Dongni Hou
Dongni Hou was born in 1987 in Fuxin, in the Chinese province of Liaoning. After studying graphic arts from a very young age, she joined the prestigeous Russian Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg at 19. Several of her works selected for the permanent collection of Academy of Fine Arts Museum. She now lives and works in France. Dongni Hou’s works unfold within a space of silence and inner tension. The human figure often appears fragmented, brushed rather than described, as if suspended between presence and disappearance. The gaze, central to the compositions, acts less as an anchor than as an enigma: it questions, resists, withdraws. The surface is built through layers, allowing traces of gesture, hesitation, and friction to remain visible. This painting does not seek immediate seduction; it advances through restraint and emotional density. Characters seem to carry an intimate memory, sometimes painful, always contained.
Themes of childhood, vulnerability, and identity run through the work without ever becoming narrative. Nothing is explained; everything is suggested. Color, often muted or subdued, functions as an inner climate rather than a setting. Dongni Hou’s painting inhabits an in-between space: between strength and fragility, control and surrender, what is shown and what remains unspoken. It invites the viewer into a slow, almost confidential encounter, where emotion arises precisely from what is left unsaid.
Dongni Hou
Dongni Hou
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
- Boise, USA, Poetic Tiger Gallery, Group Show
- Miami, USA, Haven Gallery, Art Palm Beach
- New York, USA, Haven Gallery, Hamptons Fine Art Fair - Group Show
- New York, USA, Haven Gallery, Group Show
- Nantes, France, Albane Galerie, Group Show
2025
- Los Angeles, USA, Copro Gallery, LA Art Show 2025
- Palm Beach, USA, Art Palm Beach 2025
- New York, USA, Haven Gallery, Hamptons Fine Art Fair - Group Show
- Scottsdale, USA, Haven Gallery, ScottsdaleFerrari Art Week - Group Show
- USA, Haven Gallery, Group Show
- Boise, USA, Poetic Tiger Gallery, Group Show
2024
- France, Fond culturel de l’Ermitage, 10 Yearsof the Hermitage - Group Show
- Bruges, Belgium, Art Point Gallery International, Group Show
- New York, USA, Haven Gallery, Beyond the Veil - Solo Show
- Biarritz, France, Galerie L’Oeil du Prince, Group Show
- New York, USA, Haven Gallery, Hamptons Fine Art Fair - Group Show
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, States of Soul - Solo Show
2023
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Permanent Exhibition
2022
- New York, USA, Arcadia Contemporary, Group Show
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Permanent Exhibition
2021
- Los Angeles, USA, Arcadia Contemporary, LA Art Show 2021
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Le Sang des Pétales - Solo Show
2020
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Permanent Exhibition
2019
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Poème - Solo Show
2018
- Paris, France, Grand Palais, La BiennaleParis - 30th Edition
- France, Fond culturel de l’Ermitage, De l’âme… - Group Show
- Beaux-Arts Hors-Série Monograph
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Une Collection 2018 - Solo Show
- Belgium, Art Point Gallery International, Group Show
- Karlsruhe, Germany, Art Karlsruhe 2018
2017
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Âme Sensible - Solo Show
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Une Collection - Group Show
2016
- Paris, France, Laurence Esnol Gallery, Nexus- Group Show
- Paris, France, Salon d’Automne
- Paris, France, Galerie Thuillier, Group Show
- Paris, France, Galerie Thuillier, 1st Prize
- Paris, France, Galerie l’Acronique, Group Show
AWARDS
2018
- France, Fond culturel de l’Ermitage, Award
2016
- Paris, France, Fondation Taylor, Monique Baroni Award
