Funa Ye
Funa Ye, born in Kunming, Yunnan, is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London and Beijing. Her practice critically engages with the realities of daily life and the perceived nexus between authority and various societal domains, such as differing power structures and margin groups. Her politically charged art uses pastiche to critique and satirize cultural uniformity. Funa’s recent work incorporates new technologies and engages with various ethnic communities, developing participatory, internet-based projects like “Exhibitionist: Curated Nail” and “Smart Master,” probing the integration of art systems into personal and communal spaces. As a passionate advocate for self-publishing, Funa co-founded the independent publishing brand “MondayOFF,” editing and authoring artist books like “Shamate zine” and “Fire Golden Flowers” .
Her solo exhibitions have been showcased at venues such as the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Nottingham Contemporary, followed by group exhibits at esteemed institutions like the Museum für Fotografie, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, esea contemporary, PSA, Chronus Art Center, Art Center Nabi, and Rhizome of the New Museum.
Funa now teaches at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in the Experimental Art and Sci-Tech Art Department and at University College London’s Slade School of Fine Art. She has also been invited to participate in conferences and lectures at Tate Modern, Asia Society New York, UCCA, Goldsmiths University, the China Academy of Art, among others.
Education
2004 – 2008: BA Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
2009 – 2010: MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art, UK
2020 –: Ph.D., Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
2024: “Transfer.me”, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art，Sidney
2023: “The Big Dream Show”, Eil Klein Gallery, New York
2021: “The Smart Galley”, C5cnm, Beijing
“The Peach Spring Beyond This World”, Ame Nue，Hamburg & Online
2020:” Funa Ye – Flying Dance”, Bilsart, Istanbul & isthisitisthisit.com/flow-out
2018 “From Hand to Hand”，Nottingham Cotemporary，Nottingham
“You are in desert of the real，but I am in beautiful” Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
2017：“Alternative Cinema”，Metro Pictures，New York
“Self-Created Universe: Ye Funa”Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2016：“Nailhenge”, Space Station, Beijing
2016: “Prasentationssucht –Fingernägel-‘Bank”, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai
2014: “Curated Nail Residency”, MoCA Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2013：“Zha Golden Flowers－News from Nowhere”, V Art Center, Shanghai “Ye Funa”, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris
2012：”Research of lost time: Funa Ye Installation &Video Exhibition”, Dialogue Space, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibition
2025
“Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom”，CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) , Hong Kong
2024
“Folk in Order”, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing
“Scoletta dell’Arte”: Digital Reform, Scoletta dei Tiraoro e Battioro, Venice
“Folk Culture Squart”, 798 Electronics Square, Beijing
2023
“Pretty Doomed”, Ugly Duck &Queer art project, London
2022
“Connections”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, Online
“Unstableness”, Airspace Projects, Sydney
2021
“Multimedia Encounters”, Multimedia Anthropology Lab at University College London (UCL MAL), London.
“The Circulation of Images: a Study on Medium Identity“，Voyage UCCA Lab, Shanghai
“Where are we? Where is the future?”, CAFA Museum, Beijing
“The Photography is Not What’s Important”, CAFA Museum, Beijing/ Jimei Arles, Xiamen
“Manque de Recul: Interdisciplinary Trends in Art”, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai
“Guerrillas in Flatland: Unite! Digital Voyagers” Emerging Curators Project 2O2Online, Power Station, Shanghai.
2020
“We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces A Chronus Art Center Special Online Exhibition”, Chronus Art Center (Shanghai); Art Center Nabi (Seoul); and Rhizome of the New Museum (New York).
“From Impression：GWBJ 2020 Public Sector/ Kwai Live-Streaming Section”, 798 Art Zone, Beijing
2019
“Berlin Peking/Beijing Visual Exchange”, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
” Immortal on Screen”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
” New Art History-Chinses Contemporary Art”, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan
” Chinternet Ugly”, Centre for Chinese Contemporary, Manchester
2018
“COSMOPOLIS#1.5: Enlarged Intelligence In Collaboration with the Centre Pompidou”, Main Exhibition Venue: Eastern Suburb Memory, Chengdu
“Goddess in the shell discourse beyond antiquity and art”, Hangzhou Craft Museum. Hangzhou
2017
“Your Selfie Stick (and You)- 2017 Lian Zhou Foto“，Lianzhou, Guangdong
“The Short Analysis of Uncertainty” ,Suseong Artpia, Daegu
“Friends Circle +”, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
“Intermediary Video Art from China”, Edna Carlsten Art Gallery at UWSP, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Publication
2025 Artist book “Get Low, Like Bumpkin Cannon”, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London.
2021 Chef Editor of Self-publishing “Smart Zine” Issue1- 3
2021 Chef Editor of Self-publishing Magazine “MondayOFF” Issue1- 2
2015 “News From Nowhere”, Catalogue, LIAN Cultural Development Co. Ltd
2013 “Action…Cut! — Liu Xinyi, Wang Taocheng, Ye Funa Joint Exhibition”, Exhibition Booklet, Yuz Foundation
2012 “Research of the lost time—solo Exhibition”, Exhibition Catalogue, Dialogue Space House Ltd
Public Collection
K11 Art Foundation; YUZ Art Foundation, Williams College Museum of Art and CAFA Museum
Residency
2024 Librarian in Residence, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London
2018 Pro Helvetia Swiss Council 2018 studio Residency at Stadtgalerie Bern.
2017 K11 Foundation Online Residency
2016 Kunst gemeinsam gestalten! (GeKA) Artist-in-Residence at Berlin& Peking
Selected Talks/ Conference
2024 “(Extra)Ordinary Living: Aesthetics in Contemporary China CFP CCVA 17 Annual Conference Nanjing 2024”
2021 “MULTIMEDIA ENCOUNTERS EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH” , UCL Multimedia Lab
2018 “You Live In The Desert Of The Real, But I Live In Beautiful “, Schwob-Haus, Bern
2018 “Gender in China “, Tate Modern, London
2016 “Field Meeting at the Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) “, Asian society, New York
2014 “EXHIBITIONIST”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
叶甫纳
1986 年 生于云南省昆明市
【教育】
2008年本科毕业于中国中央美术学院实验艺术系
2010年硕士毕业于英国圣马丁艺术学院美术专业
2013年任教于中央美术学院实验艺术系
2020年博士就读于伦敦大学斯莱德艺术学院
【个展】
2024年
“易装癖”，4A亚洲艺术中心，悉尼
2023年
“大梦想秀”，凯尚画廊，纽约
2018年
“从手到手”，诺丁汉艺术中心，诺丁汉
2017年
“替代影院”，METRO PICTURES 画廊，纽约
2016 年
“甲天下”，空间站，北京
2014 年
“炸金花”，视界艺术中心，上海
“叶甫纳”，Galerie Pièce Unique，巴黎
【项目】
2024年
“民间自有序”，美凯龙艺术中心，北京
“山寨游戏-玛仕特乐园”，751艺术中心/阿云朵仓，北京/贵阳
“新民俗广场-马仕特乐园”，798艺术广场，北京
2021 年
“自深深项目处：叶甫纳个人”蔡锦空间，北京
“杀马特发廊”，C5cnm，北京
“世外桃源”，ame Nue，&汉堡&在线
2019 年
“叶甫纳：飞舞”，Bilsart，伊斯坦布尔
2017 年
“自造世界：叶甫纳、梁半圆展”，凯尚画廊，纽约
2016 年
“展示癖之指甲银行”，歌德开放空间，上海
2015 年
“单|性|知|识：直播计划”，A307，北京
“指甲驻地计划”，上海艺术馆－艺术亭台当代，上海
“人民指甲大会：展示造型之指甲计划”，南京艺术学院美术馆零空间，南京
【群展】
2024年
“民间自有序”，美凯龙艺术中心，北京
“山寨游戏-玛仕特乐园”，751艺术中心/阿云朵仓，北京/贵阳
“Scoletta dell’Arte”: Digital Reform, Scoletta dei Tiraoro e Battioro, 威尼斯
2023年
“爱的魔力转圈圈”，云美术馆，惠州
《漂亮末日》，Ugly Duck，伦敦
“灵魂花园”，Hypha Studios，伦敦
2022年
《风景后》，昆明当代美术馆，昆明
“新青年-第四届实验艺术文献展”，陶溪川美术馆，景德镇
2021 年
“形象的旋涡：再次关于创意身份的研究”，UCCA Lab沃捷艺术空间，上海
“我们在哪里丨中央美术学院青年艺术家驻地实践成果汇报”，中央美术学院美术馆，北京
“重要的不是摄影”，中央美术学院美术馆，北京/集美阿尔勒摄影节，厦门
“手感——中央美术学院实验艺术学院教师青年展”在中央美术学院陶溪川美术馆
“没有足够的距离：跨界潮流艺术展”，明珠美术馆，上海
“平面游击：起来！数字失神者”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
2020 年
“We=Link：十个小品新时线媒体艺术中心在线特展”，新时线媒体艺术中心（上海）、那比艺术中心（首尔）、新美术馆Rhizome（纽约）
“熊院线”TX 淮海｜年轻力中心，上海
“你的房间” 昊美术馆，上海
“当速度成为形式，在屏幕里生活”，山中天艺术中心，北京
2019年
“柏林•北京转换”，摄影博物馆，柏林视觉
《萤幕不灭》，台湾国立美术馆，台中
“新艺术史”，银川美术馆，银川
“Chinternet Ugly”，华人艺术中心，曼彻斯特
“不够逼人的美人儿”，墨方空间，北京
2018年
“成都·蓬皮杜：‘全球都市’国际艺术双年展”，成都东郊记忆，成都
“第三届王式轮廓奖——暨今日中国当代青年艺术家提名展”，今日美术馆，北京
“到此一游：上海策展人实验室项目”，上海美术学院美术馆，上海
“女神的装备·当代艺术@博物馆”跨界系列艺术项目，杭州工艺美术博物馆，杭州
“AMNUA国际计划叁：大健身”，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京
“复星基金会首届收藏展‘一沙一世界’，复星基金会，三亚
“地缘笔记”CGK昆明当代美术馆，昆明
2017年
“你的三杆－连州国际摄影节”，谷仓，广东连州
“甜蜜的家－PSA青策计划2017”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
“DGTL Ldn”，Unit 5 画廊，伦敦
“对不确定的小分析”，寿城Artpia，大邱
“画破狗”，泰康空间，北京
“朋友圈＋：文化馆线上艺术计划展”，OCAT上海馆，上海
“数字采样器，或网络状态增强中的新世代”星汇当代美术馆，重庆
“来自中国的录像艺术”，维斯康辛州立大学Carlsten画廊，Steven Point
【奖项】
2014第二届华宇青年艺术奖：评审委员会选择奖
2015 今日美术馆 2015今日推荐艺术家奖
2018 王式廓奖提名奖
【驻留】
2019你好未来！ 央美赴日驻留计划
2018 瑞士文化基金会伯尔尼州立美术馆驻留艺术家，伯尔尼
2017 K11基金会线上驻留
2016年“结伴创造艺术”格卡德中文化基金驻留项目
2012 澳大利亚红门艺术基金驻留，铂斯
部分演讲／表演研讨会/研讨会
2021“多媒体遭遇”伦敦大学多媒体人类学实验室，在线
2019年“第四届网络社会年会网民21：超越个人账户”，中国美术学院
2018《我美，你却生活在现实的荒漠》，Schwob-Haus，伯尔尼
2018 “性别在中国”，泰特美术馆，伦敦
2016 “思想实践：ACAW亚洲当代艺术周田野会议”，亚洲艺术中心，纽约
2015 “封面的民族”，21世纪民生美术馆，上海
2014“展示癖”尤伦斯艺术中心，北京