French, b. 1959

Shen Yuan is a French artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Palace Museum. Shen Yuan was born in Fuzhou.

Shen Yuan (Chinese: 沈远; born 1959 in Xianyou, Fujian), is a Chinese-born French artist. She graduated from China Academy of Art in 1982, and then started to practice in the Xiamen Dada group, an artists group that is known for exploring radical avant-garde art in Southern China. She moved to Paris, France with her husband Huang Yong Ping after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

As a contemporary artist, Shen Yuan's art often reflects on Chinese cultural and political realities. She has strong messages of feminism and gender roles in her artworks. Topics include issues such as labor (child labor, women workers), slums, and social conflicts.

Her artistic process often makes use of on-the-spot investigations and local creative methods to work together with local children or people to complete the work. She has been featured in many exhibitions. Her and her husband's works were featured in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's group exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, and in exhibition Hong Kong Foot at Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong.