Artist's Bio
Gan Yu is an artist, curator, and professor currently based in New York. He earned his M.A. in Studio Art from Minnesota State University, a Ph.D. in Chinese Painting from the China Academy of Art, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of History of Art + Architecture at Harvard University. He is currently a guest Professor and international doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and also teaches contemporary Oriental Ink Art workshops and courses at The Art Students League of New York. Gan Yu has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including Minnesota State University–Mankato Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Art Gallery, the Yale-China Association (CT), the Hammond Museum (NY), Ethan Cohen KUBE Art Center (NY), Shun Art Gallery (Tokyo), The Gettysburg College Art Gallery (PA) and CCACC Art Gallery (MD). His works have also been included in group exhibitions at Ethan Cohen Gallery (NYC), Volta Basel Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Miami Asia Art Expo, the National Art Museum of China, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China Academy of Art Museum, Gettysburg College Art Gallery, St. John’s University Art Gallery, Culture Lab LIC of New York Art Gallery, among others.
About The Wall Street Series
Many people have asked why I focus on the stock market as a recurring theme. My answer is that since 2006, I have devoted 20 years to exploring this subject matter through 10 different series, and showing them across the ocean many times. I’ve come to see the stock market as a visual distillation of contemporary politics, economics, technology, culture and arts. The U.S. stock market, in particular, serves as a barometer for the world economy. I believe global financial markets symbolize the largest piece of collective action art in human history. From New York to London, Tokyo to Shanghai, markets operate in a continuous relay, day and night—never ceasing. This persistent activity electronically generates new patterns on stock charts every day, creating a living visual record of the uneven trajectory of modern economics, technologies and social developments. Blending these streams of observations, thoughts and emotions into my artistic practice has pushed me to think differently and to discover new ways of image-making --- Gan Yu
Artist's Statement
Gan Yu takes a special interest in exploring the art of East and West from ancient to present time. The aesthetic development of Oriental and Occidental art can be seen as two rivers traveling parallel courses in the same art world. His challenge has been to find another channel that allows these two currents to flow together. Gan Yu’s paintings reveal that Eastern and Western concepts and techniques of art can be combined well into a universally accepted artistic language. We are living in a rapidly changing digital and AI era, facing the explosion of technology, challenging global economic systems, natural and social environmental issues every day. These are inevitably influencing everyone’s daily lives as reflected in Gan Yu’s artwork. Gan Yu’s artistic creations blend these streams and sentiments and compel him to paint in a new manner, think insightfully, and produce a unique way of image-making.
艺术家介绍
喻干定居住于美国纽约，他是职业艺术家、策展人、教授。喻干获美国明尼苏达州立大 学美术系绘画专业硕士学位，中国美术学院中国画人物画专业博士学位，喻干曾在美国哈佛大学艺术 史系做博士后研究员。喻干目前是上海美术学院特聘教授、国际博士生导师并在纽约艺术学生联盟主 持中国现代水墨艺术课程。喻干在美国明尼苏达州立大学画廊、威斯康星大学画廊、葛底斯堡大学画廊、耶鲁大学 雅礼协会画廊、纽约科恩 KUBE 艺术中心、纽约哈蒙德博物馆、旧金山中国画廊、日本东京 SHUN 画廊、葛底兹堡大学画廊、CCACC画廊等 机构举办过个人画展。喻干作品在中国美术馆、香港艺术馆、上海美术馆、中国美术学院美术馆、美国纽约市科恩画廊、纽约科恩 KUBE 艺术中心、巴塞尔 VOLTA 当代艺术博览会、迈阿密棕榈海滩国 际现当代艺术博览会、迈阿密亚洲艺术博览会、葛底兹堡大学画廊、圣约翰大学画廊、纽约市文化实验中心画廊等参加过群展，曾多次获得国际大奖。
艺术家自述
1. 关于华尔街系列:
很多人问我，为什么我把股市作为反复出现的创作主题? 我回答：自 2006 年以来， 我用 20 年的时间，通过 10 个不同的系列持续探索这个题材，并多次把作品带到世界多国展出。我将 股市视为当代政治、经济、科技、文化与艺术的视觉体现，美国股市被视为世界经济的晴雨表。我认 为: 全球金融市场是人类历史上规模最大的集体行为艺术。从纽约到伦敦，从东京到上海; 市场昼夜接 力、持续运转。这种不间断的运动每天都在生成新的图象，它们是鲜活的视觉档案，记录著现代经济、 科技与社会发展的轨迹。将这些观察、思考与个人情感的多重脉络融入我的艺术实践，促使我以新方式去思考，用新的图像去创作--喻干
2. 关于我的艺术语言:
我对探索东西方古今艺术有著浓厚的兴趣，认为东方和西方艺术犹如世界艺术史中两条平行流淌的河。我通过长期绘画创作来寻找把东西方艺术完美结合的路径，使其审美与技艺相互交融并生长出全新的语汇。我认为，人类的艺术传统需要继续并在当代新科技、新审美文化环境中发展。我的作品展示了古与今，东方与西方的艺术观念和技法可以结合成一种被世界普遍接纳的艺术形式。今天的数字时代与AI技术爆炸，人类的生活瞬息万变并面临著全球政治、经济、社会环境及文化变异等多重挑战，它们在我的作品中都有所体现。这些艺术作品综合了我所生活时代的声音、人类文化的DNA以及个人的情感，它们向观众展现了艺术家以“古典审美当代表达”为审美基调的个性化艺术语言和独特的思考所创造出的新图式--喻干