Maps of No Return: He Gong Solo Exhibition

Duration：2025/5/17 – 2025/8/31

Curator: Dr. Sophia Kidd

Address: Sophia Grace Gallery, WA, USA

Sophia Grace Gallery proudly presents Maps of No Return, a rare Pacific Northwest solo exhibition by renowned intercultural artist He Gong. Blending Eastern and Western visual traditions, He Gong’s works grapple with themes of memory, migration, and resilience.

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｜Past Events｜

Exhibition｜Or is it Second Nature

Duration：2024/11/16 – 2025/1/25

Curator: Dr. Sophia Kidd

Address: Chongqing Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

Or is it Second Nature explores contemporary art from the perspective of affective geography, mapping how emotions and cognition empower artists and audiences to navigate their natural, cultural, and spiritual environments. Or is it Second Nature presents case studies of eleven artists: Shu Qun (舒群), Qiu Zhijie (邱志杰), Tian Ye (田野), Li Zhanyang (李占洋), Zhang Xiaotao (张小涛), Li Chuan (李川), Qiu Anxiong (邱岸雄), Li Tingwei (李亭葳), Chen Weicai (陈伟才), as well as Alois & Ling Nimmervol (阿路易斯&琳·力迈尔佛), focusing on natural, cultural, aesthetic, and affective geographic elements within their artwork. Viewers of artworks in Or is it Second Nature are encouraged to first and foremost feel the artwork, then make sense of who created them, materials used, and what information passes through sight, sound, spatial negation, time, and touch.

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Exhibition｜BIOS: Embodied Environments

Duration：2024/4/27 – 2024/8/1

Curator: Dr. Sophia Kidd

Address：Riverside Art Center, Chongqing, China

BIOS: Embodied Environments presents piantings, multi-media artworks, installation, video, and performances by three generations of ecologically-oriented artists.BIOS exhibition is about elemental gestalt, and by inviting Dai Guangyu to contribute his genius
to that of five exceptional women, we may more fully experience the magic of interaction between polarities.

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Exhibition｜Geographies of Feeling

Duration: 2023/8/19 – 2023/11/19

Curator: Dr. Sophia Kidd

Address: A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China

Dr. Sophia Kidd curated and presented “Geographies of Feeling”, a parallel exhibition to the 2023 Chengdu Biennale, inviting Zhu Cheng, He Gong, and Dai Guangyu, three master artists who have made great achievements in their respective fields, and seven new generation artists, Hu Jiayi, Pu Yingwei, Tong Wenmin, Wang Zifan, Wang Yanxin, Wang Zheng and Zhu Ming to discuss the relationship between these ten artists and the local art ecology.

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