614 H Han Feng (1972) Having graduated from the Art Institute of Harbin Normal University in 1998, Han has had a number of solo exhibitions around China since 2000. Most recently, he was awarded the first prize in the John Moores (Shanghai) Contemporary Painting Prize, 2010. Han's portfolio includes Simulated Life series, Grand Bus series, Grand Airplane series, Wave series, Townhouse series and Thermal Power Plant series. Hao Liang (1983) Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, Hao graduated with a Bachelor degree from the Chinese Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2006. He is currently completing his Master degree at the Institute. To Hao, the exploration of contemporary Chinese ink painting is rooted in tradition; deliberately adopting the realism of Song Dynasty artists and the brush technique from the Xuanhe period, his paintings are distinctly classical in tone. He An (1971) After graduating from the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1996, He An has participated in group exhibitions both abroad and in China, mostly presenting his pictorial works such as in the Documentary Exhibition of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in the 1990s, in Fukuoka Art Museum (2000), Chinese Photography in Chambers Fine Art, New York (2001), Paris-Beijing, Paris (2002) as well as Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai (2000), and Distance in the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2003). He An has now added various media to his practice such as sculpture, painting and installation which were presented in group exhibitions, notably The Exhibition of Young Artists, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (2004), The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool, ( 2007) and Rendezvous, MAC-LYON (2008). Hou Yong (1976) A graduate of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, Hou has participated in many international exhibitions since 2000. The artist is best known for his waterthemed paintings - his longrunning series, "Black", shows figures swimming in glossy, dark water, almost engulfed by the waves around them. Hu Jieming (1957) Eschewing the traditional Chinese ink brush technique, Hu studied Western oil painting through the eyes of 19th century Russian realists before being captivated by the likes of Picasso, Warhol, Duchamp and Beuys. Now acknowledged as one of the leading pioneers of new media art in China, Hu is a master at combining photography, video, digital and audio interactive technology to explore the concept of “refresh”, a recurring state of transience beyond time and space. Hu Weiyi (1990) Living and working in Shanghai, Hu graduated from China Academy of Art (Public Art) in 2013 and is currently studying a further degree at the Academy specialising in Intermedia Art. A multi-disciplinary artist who is equally adept with video, installation, sculpture, and sound, Hu's works have been widely exhibited in China and overseas, including "The Unpainted" Media Art Fair in Munich (Germany) and "PANDAMONIUM" at Momentum Berlin. Hu also works as a curator and in 2012, he curated a young artists group exhibition "The Bad Land" in Shanghai. Hu is the son of contemporary artist, Hu Jieming. Hu Wenlong (1986) Having just graduated from Minzu University of China in 2011, Hu's virtuoso painting skills are reminiscent of the large-scaled portraits by American photorealist, Chuck Close. Hu's graduation piece was awarded the prestigious John Moores Prize in 2012. Hu Xiaoyuan (1977) Hu's works touch on questions of human existence in an extremely subtle and personal way. For her objects, drawings and installations, she favours materials that bear signs of wear or carry sentimental values. Her motifs come primarily from the everyday environment or are connected to family history. These keepsakes are intimate and testify to the artist's sense of loneliness. Through her skilful manipulation of subtle sexual motifs, Hu deconstructs the traditional notions of feminity in a discreet and sympathetic way that makes her art feel contemporary. Huang Qi (1983) A graduate of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with Bachelor’s degree in oil painting, Huang completed her master’s degree in Germany at the Essen College of Liberal Arts. It was this experience abroad that motivated her to begin critically examining the cultural roots of the art she was making and the energy and emotions within it. Although she had never formally studied Chinese ink painting, it was at that time that Huang began experimenting with different materials including ink on paper, eager to find the aesthetic and perceptual basis for her own work. Similar to well-known expatriate artists such as Chu Teh-Chun and Zao Wou-Ki, Huang discovered that abstraction was a key to expressing the energy and spirit within—the “qi” of ink. Today, Huang works in a variety of artistic media creating textural and evocative abstractions, which source their perceptual vocabulary from ink painting. Huang’s works can be found in the collections of the Women’s Museum, Bonn, Germany, the Essen College of Liberal Arts, Germany, the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and the Times Museum, Guangzhou. Huang Yongping (1954) Huang is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang's work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions. Founder of the Xiamen Dada group in China in the 1980s, Huang's installations have included unorthodox materials such as live snakes and scorpions. Many of Huang's sculptural works encompass a large scale, some tens of meters in dimension. Although Huang permanently left his home for Paris in 1989, his creative methodology remains firmly rooted in his Chinese identity. Huang’s consistent questioning of the hierarchies of language, art, history and politics is equally mediated, however, by Western influences including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. In fact it is the collision between ancient beliefs (China) and new knowledge (the West) that drives Huang’s art. Huang Yuxing (1975) Since graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, in 2000, Hu has had numerous group shows around Asia. His complex and mesmerizing works, marked by Tibetan Buddhism, draws from the Chinese and Western pictorial traditions. Huang's artistic language stands apart from his peers and at first glance, appears to be detached from current social contexts. Nonetheless, despite the surrealist quality of his paintings, a general sense of sarcasm about politics exists. Huang's paintings are characterised by their distinctive eerie aura, achieved through multiple layers of pure oil paints and acrylics on canvases. J Jia Aili (1979) Living and working in Beijing, Jia Aili narrates private moods rather than public events or modern day China. His intense and emotionally charged work reflects on the human condition, and the individual's vulnerability in a rapidly modernising society. The artist has been selected from a new generation of artists in collaboration with Platform China Contemporary Art Institute. Using a muted colour palette and quick brushwork, Jia conjures up the disorientating emotions felt in a developing society. Jiang Pengyi (1977) Since graduating from Beijing Institute of Art & Design in 1999, Jiang has become one of the leading contemporary photographers in China. In 2009 he received the Tierney Fellowship Award from the First Annual Three Shadows Photography Award, followed by the Jury Grand Prize from the Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards in 2010. His photographs of miniaturised urban landscapes and skyscrapers represent the artist's critique of the excessive urbanisation, redevelopment and demolition in Beijing. Jiang Zhi (1971) Having graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1995, Jiang now lives and works in Beijing. Jiang is a video artist who pays close attention to social reality, and hence his works touch intimately on the problems of real life. So piercing is his gaze, in fact, that people might feel embarrassed by his merciless vision or laugh at his black humor. Regardless of the reaction, he causes audiences to rethink everyday situations and appreciate the complicated moods that come with living.
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