Pride Art | Meet Our Artists

Pride Art will return this August! Before saying goodbye to this lovely summer, let’s join this wonderful artistic journey!

Pride Art is an inclusive platform for LGBTQ and allies artists to showcase their works. Pride Art 2020 “Perspectives: from the community and allies” is a collective statement of the LGBTQ community, allies and supporters, in expression of their acknowledgement and point of views to self, relationships, objects of different kinds and conception of the world.

Let’s meet some of the emerging artists that will showcase their works at Pride Art.

Du Qiurui

Du Qiurui, born in the 1990s, grew up in Beijing, and resides in New York. Raised in an artistic household, Qiurui is extremely passionate about the arts. Qiurui observes everyday life with a unique perspective, and incorporates the bizarre and larger-than-life elements of his surroundings into his artworks. Qiurui mixes emotions, love and fear into a colorful palette and presents them with a satirical tone. In his paintings, he creates an imaginative world of his own. In his recent solo exhibitions, Qiurui combines memory with emotions and fantasy, creating a unique and uncanny world to reveal the bizarre phenomena of society.

Qian Ruya

Qian Ruya is an artist living and working in Shanghai, China. She was born in Suzhou. She earned a BA from Shanghai Jiaotong University and an MFA in Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute. Her preferred artistic media include photography, video, installations and pottery.

Shawn Zhang

Shawn Zhang was born in 1996 in Tianjin, and graduated from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2019 with a degree in industrial design. He currently works as an independent photographer, and leads the photography team in ShanghaiPRIDE. Shawn is a reliable and passionate Capricorn and an out gay man. Full of appreciation for all that life has to offer, Shawn seeks to give back to the communities he is in.

A backpacker and a couch surfer, Shawn has travelled 26 countries, and hosted guests from all over the world. His photography works focus on people because he believes that a city’s personality is always determined by its residents. In his art, Shawn hopes to reveal his perspective of city culture.

Lincoln Lin

Lincoln Lin, born in 1997, is a queer artist from Wuhan now based in Shanghai and Los Angeles. Lin usually uses poetry and imagery to document and archive the people and stories from the queer community and the marginalized populations. The consistency flows in his work can be found when the commonality between general life and intimacy unfold, where he also talks about self-identity, self-awareness, social system and shares his thoughts on love, fetishism, sex, and sexual attractions.

Xu Xinxin

Xinxin creates micron pen illustrations. Her works combine a black and white palette with lining and contouring. Xinxin doesn’t give her subjects conventional facial features, and instead uses gestures and actions as ways of expression.

Shou Xing (Jin Kuang)

A male illustrator struggling with “universal values” and obsessed with the idea of fetish.

CK Chiu

CK Chiu is a Dutch contemporary artist based in Shanghai with a distinct interest in the world of art and children’s literature. Born in 1981 in the small town Uithuizen, located in northern Holland, CK initially decided to pursue a career in the luxury goods industry. However, he eventually decided to deviate and follow his artistic passion. Years after his decision to follow his true calling, the young contemporary artist has developed his own distinctive style around his beloved character: Nuki the lucky puppy. CK Chiu gets his inspiration for his art through fashion, music, traveling, spirituality and life itself. Based on what was once his own childhood dog best-friend, Nuki stands for positivity and love. Through his works, CK attempts to bring out the most playful and joyous feelings of childhood by incorporating Nuki and merging contemporary art references.

Oleg Chebotarev

Oleg Chebotarev is a Shanghai-based visual artist working in the genres of fashion photography, film and portraiture. Oleg took camera at the age of 14 and didn’t let it go for the next 18 years. Having grown-up in the Russian Far East, Oleg keeps sourcing his inspiration from Asia and works on his projects globally.

ShanghaiPRIDE Pride Art

Opening：
2020-08-09 16:00-18:00

Duration：2020-08-10~09-06

Time：12:00-20:00
Venue：ideaPod

Address：
1 East Yan’an Rd (near ZhongShan Dong Er Rd), Huangpu District

Registration：
Free entry, registration required. Scan QR Code to register

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Please be kindly informed:
There will be a visitor capacity of 50 people for quality experience control for both opening (August 9, 16:00-18:00) and daily visit.

Event Participation and Health Check Entry Notice

a.All participants must register prior to attending an event. Upon entry, participants are required to measure their body temperature. If the participant’s temperature exceeds 37.3℃, or if the participant has a cough, shortness of breath or other flu-like symptoms, they shall not be allowed entry.

b.Please wear masks when entering and leaving the venue.

c.Please show your GREEN Shanghai QR Code when entering the venue. Participants with Shanghai QR Codes in other colors are not allowed to enter.

d.There is a limitation on the number of participants for all events. There will be no further admission once we reach maximum capacity for an event.