鱼|向
Yu · Xiang
鱼向，又名向明，1967年出生于湖北，祖籍湖南湘西，现定居湖南长沙。早期圆明园艺术家，香港中国美术会成员，日本国际艺术研究院成员。
Yu Xiang, also known as Xiang Ming, was born in 1967 in Hubei, China, with ancestral roots in Xiangxi, Hunan. He currently lives and works in Changsha, Hunan. An early member of the Yuanmingyuan artist community, and a member of the Hong Kong Chinese Artists Association and the Japan International Art Research Institute.
成长经历 Background
成长经历 Background
成长于部队大院，少年习画，曾师从湖南蔡吉民，北京戴泽、冯法祀等老一辈油画家，艺术生涯跨越三十余年，风格历经抽象表现主义探索至新写实与观念艺术的融合，形成自身独特的视觉语言体系。
Growing up in a military compound, Yu Xiang began studying painting in his youth. He studied under Hunan artist Cai Jimin and later received instruction from veteran Beijing oil painters Dai Ze and Feng Fazhi. His artistic career spans over thirty years, evolving from abstract expressionism to a fusion of new realism and conceptual art, ultimately forging his own distinctive visual language.
- 师承蔡吉民（早年）
- 师从戴泽、冯法祀（发展）
- 抽象表现主义探索（转型）
- 1990年北大首展（1990）
- 新写实与观念融合（2014）
创作理念 Philosophy
创作理念 Philosophy
人的情感与理性的共融
Emotion & Rationality
探索创造物世界中人性深处情感与理性之间微妙而永恒的张力，将内在矛盾转化为视觉诗意。
Exploring the subtle, eternal tension between human emotion and rationality within the created world — transforming inner contradiction into visual poetry.
生态自然与人的对话
Nature & Humanity
以画布为媒介，建构自然生态与人类存在之间持续的、无声的对话，赋予作品超越视觉表象的永恒意义。
Using the canvas as medium, building a continuous, silent dialogue between ecological nature and human existence — endowing the work with meaning that transcends visual appearance.
先锋探索期
Avant-Garde Exploration
早期创作深受现当代艺术的影响，尤其是艺术家波洛克与塔皮埃斯作品中的精神性表达。1990年，年仅23岁的鱼向在北京大学举办了“纸贴与墨”个人画展。
His early works were influenced by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Antoni Tàpies. In 1990, at the age of 23, he held his solo exhibition “Paper Collage and Ink” at Peking University.
新写实转向
New Realism & Concept
自2014年以后，其创作逐渐转向新写实艺术与现代观念的融合，通过细腻而克制的笔触捕捉自然生命与人类情感。
After 2014, his work gradually shifted toward a synthesis of New Realism and contemporary conceptual thinking.