CAO Fei

CAO Fei was born in Guangzhou in 1978. She graduated from The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, living and working in Beijing. She has held solo exhibitions at various prestigious venues, including MoMA PS1 in New York, the Guggenheim Museum’s “Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative” in New York, Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Serpentine Galleries in London (“Blueprint”), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and Maxxi National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome.

CHAO Ge

CHAO Ge was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia in 1957, belonging to the Mongolian ethnic group. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in 1982. From 1982 to 1985, he taught at Inner Mongolia Normal University. He started teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts since 1988. From 2000 to 2001, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain, under a Spanish national scholarship. Currently, he is a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, an academician of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Italy, and an honorary professor at the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture, and Architecture in Russia. Now he is based in Beijing. He has held solo exhibitions at various venues including the University of Colorado Museum in the United States, Museo Vittoriano in Rome, Italy, and the main hall of Palazzo Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome.

CHEN Jian

CHEN Jian was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province in 1959. He completed the tutoring programme in Watercolor Painting of the Department of Printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1998 and the Graduate Qualification Programme in the Department of Printmaking of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001. Now he serves as a Distinguished professor and a Ph.D. supervisor at the China Academy of Art, as well as the director of the Watercolor Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association. Now he is based in Beijing. His works have been featured in solo exhibitions at the China Cultural Center Sydney, Centre Culture de Chine à Paris, the Museum of Asian Art in Nice, the National Art Museum of China, the Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Shandong Art Museum and Jiangsu Art Museum. He has also participated in numerous significant national exhibitions.

Lodtalad

Lodtalad was born in Guangzhou in 1993. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in 2016 and completed the “National Art Fund Game Talent Training Program” at the Urban College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019. He is currently a master’s degree student at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and resides in Guangzhou. He has held solo exhibitions at numerous venues including Platform China Contemporary Art Institute in Beijing, Fake Project in Xi’an, 5 Art Space in Guangzhou, and C Longkou Space in Beijing. He has participated in group exhibitions at various art institutions including MoMA PS1, the National Art Museum of China, Pingshan Art Museum, Huzhou Art Museum, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, and Taikang Space, both domestically and internationally.

Michael CHERNEY

Michael CHERNEY was born in New York in 1969. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, majoring in Chinese literature and history. Later he pursued Chinese Language studies at Beijing Language and Culture University. He self-learned photography and Chinese art history. He now lives and works in Beijing. Some of his works are held in collections such as the Asian Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Getty Center, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Portland Art Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, among others.

WANG Huangsheng

WANG Huansheng was born in Shantou, Guangdong in 1956. He graduated in 2006 with a doctoral degree from Nanjing University of the Arts. He has served as the director of the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the director of the New Art Museum Studies and Research Center at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at various institutions both in China and abroad, including the Dresden Museum of Art in Germany, the Hagen-Osthaus Museum in Germany, the Bern Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Art Museum of China, the Long Museum in Shanghai, the Suzhou Museum, the Minsheng Art Museum in Beijing, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Tang Contemporary Art Center in Bangkok, Thailand, and the October Gallery in the United Kingdom.

WANG Shuye

WANG Shuye was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang in 1963. He graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design (now the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University) in 1989. He now lives and works in Beijing and Kamakura. He has held solo exhibitions at different venues in Japan, including the Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Gallery X in Takashimaya Contemporary Art Space and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP. His works have been exhibited in art museums such as the Casa dei Carraresi in Italy, the Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples, National Art Museum of China, and the Visual Art Center of the Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University. He is also one of the initiators of the Neo Mōrōism Exhibition Series.

YANG Yongliang

YANG Yongliang was born in Shanghai in 1980. He began learning traditional Chinese painting from a young age. He studied Visual Communication Design in Shanghai Art & Design Academy and Shanghai Institute of Design, China Academy of Art. In 2004, he founded his own studio. Since 2005, he has engaged in ink painting, photography and video art. In 2006, he began to teach at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. He lives and works in New York and Shanghai. He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as HOW Art Museum and Matthew Liu Fine Arts. In addition, his works have been collected by the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

ZHAN Wang

ZHAN Wang was born in Beijing in 1962. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree and completed the graduate programme in the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. He is currently a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and lives in Beijing. He has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as the National Art Museum of China, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the United States, the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Today Art Museum, and Long Museum in Shanghai. Some of his works are collected by institutions including the National Art Museum of China, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.

ZHANG Wenchao

ZHANG Wenchao was born in Beijing in 1985. He graduated with a master’s degree from the Graduate School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. He is currently a lecturer in the Art and Technology Department at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and a researcher at CAFA Institute of Sci-Tech Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts. He works and lives in Beijing. His works have been exhibited in art institutions both domestically and internationally, including the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, the Berlin Municipal Art Museum in Germany, CAFA Art Museum, West Bund Art Center in Shanghai, and the OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen.

ZHAO Zhao

ZHAO Zhao was born in Xinjiang in 1982. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Xinjiang Arts Institute in 2003 and later pursued further studies at the Beijing Film Academy. He currently lives and works in both Beijing and Los Angeles. ZHAO Zhao has held solo exhibitions and conducted individual projects at a variety of art institutions, including the Long Museum in Shanghai, the Carl Kostyál Foundation in Stockholm, Alexander Ochs Galleries in Berlin, Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles, Chambers Fine Art in New York, Mizuma and One Gallery in Japan, Lin & Lin Gallery, Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong, Museu De Arte De Macau, Tang Contemporary Art in Beijing,  China Art Archives and Warehouse in Beijing, Song Art Museum in Beijing, Nanchizi Museum and Today Art Museum.

ZHOU Shaohua

ZHOU Shaohua was born in Rongcheng, Shandong Province in 1929. He joined the Fifth Division of the Shandong Detachment of the Eighth Route Army in 1941. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Zhongyuan University in 1950. He has served as the Dean of the Hubei Provincial Academy of Fine Arts and the Chairman of Hubei Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He was awarded the title of “Artist with Lifelong Achievement” by the People’s Government of Hubei Province in 2008, and was selected as a “Chinese Cultural Figure” in 2014. He is now a council member of the Executive Committee of the China National Academy of Painting and lives in Wuhan. He has held exhibitions, art exchanges, and lectures at various academic institutions both domestically and internationally. His works are collected by institutions including the National Art Museum of China, the Linden-Museum Stuttgart in Germany, the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin, and the State Russian Museum.

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