Cai Yaling

Cai Yaling 蔡雅玲1984 Born in Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province2007 Graduated from the First Studio of the Department of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, with a bachelor’s degree2011 Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, with a master’s degree2023 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a PhD.Insist on presenting the real emotions in one’s own life and create appropriate art forms. Extracting words and discourses that are deeply experienced in daily life, we explore sculptural forms that correspond to the emotions of everyday materials and words. The experiences and perceptions of physical and psychological suppression during women’s growth naturally permeate the material handling, outlining contemporary women’s endurance and resistance in the face of real difficulties, and building a pedestal of empathy with the public’s life experience.The main solo exhibition in recent years includes: 2023 Unfinished
Herstory – Cai Yaling Solo Exhibition (ZIWU the Bund); 2022 There May Be No
Pearl In the Shell (Lion Language Gallery, Shanghai); 2022 It’s okay? – Cai
Yaling solo exhibition (Guangdong Art Museum); 2017 Strange Familiarity:
Upstairs Realization – Cai Yaling Solo Project (Beijing Mingtai Space), 2011
The Power of Repetition (Central Academy of Fine Arts Passage Gallery), etc.
The main group exhibitions in recent years includes: “Dior and Art”
(Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning); “Century Wave –
2020 International Art Invitation Exhibition of Hailuhua Island” (Hailuhua
Island Museum, Hainan Province); “The Art of the Century”. The 13th Havana
Biennial 2019 (Grand Theater, Havana, Cuba); the 3rd and 4th Wang Shikou Award
Young Artists Nomination Exhibition (Today Art Museum, Beijing), etc. Major awards in recent years include the finalist of SOVERIGN Outstanding Asian Art Award in 2022, the SAP Art Award for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2020, the Art 8 China Young Artist Award in 2019, the Wang Shikou Award – Most Concerned Award in 2018, the 2017 Laili Youth Art Award” in 2017, and the bronze medal of “The Power of Folk” exhibition in Beijing Minsheng Art Museum. Her works have been exhibited at Kommunale Art Museum, Berlin, Today Art Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Jinji Lake Art Museum, and Hefei Art Museum. Collection: Kommunale Museum of Art, Berlin, Zhejiang Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Hewlett Art Museum, Hanwei Art Museum, Shimenbong Memorial Park and other public institutions.