1. Cai Jin — 蔡锦 (b. 1965, Tunxi (Anhui))
A banana leaf as a body: a single theme, painted for thirty years.
- “Banana Beauty” (since the 1990s) — a series she has returned to for decades: the leaf is the body.
- Red and flesh — dense oil painting in which the colour of the leaf becomes the colour of flesh.
- Education — Fine Arts Department, Anhui Normal University, 1986.
Sources: Hanart TZ Gallery · Anhui Normal University
2. Chen Lingyang — 陈羚羊 (b. 1975, Zhejiang)
“Twelve Flower Months”: body, cycle and flower in a single frame.
- “Twelve Flower Months” (1999–2000) — twelve self-portraits, one for each month, with a flower.
- The body as a calendar — the work introduced into Chinese art a subject that had not been discussed publicly before.
- Painting and photography — both lines run in parallel.
Sources: Christie's · Asia Art Archive
3. Kan Xuan — 阚萱 (b. 1972, Xuancheng (Anhui); Beijing and Amsterdam)
Video about the small: objects, streets and gestures, filmed in short observations.
- Short video — minute-long observations in which attention rests on a single object.
- Beijing and Amsterdam — life between two cities as a condition of the gaze.
- Education — China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.
Sources: M+ · Wikipedia
4. Ma Qiusha — 马秋莎 (b. 1982, Beijing)
Video and photography about the body and memory: from film to chance images found online.
- “From the Fog” — a series on bodily experience, shot in close-up and almost without pathos.
- The network as a source — other people's pictures from social albums as material for the work.
- Education — Digital Media Department, CAFA, 2005.
Sources: Salford Art Collection · Artforum
5. Yu Hong — 喻红 (b. 1966, Xi'an)
Large-scale figurative painting about a generation's way of seeing: what it saw and what it remembers.
- “Witness to Growth” (目击成长) — an autobiographical line: her own years beside the chronicle of the country.
- Large-format canvases — life-size figures painted with realistic precision.
- Education and teaching — the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Sources: CAFA · Harvard, East Asian art programme
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6. Song Kun — 宋琨 (b. 1977, Inner Mongolia)
Figurative painting about a generation's life: portraits, music and the everyday.
- Painting as a diary — portraits of friends and scenes of daily life, painted as a series.
- A connection with music — concert and club scenes enter the painting.
- Education — the third painting studio at CAFA (2002, 2006).
Sources: PIFO Gallery, Beijing · CAFA
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7. Chen Ke — 陈可 (b. 1978, Tongjiang (Sichuan))
Painting about growing up: girlhood, memory and a borrowed art history.
- Childhood and memory — early works about a girl as a figure of time.
- A dialogue with art history — series in which figures from the classics appear beside her heroines.
- Life in Beijing — work between painting and a personal archive.
Sources: Wikipedia · Star Gallery
8. Hu Xiaoyuan — 胡晓媛 (b. 1977, Heilongjiang)
Material as a trace: hair, old cloth, wood and insects in installations.
- Material and care — things that age and change: the work is built on time, not on the object.
- Video and performance — the same themes in motion.
- International projects — participation in Tate research programmes.
Sources: Tate · Wikipedia
9. Liang Yuanwei — 梁远苇 (b. 1977, Xi'an)
Repetition as method: a pattern painted layer upon layer.
- A repeating pattern — a floral repeat painted again and again until it becomes a surface.
- Time in the work — the count runs into months: the work as a process, not an image.
- Education — the CAFA School of Design.
Sources: Birmingham City University · CAFA
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10. Xing Danwen — 邢丹文 (b. 1967, Xi'an; New York and Beijing)
Photography about the city and memory: construction sites, housing and traces of the Cultural Revolution.
- “Wall House” and the city — housing and construction sites as a portrait of an era.
- Film and digital — the shift from film photography to digital series itself becomes a subject.
- Education — the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Sources: Whitney Museum · Wikipedia
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