Overture to Youth: A Girl Painter Bo Sihan

Bo Sihan

Bo Sihan is an ambitious young female painter. She began to receive systematic painting training when she studied at the Affiliated High School of China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. She obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from the Oil Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Then she embarked on a full-time artistic career and held personal art exhibitions in many art galleries in different cities in China. In 2024, she entered the University of Macau to pursue a doctoral program in art.

Bo Sihan employs diverse artistic techniques and covers a wide range of themes in her works. Her painting creations involve everything from oil paintings on canvas to mixed media. Her works have been collected by academic institutions and art galleries for many times.

Award winning experience:

In July 2012, The sketch work "Plaster " was rated as excellent homework and collected in school for collection in December 2012, The oil painting "Fishing Boat " had excellent picture expression and was collected by the director of the studio

In 2013, Third Prize in Track and Field Games of Affiliated High School of China Central Academy of Fine Arts

In 2015, " Observation and Expression " Winter Holiday Exhibition "Trees in Winter in Beijing " won the Outstanding Works Award

In 2015, " Still Life Sketch of Root " was rated as an excellent work

Won Outstanding individual for 2014-2015 " Social Practice and Art Investigation, Out for Sketch Course"

Won the third prize of 2014-2015 Comprehensive Scholarship

In 2016, " Echo of History-Sketch Exhibition of Chinese Railway Locomotives " which was exhibited in the Exhibition Hall of the China Millennium Monument Center

January 18, 2016 Work " Locomotive "at the 12th " Studio Open Day " of Oil Painting

Department of the Institute of Modeling won the " Excellent Sketch Award "

In 2018, The graduation work " Greed, Annoyance and Delusion of Existence " at

Undergraduate Graduation Group Exhibition

Won the 2017-2018 Master's Scholarship Award

In 2019, Participated in 798 EPARTY's "30 Elk Running Down on the Mountain " artist group exhibition with work " Awakening Dreams " series, curated by Fang Xianchen

In April 2019, Participated in " Younger Generation " Group Exhibition of Graduate Students

Joint Exhibition of " Yougan” of Oil Painting Department

In 2019, The final comprehensive teaching examination of the work " The Couple " was rated as an excellent work Won the 2018-2019 Master's Scholarship Award

In 2020, Shortlisted for the " 2020 Post Wave Art Festival " sponsored by Art Bund

Won the 2019-2020 Master's Scholarship Award

In 2021, the work ‘The lover’ was collected by the Art Museum of the Central Academy of fine arts

In 2021, the work ‘The lover’ was exhibited in Langfang Museum of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of fine arts

In 2021, the oil painting department of the Central Academy of fine art participated in the two-person Exhibition

" Fleeting years " and the solo exhibition " Great adventurer ", curated Zhou Qiyi

In June 2021, participated in the group exhibition of Joy Art Museum " See You Later ", curated by Cheng Xi

InJuly2021, participated in the light box exhibition of Chaoyang Joy City

In August 2021, participated in the online light box exhibition of Xidan Joy City

In August 2021, cooperated with the design agency " Guo baner ", held Solo salon exhibition "Dim short day"

On September 30,2021, cooperated with GALLERY FUNC, held " Mirror scene" in SHANGHI TANK ARTFESTIVAL

On October 16,2021, Participated in Red Gate Gallerycontemporary portrait

group exhibition, curated by Image Chaser

On November 12,2021, Participated in Phoenix Center Autumn Salon Exhibition of Young Artists " From Neoclassicism to Post-Contemporary", curated by Ge Xiao, Jiabei WANG

On December 24,2021, Participated in Double solo exhibition ‘A FUND OF GIFTS’ at Gallery

Func in Shanghai, curated by Miao Zijin

From April 28 to May 01,2023，Participated in the "Beijing Contemporary Art Expo-Reunion" and cooperated with the Gulangyu Contemporary Art Center

From Oct 28 to Sep 01,2023, Participated the " IF YOU CAN SEE " group exhibition of TANG COMTEMPORARY ART, curated by Lu Xiangyi, Han Yali

The article Awakening Dreams was published on July 18, 2024 in European American and Asian Art Alliance network

2024.07.21-09.22 Participated in the group exhibition "Transformative Horizons", curated by Camilla Latini

2025.07.19-08.2 Participated in Macao International Art Benmale 2025：o que fazes aqua?Collateral Exhibition ‘528HZ Re——Sonata’

1. Awakening Dreams Series

Bo Sihan said:

Reality is the lucid dream, and memory is the eternity of the moment.

Awakening Dreams is my own complex and specific perception of the specific present (mood, light, shape and quality of objects, etc.) under the condition of withdrawal in my normal life, and then through the natural filtering and ascending of body, mind and brain, and then by the natural revealing of memory, so it is called "Awakening Dreams". The outer frame of each small painting was also made by hand, echoing some forms of stories with pictures. The natural feeling of peace and pleasure in the process of painting has added some Zen feeling to the work.

My body represents touch, my mind represents logic, and my heart represents intuition. The three are the records of the scene at that moment completed in a unified state. The whole "me" will feel, record, filter and express spontaneously, including the shape relationship, color relationship and image relationship 5 between the objects I choose, not deliberately pieced together, but naturally revealed.

The repeated capture of light imagery in the painting endows it with a characteristic of simultaneous sacredness and absurdity. The sacredness represents divinity, while the absurdity represents animosity, the combination of sacredness and absurdity embodies humanity. The painting records human nature, all stemming from life itself. Continuously perceiving life, observing existence, contemplating humanity, and using artistic means to create the eternal.

run，Acrylic on paper，42×32cm, 2022

California sunset, acrylic paint on the linen surface of the wooden board, 150×150cm, 2024

Drops2， Acrylic light panel，110 × 125 cm，2021

Bintan Island，Acrylic on canvas、Tempera base plate，150×150cm，2023

Lake, Canvas wood base、acrylic，150×150cm，2024

The Pink Mundi, acrylic on canvas，165×75, 2024

Hummingbird, acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2024

Lost memory2，plaster、acrylic，75 × 75 cm，2021

Starry sky，Acrylic on paper，44×34cm , 2019

Blooming flowers，Acrylic on paper, 52×40cm, 2022

Newborn baby，paper markers，44×35cm, 2023

Small fruit，paper toner、markers，46×61cm，2023

39 lemons，paper toner、markers，46×61cm，2023

2. Dream of Zebra Finches Project

Bo Sihan introduced:

Zebra Finches, a common seed-eating bird in Australia and Indonesia. Scientists discovered that these birds’ vocal muscles activate during sleep, replaying fragments

of songs they sang during the day.

With guidance from Professor Gabriel Mindlin, who is focuses on the physical mechanisms of birds，Also make contribution in Information Sciences and Artificial Intelligence. I was fortunate to receive a clear 1-second nighttime sound template, which I extended to over 2 minutes using patterns from the paper.

Inspired by these findings, this project will use AI programing system to generate visual representations of the birds' dream, interpreting them through the birds' tetra chromatic vision. This four-color visual system enables birds to perceive a more vibrant color spectrum than humans, which is depicted in the resulting visual art.

I will combine abstract and figurative visualizations. The videos present dynamic, colorful patterns that mirror the birds' sensory experience, blending auditory and visual dimensions.

The dream of Zebra Finches，Ai programming video, 2025，Audio

source：Gabriel B. Mindlin

Technical Guidance ：Wu Ming

Advising Professor: Li Jun, Michael Whittle, Gabriel B. Mindlin

Dream of Zebra Finches -Social life, acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2024

Dream of Zebra Finches -Breeding, acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2025

Dream of Zebra Finches - Artificial impact, acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2025

Dream of Zebra Finches - food , acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2025

Dream of Zebra Finches -Nest , acrylic on canvas，60×80, 2025

Dream of Zebra Finches—Light broad1、2, Acrylic light panel, 2025

3. A Couple Series

The status quo of young men and women in modern society. Men and women living in humble abode in cities are devoured by endless material consumption, and It is difficult to find a gap in the spiritual world to live in.

The couple who hold each other hands tightly hope to survive from this world...

mixed material collage, 140×160cm, 2021

Colorful spring， Acrylic board、UV printing、light bulb，140 × 60cm，2022

4. Silent Screaming Series

Self-portrait at home during the epidemic. In the stagnant city, the usual impetuousness seemed to be silent all of a sudden, screaming silently.

Silent Screaming, mixed material collage, 100×100 cm , 2021

Self-portrait，mixed material collage, 37 x 33 cm, 2021

Drops1，Acrylic light panels ，43 × 38 cm, 2021

5. Modern kouros Series

The perfect image of men and women in contemporary society. The continuous development of the digital society rules the youth today. New generations are looking for the most perfect solution in the virtual network world. Network information seems to be the guiding ideology of all men and women's concepts and behaviors.

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Modern kouros，acrylic、 acrylic light panel 、spray paint，27×27cm , 2020

Modern kore ，acrylic light panel、UV printing，110×70cm, 2020

6.Chinese painting Experiment:

Self-portrait in Macau, Chinese color on silk,20×71cm， 2025

Jiahui whole length portrait , Chinese color on silk,20×71cm ，2025

7.Existence Series:

“Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposite sand fall contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.”

——Tristan Tzara

Bo Sihan said that in the irreversible torrent of life, people are constantly wandering between reason and desire, morality and impulse, good and evil. The weak willpower always wins by exploiting the strong willpower. The degeneration of human beings is a non-temporary process from essence to existence. The result of depravity is to withdraw from the essence of existence. And this state is a fact, and the world is constantly receiving it. Today's ready-made rights, money and reputation have made the whole human society generally slaved and the earth has lost its due meaning. We need the way of self-redemption to recover the essence of self-life. This way of self-redemption is a transformation of ideas and a change of heart.