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Artsted Catalogue 2022

The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.

The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.

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99 Future Blue-Chip Artists.

#93

XU YANG

Yang Xu (b. 1996, Shandong, China). Graduated with 1st

Class Honours in BA Painting Wimbledon College of Arts

(2018), MA Painting at Royal College of Art (2018-20). Xu is

the Vice Chairman of UK - China Photography Association.

Winner of Barbican Arts Group Trust Artwork Open

2019 with following solo exhibition ‘100 Carat Diamond’

(2020). Xu has been nominated in many prizes including

Contemporary Young Artist (2020), The Signature Art Prize

(2019). She received the Highly Commended award

at the Air Gallery Open (2019) and On the Mountain We

Stay Residency (2019) supported by No Space Organisation

in China. She was also shortlisted for the Clyde &

Co Art Award (2018) and Whitechapel Gallery First Thursday

University Competition (2017). Xu has contributed

to collaborative art projects ‘Imaging Technologies’ With

Painting Research team of Wimbledon College of Arts at

Tate Modern (2017) and ’Here she Comes’ with Monster

Chetwynd at Royal Festival Hall (2016). Her works are collected

in China and Europe.

“I attempt to uncover Rococo’s elaborate and extravagant

style in paintings through playful brushstrokes. I

paint my works layer by layer with smudges and touches.

All those different twists are used to feel the creaminess of

the oil paint as it slides onto the textile—like applying icing

on a cake, they are sickening but delicious. Rococo is such

a maligned art form, but it is underpinned by idealizations,

hopes, and dreams we should have access to.”

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