Cheng Ran
Cheng Cheng Ran (Chinese language: 程然) is a Chinese contemporary artist known for his film and video works.
Cheng Ran
- Born
- Cheng Ran was born on 1 January 1981.
- Nationality
- People's Republic of China
- Occupation
- artist · television producer · poet · photographer
- Education
- China Academy of Art · Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
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Cheng Cheng Ran (Chinese language: 程然) is a Chinese contemporary artist known for his film and video works.
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Cheng Ran (born 1981) is a Chinese artist, photographer and poet, among other activities.
The artist studied at China Academy of Art and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Cheng Ran worked in Amsterdam.
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Biography
Biography
Cheng Ran was born in 1981 in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2004, he graduated from China Academy of Art. Currently he lives and works in Hangzhou, China.
Work
Work
Cheng mainly focuses on new media and his artworks are mostly videos and films. Cheng's works are created by applying basic cinematic techniques like simple cutting, rearranging, montage, full length shot and so on. Usually, his videos do not have complete and coherent storylines, and sentiment is the main part to show. In 2012, Cheng Ran participated in artist Michael Lin's exhibition "Model Home" at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Working with Lin, Cheng recorded the whole process of the preparation and the construction work of the exhibition and then presented the videos in the final show. Cheng Ran is represented by LEO XU Projects.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2016 • The New Museum, New York. 2011 • "Hot Blood, Warm Blood, Cold Blood", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing • "Circadian Rhythm", Qingying Gallery, Hangzhou 2009 • "Immersion and Distance", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Identity
Identity
Cheng Ran is recorded with the occupation television producer. Recorded with the occupation video artist. Recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as artist, television producer, poet and photographer.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1981
Cheng Ran was born on 1 January 1981.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1167528840, Cheng, Ran.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5091244: Cheng Ran
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Awards
In 2011 he won the "Best Video Artist" in Dead Rabbit Awards held by online art magazine Randian. The winning piece "Chewing Gum Papers” is a simultaneously hypnotic and sinister combined with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech as the background sound; and it is also a piece of commissioned work for LEO XU PROJECTS's inaugural show "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". In 2019 Cheng won the Nomura Emerging Artist Award, valued at 100,000 USD.
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- 1.Chinese photographer Cheng Ran exhibits three-month residency at New York's The New Museum. British Journal of Photography. 12 October 2016.
- 2.Ocean Wave by Cheng Ran.
- 3.Cheng Ran.
- 4.Light Source.
- 5.The exhibition details on RAM website
- 6.randian. www.randian-online.com.
- 7.Greenberger, Alex. Cheng Ran, Cameron Rowland Win $100,000 Nomura Emerging Artist Awards. 21 May 2019.
- 8.Radar, Art. New York Out of Character: Chinese artist Cheng Ran at New Museum, New York - Art Radar.
- 9.ArtAsiaPacific: Diary Of A Madman. artasiapacific.com.
- 10.Review of "Hot Blood, Warm Blood, Cold Blood" in Timeout Beijing Website
- 11.CHENG RAN - CIRCADIAN RHYTHM – 艺术界 LEAP. www.leapleapleap.com.
- 12.Article of "Immersion and Distance" in UCCA's website
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1167528840, Cheng, Ran.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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