Yuan Kan

(1971, Shanghai, China)

Sculptor at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute

Member of the Shanghai Artists Association

Committee Member, 1st Architectural Art & Public Art Committee of the Shanghai Artists Association

Member of the China Sculpture Institute

Member of the Sculpture Committee of the China Arts and Crafts Society

National First-Class Artist

Awards

First Prize, Peace & Harmony — 2011 National Exhibition for Recommended Young and Emerging Artists

Finalist, Prosperous Blossoms — 2021 Lingang New Area Urban Sculpture Design Competition

Collections

Attachment series — Collected by Shanghai Artists Association

Flower Goddess — Collected by China Artists Association

New Town Construction — Commissioned by the Shanghai Historic Culture Art Creation Project, collected by the China Art Museum

Shanghai Marathon — Commissioned by the Spirit of the Times — Shanghai Realism Art Creation Project, collected by the China Art Museum

Panda Family — Collected by Shanghai Mingyuan Group, K11 Art Foundation, Hurun Art Foundation

Silence — Collected by Red Star Macalline

My Dog No. 2 — Collected by Xiyingmen Group

My Dog No. 5, Pink Celebration, Apple, Figures series — Collected by Shanghai Mingyuan Group

Paradise — Collected by Ogiwara Museum, Jiaxing

Chinese Drama series — Collected by Shangfang Group

Additional works held by private collectors in China, Israel, Turkey, Italy, France, Germany, and the United States.

Public Art Projects

Principal sculptor, Main Sculpture, Site of the 2nd National Congress of the CPC Memorial Hall

The Illuminator — Zou Bihua, Shanghai High People’s Court Judges Training Center

Justice as Mountain, Fairness as Water Relief and Continental Law System Relief — Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court

Main sculptures and reliefs for Shanghai Oriental Notary Public Office

Dalton and Orange Tulip — Shanghai Oriental Green Land Youth Training Base

Passion — Shanghai TV University

Sports series — Jing’an Sports Center

Main relief — Jing’an Gymnasium

River God — Model section of Suzhou Creek

Main relief — Cohesion Museum (collaborative project)

Li Bai — Century Park (collaborative project)

Xu Guangqi — Guangqi Park, Xujiahui (collaborative project)

Landmark sculptures Infinity — Haitong Securities Headquarters at the Bund and Zhangjiang Data Center

White Love Bear, Peep, Cross Over, Journey, Prosperity — CITIC Pacific Shanghai Xintai Center