Mu Yu Ming
木玉明
Born 1971, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Based: Kunming, China
Naxi — Descendant of the Mu Royal Family of Lijiang
Education & International Residencies
MACL Contemporary Art Museum, Quebec, Canada — Artist-in-Residence
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam — Artist-in-Residence · Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Rijksakademie Joint Scholarship
Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo — BFA, Department of Experimental Art
Central Academy of Art & Design, Beijing — Artist-in-Residence
Selected Projects
She Nian Fo — Pa Pae Meditation Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
My Flesh (role performance art) — ongoing
OUR CHILDREN — Chiang Mai, Thailand
Five Hundred Arhats — global online premiere
ChuangTzu Project — Bajie, Anning, Yunnan
Ten Years of Silence — life performance work
Life as Game — lifelong art project (ongoing)
Give Myself Away for a Year — performance
Genealogy — New Zealand Government collaboration
Farmer Station — Experimental Rural Bauhaus
Himalaya — French Government collaboration
Lijiang Studio — non-profit international artist residency (with Jay Brown)
20 Days — 20 Days, 20 Countries, Kunming Creative Warehouse
Killing — experimental film, Asian Experimental Art Film Festival
Solo Exhibitions
Family Portrait, Haidong Studio, Lijiang, China
The Period of the Great Revolution, Marseille, France & Lijiang, China
An Illusory Character Made in China, Argentur, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo Exhibition, L'Estran, Binic, France
Solo Exhibition, Hoseman, Oslo, Norway
Solo Exhibition, Loft, Kunming, China
Group Exhibitions
Bridge (installation), COART Asia Youth Art Festival, Shuhe, Lijiang, China
On-site works (collected), 23rd Hungary MEDIAWAVE Light & Shadow Music Festival, Hungary
Group Exhibition, Hiscox Art Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Parts, Group Exhibition, Xiamen, China
Government Collaborations
Genealogy — Official collaboration with the New Zealand Government
Himalaya — Official collaboration with the French Government
Institutional Collections & Records
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten — official artist-in-residence archive (Mu Yuming / Farmer Mu)
Norwegian Royal Academy of Fine Arts — alumni archive, experimental film Killing
IberLibro international art book platform — Lijiang China Studio/Residence (2004)
23rd Hungary MEDIAWAVE Festival — on-site works collected
Cultural departments of France, New Zealand, Canada, Hungary, Norway, Netherlands — cooperative project archives
Selected Press & Media
中国文旅头条 — ChuangTzu Project and Lijiang Studio
云南网 (Yunnan Net) — ChuangTzu Project
春城晚报 (Chuncheng Evening News) — ChuangTzu Project
Contact
muyuming.com
WeChat: 老木参游