About Yujian Cui：
Yujian Rikki Cui is a Chinese Artist who lives and studies in Los Angeles. He graduated from CalArts Photo and Media program. His work explores the space between Visual Art and experimental writing. He also critiques and experiments with the concept of time in Photography. His works mainly discuss the conflict between social development and individual sentiment, Asian immigrant history in Western America. His works at the same time discuss the complex relationship between photographs and memory. He also questions the objectiveness of traditional Documentary Photography and critiques the effects it creates on the subjects.
Yujian Cui’s CV
HONORS AND AWARDS
12/2022 Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund
11/2022 The Bartman Fund
12/2020 Chouinard Scholarship
02/2020 Lilian Disney Scholarship
01/2018 1st Prize, Qingdao News Union Competition
EXHIBITIONS
11/2024 “A Footprint” Thesis solo exhibition, Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
04/2023 CalArts 50 Years Anniversary Group Show, MOD Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
11/2022 “Blossom Still” (solo exhibition), Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
12/2021 “TEXEXT” class group exhibition, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
05/2021 CalArts BFA Foundation Exhibition, 25124 Springfield Ct, Valencia, CA
12/2020 The Places that Make Us, BFA foundation online exhibition
12/2020 Qingdao 10 Artists Contemporary Photography Group Exhibition, Qingdao, Shandong, China
08/2018 The First Art Exhibition of Qingdao New Oriental, Qingdao, Shandong, China