What are the opening hours?

Tuesday 10am - 6pm Wednesday 10am - 6pm Thursday 10am - 6pm Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 10am - 6pm

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Home
United States
New York, NY
Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

New York-based experimental art space and art advisory with an interest in classical and contemporary Asian art.

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is a New York-based experimental art space and art advisory with an interest in classical Asian art. We are dedicated to exploring the visual and geographic globalization of contemporary Asian art and documenting artists' work that resonates with classical Asian philosophy, aesthetics, culture, with no limits on their expressive mediums. With the rapidly evolving contemporary s

cene of art as our backdrop, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art’s mission is to present major artists’ creative trajectories to a wider audience through in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and forums for scholarly exchanges. Fu Qiumeng Fine Art ultimately provides an educational venue where visual pleasure is paired with intellectual challenge.

09/03/2026

🌺 𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🌼

How do Chinese ink artists learn how to paint? In FQM’s AWNY exhibition for this fall, 𝘼 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙚, 𝙖 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚: 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, we reconstruct a classroom through textual and material references given by the artworks to revive the traditional Chinese way of passing down artistic knowledge through generations. In a wide range of drawings and paintings, we present the 课 (lesson) and 谱 (lineage) that tie generations of artists together.

The exhibition centers on the flower paintings of Li Fenggong (1884-1967), a painter and an educator, who followed the traditional way of pedagogy through teacher’s demonstration, apprentice’s studies, and teacher’s annotation. Li and fellow apprentices’ lineage can be traced to the Changzhou School and Yangzhou School developed around the first half of the 18th century, and later passed and evolved to the Lingnan School of Li’s based Canton region in early 20th century.

Join us for the classroom of blossoms and inks 🌸

-

𝗔𝗪𝗡𝗬 | 𝗔 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗲, 𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲: 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴

📅 Sep 12 - Oct 31. 2026

📢 Opening Reception
Sat, Sep 12. 2026
5 - 7 p.m.
RSVP required. Link in bio.

06/13/2026

🗺️ Over the past two years, Zhang Xiaoli Zhang Xiaoli’s move from China to Canada has quietly reshaped her artistic practice. New landscapes, changing seasons, and a different pace of life have all found their way into her work, inspiring series such as Three Realms, her LEGO-inspired landscapes, and her recent explorations with AI.

🎬 In this short film, Zhang reflects on migration, memory, home, and the ways a new environment can influence how we see and create.

Today is the final day of 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who visited the exhibition, joined us for the artist talk and workshop, shared conversations, and spent time with the work over the past weeks.

If you haven‘t had a chance to visit yet, today is your last opportunity to experience 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 in person.

We hope you enjoy this glimpse into Zhang Xiaoli’s creative journey.

06/09/2026

𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 ✨

Don‘t miss the final days of Traveller 旅者, Zhang Xiaoli’s solo exhibition at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art.

On view through this Saturday, June 13, the exhibition unfolds as a theatrical journey through landscape, memory, imagination, and play. Featuring handscrolls, paintings on silk, artist books, AI-assisted works, and an ongoing dialogue with the traditions of Chinese painting, Traveller invites viewers into a world where ancient visual languages meet contemporary ways of seeing.

Whether you‘ve been meaning to visit or would like one last look, we warmly welcome you to experience the exhibition before it closes.

📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
65 E 80th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10075

On view until Saturday, June 13, 2026.

06/04/2026

🤖🌿 What is the role of creative labor in the age of artificial intelligence?

In her latest AI series, Zhang Xiaoli approaches this question through experimentation rather than certainty. Working with Midjourney, she uploads her own paintings and prompts, allowing the AI to generate image proposals. She then selects, edits, collages, and reconstructs these outputs, often incorporating elements from her earlier works.

The resulting images feel both familiar and unexpected. Landscapes, plants, and celestial forms—recurring subjects in Zhang’s practice—coexist with geometric structures and visual decisions that emerge from the AI’s interpretation of her artistic language.

Rather than celebrating or fearing AI, Zhang treats it as a creative partner. By making the dialogue between human and machine visible, she invites us to rethink authorship, creativity, and artistic possibility in an AI-driven world.

✨ On view in Traveller through June 13.

-
𝙕𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙞 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者
📅 May 5 – June 13, 2026
📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

FuQiumengFineArt

05/21/2026

🛶 Shen Zhou’s album leaves record scenes encountered during his travels along the Grand Canal — rivers opening into quiet distances, temple compounds nestled among trees, boats drifting through misty waters. Each page feels like a small pause along the journey. 🌫️⛰️

For Zhang Xiaoli, these paintings became a starting point for translation. Using LEGO® bricks as her visual language, she reconstructs Shen Zhou’s mountains, architecture, trees, and figures into modular forms while preserving the rhythm and spatial flow of the original compositions. 🧱🌿

Rooflines stretch outward, paths wind through the image, clouds gather and dissolve. Rather than copying the paintings directly, the works move between two visual systems — ink and brick, softness and structure, tradition and play. ✨

-
🖼
Learning after Shenzhou‘s Famous Scenic Views of the Two Rivers 致敬沈周两江盛景图册 , 2025-2026
Ink and color on paper 水墨设色纸本
25 5/8 x 15 3/4 in each
65 x 40 cm each

-
𝙕𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙞 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者
📅 May 5 – June 13, 2026
📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

FuQiumengFineArt

05/19/2026

✨
It is a human intellectual tendency to turn chaos into order. As suggested by the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s critique of “correlationism,” when we understand sublime systems such as the universe or nature, we tend to translate them first into a logic in a language we can understand, rather than directly immersing ourselves in them. Zhang Xiaoli’s Three Realms may be an example of the latter approach. Depicting an abstract monochrome landscape of swirls, fingerprint-shaped spirals, flowing streams, and materials that drip, form, and morph, the painter understands nature as a chaotic space for materials.

Like a Möbius strip, matter in this conduit has a circular lifespan. Birthing from each other, merging into each other, and transforming into multiple new matter, Zhang’s forms expose an eternity not of the materials but of the underlying yet non-figurative law of nature that transcends human logic.

-
🖼 Three Realms 三界, 2024
Ink and gold powder on silk 水墨金粉绢本
37 3/4 x 70 1/2 in
96 x 179 cm
-
𝙕𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙞 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者
📅 May 5 – June 13, 2026
📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

05/16/2026

In traditional Chinese painting, learning often begins through copying. Students first study printed manuals, then original works, and eventually nature itself. The Qing-dynasty Mustard Seed Garden Manual transformed this process into a systematic visual grammar, breaking landscape painting into elements such as rocks, trees, branches, and figures—each with prescribed methods of brushwork and composition. Through this structure, nature became organized into a symbolic visual language. 🌿📖

In the Le Garden Manuscript series, Zhang Xiaoli treats LEGO® bricks as a parallel visual system, translating the original manual page by page into the logic of LEGO®. Elements once painted with ink and brush are reconstructed through modular plastic forms, rendered in dry-brush white lines that echo the texture of the original woodblock prints. 🧩⛰️

For the text sections, Zhang developed an invented pictographic language called “LEGO® Script,” inspired by the forms of the bricks themselves. Drawing from cross-cultural communication, multilingual translation, and even emoji, the script imagines a playful visual language that moves across linguistic boundaries. Rather than following a fixed code, the script evolved organically during the making process, with meanings shifting and transforming over time. ✨🔤

-
🖼 𝙇𝙚 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙡 乐园画谱, 2025-2026
Ink on paper 水墨纸本
17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in per page
45 x 35 cm per page
-
𝙕𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙞 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者
📅 May 5 – June 13, 2026
📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

05/15/2026

🧩 This work unfolds like a visual experiment built around contrast. In the upper section, familiar elements from traditional Chinese landscape painting—rocks, trees, and tiny wandering figures—are broken down into individual components. Below, Zhang Xiaoli rebuilds these same motifs using LEGO® bricks.

⛰️ But this isn’t simply a playful side-by-side comparison. The work brings together two different ways of engaging with tradition. One grows through repetition and intuition, much like the long practice of copying historical paintings—learning to see through the eyes of earlier masters and paint through their hands. The other approach is more analytical: observing, translating, taking apart, and rebuilding. By turning mountains, rocks, and pictorial forms into modular LEGO structures, Zhang creates a conversation between these two methods, highlighting both their differences and surprising similarities.

In this process, imitation becomes something more creative—an act of choosing, assembling, and reinventing. The colorful bricks gradually form their own visual language within the theatrical world Zhang constructs, echoing the real landscapes they reference while inviting viewers to step into the unfolding stage of the traveller’s playful journey.

-
🖼 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 临摹学习 𝙄𝙄 2019
Ink and colour on paper 水墨设色纸本
19 3/4 x 29 in; 50 x 73.5 cm

-
𝙕𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙞 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者
📅 May 5 – June 13, 2026
📍 Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

-

05/12/2026

𝐒𝐀𝐓 & 𝐒𝐔𝐍 · 𝐌𝐀𝐘 𝟏𝟔–𝟏𝟕 · 𝟐:𝟑𝟎–𝟒:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 ✨

Join us for a special artist-led workshop with Zhang Xiaoli, presented alongside 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 旅者 at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art.

Explore the beauty of traditional Chinese gongbi painting through silk fans, using mineral and botanical pigments in a beginner-friendly, hands-on setting. Inspired by the exhibition’s playful dialogue between tradition and imagination, this two-day workshop invites participants to step into the creative process together.

🎨 All materials provided
🪭 $120 per person
👥 Limited to 10 participants
⏳ Two consecutive 2-hour sessions (4 hours total)

RSVP link on bio ✨

05/12/2026

✨ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 by Zhang Xiaoli continues at the gallery this week — thank you again to everyone who joined us for last Saturday’s artist talk! 💛

Throughout the week, Zhang Xiaoli will continue her live, on-site creation process in the gallery, allowing the exhibition to slowly evolve day by day. If you happen to stop by, you may catch the artist at work and experience the exhibition in a new state of becoming 🎭🧩

We’d also love to invite you to our Fan Painting Workshop happening this Saturday & Sunday 🌿

There are still a few spots available! The workshop offers a gentle introduction to traditional gongbi painting on silk fans in a warm and beginner-friendly environment ✨

Hope to see you at the gallery soon!

LEGOArt

Address

65 East 80th Street
New York, NY
10075

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+16468389395

Website

http://www.fuqiumeng.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Fu Qiumeng Fine Art posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Museum

Send a message to Fu Qiumeng Fine Art:

Want your museum to be the top-listed Museum in New York?

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

09/03/2026

06/13/2026

06/09/2026

06/04/2026

05/21/2026

05/19/2026

05/16/2026

05/15/2026

05/12/2026

05/12/2026

Address

Opening Hours

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Contact The Museum

Shortcuts

Share

Category

Listing takedown request