artist/ Xing Qian YÉ

Born in 1963 in Zhejiang Province, China, painter YE Xing Qian has been painting since he was a child and trained like all his classmates by copying the old masters. At the age of 19, he emigrated to France and exhibited in Paris for the first time at the 37th ‘Jeune Peinture, Jeune Expression’ salon: his style had changed radically; he still painted with Indian ink on bamboo paper, but his works had moved away from the motifs of classical Chinese painting. From absolute black to a thousand shades of grey, Xing Qian’s brush brings dreamlike landscapes to life, which gradually take on colour. Exhibitions became more and more frequent, and Xing Qian’s painting entered the language of abstraction.

Gradually, YE Xing Qian is making a name for himself in China, where he exhibits in prestigious venues. In 2008, one of his paintings was featured on a postage stamp. His works are present in several museums and he is frequently invited to exhibit his watercolours and oil paintings on canvas.
In 2018, five watercolours entered the permanent collection of the Guimet Museum in Paris.
In 2021, a beautiful ink on canvas entered the collection of the Cernuschi Museum.
He lives and works in Montreuil, near Paris.
In 2008, he created a French contemporary art association called ‘Mille étoiles’ (A Thousand Stars). He explains: ‘With my dual Chinese and French culture, I wanted to promote exchanges between French artists and China.’ Ye Xing Qian is convinced that he can help young Chinese artists mature, as they are too constrained by conservative teachers and have no sense of the artistic value of paintings.