Born in Shanghai in 1968.

Started learning Calligraphy and Chinese ink painting since 5 years old. Followed old masters，she spent the whole childhood to study and practice as youth calligrapher. She had started to learn western oil painting during the teenager time. After 4 years of Art Collage in Shanghai, She went Japan in 1989. Graduated from Tokyo Musashino Fine Art University, Department of Design in 1995. She lived in Korea & US after Japan, during 1995 to 2000. Niu came back to home city Shanghai established studio, doing artwork & experimenting in various media since 2000. Her style is about painting the spontaneous lines with ease and grace. She often like to use “woman” and love relationship as the theme, very contemporary, yet with traditional oriental soul.

Her works have been shown in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, France, Holland, Australia… collected by Singapore National Art Museum, HSBC Private Bank(HSBCPB), and various worldwide private collectors.

Painting is laborious, but at the same time an exchange that is both mystical and spiritual. Inspirations do not come about by my own will. Yet I cannot stop painting. I paint, almost obsessively, without a shred of self-awareness. Sometimes I would forget that I am exhausted. I become possessed. My sore fingers lead by the brush, and the brush swayed by the strokes, as if strolling on the paper. The strokes become natural and relaxed; free and unbounded, filled with self-confidence. Strokes that come together by chance are filled with spirituality!

Ann Niu

July 2005, in Shanghai

by Zheng Zhong

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"Her fluid lines, flowing like clouds and water, harmonize with her saturated but never gaudy palette of colors. It’s as if there were a net spread out over the canvas, and one has to discreetly tear apart that net, a layer at a time. Only then does one discover that contemporary people all dance in concert with the undulating lines and vibrant colors of this painter, whose work embodies the moods and attitudes that inform their thinking and their hopes, their pleasures and frustrations, and their ambivalence and anxiety as they seek to confirm their existences and the value of their lives. What Ann Niu expresses is not a purely artistic, self-indulgent and idealized world, but rather a shared, open, mixed up and quotidian world."

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Born in Shanghai in 1968

Education and Background

1995                   Graduated from Musashino Fine Arts University, Tokyo, Japan

1987-89              Postgraduate study at Shanghai University, Fine Arts Department, China

1987                   Graduated from Shanghai University, Fine Arts College, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011                   Niu Ann’s painting, The Opposite House, Beijing, China

2010                   2000-2010, Shanghai Art Museum, China

DRAMA, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2007                   Brimming Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2006                   Whispers, Studio Rough, Shanghai, China

2005                   Perchance, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

Invite Time, Bridge 8 Lifestyle Center, Shanghai, China

 2004                  Angel is Terrified, Chouinard Gallery HK / Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

Closer, Natus Art Gallery, Shanghai, China

2003                   Femme? Peintures de Niu Ann, La Maison de La Chine, Paris, France

For A Good Reason, Hong Merchant of Australia, Sydney, Australia

45X40, Ink Work of Niu Ann, Hong Merchant Gallery, Shanghai, China

2002                   Breathe, OmniQ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2001                   Unfitted Place, Hong M Gallery, Shanghai, China

2000                   Entering, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010                   Head On, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2009                   30 Degree, Island 6 Art Center / Studio Rouge Gallery, Shanghai, China

Reach the Heart – Art in Hospital, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

50-80 Group Exhibition, J Gallery, Shanghai, China

TRIBES - GROUP 1, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2007                   Art Lan Asia, Zaim Yokohama Art Foundation, Yokohama, Japan

                          40-, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2006                   FACE VALUE, World Art Centre, Rotterdamseweg, Netherlands

2005                   Shanghai Shanghai, Group Exhibition, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China

Art Saturdays, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong

2002                   Neo Abstraction, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2001                   Shanghai Grand Exhibition of Fine Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China

                            China Art Now, Singapore National Art Museum, Singapore

Major Public Art Work and Creations with Other Media

2010                   Glass mural for Joyce Boutique, Hong Kong

2009                   Commissioned paintings for HSBC Private Bank, Hong Kong headquarters

Published stamp “Niu Ann’s art work” by China Post, China

Commissioned paintings for Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou branch of HSBC Private Bank           

  2007                   Large scale glass mural “Beats together” for Adidas’ exhibition “Sport and Art,” MOCA, Shanghai, China

Commissioned painting for HSBC Private Bank, Hong Kong headquarters

2005                   Mural “Where are you tonight” for La Garcon Chinois, Spanish cuisine restaurant / bar,  Shanghai, China   

Large scale glass mural “Under the fine sky” for the VIP lounge room in Japanese electronic company Sharp’s factory, WuXi, China

2002                   Large scale glass building mural “Embraced” for Shanghai Carnival – Shanghai International Tourism Festival in People's Park, Shanghai, China

2001                   Large scale glass mural “Kissing you while dancing” for Le Club of La Maison Cabaret of Xintiandi, Shanghai, China

Selected Clients and Collection

Singapore National Art Museum

HSBC Private Bank

Adidas

Australian Wild Abalone Association

Ogilvy Publications Worldwide

Shanghai 2002 International Tourism Festival

Sharp Factory in China, Wuxi, China

ANA Hotel & Resort, Thalassa Shima, Japan

Novel City, Shanghai, China

Main Private Collectors From:

France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, U.S.A., Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand

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