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Yuemei Zhang

Education:

1979 –1988       MFA studied with Professor Wu bi Duan, Major: Printmaking/intaglio. China Central   Academy of Fine Art.

BFA Studied with Professor Guang Jun. Major: Printmaking/silk screen.  China Central Academy of Fine Art.

Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Current:         Artist and Creative Art director of Eastern Arts Connection, Inc. CT USA

Art Organizations: 

Member of The Society of American Graphic Artists. www.sagaprints.com

Member of the Boston Printmakers. http://www.bostonprintmakers.org  

Member of Printmaking Network of New England.  http://www.printmakersnetwork.org

Awards:

                Asian Design Excellence international award.  Paper World, Germany. ”Lotus and Crane”,              “Strawberry Red”“Spring joy”

               Best Graphic Award. The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT USA.   “Native Land”

               Best at Show Award, Annual Art Exhibition, Beth Ei Temple, W. Hartford, CT USA.  “Lu-Guo Lake”

               Elaine Avis Mathias Memorial Award, The 44th Exhibition, Guilford. CT USA  . “Dusk”

               Honorable Mention, "Choice's 90" Juried Art Exhibitions, Guilford. CT USA  “Window I”

               Awarded at “Advancing Chinese Youth Artist exhibition” for international Youth at The Fine Art Museum. Beijing. “Search”

Solo Show:

               Gallery of China Central Fine Art Academy, Beijing, China

               The Sun King Gallery, Hsin Chu, Taiwan

               Bologna Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY  USA           

               DeBouver Fine Arts, Chicage, IL USA

               Pump House Gallery, Hartford. CT USA

               Petrini Gallery, Avon. CT USA

               The Art and Frame shop, West Hartford, CT USA

               The Town and County Club, Hartford, CT USA

                Variations Gallery, Riverton, CT USA

Selected Group Art Shows:

            “On Paper under Glass” Contemporary prints from Permanent collection of the Slater Museum. Norwich CT

            “Here There” Art Show at the Print shop of Printmaking Center & Olive Branch Press. Ithaca College, Ithaca NY

             “Visions/Revisions” 25th Anniversary, PNSNE. at Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Traveling to CT Historical Society Museum. Hartford. CT  

            “Print Selections” at Valentine H. Zahn community gallery at MIDHOSP. Westbrook. CT

            “InkLing” at gallery of CNMC, Washington. DC

            “Travel +” at Briston Art Museum, Bristol, RI

            “Proof Positive” at The Slater Museum, Norwich, CT.

            Printmakers Network of Southern New England show at Dehn Gallery/MCC. Manchester, CT

             Micro/Macro, Newport Museum of Art, RI

            “InkLing” at Albertus Magnus College/Yale-New Haven Children Hospital, New Haven. CT

            “Inked” at Spirol Gallery, Quinebaug Vallery Community College. CT

             “Under Pressure” Samuel Chen Gallery, CCSU. New Britain, CT

            “Progressive Print” Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Suffield, CT

            “The Print: Process & Content” Choate Rosemary Hall, Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford. CT

            “Intimate Prints”, Converse gallery, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT traveling to Wickford Art Association, RI and Small Walls gallery, Hartford. CT

             University of Rhode Island, Corridor Gallery, Kingston. RI   PNSNE member show.

             The North East Art Expo, Boston, Massachusetts

             30th Annual Barnum Festival Juried Art Exhibition. The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport,CT

              The Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

              “Four contemporary Artists from the People’s Republic of China” at  The John Slad Ely House, New Haven, CT              

               The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut

               Bologna Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY

               DeBouver Fine Arts, Chicage, IL

             “China Biennial Printmaking Show” at Museum of Fine Art. Beijing. China. “Lu Guo Lake” Silk Screen

              “Advancing Chinese Youth Artist exhibition” for international Youth at The Fine Art Museum. Beijing. China.  “Search” Woodcut

Publication:

      “Here There Poetics of Place” published by The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY

      “Travel, B”  Three Brook, Limited Edition of Original Prints and Poetry, published with PNSNE

      “Artists of Chinese Origin in North America Directory “1st Edition. The international Institute for the Arts and Point Gallery

 Limited Edition Portfolios:

            “Intimate Prints”. Edition of 30 boxed sets of original prints by 24 artists. PNSNE

             “Collective Independence”, Edition of 25 boxed sets of original prints by 22 artists. PNSNE

            “The Intimate Print”, Edition of 25 boxed sets of original prints by 25 artists. PNSNE

            “Micro” Edition of 26 boxed sets of original prints by 21 artists. PNSNE

            “Score/2012” Edition of 28 box sets of original prints by 24 artists. It marks the group’s 20th anniversary. PNSNE

            “Print3” Edition of 26 box set of original prints by 26 artists. PNSNE

Public Collections:

            Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich. CT USA

            Newport Art Museum. Newport. RI USA

            Wheaton College, Norton. MA USA

            Fairfield University, Artists’ Book Collection. CT USA

            Thomas J. Dodd Center, Artists’ Book Collection, University of Connecticut. CT USA

            Printmaking department of China Central Academy of Fine Art. Beijing. China

            Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Beijing. China

Private Collections:

Various private collections in the United States, China, Canada, Australia, England, Germany, Sweden...

Teaching:

               Taught painting and printmaking in variety of settings:1990-now  Giving art courses and art lectures at Rhond island school of design, RI,  Hammond Museum NY, Worcester Museum of Art, MA, University of Hartford, CT and Manchester community college, CT.

Newspaper Reviews:

             Artist from China blooms in adopted hometown, by Michael Greenwood, The Hartford Courant, Nov. 18, 1996

               East Meets West, by Maxine Oldeman, The New Haven Advocate, January 27, 1991.

               New Works from China at John Slad Ely House, by Bernard Hanson, The Middletown press.  January 24, 1991

               Woman's Artistic Roots Remain Firmly Planted in her Native China, by Dave Drury. The Hartford Courant, April 5, 1990.

               Selected Artworks from “Advancing Chinese Youth Artist exhibition” at The Fine Art Museum by Jing Shang Yi, China “Guang Ming Daily News” on May, 20, 1985. Artwork published “Search” Woodcut.

 

 

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