Gai Yu

CHINA

A Painter, Photographer, Illustrator and Caricatures Artist from China. Participated in many International Exhibitions

Gai Yu

Gai Yu was born in Cheng Du City, China in 1962. He graduated from the Shandong College of Art & Design with a major in Graphic Arts Design. He is an Assistant of Arts Design Specialist and also a member of Si Chuan Artist Society Cartoon Researching Committee.

He is specialized in vision graphic designing, Logos, Oil painting, and black and white graphic designing. And he is also interested in painting cartoons, ornaments, watercolours, and taking photographs.

Till date he has published more than 800 cartoons works in the “Chengdu Economic Newspaper”, “HuaXi City Newspaper”, “Cartoon Party”, “People’s Daily Overseas”, “Worldwide Traffic Cartoon”, The Magazine of Motto, Egyptian magazine “Pharaoh”, “The 3rd IMI International Cartoon Competition of Ukraine”, The 11th International Ankara Cartoon Festival of Turkey, The 2nd LM International Cartoon Competition of China, The first International Cartoon Festival of Tabriz Iran, “Cartoon of China”, Comedy World and other many well know magazines and newspapers in the world.

He participated in numerous international cartoon competitions since March, 2004 and his works won many prizes in China LM, Belgium, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Slovak, Sweden and other countries

Some of his cartoons are collected by individuals and international cartoon museums in world

Formerly worked as an interior designer for Chengdu Decoration Engineering Design and Development Company

Awards

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Exhibitions & Publications

Exhibitions

The 30th Knokke-heist International Photography Festival Exhibition of Photography, Belgium (Invited) 2008
Invitation Exhibition of GaiYu’s Graphic Design Work in Osijek Gallery, Croatia 2008 (Exhibition works “Four-Shape Picture Puzzle”)
India National Design Source Net, India 2009
Subway (International) Video Exhibition in Berlin, Germany 2009
The 4th C.P.N.O. International Exhibition of Photography China 2012
Invitational Exhibition of Art Expo Milano, Italy 2015
Self-Expression Invitation Competition, UK Saatchi Gallery, UK 2017
The 10th C.P.N.O. International Exhibition of Photography China, China 2018
First November Salon International Exhibition of Photography, India (Invited) 2018
The 6th International Cartoon Gathering – Egypt 2019
2nd HOTSHOT SALON International Exhibition of Photography, India (Invited) 2020
The Return International Art Festival, Weimar Germany (Invited) 2021
ATLAS CIRCUIT of International Photography, India (Invited) 2021

Books & printed albums where cartoons were listed:

China Cartoon 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001
“Oil crisis” – Worldwide Traffic Cartoon, 1999
Wit & Humor Vol. 1, China 2000
“Horror fiction” Comedy World Vol. 8 China, 2001
3rd IMI International Cartoon Competition Ukraine in 2003
The album of the 2nd LM International Cartoon Competition-China 2003 / China
The album of the 3rd LM International Cartoon Competition-China 2004 / China
The album of the International Cartoon Original（Invitation）Exhibition of the 7th World Comic Artist Conference 2005 / Korea
The album of the 11th International Ankara Cartoon Festival 2005 / Turkey
The album of the Fifth International Cartoon Contest DeVa 2005 / Romania
The album of the 11th International Cartoon Contest Haifa 2005 / Israel
The album of the International Cartoon Contest of Faszination Fussball Cartoon Und Karikatur Stuttgart Award 2006 / Germany
Album of the International Cartoon Competition of Stuttgart Award 2007
The album of the International Cartoon Contest of Humour a Gallaratea ” NUMER ” 2007 / Italy
The album of the International Cartoon Competition of Stuttgart Award 2007, Faszination Auao Fascination Automobile / Germany
The album of the 4th International Cartoon Contest 2008 / Syria
The album of the VII INTERNATIONAL CARTOON BIENNIAL CONTEST 2008 / Czech
The catalogue of the International Cartoon Festival CLEAR LOOK-2010 / Russia
The album of the XIII International Cartoon Contest “INDEPENDENC”2012 / Ukraine
The album of the First International Cartoon Festival of Tabriz “fish, Safety Food” / IRAN
The album of the International Cartoon Contest of Humour a Gallaratea 2012 ” THEATRE ” / Italy
The album of the 7th OSCARfest International Cartoon Exhibition 2014 / Croatia
The album of the “Olive” International Cartoon Contest 2018 / Cyprus