F Fang Lu (1981) Fang received her BFA from Graphic Design department at School of Visual Art in New York in 2005, and MFA from the New Genres department at the San Francisco Arts Institute in 2007. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Space Station, Beijing (2010), Borges Libreria Institute of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou (2011); and in group exhibitions such as the Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial (2012), CAFAM Future Exhibition (2012), and in Museu do Oriente in Lisbon (2011), Walter & Mcbean Gallery in San Francisco (2008), Contemporary Artist Center in Massachusetts (2004) and other places. Now living and working in Beijing, she is also a co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive resource in Beijing and Guangzhou. Fang Wei (1968) Having graduated from Shanghai Arts & Crafts Institute in 1986, Fang left for Japan to pursue his passion for painting but instead became an antiques dealer for 15 years. Upon returning to Shanghai, he set up a fine art printing studio, producing prints for many of China's leading artists, including Zhang Huan, Zeng Fanzhi and Wang Guangyi. Indeed, Fang was a key collaborator in Zhang Huan's ash paintings, big Buddha sculptures and woodcut prints. Having never given up his true passion, Fang returned to full time painting in 2008. His first solo exhibition took place at the Shanghai Gallery of Art in 2012. Fang Zhiyong (1980) Fan is currently completing his Master's degree at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Although his oeuvre is progressively moving away from his classical training, Fan uses ink as the theoretical starting point for his artistic creation, combining traditional media with other materials, often inspired by his surroundings. Fan's works explore patterns and forms found in nature, while translating them into his personal expressions beyond the restrictions of convention. Feng Mengbo (1966) Feng is a young Chinese artist whose work uses the the styles and structures of contemporary electronic games. He combines this with traditional cultural influences, including Chinese opera legends, the Cultural Revolution and Hong Kong action cinema, all of which follow a romantic, heroic representation of moral or political tales. Feng has worked in paint, video and more recently digital media, to produce narrative pieces, full of computer game images, mixed with symbols from communist China. These subtly satirical works represent a humorous response to global mass culture and China's recent developments. Feng Qianyu (1974) Belonging to the latest generation of new media artists emerging from China, Feng had her first solo exhibition at the renowned Libreria Borges Bookshop in 1999. Since then, Feng has taken part in The Longmarch Project as well the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. G Gao Lei (1980) Central to Gao's large-scaled installations are the themes of power, control and surveillance. Room-sized installations, akin to prisons, featuring a carnival of animal parts and ready-mades form Gao's imaginary universe, which are in fact grounded in real-world concerns and personal experiences. "People just do so many violent and dark things to animals. From them we can see the dark side of human beings." Gao Shiqiang (1971) Gao is one of the recent “scholarly” artists in the field of Chinese video art. Not only has Gao forged new territory for aesthetic innovation and built upon the foundation of the Hangzhou school as the leader in fine art digital media, he has also developed a profoundly rich vocabulary that distinguishes his art from that of his predecessors. Yet, the poetic, non-literal and allusive style of his moving images is clearly part of the mastery inherent in the Hangzhou Image Movement. The careful observation of reality, emphasizing individual interpretations of experience, orients Gao’s work towards a strong singular vision and offers a unique insight into the human condition. Gao Weigang (1976) "A graduate of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Gao is one of the most versatile artists of his generation, being equally skilled in painting, sculpture, installation and performance art. Across this wide range of media, Gao's works share the common intent to challenge the audience's preconceived ideas and accustomed visual language, often with wry humour and irony. Gao received the Art Futures Award at Art HK in 2011." Ge Guanzhong (1977) Ge received his MFA from Beijing’s Xu Beihong Art College of Renmin University in 2008. Brought up in an artistic family and meticulously trained as a traditional ink painter, he has gradually shifted his style and subject matter to reflect the massive changes in modern Chinese society. His graphic compositions and aggressive use of vivid colors distort classical subjects and contribute to the rapid evolution of contemporary ink painting. Of recent note, Premier Wen Jiabao selected a painting by Ge Guanzhong as a national gift for the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2008. Gu Dexin (1962) Gu is perhaps the most avantgarde and radical of China’s leading contemporary artists. Although he did not formally study art, Gu quickly made a name for himself in the late 1980s with his strange, colorful portraits of alien beings and provocative experiments altering and reshaping plastics and other materials. In 1989, his work was already being shown in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. And since then this eminently uncollectible artist has broken every conceivable convention by using blow torches and other tools to reshape plastics, raw meat and fruits and vegetables. Decay is a central feature of many of his works. Gu Wenda (1955) Acknowledged as a pioneer of Chinese contemporary art, Gu was one of the leaders of the ’85 New Wave Art Movement in China, who went on to influence an entire generation of artists in China with a series of provocative ink paintings that employed pseudo Chinese characters. After emigrating to the United States in 1987, he began creating large-scale installations to explore the issues of multiculturalism and globalization. His “United Nations” project was created with blocks, curtains and characters constructed from human hair he collected from around the world. Gu Wenda has established himself as a powerful commentator on the cultural and linguistic barriers that continue to exist in a globalized era. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Shanghai. Guest (Xu Qu, Lu Pingyuan and Zhao Yao) GUEST is a new collective consisting of three of China's leading young talents: Xu Qu, Zhao Yao and Lu Pingyuan, whose solo careers have also garnered critical acclaim. Xu Qu was born in 1978 and now works in Beijing. Born in Luzhou, Sichuan province, in 1981, Zhao Yao also lives and works in Beijing. The youngest member, Lu Pingyuan, was born in Zhejiang in 1984 and works in Shanghai. Guo Hongwei (1982) Guo Hongwei is representative of a new generation of contemporary Chinese artists who have moved beyond the political concerns of the generation immediately preceding him. Choosing to focus on his immediate surroundings, he is able to concentrate on the potential of his chosen medium, whether watercolor on paper or oil on canvas, to create surprising visual equivalents of objects that are mostly overlooked.
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