Artist

Antonio Wehrli

Biography

Born in Zurich in 1980, the artist Antonio Wehrli lives and works in Schwanden GL, Switzerland and Chengdu, China. He is fascinated with the flow of color and wants to turn your life colorful!

ARTitude artist - Antonio Wehrli
1980
Born in Zurich, Switzerland
2002-2005
Freelance Photographer and Artist, based in Lausanne, Switzerland
2005
Journalistic Photography course at MAZ, Lucerne, Switzerland
2005-2007
Photographer on cruise ships
2007-2009
Freelance Photographer and Artist, based in Beijing, China
2009-2011
Art Director and Auctioneer on cruise ships
2011-2017
Artist, based at Chengdu Blueroof Artist Village, China
2017-2020
Artist, based at Chengdu, Luodai ancient town, China
SINCE 2020
Artist based in Glarus, Switzerland and Chengdu, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2012
“Blue Roof Int’l Art Residence Exhibition No. 1”, Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu
2013
  • “Blue Roof Festival, Chengdu, China
  • Da Tang Annual Competition Exhibition at
    Winshare Museum, Chengdu, China
  • SHE’S AUTUMN AUCTION 2013
2014
  • IFS & China Economic Daily joint Easter Egg
    Exhibition, IFS, Chengdu, China
  • “Advancing Art Force” Blue Roof Art Festival,
    Chengdu, China
  • “Dating with Today“, Winshare Museum,
    Chengdu, China
2015
  • “Dream on the Road”, MR.BIG International Art
    Space, Chengdu
  • Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
  • “10000 Artists Exhibition”, Art Gogo, Shanghai,
    China
2016
  • “Everything Grows”, XLY MoMA, Chengdu,
    China
  • Duyun Maojian Tea Festival, Duyun, Guizhou,
    China
  • “Ways of Seeing“, Phoenix Hanzhang Art Space,798, Beijing,  China
  • Acadart Art Space, Pompidou Square, Paris,
    France
  • “Poetic Dream”, He Duoling and his friends, WM
    Gallery, Chengdu, China
2017
  • Life painting and art exhibition, Lumbini
    Buddhist University, Lumbini, Nepal
  • “Blueroof Emerging Artist Village Games”, WM
    Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “31st Chengdu Int‘l Peach Blossom Festival“,
    Polus Int’l School Museum, China
  • Art Numbers Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium
  • “10000 Artists Exhibition”, Artgogo, Shanghai,
    China
2018
  • “Art Match”, Artgogo, Peninsula Hotel, Shanghai, China
  • Acadart Art Space, Pompidou Square, Paris, France
  • “Stepping into a New Era”, Usunhome Lake Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “Song of Silk Road’s Culture”, Qianshanyang Museum, Huzhou, China
  • “Home of Saints”, Lihua Art Museum, Lihua Gou, Sichuan, China
2019
  • “Tianfu Aesthetic Life Art Exhibition”, Suyuan Art Center, Chengdu, China
  • “Scalene Triangle”, Tavern Hall, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
  • “Autumn Vibe in the Mountains”, 3rd Tianfu Red Valley Intl. Photography Festival, China
  • “Sensibility”, XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China
  • “Cross Year Joint Exhibition of Chinese and Foreign Artists’ Art Works”, Usunhome Art
    Museum, Chengdu, China
2020
  • “Together” China-Europe Anti Virus Art Exhibition, Liu Cunhou Mansion, Chengdu, China
  • “Coronakunstglarus”, Güterschuppen, Glarus, Switzerland
  • “Kunstschaffen Glarus 2020”, Glarus Art Museum, Glarus, Switzerland
2021
  • “Sparkling beasts shine bright”, Panda International Art Center, Chengdu, China
  • “Visual Theatre” Biennale Chengdu, XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China
  • “Sternschnuppen”, Antonio Wehrli Art Space, Schwanden, Switzerland
2022
  • “Tomorrow’ll be better”, Artgogo, Shanghai, China
  • “Weltenbaum”, Castle Sargans, Art Video Screening, Sargans, Switzerland
Art Residencies
2015

 Art><Junction, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

2019

Alliance Française Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2012

“Structurism”, XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China

2014

“Unbearable Thickness” Gallery EUROP’ART, Shanghai, China

2015
  • “Gravity – a symbol of peace”, Bagore Ki Haveli Museum, Udaipur, India
  • “Gravity”, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
2016

“Autumn-Summer Rose“,L7 Gallery, IFS, Chengdu, China

2017
  • “Antonio Wehrli 2017 China Exhibition“, VA Gallery, Chongqing, China
  • “Gravity Switzerland“, Swiss Week Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2018
  • “Dreamland China-Chongqing Image”, City of Stars VA Art Center, Chongqing, China
  • “Dreamland China-Chongqing Image”, SCCC Headquarter, Zürich, Switzerland
  • “Dreamland China-Chongqing Image”, Galleria Marino, Rome, Italy
  • “Flow of Color-Antonio Wehrli discovers the world”, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “Centrifugal-Turn your life colorful”, Artgogo SPACE, Shanghai, China
  • “Garden of the Artist”, VA Gallery, WFC, Chongqing, China
2019
  • “Link France and India by Gravity”, Ahmedabad City Museum, Ahmedabad, India
  • “Antonio’s Tianfu Honggu Art Exhibition”, Tianfu Honggu, Qionglai, Sichuan, China
  • “Jiu Zhai Gou Image”, VA Gallery, Chengdu, China
2020
  •  “Poetic Dreamland of China“, Fanmate Flying Cultural & Creative Park, Chengdu, China
  • “Lebensfreude”, Antonio Wehrli Art Space, Schwanden, Switzerland
2021

“Galaxy Gravity”, Antonio Wehrli Art Space, Schwanden, Switzerland

2022

“Contemporary Antiquity”, Castle Sargans Palais Gallery, Sargans, Switzerland

Public Collections (Selection)
2012

Blueroof Museum of Chengdu, China

2013
  •  First Class Magazine Collection, Chengdu, China
  • XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China
2015

Highlife Collection, Chengdu, China

2017
  • Benetton Art Collection China
  • Polus International School, Chengdu, China
2018

The Atrium, Chengdu, China

2019
  • Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  • The House of Roosevelt, Shanghai, China
Publications
MONOGRAPHIC PUBLICATION
2015

The Art of Antonio Wehrli – Gravity
Publisher: XLY MoMA
ISBN: 978-0-615-96613-7; Page Num: 168; Languages: Chinese and English

INCLUSION (SELECTION)
2019
  • Giant Panda Pictorial Annals
    Publisher: Sichuan Government News Branch of the People’s Republic of China
    ISBN: 978-0-5144-3726-3;Language: Chinese
  • Business Card of China
    Memory for the Celebration of 150 years discovery of the Giant Panda
    Publisher: Tourism Bureau of China
    ISBN: 978-7-5032-6274-6;Language: Chinese
  • Sichuan Embroidery
    Splendid Works of Silk Threads for the Belt and Road
    Publisher: Winshare
    ISBN: 978-7-5410-8782-0;Language: Chinese
CURATORIAL (SELECTION)
2016
  • “All Is One”, Chengdu International Art Exhibition, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “Ways of Seeing”, Phoenix Hanzhang Art Space, 798, Beijing, China
  • “Poetic Dream”, He Duoling and his friends, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
2017
  • “Blueroof Emerging Artist Village Games”, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “I am Huhu”, Solo Exhibition of Mutou, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
2018
  • “Summer Time in Chengdu”, Solo Exhibition of Zsuzsa Gajdan, WM Gallery, Chengdu
  • “Looking for the sceneryf” Solo Exhibition of Yang Wei, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
  • “Art Marathon” Solo Exhibition of Gerardo Lo Russo, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China
2019

“Bloom”, Solo Exhibition of Wang Tiantian, WM Gallery, Chengdu, China

2020

“Isolation”, Solo Exhibition of MARCK, Antonio Wehrli Art Space,Schwanden,Switzerland

2021

“Wenn die Berge dein Meer werden”, Solo Exhibition of Lisa Eikrann, Antonio Wehrli Art Space, Schwanden, Switzerland

Titles, Honors and Awards
2015

Honorary Dean at Sichuan Tianfu Art Academy

2017
  • Honorary Dean at Central Asian Art Academy
  • Two year art studio grant, Boke Town, Luodai, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2018
  • Honorary citizen of China, Sichuan, Pidu Ancient Town
  • Culture Award of Luodai Ancient Town, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Art Development Award of Luodai Ancient Town, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2019
  •  Honorary villager of China, Sichuan, Qionglai, Tianfu Red Valley
  • Docent at Chengdu Community University, Chengdu, China
  • Member of the Sichuan Hard Pen Calligraphy Association
  • Culture Award of Luodai Ancient Town, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2020
  • Honorary citizen of China, Sichuan, Pixian District
  • Member of the Asian Art Association, Singapore
Media
VARIOUS APPEARANCES ON SEVERAL CHINESE, NEPALESE, INDIAN AND SWISS TV CHANNELS. SPECIAL COMMENTARIES:
2014

“Xiwang Chengdu – artist Antonio Wehrli”, produced by Chengdu TV

2015

“Antonio’s Moonlight Lotus Pond”, produced by Hong Kong HKS TV

2017

“Antonio at Kuangzhai Xiangzi”, produced by Chengdu TV

2018

“The colorful world of Antonio Wehrli”, produced by Chengdu CDTV 2

2020

“A gallery in Schwanden instead of returning to Chengdu”, produced by Südostschweiz

COMMENTARIES AND PRESS RELEASES IN VARIOUS LOCAL NEWSPAPERS OF CHINA, NEPAL, INDIA AND SWITZERLAND: INCLUDING ”CHINA GLOBAL TIMES”, “SICHUAN DAILY”, “CHENGDU DAILY”, “HUAXI DAILY”, “CHENGDU ECONOMIC DAILY”, TO NAME A FEW SEVERAL CHINESE MAGAZINES: “WORLD ART MAGAZINE”, “CHINESE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC”, “HIGHLIFE MAGAZINE”, “1314 MAGAZINE”, “CHENGDU AIRLINES” TO NAME A FEW COVER STORIES:

2013

First Class Magazine, China (Issue 101; pages: 1, 16, 28, 51-57) ISSN: 1671-3478

2015

MR.BIG Magazine, China (Issue 1-2, 2015; pages: 1, 82-85)

2018

Style Magazine, China (Issue 11, 2018; pages: 1, 52-57) ISSN: 1671-4903

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