Artist Profile: Ruiyuan Chen

Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb

Ruiyuan Chen

Ruiyuan Chen's photographs reflect the artist's many travels throughout China and Mongolia. His works play with color, light, and shadows created by fog, dust, and smoke. He is the executive director of the Youth Photographic Society of Fujian and the Vice-President of the Putian City Youth Photographic Society.

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Chinese city scene along canal, rainy day. Woman in lower left with basket and pink umbrella.

Color photograph of a man carrying to baskets on his shoulders walking up a set of stairs in the snow.

Snowy winter scene along a canal going through row of gray concrete houses. Subject is the back of a man in a boat going down canal.

Ruiyuan Chen, Untitled (Urban Scene), photograph, ca 2008, 2009.123.14.
Ruiyuan Chen, Untitled, photograph, ca 2009, 2009.123.17.
Ruiyuan Chen, Untitled (Canal), photograph, ca 2008, 2009.123.15.

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