Cai Lei

Having graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009, Cai Lei who was born in Jilin Province in China had may inspirations from his personal experiences, feelings and own perspective on life. He often infuses emotion and poetry, creating a striking balance between what may seem fragile and inanimate. Cai Lei has always believed that by bringing life into the artworks, even just an element or a piece of it would allow his artwork to exude the truth of what he sees and only through, the viewers heart can be conquered and their soul can be stirred. With his constant exploration, we see in one of his recent works where he used the soft leather material to show the old physical form of a human body. He believes that sculpture art material can be attracting to the viewers. His sculptures, recreating objects or human figures are often astonishingly hyper-realistic. His attentive to the materials and its qualities to create the effect brings a sense of eccentric beauty of his installations and sculptures. Cai Leis works were exhibited in Liu Hai Su Museum in Shanghai and Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing where the feedbacks were overwhelming. His works often stir great emotion responses from the viewer as it often reminds of them of the brutal splendor of reality. His purpose is to provoke these emotions and reflect to the people on how these situations are often avoided as time passes by.

Selected Exhibitions
2012 5th 54 International Young Art Festivals 2012, Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings Art Museum of South Texas, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, USA Hardworking- Group Exhibitions of New Realistic Sculptors, 0 Field Art Centre, Beijing, China University Art Museum, Colorado State University, For Collins One and One - Group Exhibition of Contemporary Young Artist, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China East/West: Visually Speaking, Paul and Lulu Hilliand University Art Museum, Universtiy of Louisiana, Lafayette MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonwille The Start of a Long Journey - The Collection of Excellent Graduation Works, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Not in Reality, 0 Field Art Centre, Beijing, China Troublemaker, Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Art Fairs Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China Liu Hai Su Museum, Shanghai, China Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China

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Awards
2009 2007 2006 2005 Graduate work "We" and "They" won the Class Two award in the Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture, "Dressing", won the Class One award in the Central Academy of Fine Art Oil painting, "Changing", collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Sketch, "Duo", won the Class Two award in the Central Academy of Fine

Arts Oil paintings, "Countryside", "Bird" and "Nude" collected by the Central Academy of Fine Arts