Canal Cheong Jägerroos

Canal Cheong Jagerroos (; born 1968 ) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Brought up in an artistic family in Macau, Cheong Jagerroos works primarily in abstract painting and installations. Her works have been exhibited worldwide since the 1980s. While Cheong Jagerroos is best known for her more traditional multi-layered rice-paper abstract paintings, her later works are based on conceptual art. Her art is infused with ancient metaphoric symbols, signs, and contemporary expressions.

Her recent large-scale paintings solo exhibitions 'Blue and Red Art project' and 'Floating Island' with (calligraphy) textile were displayed at Salo Art Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Joensuuu Art Museum, Korundi Rovaniemi Art Museum and Xian Art Museum from 2018 to May 2020. She currently splits her time living and working between Helsinki, Shanghai, Nice, Berlin and Tokyo.

Personal life Canal Cheong Jagerroos was born in an artistic family and grew up in Macau. Her father was an artist, and her mother an opera singer. Ever since she was a little girl she wanted to be an artist. She was taught the Chinese traditional painting at an early age, particularly by her father. Cheong Jagerroos' father played an important role in her artistic education infusing in her the strong basis of traditional Chinese art and the tradition shapes.

Education Cheong Jagerroos studied courses in fine art at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. She combines Chinese traditional techniques and with giant abstract compositions. Westerners easily spot the abundance of Chinese elements, such as calligraphy, in her work, however, the rice-papers and collage she also uses are more difficult to notice. "Her unique constructive, deconstructive, and reconstructive technique is in fact extremely complicated and sophisticated" commented Crystal Xu, Chief Curator and Manager at the Beijing Being 3 Gallery. she finds inspiration upon observing the laws and development of nature, the contemporary social issues as well as in being authentic to herself and to her own personal feelings.

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