Biography
Alice Yutong Hua is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in installation, image, and painting.
“I work with records: by collecting, organizing, and interpreting memory, trace, meaningful objects, or simply passage of time that are extracted from our everyday life, I receive the initial momentum of a project. The idea with a highly emotional undertone is then layered and expanded into a contextualized narrative of our contemporary scene that deploys the innate quality of the media, whether tangible or intangible. Upon finishing, the idea is eventually articulated into a specific physical situation as needed. If this conversation from a personal perspective has been activated successfully, me the artist, and my audience, will share the incidental experience as a collective.”
Born and raised in Shanghai, Hua received a BA of Studio Art, minoring in chemistry and music from Colby College, Maine, and received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. She now lives and works in New York and Shanghai. Her works have been shown in Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Untitled Space, and other galleries.
Education
2023 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Elective in Sculpture and Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2020 Post Baccalaureate Degree in Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 B.A. Major in Studio Art (Painting Concentration), Minor in Chemistry & Music (Piano), Colby College, Waterville, ME
Solo Exhibition & Individual Projects
2023 Sandbox - “Bring Your Trash or Anything” (Individual Project), Passageway Gallery, Bloomfield Hill, MI, USA
2021 Started with Light, Untitled Space, Shanghai, CN
Selected Group
Exhibition
2024 New Born, A Space, New York, NY
2023 Boundaries - Exhibition Q4, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ripple (lián 涟)- Multisensory Performance & Art Party, iidrr Gallery x A Space, New York, NY
Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hill, MI
Textile Sublime (Online), Dodomu Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Two Cool Four School, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hill, MI
Midwest Painting Show, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hill, MI
Opening Exhibition, Freon Gallery, Eugene, OR
In Transit, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2021 The Law of Alchamy: Philosopher’s Stone and the Four Elements, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing, China
Meditation in Spring: Subconscious Blooming, Untitled Space, Shanghai, China
Ongoing Mystical Experiment, Untitled Space, Shanghai, China
2020 Chicago GLOW Art Showcase, Metro Chicago, Chicago, IL
Post-Bacc Annual, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Open Studio Exhibition, MacLean Center, Chicago, IL
2019 Senior Art Show, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Liberal Arts Symposium, Colby College, Waterville, ME
2018 Student Work Show, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Curation
2022 “Confluence” 2022 International Student Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hill, MI
Articles & Interviews
2024 Editorial team, Art Show | A Space Presents Group Exhibition, New Born, Li Tang News.
2023 Yangyang Li黎扬扬, 2023 Q4 边界 Boundaries, Atron Net雅昌艺术网.
Editorial team, Art Show | A Space & :iidrr Gallery Presents Ripple (lián 涟) Performance & Art Party, Li Tang News.
2021 3.0 Space, 【开幕导览】炼金法则：贤者石与四元素 | 北京, Three Shadows Photography Center Official Wechat.
Untitled Space, 开幕现场 | 始于光线 Started with Light 华雨桐 Alice Yutong Hua, Wechat.
Untitled Space, 无题驻地 | 华雨桐 Alice Yutong Hua 11月驻地艺术家 Nov Resident Artist, Wechat.
2019 Rossien, Sarah. “Selections from Writing Art Criticism: Senior Show 2019.” The Lantern, 5 June 2019.
Catalogues
2021 The Law of Alchamy, Three Shadows Photography Center
2020 Post-Bacc Annual Online, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019 Orzech, Charles D. 2019 senior exhibition: May 9 - May 26.