Mr Shikumen

Li Shoubai was brought up in Shanghai and at the age of six started to learn paper cutting.

Painting

Chinese Ink

Full Metal Art

The son of a cruise missile engineer, Liao Yibai grew up surrounded by Cultural Revolution propaganda.

An Imaginary Enemy

As a child, Yibai Liao grew up in a top-secret missile factory in the Chinese countryside.

Photography

Introducing Lu Yang

Wickedly irreverent, Lu Yang’s punchy practice gives everything a cutesy, if gaudy, makeover.

Full Metal Art

The son of a cruise missile engineer, Liao Yibai grew up surrounded by Cultural Revolution propaganda.

Guys and Dolls

In 1994, artist Wang Xuejun realised his generation was blind to the so-called 'Western worship' trend.

Psychedelic Lucid Dreaming

Dreams, memory, hallucinations, and fantasy have all been the thread through Zhou Fan’s practice.

Meet Bi Rongrong

In her current practice, Bi Rongrong makes drawings, murals and site-specific installations.

Hidden Meanings

A dazzle of beauty and many hidden meanings is how artist Zhao Na describes her paintings.

Retainers of Anarchy

Howie Tsui’s work often dives deep into the liminal and oscillating space of diasporic experience.

Psychedelic Phobia

Zhou Fan has come a long way since his breakthrough series of floating jellyfish and mushrooms.

Rhythm of the City

Lu Xinjian’s works feature in pretty much every major collection of Chinese Contemporary art.

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