Pity Party 2025
Online exhibition · Online
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Record in Chinese ↗ART & MENTAL HEALTH
Exhibitions
2019—2025 · 3 exhibitions
Pity Party
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2021—2022 · 3 exhibitions
Flyway
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2021—2024 · 7 exhibitions
No. 600 Gallery
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2023 · 1 exhibition
You Speak, I Draw
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2023 · 1 screening
Invisible Disabilities: Baltimore
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2023—2024 · 3 exhibitions
External Exhibition Collaborations
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2017—2018 · 2 exhibitions
Early Mental Health Art Exhibitions
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Pity Party
2019—2025 · 3 exhibitionsThe Pity Party series brings together lived-experience art, interactive works, films, workshops and public conversations. The 2025 exhibition took place online.
Pity Party 2020: Depression as a Sociocultural Phenomenon
Exhibition / Public programme · Shanghai、Wuxi、Beijing、Nanjing
Co-organized by A Perch for the Thornbirds and Shanghai Tulip
Record in Chinese ↗Pity Party 2019: An Art Exhibition on Depression
In-person exhibition · F Space, Shanghai
Co-organized by A Perch for the Thornbirds and Shanghai Tulip
Record in Chinese ↗Flyway
2021—2022 · 3 exhibitionsA China–UK mental health arts collaboration co-hosted with Artlink Central, with a main exhibition in Shanghai, a film satellite venue and a Scottish exhibition.
Flyway: Scotland
International collaborative exhibition · Scotland
Co-hosting / Curation
Record in Chinese ↗Prozac, Camera, Self-Portrait
Film exhibition / Satellite venue · Shanghai
Curated and organized by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Flyway: China–UK Mental Health Art Exhibition, Shanghai
Art exhibition / Public programme · Shanghai
Co-hosting / Curation
Record in Chinese ↗No. 600 Gallery
2021—2024 · 7 exhibitionsExhibitions and exchanges curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds at No. 600 Gallery, Shanghai Mental Health Center. Some were developed with other curatorial teams or institutions.
Embracing Imperfection: An Art Exhibition on OCD
Public education art exhibition · Shanghai
A Perch for the Thornbirds in collaboration with the ED Healer curatorial team
Record in Chinese ↗Colours Growing: Collaborative Murals
Collaborative mural exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Wandering through Memory: Photography and Alzheimer’s Disease
Themed photography exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Heart to Heart: An Art Brut Exchange between Shanghai and Changzhou
Art brut exchange exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds / In collaboration with Changzhou De’an Hospital
Record in Chinese ↗Youth Concerns: An Art Exhibition on Adolescent Mental Health
Themed art exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Megaphone: An Interactive Art Exhibition on Schizophrenia
Interactive art exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Blue Dreams: Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Themed art exhibition · Shanghai
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗You Speak, I Draw
2023 · 1 exhibitionChildren respond through drawing to people’s written accounts of feelings and experiences. Co-hosted with Yixin Art Education in Changsha.
You Speak, I Draw
Co-created art exhibition · Changsha
Co-hosted by A Perch for the Thornbirds and Yixin Art Education
Record in Chinese ↗Invisible Disabilities: Baltimore
2023 · 1 screeningChinese-language short films exploring invisible disabilities, curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds and co-hosted with Make Studio in Baltimore, followed by audience discussion.
Invisible Disabilities: Chinese-Language Short Films
Curated screening / Conversation · Baltimore, USA
Curated by A Perch for the Thornbirds / Co-hosted with Make Studio
Record in Chinese ↗External Exhibition Collaborations
2023—2024 · 3 exhibitionsExhibitions hosted by other organizations to which A Perch for the Thornbirds contributed artworks or helped gather works.
The Present: A Mental Health Exhibition
External exhibition collaboration · Chengdu
Contributed artworks
Record in Chinese ↗Happy Planet: A Children’s Charity Exhibition
Children’s charity exhibition · Livat Changsha
Hosted by ARTSpeaks / Artworks contributed by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗Touching the City’s Indifference and Warmth
External exhibition collaboration · Xi’an
Artwork collection / Contributions
Record in Chinese ↗Early Mental Health Art Exhibitions
2017—2018 · 2 exhibitionsThe Meanings of Depression at 706 Youth Space in Beijing (2017), and Mind · Illness at Star Theatre Village in Beijing (2018).
Mind · Illness
In-person exhibition · Beijing
Curated and hosted by A Perch for the Thornbirds
Record in Chinese ↗The Meanings of Depression
In-person exhibition · Beijing
Curated and hosted by A Perch for the Thornbirds
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