Cui Fei

BIOGRAPHY

SELECTED SOLO & JOINT EXHIBITIONS

• Vermicular Calligraphy, The Garage Art Center, Queens, NY, USA

• Cui Fei: Counter-Monument, The Chu-Griffis Asian Art Reading Room, Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA

• Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin II, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

• Cui Fei: The Journey of Transformation, W10 Window Project, Art-in-Building Program, New York, NY, USA

• Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

• Origins: Cui Fei & Taca Sui, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

• 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

• Cui Fei, Warehouse gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
• Manuscript of Nature V, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA 

• Manuscript of Nature, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY, USA

• The Voice of the Voiceless, Gallery 456, New York, NY, USA

• Beyond East and West: Seeking the Truth in Nature, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 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

• 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

• Into the Spines and on the Stacks, MoCA L.I., Patchogue, NY; Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue, NY; Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY, USA 

• 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

• 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

• Communicating Beyond Words, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, USA
• The Burning Kite, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY, USA

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• SIP Fellowship, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, New York, NY 2013 Peer Leadership Circles, Queens Council on the Arts, Astoria, NY, USA

• Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, USA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• A New Transcendentalist Movement in the New Age: On Theater of Energies, by Feng-Yi Chu, Whitehot Magazine, August 4, 2024
• 3 A.M. Provocations: In Lieu of A Curatorial Statement, by gaoyuan, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
• Cui Fei: Vermicular Calligraphy, Artist Spotlight and Exhibition Showcase, Arte Realizzata, May 21, 2024

• 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 2023
• Between Light and Shadow, catalog, essay by Bodo Korsig, AOA;87, Bamberg, Germany 

• 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, 6/27/22
• Spine/Thorns, by Arianna Santambrogio, INVENTARIO Everything is a Project, Milan: Carraini, Italy. No.16, p125

• 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. 221-231
  

• The Seeds of Creation: Artists during the 2020 pandemic, by Cosmina Ene, Max Laniado Fine Arts LLC, New York, NY, USA
• The Asemic Effect: What - and how - does meaningless writing mean? by David Ebony, Art in America, May 2020

• Asemic: The Art of Writing, by Peter Schwenger, University of Minnesota Press, 2019
• Cui Fei: Counter-Monument, by Yibing Huang, Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
• Chinese Landscape Rethought in New London, by Megan Gummer, The College Voice, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA

• Natural Principle of the Characters, by Pan Xing lei, Fashion Color, 04, 2018
• Chinese Medicine in America exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America, by Zhang Zhen, Voice of America, 5/12/2018
• Chinese Medicine and Art, by Qianfan, EsquireChina, 2018/08/No/156
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• Cui Fei, monograph, Chambers Fine Art, New York and Beijing
• 2017 Patterns And Pathways: the Artistry of Cui Fei, by Jerome Silbergeld, Chinese text translated by Ying Zhou, Shishuhua Journal, No.3 2017, Beijing, China
• BNO Design Gives an Upper East Side A Chic Canvas for Art, by Deborah L. Martin, New York Spaces, Volume 14, Number 5, September 2017
• In Perspective, by Louis Soulard, ArtAsiaPacific, 1/2017
• Artistic Perspective: Similarity and Dissimilarity? NewYork Lounge, Sinovision, 1/26/2017 

• 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, 11/28/2016
• Conversation with Liang Shuang, Tencent, Beijing, China, 10/3/2016
• Aesthetics also for illiterates, Köln Nachrichten, Colgone, Germany, 4/24/2016
• New exhibition in the East Asian Museum, Solinger Tageblat, 4/12/2016
• Magie der Zeichen. 3000 Jahre chinesische Schriftkunst, artCore, Switzerland, 3/15/2016 
• Kunstvolle Schrift entsteht mit Pinsel, Tusche, Papier, by Elke Baumann, Lokalinfo, Zurich, 1/21/2016
• Get to Know: Cui Fei, by Time Equities Art-in-Buildings Project, 1/20/16

• 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, 11/18/2015
• The 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