A Aaajio (1984) Aaajiao is the internet alias of XU Wenkai (b. 1984 Xi'an) who lives and works in Shanghai. Aaajiao is one of China's foremost media artists, bloggers and free culture developers. In 2003 he established the sound art website: cornersound.com, and in 2006 he founded the Chinese take on the blog We Make Money Not Art: We Need Money Not Art. He is devoted to Processing, an open source visual programming software, Dorkbot, a non-profit initiative for creative minds, and eventstructure, an interdisciplinary center for art, media technology and academic research based in Shanghai. In his works in general, Aaajiao focuses on the use of data and its various forms of display, and how meaning is understood through the process of transforming the movement from reality, to data, and back again. His most significant aesthetic contribution to new media in China is a social one, acting as a vector for the interpretation and communication of international and local trends in the usages of software in artistic practice. Abbas Nadim (1980) Born and bred in Hong Kong, Abbas completed his Bachelor in Fine Arts at London's Chelsea College of Art & Design and graduated with a MPhil from the University of Hong Kong. Abbas' oeuvre includes large-scaled installations and sculptural works that explore the psychological patterns of every objects and the cliché. Viewers would easily recognise certain components in the artist's works but are often destabilised by their compositions. Abbas has participated in many group exhibitions in Hong Kong and overseas since 2001. His inaugural solo show took place in 2010 at Experimenta, Hong Kong. Ai Jing (1969) With a successful singing career behind her, Ai switched her creative focus to painting in the late 1990s and became a student of Zhang Xiaogang in 2000. Ai's paintings draw their inspiration from her years of touring around the world and visiting various leading museums - her experiences act as a new source of creativity. Since her first solo exhibition at Beijing's Today Art Museum in 2008, Ai has had a number of shows in China and New York. Her versatility as a true artist (of music and art) is internationally recognised. C Cai Guangbin (1963) Having graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Art in 1988, Cai is now a professor at the Art College of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. First exhibited at the Art Gallery of Chicago University in the US ("Reflections of Century, Viewpoint of China Exhibition" 1998), Cai has had a number of group and solo shows. Cai is best known for his contemporary take on traditional Chinese ink painting. Cao Fei (1978) Now living and working in Beijing, Cao is acknowledged as one of the most talented artists specialising in multimedia installations and video art. Partly inspired by Surrealism, her works combine social commentary, popular aesthetics and documentary conventions. These videos and installations represent a commentary on the rapid and chaotic changes that are still taking place in modern China. Cheang Shu Lea (1954) Cheang is a multi-media artist, working within the fields of netbased installation, social interface and film production. As one of the leading multimedia artists dealing with multidisciplinary studies, her work is unique in creatively intermingling social issues with artistic methods while allowing viewer interaction. Most recently, she has moved to 35mm feature filmmaking. Chen Chieh Jen (1960) Born 1960, Taiwan. Chen exhibits widely in Taiwan and internationally. Making his first appearance at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, Chen's work "Empire's Borders" was included in the Taiwan Pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. In 2005 he was one of 41 artists presented by curator Maria de Corral in the Padiglione Italia, "The experience of art" at the 51st Venice Biennale. Chen continues to work with photography, film, installation and performance to explore issues which have a particular global resonance. Globalisation, labour, consumerism, migration and the power of images are key issues addressed by his works. Chen Fei (1983) As one of the most promising talents of the post 80's generation, Chen belongs to a group of artists who has redefined the direction of Chinese contemporary art, turning away from the societal rhetorics and aesthetics of the earlier avant garde movements. With his tongue-in-cheek humour, Chen's works appear "superflat", his canvases filled with vibrant colours and bold patterns. Graduating from the renowned Beijing Film Academy, Chen's continuing passion for films is clearly evident in his oeuvre: "I can't say I was not affected, because what I have seen and learnt will be expressed in my work. Watching films is a very important channel through which I gain knowledge." Chen Han (1973) Having graduated from the Oil Painting department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, Chen has regularly participated in various group exhibitions in China. His oeuvre consists of small oil paintings, similar to little vignettes. These snapshot images have the effect of hinting at a much larger 'stories', which are hidden from the viewer. Chen Ke (1978) After graduating with an MFA in painting from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chen relocated to Beijing in 2005 to pursue her career as a painter. Her practice deals primarily with personal experience, memory and identity. Her work, often labelled “cute”, illustrates an underlying feeling of loneliness that represents the reality for a generation of Chinese people born into the one-child family structure. Trained classically as a painter, she continually experiments with new materials and painting techniques to create multi-layered canvases, powerful installations and photographs. Chen Shaoxiong (1962) Chen was one of the founding members of the Big Tail Elephant Group (1990). After his first series of performances and installations exploring the relationship between urban energy consumption and bodily resistance, he has presented a series of video installations in the form of perceptive devices that demonstrate efforts to negotiate with balancing between fundamentally precarious, contradictory elements of our senses and the environment, notably the rapidly changing urban scenes. Chen Tianzhuo (1985) Chen left his hometown for London after graduating high school and completed his postgraduate studies at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2010). His artistic practice drew from his preoccupation with religious scenes, symbolic manifestations and ritualisation of faith. The central idea behind Chen's works lies in the construction of an imaginary religious experience - through the decontruction and reconstruction of religious icons combined with images of contemporary consumer products, Chen takes a tonguein-cheek approach to creating this fictional religion. Since first participating in the Shanghai Biennale in 2006, Chen has exhibited widely around the world. Chen Tong (1962) A well-established Chinese artist, Chen was awared Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in September 2010 for his contribution to promoting French culture and the strengthening of cultural ties between China and France. In addition to his work as an artist, curator and art critic, Chen is also a publisher and owner of the Borgeslibreria Bookstore in Guangzhou. Over the past 20 years, Chen has been responsible for translating and publishing French literary masterpieces. Chen Wenbo (1969) Chen Wenbo’s contribution to the contemporary Chinese art scene belongs largely to the visual rather than the conceptual. Like Liu Wei to some extent, he works almost exclusively in very bright, very flat images that waver between representation and abstraction. But instead of concentrating primarily on visual effect, Chen Wenbo is interested in the technologies of vision. ARTISTS
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