Oil on Linen
91.44 x 182.88 cm
Owen Fu
BIOGRAPHY
Owen Fu (b. 1988, Guilin, China) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2018, he completed his MFA at the ArtCenter College of Design. In 2016, he received one BA in Philosophy from the Stony Brook University and the other BA in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago respectively.
Owen Fu’s practice is never a specific image, it is more like a hybrid being of emotions, desires and a complicated incarnation of realities that beneath the superficial ordinary life. Behind the image is a void without a face, but full of imaginations and illusions within the vacant sight, in which sensual sentiments, emptiness, joy and sorrow drift around.
Owen’s works are part of the permanent collections of institutions worldwide, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US; the Domus Collection, New York, US; the K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China; the START Museum, Shanghai, China; the George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece; the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; and the Juan and Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and among others.
Selected solo exhibitions: Last Summer, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2023); Stealing Beauty, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2022); Ordinary Things, O-Town House, Los Angeles, US (2022); After Hours, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2021); 6 self-portraits and one lamp, Gallery Platform LA, Los Angeles, US (2020); Bubbly Hills, Mine Project, Hong Kong, China (2020); Small Talk, O-Town House, Los Angeles, US (2020); No Story, Art Center Main Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2018); Body Obsession, Art Center PPR, Pasadena, US (2018); Emoji Expression, New York Art Expo, New York, US (2016) among others.
Selected group exhibitions: Dance This Mess Around, Patient Info, Chicago, IL, USA (2024); Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, curated by Robin Peckham, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2023); Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2023); Uncanny Valley, Gagosian Hong Kong, China (2023); 2022 Beijing Biennial – Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image, Friendship Art Community, Beijing, China (2022); Exposition N°120 (maybe), Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2022); The exhibition formerly known as “trace image”, Deborah Schamoni hosting O-Town House, Munich, Germany (2022); Space, Laurel Gitlen, New York, US (2022); Diving Deep for Light into Darkness, Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China (2022); The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2021); Who’s Afraid of the Great Indoors, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, US (2021); Pathologically Social, organized with Mark Verabioff, O-Town House, Los Angeles, US (2021); Winterfest, curated by Saim Demircan, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US (2020); Gennariello (part II), curated by Daniele Balice, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2020); About FACE: Cover Me, Gallery Platform LA, Los Angeles, US (2020); Platform: Los Angeles, David Zwirner X Gallery Platform LA – online (2020); Condo Complex: Lomex Gallery hosting O-town House, Lomex Gallery, New York, US (2019); Just Edging 2, Art Center college of Design, Pasadena, US (2018) among others.
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Owen Fu, Untitled (Lantern Grass), 2024
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Owen Fu, Wake Up, 2023
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182.88 x 91.45cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Shall we talk, 2023
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150 x 90 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, My Father’s Back, 2023
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50 x 40 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, The suffering of men, 2023
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Owen Fu, You are my destiny, 2023
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150 x 90 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Something(伤心) from yesterday, 2022
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152.4 x 213.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Mahogany, 2022
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152.4 x 213.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Geisttiere), 2022
Oil on linen
94 x 183 cm
오웬 푸 (Owen Fu)
무제 (정령 동물), 2022
린넨에 유화물감
94 x 183 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Butterfly in Love with Flowers), 2023
Oil on linen
102 x 152 cm
오웬 푸 (Owen Fu)
무제 (꽃과 사랑에 빠진 나비), 2023
린넨에 유화물감
102 x 152 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Butterfly Lovers and Candle), 2023
Oil on linen
102 x 152 cm
오웬 푸 (Owen Fu)
무제 (나비 애호가와 양초), 2023
린넨에 유화물감
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Owen Fu, Marriage「Untitled (Saturn Peach and Cucumber) & Untitled (Past Lives), diptych」, 2023
Left: Owen Fu
Untitled (Saturn Peach and Cucumber), 2023
Oil on linen
91 x 91 cm
Right: Owen Fu
Untitled (Past Lives), 2023
Oil on linen
91 x 46 cm
좌측: 오웬 푸 (Owen Fu)
무제 (토성 복숭아와 오이), 2023
캔버스에 유화물감
91 x 91 cm
우측: 오웬 푸 (Owen Fu)
무제 (운명), 2023
린넨에 유화물감
91 x 46 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (The Wasted Times), 2023
Ink on watercolor paper
70 x 120 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (The Wasted Times), 2023
Ink on watercolor paper
70 x 120 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (The Wasted Times), 2022
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70 x 120 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (The Wasted Times), 2022
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120 x 70 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Green), 2022
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101.6 x 127 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Red), 2022
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76.2 x 101.6 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Grey), 2023
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101.6 x 127 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Late Night Boogie, 2022
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152.4 x 213.36 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Stealing Beauty, 2021
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91.44 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Klara and the Sun, 2022
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Owen Fu, A Midsummer Daydream, 2021
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Owen Fu, Twenty Meters Under the Seas, 2021
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Owen Fu, Voleur de lune, 2021
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Owen Fu, Bright Future, 2021
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116.84 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Nice View, 2022
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Owen Fu, The Remains of the Day, 2022
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Owen Fu, Untitled (turn it on), 2022
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55.88 x 71.12 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (turn it off), 2022
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55.88 x 71.12 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Summer Thing), 2021
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106.68 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Fall in love), 2022
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101.6 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Hot Spring), 2021
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106.68 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Another winter), 2022
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101.6 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, A Curtain Call, 2022
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55.88 x 71.12 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, One-act Call, 2021
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55.88 x 71.12 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (greasy middle age), 2022
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91 x 122 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (The Banana Dream), 2021
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106.7 x 152.4 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (boots), 2021
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76 x 76 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (lamp, chair, table and candle), 2021
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76 x 76 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (upper body), 2021
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76 x 76 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (lower body), 2021
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76 x 76 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, and Christmas, 2020
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76.2 x 101.6 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Sahara Rose, 2020
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152 x 107 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, One hundred ways to say “love you” , 2018
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157.5 x 266.7 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Arcadian), 2022
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42 x 60 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (free range), 2022
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12 x 16 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled, 2023
Ink on paper
66 x 40 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 cm作品信息Information -
Owen Fu, Untitled (Silver Linings), 2024
Oil on linen
45.72 x 91.44 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (amorous eyes), 2024
Oil on linen
45.72 x 91.44 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (Morning Pearl), 2023
Oil on linen
28 x 22 in | 71.12 x 55.88 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (Night Pearl), 2023
Oil on linen
44 x 22 in | 111.76 x 55.88 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (Bats), 2024
Acrylic on canvas
25.4 x 25.4 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled, 2023
Ink on paper
72 x 43 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled, 2023
Ink on paper
41 x 32.5 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (looking back), 2024
Oil on linen
101.6 x 127 cm
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Owen Fu, Untitled (sincerity), 2024
Oil on canvas
106.68 x 152.4 cm
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Artworks
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Horizons: Is there anybody out there?
2023.09.16 – 2023.10.25
Curator: Robin Peckham
Participating Artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Dora Budor, Hilo Chen, Xinyi Cheng, Cui Jie, Simon Denny, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Buck Ellison, Carolyn Forrester, Owen Fu, Sayre Gomez, Guan Xiao, Han Bing, Tishan Hsu , Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Allison Katz, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Josh Kline, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Heidi Lau, Li Ming, Yong Xiang Li, Liu Chuang, Jr-Shin Luo, Nancy Lupo, Mai Zhixiong, Helen Marten, Alexandra Noel, Peng Zuqiang, Tara Walters, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Xie Nanxing, Joseph Yaeger, Yu Honglei, Yu Peng, Zhao Gang, Zhou Siwei (alphabetically) -
Owen Fu: Stealing Beauty
2022.07.13 – 2022.09.12
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ANTENNA-TENNA
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Owen Fu: The Geisttiere Dwell in the Void | LEAP – Words: Ren Yue / Translated by Kevin Wu
To some extent, these personified figural elements of Fu’s paintings are “creatures that sprung from feelings” or, simply, “geisttiere (mind/spirit-animals).” They never wait in lines to be painted and seen; instead, they conceal themselves within a temporality that manifests no distinctions between the artist and the viewers, wandering like crepuscular shadows that just got separated from their owners. Of course, it is still possible to converse with them or even caress them-if you also happen to be doleful enough. When mingling with these geisttiere, Owen Fu employs varied linework as a vocabulary for chitchats. In his small-size paintings, a vase, or a teapot could become animated by charcoal lines and metamorphize into amicable or cunning avatars. These lines carry no intention to reify anything into concrete figures, yet it is within their “aimlessness” and “inaccuracies” that the transmutations of emotions take place: the painter casts the line with no particular aim, and his subjects willingly leap out of his memories and psyche to land onto the canvas. These “voluntary catches” are fragments of the artist’s genuine lived experience. Language is always inadequate:; the passing and accumulation of time blur certain experiences and reactions, but as the imprecisions manifest in the painting, they also create space for reinterpretations and evolve the artist’s initial feelings.