Artists

Wang Chuan

Born in Chengdu in 1953, China
Bachelor degree and graduated from the Traditional Chinese Painting of Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 1982. Now lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen, China
Wang Chuan is a key figure in the Scar Painting movement. He began his early career as a successful realist painter and turned to abstract painting during the 1985 New Wave period.

Li Di

He defines painting as follows: a medium to convey a personal spirit, an expression of one’s psychological intention and a means of recording one’s personal path. © Sue Wang

Born in China in 1963, Li Di graduated from the oil painting department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. In 1995 obtained a master’s degree from Braunschweig University of Art. He now lives and works in Braunschweig and Beijing.

Li Di about the Autumn series

Jing Shijian

Born in 1960 in Liaoning province in northeast China. In 1988 graduated from China Academy of Art, department of oil painting. currently lives and works in Hangzhou, China. Vice president of the department of painting in China Academy of Art.

Hong Dan

Born in 1982 in Pujian, Zhejiang, China. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts of Zhejiang normal university in 2004, majoring in oil painting. Graduated from the fifth studio of the Department of oil painting of China Academy of Art. Now teaches at the art faculty of Zhejiang University of Media Communication.

DUDU

Du Du, born in Zhejiang Province, lives in Hangzhou and Shanghai. Her art works

include painting and image. She is a travel book author and works on magazine

editing among othersoccupations. About her recent exhibitions : 2015: "occupied and forgotten light", Jimei Arles photography season; 2017: "OK/okay" Du Wenting / Liu Yi exhibition, wonderful art; 2018: "cruising", Hangzhou Baolong Art Center.

Shao Wenhuan

In 2002 studied at the Department of Comprehensive Painting in China Academy of Art and later on went to Dijon National Academy of Fine Arts for further research and studies.

Currently is an associate professor in Department of Photography of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.

Shao Wenhuan’s wellknown artworks have ‘painting specificity’ (rather than simply being ‘paintings’), coming from simultaneous transfer, with two gelatin preparation – one from photographic media, the other from the pigment used in traditional Chinese painting. All erosion and deterioration occur on the layers of the blend, and what appears on the screen is not one specific image, but “time traces” that are difficult to define.(c) Liu Tian

Yan Shanchun

Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, Yan graduated from the Printmaking Department of the China Academy of Art in 1982. In 1993 joined Shenzhen Fine Arts Institute as associate professor at painting department and devoted most of his time to scholarly pursuits. From 2010 focused on the production of etchings. Now lives and works in Hangzhou.

Although Yan is fully cognizant of the long history of abstract painting and print-making in the West, he has been less concerned with rivaling these antecedents than in modifying their example to enrich the valued tradition of Chinese literati who cultivated the arts of calligraphy, painting and poetry in seclusion. (c)Sue Wang

Ma Shuqing

The intersection of time and space always places us in an unknown position. Each stretch of new canvas is for me a new world, implying a new experience, a unique one.-Ma Shuqing

Born in Tianjin in 1956. Graduated from Tianjin Arts and Crafts School in 1976, majoring in decoration.

In 1989 went to Munich Academy of Fine Arts to study freestyle painting.Moved to Paris after graduation in 1995.Now is travelling between Beijing and Paris.