Our aim is to discover and promote excellent art practitioners. We encourage art pertaining to one’s own existence and life experience, distinguished by creativity and poetic quality. We would like to choose 15 persons each year to participate in our residency program, which runs from March to October. We don’t restrict the age, education, district and race. It is required that you should be the creator of the paintings, sculptures, architecture designs or other art forms which you submit. This fact is to affirmed by no less than three committee members of Shangyuan Art Scene.

 

　　The fist step of application is to recommend yourself or be recommended by others. You should present your personal resume and the application for joining the program, meanwhile you should send us ten works as computer files. After confirmation by the committee of Shangyuan Art Scene, we will offer you free spaces to create, live and exhibit for seven months. After this seven months, we will organize a symposium along with exhibition, publication and criticism on your work.

 

    To introduce yourself, please send your personal information (photos of work, explanation, resume, application) as e-mail attachments. The e-mail address is: ssyuan@126.com. For regular mail the address is Shangyuan Art Scene, Shayukou Village, Qiaozi Township, Huairou District, Beijing City. The postcode is 101402. The deadline for receiving application November 27th, 2010. Judging of applicants will be done in December. Selections will be announced in January. Period of residency is early April to late October.

 

Our criteria for selection:

1. Provide opportunities for young artists.

2. Give proportionally fair chances to female artists.

3. Consider the artist’s sincerity: Is it crucial for him/her to create this work? Is it crucial that he/she express it in this way? Is there strong personal relvance.

4. Possibility of continuing to advance, i.e., extent of the artist’s potential.

 

　　Member List of Shangyuan Art Scene Committee—their recommendations are high on our list of priorities. They are:

Can Xue, Cui Weiping, Cheng Xiaobei, Deng Pingxiang. Dao Zi, Guo Gai, Huang Yan， Hu Xudong，He Sanpo, Jia Fangzhou, Jiang Hao, Patricia Briggs, Sun Wenbo, Wang Huaxiang, Xia Kejun,  Xu Wuixing, Xi Chuan. Xiao Kaiyu, Xu Zhongping, Zhu Dakei

                                              Shangyuan Art Scene

 

 

 

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