Hu Jiamin is a Chinese-born artist based in France, working in both painting and video. He began his artistic practice in a village in Yunnan province, his experience in rural China profoundly influenced his sense of artists’ social responsibility. In 2017, the censorship and destruction of his mural in Shenzhen, and his subsequent detention during the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, led him to reflect on the relationship between art and dissent. His work probes the way the materiality of painting questions and defies the virtualization of the images that inundate our lives at the time of the spectacularization of the world, as well as the way globalised history incarnates itself in our existences, depicting the tension between the simplicity and fragility of everyday life and the inexorability of the historical forces that underlie it. The integration in his compositions of other mediums seek to incite our eye to be reflexive on the things and objects that sculpt our relation to reality.
Photo © Venkat Damara
Awards
2024
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Laureate, Prix Mourlot, Marseille, France
2022
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Finalist, Beyond Future Prize, Hong Kong
Exhibitions
Solo
2026
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La Vie coye, organisation du « Réseau 12/12/12 » de la MAPRAA en résonance avec la Biennale de Lyon d’Art contemporain, Résidence d’artistes François Colcombet, Dompierre-sur-Besbre, France
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Ex-voto politiques, The Dissident Club, Paris, France
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Il y a rage dans courage, Galerie La Rage, Lyon, France
2025
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De la calamité – peintures votives, Bibliothèque du 7e Jean Macé, Lyon, France
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The_Medium_is_the_Massage, La Galerue, Lyon, France
2023
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Hu Jiamin : Peinture, Maison des Arts Plastiques Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (MAPRAA), Lyon, France
2018
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Bloom, Galerie Château Branlant, Cluny, France
Group
2026
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Penser la paix, Galerie Area, Paris, France
2025
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La Moindre des choses, 11th Biennale Hors Normes, Lyon, France
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NEVER GREY, OSTRALE Biennale O25, 15th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany
2024
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The Kindergarten Without Walls, Children's Art Festival, Haikou, China
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Prix Mourlot, Galerie Mourlot - Jeu de Paume, Marseille, France
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Dear Reader, Loong Mah, New York, USA
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40 ANS COUDE À COUDE, Maison des Arts Plastiques Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (MAPRAA), Lyon, France
2023
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Le temps est venu, 10th Biennale Hors Normes, Lyon, France
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Arbres Enchantés, Espace Enchanté, Yvoire, France
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kammer_flimmern, OSTRALE Biennale O23, 14th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany
2022
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Again, Multiplicities of Rewilding, Guemgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea
2018
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De porte en porte..., Galerie La Table d’Art, Lyon, France
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La Mélodie des choses, Galerie La Table d’Art, Lyon, France
2017
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Cities, Grow in Difference, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture, Shenzhen, China