Jin Jiangbo (1972) As an interactive media lecturer at Qinghua University in Beijing and with many years experience in that field, many of Jin's works are based on sophisticated animation technology. Jin approaches art by way of a formidable intellect. His work is driven by ideas rather than personal experience. He is equally drawn to new media, which “connect art and technology”, and to photography, which is both objective and “sensitive enough to capture small traces of this fleeting world”. He is best known for his panoramic photographs of abandoned factories and silent market halls, which he calls “my review of the craze and spuriousness of the deceptive commodity economy”. Jin Jinghua (1986) Jin is currently finishing her master’s degree in the Material and Expression Studio in the Department of Chinese Painting. With an extensive background in Chinese ink painting, as an undergraduate Jin focused on figure painting—the least abstract of all ink disciplines. It was during her four years of study, however, that she began to question the ink medium’s expressive origins, how one creates a sense of familiarity or mystery, how one eliminates representation while still maintaining emotion, physicality, and soul. Most recently, Jin participated in the group exhibition "Cold Ink" curated by Tiffany Beres in Hong Kong (April - May 2014). Jin Shan (1977) Working with a variety of media, Jin comments on the daily lives of the younger generation living in contemporary China. Renowned for his interactive, playful installations, Jin's works invite the audience to be a part of his utopian world. In Slide, a gallery staircase was turned into a giant slide so that visitors had to take the plunge in order to see the rest of the artwork. Games aside, Jin's installations represent his critique of the new values of materialism and social changes in modern day China. Jin Shengjia (1986) One of the younger artists in the collection, Jin graduated from Shanghai University with a major in printmaking and is currently completing a Master degree in easel painting. Over the past three years, Jin has participated in a number of group exhibitions within China. K Kwan Sheung Chi (1980) A multi-disciplinary artist from Hong Kong, Kwan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. In the same year, he set up a studio in the Fotan industrial district and has since been an active member of the Fotanian artists studios complex. In addition to his studio practice, Kwan co-founded the Hong Kong Arts Discovery Channel, a web-based channel that aims to promote critical discourse through interviews with artists, curators, critics and the general pubic. He is also a founding member of two local art groups, hkPARTg and Woofer Ten, both of which deal with the practice of art in relation to politics, social concerns and the community. In 2009, Kwan was awarded the Starr Foundation Fellowship to take part in an international residency program in New York, USA. L Lau Lewis (1988) One of the youngest artists in the collection, Lau graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. Since then, he has participated in many group exhibitions in Hong Kong. His first solo show took place in 2013 at Gallery Exit, Hong Kong. Winner of the Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Award in 2010, Lau is best known for his oil paintings of scenes at the Star Ferry, a familiar Hong Kong icon that is loved by tourists and residents alike. Lee Kit (1978) A graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lee is now one of the city's most recognised and respected artists and will be representing Hong Kong at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Central to Lee's artistic production are the everyday and the ordinary. What matters more to Lee is the attitude towards life and the freedoms that his artworks represent. As a counterpoint to Hong Kong's consumerist and goal-oriented society, Lee's conceptual practice celebrates the banal qualities of life, which in turn acts as a sanctuary. It is through his cloth paintings and installations that Lee makes sense of the contradictions shaping his surroundings. "Without Hong Kong, I won't do this kind of work." - Lee Kit Li Dafang (1971) Li's works are specifically regional. They are related to the geography of where the artist has come from. He was born and grew up in Liaoning Province, in northeast China, where the high altitude and long, harsh winters have created a rough and grey landscape. He lived in Beijing for the first time between 1993 and 1997, and for the second time in 2003. Since then, Beijing has become home. Li's paintings breathe in the dry dust and cool climate of north China and absorb the geographical, social, and cultural temperament integral to this region. The realistic landscapes and imagery of his paintings are unmistakably northern: unkempt bushes and forests, cityscapes, roads, vistas of fields and open lands, the deep colour of the earth, the stocky appearance of buildings, and industrial leftovers. Li Jin (1958) Li is one of the best-known and most unorthodox ink painters from the New Literati group. Li gradually formed his uniquely playful style in the early 1990s, and is now famous for his seductive depictions of the good life in modern China. In contrast to the austerity and stereotyped subjects of classical literati art, food and wine and the simple things in life form Li's subject matter. Li Jinghu (1972) A graduate from South China Normal University (Fine Arts Department), Li has been living and working in Dongguan for his entire artistic career. Indeed, Li's conceptual practice is firmly entrenched in his hometown of Dongguan, an industrial hub known as the "factory of the world". Working primarily with sculpture and installation, Li's intensely lyrical work uses every element from his everyday life as he seeks to both capture and go beyond the balance between his personal expression and collective rumination. Li has participated in numerous international group shows since 2004 and several solo exhibitions within China. Li Ming (1986) Graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts (New Media Art Department) in 2008, Li has had a number of exhibitions around China. Li is also a member of the Shuangfei Arts Center. Li Qing (1981) In Li's work, juxtaposition usually occurs between two similar subject matters or scenes but in difference chronologically. In China's art scene, the juxtaposition of old and new, reflecting the remarkable social transition taking place over the last three decades, continues to be popular. In contrast to his contemporaries, Li's subject matter is ordinary and unnoticed. Rather than adopting grand rhetoric and heavy themes, Li is more interested with an ordinary scene that affects our perception to the world. With his bold brush stroke and impasto, Li smartly turns the visual games and subject matter into his own painterly game, a pictorial world that reflects changing reality.
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