum 德基艺术博物馆](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/deji): Nanjing. Holds. Deji Art Museum, Nanjing. On the 2025 list. Not on the wall of the current program.
- [BMCA 尧山当代艺术基金会](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/bmca): Austria. Holds. Blue Mountain Contemporary Art. Their artist page, and a 2023 exhibition with the collection.
- [Tang Contemporary Art 当代唐人艺术中心](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/tang): Beijing. Hosted. A Beijing gallery with a long table: solos, a white room in Hong Kong, a Singapore group.
- [Rén Space 人空间](https://chenyujun.art/galleries/ren): Shanghai. Hosted. A project space in the same city as the residence.

## Exhibitions on this site

- Where Does the Water Go (Group), Arario Gallery, Shanghai, 11 September – 31 October 2026. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai. On the floor now. Arario asks where a river begins, what it passes, and where it joins. Press notes ran in Meer (12 September 2026) and Asian Art Contemporary (18 September 2026).
- The Rebellious Table (Group), CoBrA Gallery, Shanghai, 20 December 2025 – 28 February 2026. Yujun’s selection. A Shanghai table, recorded by Artfacts at CoBrA Gallery. The banquet, still refusing to sit still.
- I, We (Solo), Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, 11 October 2025 – 4 January 2026. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/long-shanghai. Yujun’s selection. His latest Long Museum solo, curated by Cui Cancan: more than thirty paintings, installations and sculptures made after 2020, told in reverse as The Outsider, Displaced Spaces, and Nature. The third Long Museum solo in five years, after Sheng Zhang and ARTHOUSER.
- Light and Dwelling (Group), Aman Yangyun, Shanghai, 2025. A duo with He Duoling, 灵光与栖居, at Aman Yangyun, Shanghai. Named in the 2026 portfolio. The picture is Terre des Hommes, a 2025 sheet. It is not a photograph of the room.
- West Bund Art & Design (Group), West Bund, Shanghai, 2025. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai. Yujun’s selection. Growth No.250916, acrylic on canvas and wood, 204 × 254 cm, is recorded by Arario Gallery with West Bund Art & Design 2025.
- Microcosm: Intimacies Beyond Distance (Group), Tang Contemporary Art, Singapore, 13 September – 18 October 2025. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/tang. A Singapore room about closeness after distance. The emigration subject, said without a suitcase.
- Suspended Paradise (Solo), Song Art Center, Beijing, 26 July – 15 September 2025. Yujun’s selection. 悬圃 at Song Art Center, 798, produced by Su Mang and curated by Wang Jiang. The picture is a Midsummer painting: green trees held inside a worn wood frame.
- Fluid in Forms (Group), Arario Gallery, Shanghai, 19 March – 11 May 2025. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai. The inaugural exhibition of Arario’s new Shanghai space. The picture is L’Étranger: a seated figure by a window, balloon-plants in the room.
- Growing as Painting (Solo), ART Yangyun, Shanghai, 2024. 生长性绘画, a solo at ART Yangyun, Shanghai, 2024. The picture is Growth: green trees in a worn wood frame. It is not a photograph of that room.
- Source and Flow (Group), ART Yangyun, Shanghai, 2024. 源·流, a duo with Chen Yufan at ART Yangyun, Shanghai, 2024. The picture is From the South Blows a Mild Breeze. It is not a photograph of the two of them.
- Southern Story (Group), He Art Museum, Foshan, 2024. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/hehongyi. 南方故事, a group exhibition at He Art Museum, Foshan, 2024. The picture is Our Homeland, Ourselves. It is not a photograph of the museum.
- The Shape of Perception (Group), Hong Art Museum, Suzhou, 2024. 知觉的外形, a group exhibition at 虹美术馆, Suzhou, 2024. The picture is Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. It is not a photograph of the museum.
- Survey (Group), Mu Art Center, Hangzhou, 2024. 综绘, a group exhibition at 目艺术中心, Hangzhou, 2024, framed as a teaching experiment. The picture is Asia Map. It is not a photograph of the room.
- Reading the Ground (Solo), Shixiang Space, Beijing, 2023. 相地通景, a solo at 势象空间, Beijing, 2023. The picture is Behold by the Riverside No.2. It is not a photograph of the room.
- A Village on the Vine (Solo), Chen Yujun Studio and West Bund, Shanghai, 2023. 藤蔓上的村庄, the studio and West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, 2023. The picture is The Shape of Hometown, a 2023 sheet. It is not a photograph of the fair.
- The Earth Waters (Solo), West Bund, Shanghai, West Bund Art & Design, 2022. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai. A fair on the same riverbank. Noted by the gallery as Chen Yujun: The Earth Waters. The 2026 portfolio calls this room 地中海, with 势象空间. The gallery title stays.
- ARTHOUSER (Solo), Long Museum, Chongqing, 25 June – 11 September 2022. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/long-chongqing. Twelve studios across twenty-three years, more than 110 works. The exhibition’s own word was twelve chapters.
- Sheng Zhang (Solo), Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, Opened 31 January 2021. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/long-shanghai. 生长. A museum solo on growth. The closing date is not asserted here.
- Growth: Continuity and Variation (Solo), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2021. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/guangdong. The southern museum telling of the same argument, in the same year as Sheng Zhang.
- Scenery Grown Indoors (Solo), Zhiwu, Beijing, 2021. 内生风景 at 誌屋, Beijing, 2021. The picture is The First Scenery, a sheet from that year. It is not a photograph of the room.
- Forêt (Group), Arario Gallery, Seoul, 25 May – 17 July 2021. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-seoul. A forest before Time Forest had its 2025 number.
- A Strong Wind in Beijing (Group), Arario Gallery, Cheonan, 29 October 2019 – 10 May 2020. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-cheonan. Beijing named in the title, Cheonan on the floor.
- Each Single Self (Solo), Arario Gallery, Seoul, 9 January – 22 February 2020. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-seoul. The solo that opened Arario’s year in Seoul. Private measure, then a crowd.
- Rain of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Solo), 仁庐, Shanghai, 2019. 亚非拉的雨水, 2019. The 2026 portfolio places it at 仁庐, Shanghai. This page does not rename Rén Space to match. The picture is Asia Map. It is not a photograph of the room.
- Mulan River – Cuò (Solo), Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, 2017. The Fujian river, installed in Israel. Cuò, the mismatched house, travels.
- The River Never Remembers, the House Cannot Forget (Solo), Arario Gallery and BANK, Shanghai, 25 February – 31 March 2017. Gallery page: https://chenyujun.art/galleries/arario-shanghai. Two rooms, one lunar new year. Frieze (Arthur Solway, 23 March 2017) read them as a study of migration inside China, timed to the journey home.

## Optional

- [Full reading](https://chenyujun.art/llms-full.txt): The same facts, written out, including what each museum page will and will not claim.
- [Sitemap](https://chenyujun.art/sitemap.xml): Every public URL.
- [Arario Gallery artist page](https://www.arariogallery.com/artists/77-chen-yujun/): The representing gallery’s public page. Photographs on this site follow what Arario published.
- [ABM AI](https://abitmore.today): A manager of this site. Not the artist.
- [BRANDOMINATION](https://brandomination.com): A manager of this site. Not the artist.