Exhibition Calendar

Experimental Studio

One of the most iconoclastic artists to appear in Asia in the last decade, Shen Shaomin works at the vanguard of a new generation of project oriented artists. His “Cloud Pillar,” “Experimental Field” (plant/animal hybrids made of collected bones and cast bone meal) and monstrous mythological creatures (also made from bones) made a significant international impact at the 2006 Liverpool Biennial and his four simultaneous projects in Beijing – three in galleries and one at a museum – in the fall of 2007 impressed with their diversity of thought and commentary on a wide range of disparate and inter-related topics; these included a series of geriatric twenty-foot oil pumps entitled “Kowtow Pump” at Tang Contemporary Art, “Tiananmen” at the Today Art Museum, “Fighter X” at Platform China and “Bonsai” at Courtyard Gallery.

For his American debut, the artist will travel both the “Bonsai” and “Experimental Studio: The Thousand Hand Buddha” projects to our gallery in San Francisco, altering and augmenting each as appropriate to our space and the artist’s evolving vision.