Yan Lei

Chinese | 1965

Yan Lei is a Chinese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1965. Their work is currently being shown at Ennova Art Museum in Langfang. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Arken Museum of Modern Art have featured Yan Lei's work in the past.Yan Lei's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 625 USD to 153,105 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2005 the record price for this artist at auction is 153,105 USD for Mona Lisa, sold at Hosane in 2007. Yan Lei has been featured in articles for ArtLyst, Korea Herald and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 First Details written for FAD Magazine in July 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Color Wheel

By Yan Lei

+6%

above mid-estimate

Untitled (Color Wheel) ,2013

By Yan Lei

+91%

above mid-estimate

Colorful Wheels ,2005

By Yan Lei

+19%

above mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

Shanghai Back Door ,2002

By Yan Lei

-64%

below mid-estimate

Sotheby's New York

Room for improvement ,2002

By Yan Lei

China Guardian Auctions, Beijing

Cai Lun ,2005

By Yan Lei

China Guardian Auctions, Beijing

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Current Exhibitions

Etched in Time: The Experience and Transformation of Contemporary Art Collection in China

Ennova Art Museum

Langfang | China

Apr 29,2024 - Jun 07,2027

Past Exhibitions

SIGG: Chinese Contemporary Art From The Sigg Collection

SONGEUN

Gangnam-gu | Seoul | South Korea

Mar 10,2023 - May 20,2023

Traveling Toward a Perpetual Present

Shanghai Gallery of Art

Shanghai | China

May 09,2021 - Jun 16,2021

VIEW 29 EXHIBITIONS

Articles

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 First Details

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Coverage

“ ..There are also compositions that only feature the graffiti signature of MC Yan, overlapped against the appropriated images in Yan Lei? paintings... ”
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Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

“ ..Bringing along his arrays of spray cans and self-made markers, some of which were created using a mixture of liquid shoe polish and special solvents, MC Yan tagged the chosen paintings with motifs of archetypical... ”
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Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

“ ..Besides graffiti, he is also known as MC Yan, one of the first Chinese rapper, vocalist/lyricist of the group LMF (LazyMuthaFuckaz)... ”
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Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing

“ ..Yan Lei reconstructs and analyses images based on his everyday experiences, generally reflecting upon the relationship of the artist to an increasingly globalized art world.... ”
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Aspen Art Museum

“ ..Thus, the exploration here challenges both artist? ebb and flow of ideas, which in turn, questions the characteristic of whether can or should an artwork be qualified to exist only in accordance to one... ”
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Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing