Tong Wenmin’s work often focuses on the intersection between individual perception and the external environment, stimulating visual poetry and inspiring action through behaviors that at first seem counter-intuitive. Through often simplified or regulated movements, her work hints at the allegorical character of the body and action within a semantically rich context.
Tong Wenmin (b. 1989, Chongqing, China) received her BFA at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2012. She won the Grand Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award in 2018, the First Prize of the 8th New Star Art Award by Deji Art Museum in 2018, Nomination Prize of The 5th Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2017, the Accolade Artist by Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art in 2016. Her recent solo exhibitions include As if Gone from the World, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, China (2021); Emerald, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2019); Escape from Discipline, Thousand Plateau Art Space, Chengdu, China (2019); Above The Tree, Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing, China (2017). Recent group exhibitions include ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Foshan, China (2022); *A* Wet Run Rehearsal, The 13th Shanghai Biennale “Bodies of Water”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2020); Sunset on a Dead End:The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence, Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China (2019); A White Space Odyssey, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China(2019);Unidentified Landscape, BARRAK, Okinawa, Japan (2018); Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting 2018, Fukushima, Tokyo Japan (2018); The 11th ZAZ International Performance Art Festival, Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv, Israel (2016); Thirty Years of Body Art Performance Happening Project Art Documents of China, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); XVII-International Art Festival, Interakcje, Piotrkow Trybunalski , Poland (2015), Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China (2015). Tong Wenmin currently works and lives in Chongqing.
童文敏的创作常常聚焦于外部环境与个体感知的交叉地带，通过看似背反逻辑的行为，激发微妙且具启发性的行动及其视觉诗意。通过时常简化的或具规律性的动作，在语义丰富的情境中提示身体与行动的寓言性品格。
童文敏，1989年生于中国重庆。2012年毕业于四川美术学院油画系。获得华宇青年奖评委会大奖（2018）、第八届新星星艺术奖第一等奖（2018）、第五届明天当代雕塑奖，四川美术学院，重庆（2017）、中国中国行为艺术文献展评选嘉许艺术家（2016）。近期的主要个展包括：仿佛从世界消失，华侨城盒子美术馆，佛山，中国（2021）；祖母绿，空白空间，北京，中国（2019）；规训的逃逸，千高原艺术空间，成都，中国（2019）；树梢之上，器· Haus空间，重庆，中国（2017）。近期群展包括：ON | OFF 2021: 回到未来，和美术馆，佛山，中国（2022）；湿运行，第13届上海双年展“水体”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国（2020）；“声名狼藉者”及其不可解的存在方式，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国（2019）；漫游者之歌，空白空间，北京，中国（2019）；不明的风景：亚洲酒店计划2018，BARRAK，冲绳，日本（2018）；回应-国际行为艺术节和会议，东京；福岛，日本（2018）；第11届以色列ZAZ国际行为艺术节，Petach Tikva 美术馆，表演艺术平台，特拉维夫，以色列（2016）；“INTERAKCJE”-第17届国际艺术节，Interakcje，彼得库夫特雷布纳尔斯基，波兰（2015）；以身观身：2015中国行为艺术文献展，旧法院大楼，澳门，中国（2015）。童文敏现工作生活于重庆。
