NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen announced their representation of Yuri Yuan. Alexander Berggruen will present a solo show with the artist opening September 7, 2022.

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) paints surrealist scenes featuring ambiguous and physically impossible figure-landscape relationships to explore existentialist themes of longing and loss. Through visual symbolism, metaphors, and magical realism, the artist explores the ways in which exterior landscapes become projections of her and her audience’s interior psychological states.

This upcoming exhibition marks the gallery's second solo show with the artist, following Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You (July 21-August 31, 2021).

Yuan holds a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Yuan was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020, and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019 and 2022. The artist’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA; Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL; and International Center for the Arts, Umbria, Italy, among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH and The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA. Yuan lives and works in New York, NY.

Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams will open September 7, 2022 with a 5-7 pm reception at the gallery (1018 Madison Ave., Fl. 3, New York, NY 10075). The exhibition will run through October 12, 2022.