An Exhibition by Hongyu Pu

Curator: Chutian Shu

Opening Reception: 3:30PM-8:00PM Feb 19 (Saturday)

Venue: One Space 一空间（长沙）

DIALOGUE 《对白》

I want to know your name. I want to know your sign. I’d like to hear from you. I’d like to talk about your playlist, talk about a person in black or a person in white, and talk about a movie you recently watched and a character in it. I’d like to look at your reflection, and get lost in your eyes. 

I probably should not discuss the definition of love with lovers; the meaning of friendship with friends; the symptoms of trauma with people in fear of losing themselves, but I can’t help doing so. 

“Are you inside your body?” she asked me, “but how can you tell?” 

—Hongyu Pu

Curator: Lin Dong

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-7:00PM Nov 11 (Thursday)

Venue: Banshan Gallery, Chengdu, China（半山·林画廊，成都市锦江区干槐树街11号）

Interpret the Seemly Random, NYC-based Multidisciplinary Artist Hongyu Pu

https://litang.zone/2020/05/26/interpret-the-seemly-random-nyc-based-multidisciplinary-artist-hongyu-pu/

Hongyu Pu (b.1993, Chengdu, China) graduated with a BFA in Cinematography from SUNY Binghamton University and an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute. She worked in Chambers Fine Art after graduation. Hongyu curated the Experimental Film Festival at Art Mission Theater and Bundy Museum in Binghamton, as long as group exhibitions in Brooklyn, NY. She had solo exhibitions in Steuben Gallery (NYC) and participated in group exhibitions internationally, including the Copenhagen Photo Festival (Denmark), Vanities Gallery (France), New Visual Image Arts Center (China), and Artosino Gallery (NYC).

Curator: Mathilde van Nuffel d’ Heynsbroeck

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-8:00PM November 30 (Monday)

Venue: Pratt Photography Gallery

Curator: John Parham

Organizer: International Society for Performing and Visual Arts

Opening Reception: 3:00PM-5:00PM Oct 14 (Monday)

Venue: Vanities Gallery, 16 Rue Popincourt,  75011 Paris, France

The theme of this exhibition draws its inspiration from the iconic song "3ème Sexe (Third Sex)" written by French band @indochineofficiel Indochine in 1985. In this song, the musicians ask for blurriness and a state of ambiguity for self-expression, and we ask you as an artist to express what ambiguity means to you, however it is related to your creative or personal life.

The theme of this exhibition draws its inspiration from the iconic song "3ème Sexe (Third Sex)" written by French band Indochine in 1985:

Des robes longues pour tous les garçons
(Long dresses for all the boys)
Habillés comme ma fiancée
(Dressed up like my fiancée)
Pour des filles sans contrefaçons
(For girl without forgery)
Maquillées comme mon fiancé
(Made up like my fiancé)
......
"C'est bientôt la chasse aux sorcières
(It's soon the witch-hunting)
Ambiguë jusqu'au fond des yeux
(Unclear until the bottom of the eyes)"

An Exhibition by Hongyu Pu

Curator: Sirui Jiang, Sen Luo

Opening Reception: 9:00PM-12:00PM Oct 24 (Saturday)

Venue: OJBK Art Space (525 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205)

MONOLOGUE 《独白》

Born in Chengdu, China in 1993, Hongyu Pu is currently completing her MFA in Photography at Pratt Institute. Hongyu works in photography, text and installation to express her thoughts about introspection, Being and self-contradiction. She often leaves these emotions in an ambiguous state for more possibilities and also as a way to slowly process her own inner feelings.

Focused mainly about her identity, existence, and uncertainties in her surroundings, Hongyu’s works became a method for her to understand these complex yet intertwined mysteries of life. Many of the times leaving more open ended questions for the future and for her audiences. In the book Siddhartha, German novelist Hermann Hesse stated, “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value” (Hesse). As a sensitive and curious person, Hongyu’s process of discovery does not end in the moment of completion of the art work; through this process of constant questioning and exploring, she created precious dialogues between herself and the artworks, gaining a sense of authenticity and understanding through the pain and fear, transforming them into something both vague and poetic.

Curator: Xingqi Liu

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-2:00AM August 10-11 (Saturday-Sunday)

Venue: Sansheng Flower Villag, Chengdu

Salt, Dust And Glitter 《整》

如英国美术史学家贡布里希所言“没有艺术，只有艺术家”，当代艺术家可以用艺术的名义，对任何一种领域的知识进行,思维加工并输出作品。而对于观者和学习者，配合着以平等与博爱为理念的现代文明，和消除社会阶级作为政治理想的乌托邦社会，中国的“当代艺术”本应顺着时代精神实现人人共享的社会资源。然而在理想的对立 面中，少数特权阶级霸占的资源和平民阶级难以撼动的体制与规则成为实现理想的最大敌人。对于平民阶层的艺术家群体，当代美术馆所建构的一系列规则与制度无疑是一堵高墙。对于这次参展的艺术家而言，他们有的是处在当代“下统”的艺术体制里，不断寻找自我定位的艺术生或初出茅庐的艺术家;也有是游离干艺术圈边缘地芳却热衷于艺术表达的创作者。凭借着热情与 真诚去实践，这群年轻艺术家积极的参与到理想化秩序的建构当中，而他们在这个过程中更多呈现出的是年轻人的义无反顾而不是老成持重，这就是参展艺术家们所表现出的“整”的姿态。

蒲虹宇：身份、错误、创伤

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bIyKR36WjHasye86YDMtcw

出⽣于四川成都，⽬前是⽣活在布鲁克林的艺术家，纽约普瑞特艺术学院纯艺系研究生在读。她的作品⽤诗意化的语言呈现了在当代背景下产生的关于身份，错位，创伤的讨论。好奇⼼驱使她通过不断尝试以实验性的⽅式制作作品，去安全感之外寻找出更多不可知的趣味。比起对⼀个事物“下定义”，她更偏爱创造更多的“可能性”。

Curator: Marie Anine Mølle

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-9:30PM June 6 (Thursday)

Venue: CGK Galleri & Kunstsalon

BEING HUMAN I HUMAN BEING (DK)/(US)
GRUPPEUDSTILLING V/ KØBENHAVNS FILM & FOTOSKOLE
OG PRATT INSTITUTE, NEW YORK.
OKKERRUMMET, CGK

CGK is proud to present a group exhibition with students and alumni from the two art schools Copenhagen School for Film & Photography and Pratt Institute, New York, during Copenhagen Photofestival 2019.

This exhibition is a group exhibition with selected works from students and alumni from the two art schools Copenhagen School for Film & Photography and Pratt Institute, New York, which is listed as the worlds' fifth best art school. The selected works focus on how to depict the many faces of humanity, both visually and philosophically. It explores the universal aspects of life, laughter, and everything in between in order to illustrate a wide understanding of what makes us all human.

Exhibiting artists are: Hongyu Pu, Robert Leon Scheirer III, Duff Norris, Asger Korsgaard, Remington Smith, Xingze Li, Alexandria Barcenas, D-Jai Kosiyabong, Gerö Ambrus, Aaron Cohen, Anna Hyvärinen, Shinhee Yu, Liselotte Rasmussen, Christina Thurston, Akhira Montague, Gabriella Rivera, Su Ji Lee, María Kristínha, Alexander Sedelnikov, Gitte Elgaard Nielsen, Spencer Harris and María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir.

Curator: Pratt Admissions

Exhibition Designer: Mark Gens

Opening Reception: 4:00PM-6:00PM September 12 (Thursday)

Venue: Pratt Institute Office of Admissions, Myrtle Hall, 2nd floor

Featuring work by second-year MFA Fine Arts candidates

Curator: LeRonn P. Brooks

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM April 30 (Tuesday)

Venue: Pratt Manhattan Gallery

All In is a group exhibition that explores the intersections between form and urgency. Each work stands as a metaphor for the evidence of the imagination’s questions about life, its ambiguities, secrets and truths. This is to say that there exists a community of inter-dependent and individual practices, here. Each work embodies its maker and is as unique, experimental and speculative, as the still-unfolding narrative(s) of each artist’s life and His/Her/Their implication(s) to the world(s) to which this exhibition is an invitation. It is an invitation (in)to the speculative interior(s) from which the imagination blooms as a matter of culture/counterculture, and the exploration of “personal knowing” and witnessing. Each work is a personified space of this witnessing and each space is a room for narration. All In is therefore evidence from the interior(s) and the communication of a deeply held bond between classmates, peers, friends and fellow journeyers.

Featuring work by second-year MFA Fine Arts candidates

Curator: Robbin Ami Silverberg

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM April 17 (Thursday)

Venue: Pratt Library Brooklyn Campus

An emphasis on both technique and innovation explores the conceptual and material basis of the genre of artist books. Taught by Professor Robbin Ami Silverberg in the Department of Fine Arts, the class provides a forum to develop book concepts, while learning a range of traditional & experimental bindings and transforming them into unique works of art.

DIALOGUE 《对白》

An Exhibition by Hongyu Pu

Curator: Allen Frame

Opening reception: April 1st 5PM-8PM

Venue: Steuben Gallery (200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205)

Exploring contemplative creative expressions by artists of various cultures and backgrounds.

Curator: Deborah Yanagisawa and Vanessa Chew

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM Jan 18 (Thursday)

Venue: Pratt Library Brooklyn Campus

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-7:00PM Dec 11 (Mondayy)

Venue: Pratt Fine Arts Office, South Hall

Ceramic works by Kate Bütler, Xiaozhao Yuan, Pooja Pramod Parikh, Luisa Valderrama, Jiawei Zhao, Ting Xiao, Linlin Qu, Netta Bar Zion, Xiaotong Wang, Yuzhe Zhong, Liangxiao Zhang, Weiran Sun, Hongyu Pu, and Naomi Frank.

Featuring work by Pratt’s Second Year MFA

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM November 7 (Tuesday)

Venue: Steuben Gallery

Confluence is an ensemble of five shows. Selected works from each artist have been grouped conceptually into “Junction,” “Relations,” “ReSurface,” “Interdependence” and “Infinity” -- each framed as a response to a set of tensions. The diversity of engagements and formal approaches included in Confluence reflects the pluralism of artistic practices in the art world today. Viewed alongside one another, the collective body of work flows together, tracing the meetings of influence among a group of artists working under one roof.

Curator: Lia Kim Farnsworth and Rosie Quick in conversation with Rhonda Schaller

Opening Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM Jan 18 (Thursday)

Venue: Dekalb Gallery

The focus of this exhibition is to highlight the varied uses of meditation, or contemplative practices within an artist's practice as well as to propose the potential for the work of art to provide a meditative space for the viewer.

Meditation is crucial to many artist's studio practices. While some artists use meditation to remind themselves of their artistic and creative intentions, other artists use meditation within their process to commemorate an ephemeral moment or to emphasize reflection.

Artworks can also provide meditative proms for the viewer, allowing the work to have an afterlife within the viewer's experience. Some works might echo the artist's practice in their effect on the audience, while others depart from the artist's process entirely to create a space of contemplation and meditation.

Curator: Bochun Cheng, Courtney Dudley, Songyang Liang, Hongyu Pu, Cougar Vigil, Xiaotong Wang, Sora. Woo, LiangxiaoZhang, Jiawei Zhao, Yuzhe Zhong

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-7:00PM Augast 30 (Wednesday)

Venue: Steuben Gallery

Curator: Jiang Ye

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-6:00PM April 24 (Mondayy)

Venue: Pratt MFA Studio, 630 Flushing Ave

I read therefore I am is a group exhibition of text related art, which can be any text-based art or visual art works related to readable symbols. All of artists selected in this show are young artists based in New York.

From the earliest use of text in Dadaist painter Rene Magrette’s work as “anti-aesthetic sentiment” to present, texts are widely used as “Socio-political artistic mechanism”. Text came to have a crucial role in contemporary art. The artists in this group show are all using text as an important element in their works, and are adding new value to this important art genre.

In the work named Exercises to think about yourself, artist Bárbara Oettinger uses the process of burning unreadable pencil marks to express the inner human emotions of purifying. The texts are treated as a symbol of our living experiences and unforgettable memories. Another piece of work, Musk, made by artist Trevis True, the uniqueness of text is utilized. By changing few words in original sentences, Trevis True successfully connected two absolutely different fields and made a powerful critic on the art education system. As opposing the significance of meanings and interpretations, artist Hongyu Pu holds a quite opposite position of using texts. She carries forward the theory of the content and form relationship from minimalism, and visualized the texts according to their subjects.

Curator: Hannah Rose Berry

Opening Reception: 5:00PM-8:00PM Nov 28 (Mondayy)

Venue: Dekalb Gallery

Friday, Dec. 4, 2015

3PM: Program 1 @John Arthur Cafe.

7PM: Program 2 @Art Mission & Theatre

Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015

3pm: Program 3 @Tranquil Bar & Bristo

3pm: Program 4 @Bundy Museum

Welcome to the 6th annual Student Experimental Film Festival in Binghamton! We have organized programmed four screening programs over the course of the two-day festival. We have received submissions in digital video and 16mm film from many student filmmakers across the country. We focus on films that challenge conventional cinema to bring together students and local community by enjoying and studying these films. This festival was designed to reinforce passion for experimental cinema, and we hope the program gives you this experience.

Opening Reception: Oct. 8, 4pm - 5pm (Thursday)

Venue: Binghamton Art Museum

Chiasmus - an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases.

The visual arts exhibit light and shadow in their possible forms, from photographs and paintings to film, bringing to the viewers a variety of diametrically opposed relationships as fine art. This exhibition emphasizes a clash, a tension of strong contrasts between light and dark, a bold counterbalance affecting whole compositions. The structural images on display not only embody the shadow as symbol in itself, they also explore the mysterious, withhold information, abstract subject matter, and provoke the imagination.