Born in 1993 in Hunan, China. Her characteristic blue and white silk objects, which first appeared in 2018 with YorN, have a connection to her roots. Traditional Chinese ink brush paintings are also made on silk, while the official colors of the hospital where both her parents worked as Physicians were blue and white.
He GuoMeng Dyed Silk Artist
- Dyeing delicate silk fabric with indigo stripes and sealing it inside clear plastic boxes, He GuoMeng creates mysterious objects. When held up to the sunlight, they lend an intriguing perspective to the neo-futuristic skyscrapers filling Pudong, across the river from the Bund. Regarding the meaning of the blue and white, she says “I'm not sure anyone but me can understand the true intention of my work. I'm drawn to abstract and ambiguous imagery, like Basquiat's symbolic crowns.” He GuoMeng wears a purple UT shirt embroidered with one of Basquiat’s crowns and his signature.
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Xiao Longhua Sculptor, Painter
- Shelves crammed with monsters, action figures, hand-carved puppets and wooden dolls. From an early age, Xiao knew that making art that utilizes junk he found at building sites and flea markets would be his life’s work. Eyeing the scraps strewn about his studio, he says that “everything is waiting to be part of a creation.” Like the limbs for this new project, inspired by the crafts of the indigenous people of Guizhou, in inland China. The pattern on his UT shirt is a late work of Basquiat’s from 1986, loaded with hand drawn designs.
Born in 1982 in Shanghai, China. Since graduating from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, he has created a multitude of artwork utilizing old housewares and furniture. In 2018, his work was shown at Shanghai Beat, an exhibition of contemporary art from Shanghai held at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.
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Nini Sum Silkscreen Artist
- Shelves crammed with monsters, action figures, hand-carved puppets and wooden dolls. From an early age, Xiao knew that making art that utilizes junk he found at building sites and flea markets would be his life’s work. Eyeing the scraps strewn about his studio, he says that “everything is waiting to be part of a creation.” Like the limbs for this new project, inspired by the crafts of the indigenous people of Guizhou, in inland China. The pattern on his UT shirt is a late work of Basquiat’s from 1986, loaded with hand drawn designs.
Born in 1986 in Nanjing, China. In 2009, she founded the silkscreen duo Idle Beats with German artist Gregor Koerting and toured the world with their joint exhibition Tale of Two Cities. Her new work City Landscape is a collage borrowing motifs from ink brush painting.
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Zhang Shexian Painter
- In the basement of an apartment building in the Shanghai suburbs, Zhang stands before his giant portraits, in the quiet and the faint light. From the image on his T-shirt, a painting called EXU that Basquiat released in 1988, the year he died, you may expect him to have a nervous temperament, but his voice is friendly. “Basquiat is my hero. His work may look like something that a kid could draw, but it’s beyond imitation. It’s so incredibly uninhibited.” Not affiliated with a gallery, Zhang doesn’t sell his art. “Painting isn’t something that you do for others,” he says. “It’s a lifestyle.”
Born in 1988 in Harbin, China. His preferred subjects are the people he meets travelling the world. He paints them on the spot, using large canvases he brings along. His recent painting Moscow depicts a hitchhiker he encountered last year, while driving in Moscow.
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