岳敏君

1962 年出生于黑龙江省大庆市
1985 年就读于河北师范大学美术系

中国当代艺术的领军人物，国际著名艺术家。生活、创作于北京。

自 90 年代初，岳敏君就在画布上着意一个有夸张意味的“自我形象”的塑造，近年来这一形象蔓延到其雕塑和版画领域里。“它”有时独立出现；有时又以集体的面目亮相。“它” 开口大笑，紧闭双眼；动作夸张，但却充满自信。

2007 年，他被《时代周刊》作为封面人物报道，并当选“时代周刊年度风云人物”，在获奖的五位全球重要人士的名单上有普京、巴拉克·奥巴马和希拉里·克林顿等人，岳敏君是唯一一个中国人，也是唯一一个艺术家。《时代周刊》如此评价岳敏君：“如果你认为中国与这个世界的现状和未来息息相关，那这位艺术家就是描绘出中国的人”。

此外，岳敏君的作品被国内外重要艺术机构、美术馆以及博物馆收藏。例如，美国旧金山当代艺术博物馆、美国丹佛美术馆、法国索瓦.密特朗文化中心、韩国釜山美术馆、广东美术馆、深圳美术馆等重要机构都将其作品纳入馆藏。自 1999 年参加 48 届威尼斯双年展开始，他更是成为了历届威尼斯双年展的受邀中国当代艺术家，彰显了其不可忽视的艺术贡献，其鲜明的艺术特征更是为中国当代艺术以及文化在世界舞台上写下了浓墨重彩的一笔。

1962
Born in the Town of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province, China

1985
Studied in the Oil Painting Department of Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China

Yue Minjun, the leading figure of contemporary Chinese art, internationally renowned artist. Living and working in Beijing.

Yue Minjun had been creating this exaggerated “Self-image” since the beginning of the 1990s. And in recent years, this image has been used in the field of sculpture and printmaking. Sometimes “it” appears independently, or collectively. “It” closes its eyes and laughs grinningly; with dramatic gestures and confidence.

He became the cover story of <Time> magazine in 2007, and nominated as one of the “Person of the Year 2007-People Who Mattered”, on the list of the five award winners, there were Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton etc., Yue Minjun was the only Chinese, and only artist who had been nominated, <Time> described Yue Minjun as: “If you think China has a close relationship with the current and future status of the world, then this is the man to paint China”.

On the other hand, Yue Minjun’s artworks have been collected by domestic and foreign art institutions, galleries and museums. For example, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Denver Art Museum, The Culture Centre of Francois Mitterrand, Busan Museum of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Shenzhen Art Museum and other important institutions have all brought Yue’s works into their permanent collections. Since participated in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, Yue had been invited as one of the regular contemporary Chinese artists in every Venice Biennale, which demonstrates his profound artistic contribution, and his distinctive artistic characteristics have established the non-negligible importance in contemporary Chinese art and the world stage.