Chan Chi (pinyin: Chén Qí; Wade–Giles: Chan Chi; born as 陳奇 in 1956) is a modern artist with fame in oil painting and ink painting. Chen co-founded the Amphibian-Art movement in early 1990s. Chen was born in Shenyang of Communist China in the midst of Great Leap Forward. After 1989, he moved to Singapore and later to United States. Chen is best known for his figurative oil and ink paintings, in which he fused the western and eastern painting techniques as a whole new genre.
In 1989, Chen Qi and several Chinese artists, including Jin Shangyi and Wu Guanzhong, attended the Oil Paintings of Modern Day China exhibition, which was sponsored by the art center of Department of Culture of Singapore. Chen's nude painting was hailed by art critic Tan Tee Chie as "one of those with highest art value". Chen Qi held his first solo exhibition in Singapore in 1990, for which he earned a sponsorship from the Art Center under the Department of Culture of Singapore.
Selected works and exhibitions
1989, Back of Nude, Oil Painting Art from China – International Art Show, Selected Group Show, International Trade Centre, Singapore.
1990, Selected Works of Oil Paintings, White Mountain and Black Water Exhibition, Selected Group Show, Sponsored by Ministry of Culture of Singapore, Singapore.
1990, Nudes and Still Life-Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Hongxiang Art Centre of Singapore and Ministry of Culture of China, Singapore
1990, Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Art Gallery, Singapore
1990, Oil Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Art Gallery, Singapore
1994, Solo Exhibition of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Singapore Art Gallery, Papua
1996, Chen Qi's Portrait Art Painting, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Dragon Gate Gallery, Switzerland
1997-2006, Plein Air Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Deutschland Cruise Liner, Germany
2007, Chen Qi's Ink Paintings, Solo, Sponsored by ARE Groups, Singapore
2011 May, Lovely Child —Ink Paintings of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Sponsored by Artist Association of Gansu, Gansu, China
2011 July, Amphibism Exploration - Chen Qi's Ink Paintings of Amphibism Movement, Solo Exhibition, Artists Association of Canton, Guangzhou, China
2011 July, Manchurian Dream and Echoes in Chen Qi's Ink Paintings, Solo Exhibition, Museum of Mukden Palace, Shenyang, China
2011 July, 90 Years of Glory – Ink paintings and Calligraphies from Great Masters of Art, Group Exhibition, Yulin, China
2011 Sep, Plein Air Oil Paintings and Portrait Ink Paintings of Master Chen Qi, Solo exhibition, Gansu, Tianshui, China
2011 Sep, Mother and Children Series, Ink Paintings, Praise to Peace Art Exhibition, as part of the World Peace Day Memorial Events And Forums of Peace and Development in North-East Asia, Sponsored by Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Art(LAFA), Shenyang, China
2012 Jan, Good Old Days, Golden Memories—Portrait Arts of Chen Qi, Solo Exhibition, Museum of Mukden Palace, Shenyang, China
2014 April, Lovely Child, Ink Paintings, Art Revolution Taipei 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 July, Mother and Children, Ink Paintings, 15th Dalian International Art Show, Dalian, China
2015 July, Lovely Child, Ink Paintings, 16th Dalian International Art Show, Dalian, China
