BIOGRAPHY
1970 Born in Jinan, China
1998-2001 MFA painting, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Indiana, PA, USA
1989-1993 BFA painting, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, China
SELECTED SOLO & JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Vermicular Calligraphy, The Garage Art Center, Queens, NY, USA
2019
- Cui Fei: Counter-Monument, The Chu-Griffis Asian Art Reading Room, Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
2016
- Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin II, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2015
- Cui Fei: The Journey of Transformation, W10 Window Project, Art-in-Building Program, New York, NY, USA
2013
- Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2012
- Origins: Cui Fei & Taca Sui, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2011
- RE-NATURED: Cui Fei and Roy Nicholson, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Re-interpreting Nature: Recent Work by Cui Fei, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
2010
- Cui Fei, Warehouse gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
- Manuscript of Nature V, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
2007
- Manuscript of Nature, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
- The Voice of the Voiceless, Gallery 456, New York, NY, USA
2000
- Beyond East and West: Seeking the Truth in Nature, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
- The Reality Principle, Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NY, USA
- 39 Footnotes, Accent Sisters, New York, NY, USA
- Dancing with the Qi: TransMediating Chinese Calligraphy, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ, USA
2024
- Word Play: New York, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
- Into the Spines and on the Stacks, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY, USA
- Making a Good Impression: Art on Paper from Japan, China, and Korea, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, USA
- Calligraphy, Arts of China gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Theater of Energies, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
- Femina Creativa: Celebrating Women in New York, Rosenthal Library, Queens College Art Center, Queens, NY, USA
2023-2024
- Into the Spines and on the Stacks, MoCA L.I., Patchogue, NY; Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue, NY; Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY, USA
2023
- Manu-Scripts, MoCA L.I., Patchogue, NY, USA
- We Used to Kneel in the Dirt: An Exploration into Ritual, SVA Curatorial Practice, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Between Light and Shadow, AoA:87, Bamberg, Germany
- In the Mood for Love, VillageOne Art, New York, NY, USA
- Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society Texas, Houston, TX, USA
- Fifteen in NYC, All Things Project, New York, NY, USA
2022
- Hill of the Madman, Power Station of Art, Chanel Culture Fund, Shanghai, China
- Steeped in Spilt Milk pt.2, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, USA
- Reconcile: Begin Anew, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, USA
2021
- Communicating Beyond Words, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, USA
- The Burning Kite, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2019
- Quietude, Hammond Museum & Japanese Scroll Garden, North Salem, NY, USA
- Haft Paykar | Seven Beauties, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
- Chinese Landscape Rethought, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, USA
2018
- Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People and Practices, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY, USA
- Blurred Boundaries, New York School of Interior Design Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
- Workspace Artists-In-Residence Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
- Words in Characters, Books as Vehicle, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK; East Asian Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2016
- A Space-Time of Transitional Desires, The Clemente, New York, NY, USA
- Feminine Power: New Perspective, Daqian Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
- SIP Fellowship Show I, 20/20 Gallery, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, USA
- The Magic Power of Characters: 3000 Years of Chinese Writing and Calligraphy, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany
- Gifts from the Tang Center, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
2015
- The Magic power of Characters: 3000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland
- A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Chinese Artist, The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH, USA
- ARS CONTINUUM: Amelie A. Wallace Gallery 1978 to the Present, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY, USA
- New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY, USA
- Remembering Things Past, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, USA
- Mot Juste, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA
2014
- Remembering Things Past, Patchogue Arts Council, Patchogue, NY, USA
- The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
- Wonder Cabinets/The Art of Collecting, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2022 Artist Banners, Finalist, Noguchi Museum, Long island City, New York, USA2016 Artist-in-Residence Workspace Grant, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, USA2015 NYFA Fellowship (The Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellow), Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, , USASIP Fellowship, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, New York, NY 2013 Peer Leadership Circles, Queens Council on the Arts, Astoria, NY, USA2012 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, USA2011 Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY, USAArtist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, USA
2009 The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, USA
2007 NYFA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, USA2005 Emerge program, Aljira & Creative Capital, Newark, NJ, nominated by Jessica Hough 2004 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center Award, New York, NY, USA2004 Viewing Program Slide Registry, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA2002 Irving Sandler Artists File, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA2001-2002 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA
2001 Excellence in Arts Award, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA2000 Travel Grant, IUP
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 A New Transcendentalist Movement in the New Age: On Theater of Energies, by Feng-Yi Chu, Whitehot Magazine, August 4, 20243 A.M. Provocations: In Lieu of A Curatorial Statement, by gaoyuan, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, USACui Fei: Vermicular Calligraphy, Artist Spotlight and Exhibition Showcase, Arte Realizzata, May 21, 2024
2023 AAPI Artist Spotlight: Cui Fei, video by Xuan Films, Noguchi Museum, 5/6/2023
Summoning Memories: Beyond Chinese Traditions, by Susan L. Beningson, Arts of Asia, summer 2023Between Light and Shadow, catalog, essay by Bodo Korsig, AOA;87, Bamberg, Germany 2022 Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2, by Dana Notine, ArtSeen, Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY 2022 Defamiliarizations in Chinese Visual Culture and Aesthetics, Part II, The New Social Environment #590, featuring Cui Fei and Paul Gladston, Brooklyn Rail, 6/27/22Spine/Thorns, by Arianna Santambrogio, INVENTARIO Everything is a Project, Milan: Carraini, Italy. No.16, p125
2021 A Dynamic Conversation with Cui Fei, by Uzomah Ugwu, Arte Realizzata Magazine, 10/23/2021
De/Sign and Writing: Toward an Aesthetic of the Asemic, by Lihong Liu, Introduction to Session V De/sign and Writing. In Motion: Transformation. 35th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts Florence, 1-6 Sept. 2019. Vol. 1. Bologna: Bononia University Press, Italy, 2021. pp. 221-2312020 The Seeds of Creation: Artists during the 2020 pandemic, by Cosmina Ene, Max Laniado Fine Arts LLC, New York, NY, USAThe Asemic Effect: What - and how - does meaningless writing mean? by David Ebony, Art in America, May 20202019 Asemic: The Art of Writing, by Peter Schwenger, University of Minnesota Press, 2019Cui Fei: Counter-Monument, by Yibing Huang, Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USAChinese Landscape Rethought in New London, by Megan Gummer, The College Voice, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA2018 Natural Principle of the Characters, by Pan Xing lei, Fashion Color, 04, 2018Chinese Medicine in America exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America, by Zhang Zhen, Voice of America, 5/12/2018Chinese Medicine and Art, by Qianfan, EsquireChina, 2018/08/No/156
2017 Cui Fei, monograph, Chambers Fine Art, New York and Beijing2017 Patterns And Pathways: the Artistry of Cui Fei, by Jerome Silbergeld, Chinese text translated by Ying Zhou, Shishuhua Journal, No.3 2017, Beijing, ChinaBNO Design Gives an Upper East Side A Chic Canvas for Art, by Deborah L. Martin, New York Spaces, Volume 14, Number 5, September 2017In Perspective, by Louis Soulard, ArtAsiaPacific, 1/2017Artistic Perspective: Similarity and Dissimilarity? NewYork Lounge, Sinovision, 1/26/2017
2016 Perspectives on Art and Nature, by Robert C. Morgan, Asian Art News,Vol. 26 No. 4, 2016
One Exhibition, Two Songs, by Wang Jiabei, Phoenix Art, 11/28/2016Conversation with Liang Shuang, Tencent, Beijing, China, 10/3/2016Aesthetics also for illiterates, Köln Nachrichten, Colgone, Germany, 4/24/2016New exhibition in the East Asian Museum, Solinger Tageblat, 4/12/2016Magie der Zeichen. 3000 Jahre chinesische Schriftkunst, artCore, Switzerland, 3/15/2016 Kunstvolle Schrift entsteht mit Pinsel, Tusche, Papier, by Elke Baumann, Lokalinfo, Zurich, 1/21/2016Get to Know: Cui Fei, by Time Equities Art-in-Buildings Project, 1/20/162015 Ein Fantasietext aus 400 Rebzweiglein: Cui Fei macht Kunst aus Natur - und beantwortet immer ein und dieselbe Frage, by Ev Manz, Tages Anzeiger, Zurich, Switzerland, 11/18/2015The Dorsky Gallery, New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, by Michael Wood, Queensbuzz.com, 5/11/2015 Artists give visual form to our use of language in exhibit, by Karen Bjornland, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, 1/22/2015