Shi Yiran
Born in 1983. She graduated from Department of Oil Painting in China Academy of Art (CAA) with a master's degree (2009) and a PhD (2017). She is currently a professor at Department of Oil Painting in China Academy of Art (CAA). Her works have been included in important institutional and private collections both in China and abroad, including UNESCO, the University Art Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Zhejiang Art Museum, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, and the Huawei Group, etc.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026
MacGuffin，Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Rearview Mirror, L Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2025
Dream Inn, Studio Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024
Here and Then，Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Northeast by North，Tianmuli R PLUS, Hangzhou, China
2023
Bordering Memory, Studio Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022
Emotional Geography , Arch Gallery, Changsha, China
2021
Mirage, 1000 Press, Hangzhou, China
2017
Peacock Town, Yatobi Gallery, Beijing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
“Ultimate Painting”The 4th China Youth Oil Painting Exhibition, Inner Mongolia Art Museum, Hohhot, China
"Flower & Bird" 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Tianmuli Block, Hangzhou, China
Meme to Jam 2.0, J7 ART, Shanghai, China
"Song of the Ouroboros": Art and Collecting through Chinese and Western Women's Perspectives, Jiushi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Wei Wei Zhe Hua" (So Lofty the Blossom) — 30th Anniversary Art Exhibition of the China Oil Painting Society, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Anti-Backlash: 9th Stellar Initiative, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
Youth Shaping the Sublime — Zhejiang Youth Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, the Sunflower Art Center, Hangzhou, China
Form and Color in Symbiosis — Zhejiang Youth Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China
Is 'Landscape' Useful Today? Issue 9: "Reliable", PACK Art Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
Art Live Room, Studio Gallery, Shanghai, China
Plane Strings, Access Art Center, Ningbo, China
Holly's Gift: Women Artists Group Show, Line Gallery, Beijing, China
2024
Meme to Jam, X Design Museum, Hangzhou, China
Absent-Minded: Seven Artists Invitational, Yuan Bai Gallery, Hangzhou, China
2023
Twin Fluxes, Muum Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Emerge: Figurative Expression Painting Exhibition, Guangda Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Attend On Time, ARR Gallery, Hangzhou, China
Various Diversions: Different, Potential, Flowing, Arch Gallery, Changsha, China
2022
Light /Reflect — 19th Sea Horizon Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Realm of Flux" Yangtze River Delta Contemporary Women's Painting Invitational Exhibition, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Blazing Breeze — Zhejiang Academy of Oil Painting Exhibition & Zhejiang Youth Painting Exhibition, the Sunflower Art Center, Hangzhou, China
Converging Flow — Expansion and Transformation of Artistic Discourse in the New Era, Huzhou Art Museum, Huzhou, China
BLOCK Gallery Opening Exhibition, Tianmuli Block Gallery, Hangzhou, China
The Paintings Are the Messages, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
2021
"Fluidity" 2021 Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Lingang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Time Is On My Side - 2021 Greater Bay Area Young Artists Scheme & Award, A Competition of Painting & Photography Winning Art Piece Exhibition, The Londoner, Macao, China
"Walking Toward Each Other" China Academy of Art Inter-Youth International Youth Painting Promotion Exhibition, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2019
PALATEETTE: Opening Exhibition, SAG Hushen Gallery, Shanghai, China
Future Scripts, Artdoor Gallery, Shanghai, China
2017
Drawing as Intention: Figurative Painting and Drawing Exhibition, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2016
Beyond “Utopia”, Castello Di Rivara Contemporary Art Museum, Turin, Italy
Formless, Ying Space, Beijing, China
University Outlook: Ten Years of China Academy of Art, China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2015
After Utopia, Paratissima Art Fair China Pavilion, Turin, Italy
2014
13th Zhejiang Art Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2009
Scenery of Art, Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
11th National Art Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Narrative China: 4th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2008
3rd National Youth Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2006
Won Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China; Peking University Law School, Beijing, China