[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”Maps of No Return: He Gong Solo Exhibition” subhead=”Maps of No Return: He Gong Solo Exhibition” text_orientation=”center” header_scroll_down=”on” scroll_down_icon=”%%2%%” logo_image_url=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MoNR-poster\u4e2d.jpeg” button_two_text_tablet=”” button_two_text_phone=”” button_two_text_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” title_font=”Times New Roman|800|||||||” title_text_align=”center” title_text_color=”#C4BE8D” title_font_size=”50px” title_line_height=”1.5em” content_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” content_line_height=”2em” subhead_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” subhead_text_color=”#C4BE8D” subhead_font_size=”24px” subhead_line_height=”1.3em” background_color=”#000000″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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\u2019s works grapple with themes of memory, migration, and resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”22px” header_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \uff5cCurator\uff5c<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/\u5eb7\u4e66\u96c502.jpg” alt=”Dr. Sophia Kidd” title_text=”Prof. Sophia Kidd” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dr. Sophia Kidd<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Associate Professor at School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, Lecturer at the Sichuan University of Foreign Languages, Lecturer at the University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, and Lecturer at the University of Bochum. Dr. Sophia Kidd is the Founder of Words Art International, Director of Igneus Press, and Editor of Literature and Modern China<\/em>, a journal of School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University. Dr. Sophia Kidd is a research curator, art critic, translator, and writer who has lived and worked in Chengdu for over ten years, working closely with Chinese scholars, artists, and specialists in the field of art and facilitating exchanges between them and their counterparts abroad. She has recently published a monograph Culture Paves the New Silk Roads<\/a>(Palgrave, 2022.) Kidd also wrote a chapter that appeared in Spatial Literary Studies in China<\/a>, (Palgrave, 2023.) Kidd also edit-in -chief \u300a\u5496\u5561\u8bc4\u8bba\uff1a\u4e2d\u56fd\u7279\u8f91\u300b The Cafe Review: The Chinese Issue<\/a> (XPress, 2021.) Kidd also did English translations of a large number of modern poems from southwest China, especially from the Sichuan and Chongqing<\/em> regions. <\/p>\n Email: sophiakidd@yanluartsandculture.com<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”22px” header_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \uff5cFeatured Artists\uff5c<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” link_option_url=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/en\/artist-a-z-li-yaoyao\/” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/\u4f55\u5de5\u5927.jpeg” alt=”Dr. Sophia Kidd” title_text=”He Gong” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He Gong\uff08China\uff09<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n He Gong (b. 1955, Chongqing, China) is a Chinese contemporary artist whose practice engages questions of migration, memory, and cultural hybridity. He earned his MFA from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1985 before relocating to the United States in 1986. From 2005 to 2024, he served as Professor of Art at Sichuan University, shaping a generation of emerging artists. Dividing his time between Chengdu and Los Angeles, He Gong\u2019s work reflects a sustained dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic traditions. His paintings, exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Venice Biennale and the Edinburgh Festival, trace personal and collective journeys across landscapes where individuals actively embrace marginalization, continuously transcend identity boundaries, and ultimately return to primal authenticity. His recent practice embraces a narrative turn, using the visual field as a stage for unfolding allegories of identity, longing, and transformation. Through luminous storytelling, He Gong invites viewers into a theatre of memory where myth and lived experience converge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”22px” header_font=”Times New Roman||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \uff5cExhibited Works\uff5c<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Blue Pool\uff082025\uff09” image=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Blue-Pool.png” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He Gong, Acrylic with stencil technique, 16″ x 20″<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Crossing the Hudson River (2019\uff09” image=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Crossing-the-Hadson-River.png” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He Gong, Mixed media on paper, 25″ x 31″<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Night Travels\uff082025\uff09” image=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Night-Travels.png” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He Gong, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 44” \u00d7 48”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Pisces\uff082023\uff09” image=”https:\/\/yanluartsandculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pisces.png” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He Gong, Acrylic on canvas, 30\u201d x 30.5\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”May \u2013 Tinnitus as Metaphor\uff082024\uff09” 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