Surreal sense lies in Ai Xuefeng’s artworks. A confrontational thinking space is created by the infinity of space and the finiteness of people which makes its audiences meditate visually from the distant, frozen time & space and reality. Sense of grandness is expressed by styling and composition of the pictures with perspective of emphasizing and magnification. This kind of actual visual experience changes has introduced a brand-new implication to its audiences.

Born in Guangxi, China, 1981. Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004, currently lives in Chongqing. In the “Cun Qing Tian Di” series of artworks, there is no obvious structure line between mountains and trees. Main body of the picture is consisted of dense dashes and dots, while short brushwork is both leaves and drawing elements. Therefore, the “dual-concept” meaning has been expressed by these dashes and dots. In the traditional understanding of art, it is commonly accepted that an object is composed by lines and blocks. Lines and colors are drawn according to the internal structure of objects. Leaves which drown by one-touch-drawing skill still considered as block surfaces. Dots (trees) on mountains far away also obey the of close-large and faraway-small visual effect drawing principle.

Born in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China, 1982. Graduated from Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, School of Oil Painting, 2006. Graduated from Chinese National Academy of Arts, Oil Painting Creation and Research Studio, 2009.

Born in Hubei, China, 1985. Graduated from China Academy of Art, School of Painting with a bachelor’s degree. Graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin University of Arts), School of Painting with a master’s degree. Currently lives in Hangzhou. In Long Han’s artwork “Landschaft in der Kinder-Köpfen”, the topic is German, translated as “Landscape in Children’s Minds”. The spark of this artwork is originated from the eyes of kids on the streets which often gave him a particular familiar feeling while Long Han was studying in Germany. This, is “Déjà vu”. Long Han tried to combine the portraits of kids in Berlin with the stunning scenery of West Lake in Hangzhou, one unique, special sense and echo has been discovered and raised from this special conjunction.

Born in Shanxi, China, 1991. Graduated from Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, School of Painting with a bachelor’s degree. Currently lives in Shanxi. By painting out the materials she fancies, Li Hui’s artworks are created based on her familiar Greatness and materials.

Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 1984. Graduated from Academy of Arts, Minzu University of China, School of Painting. Currently lives in Beijing. By putting oneself into different circumstances, the artist wants the audiences to find the feeling of loneliness and melancholy in their unique inner worlds. Like storytelling, like experience you would never forget

Born in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, 1993. Graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, executive editor of China Calligraphy. His artworks are selected into the Rongzheng Cup 3rd Shandong Youth Calligraphy Exhibition, North Riverside of Watertown Cup Shandong 6th Calligraphy and Curving Exhibition, Shandong 2nd Youth Calligraphy (Curving) Exhibition and Zhao Mengfu Prize 2nd National Calligraphy Exhibition. His artworks also have been exhibited in Chinese Calligraphy Newspaper, Youth Calligraphy Newspaper and other professional newspaper and magazines.

Born in Shanxi, China, 1984. Graduated from Shanxi Normal University, School of Art with a bachelor’s degree in 2014. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, School of Painting with a master’s degree in 2007. Currently as Director of Painting Teaching and Research Department of Art Design School in Beijing Youth Politics College. He cares a lot about humanity issues during the social transmission in his art creation. He loves animals, he draws animals. Subtle relationships between human and animals transform into carnival on spiritual chaos of animalized human. This kind of surrealism presentation expresses the philosophical introspection and virtualization thinking of the external world from an individual, which makes him a key representative of current magic-realism painting. He puts himself conscientious into the society nowadays and considering two critical questions of this era: entanglement between traditional and contemporary, crony capitalism ruling, insecurity of middle class, ecological crisis… Relationship between “individual” and “human” become closer and closer in the era of globalization and cyber.

Born in Tongzu, Guizhou Province, China, 1973. Graduated from Guizhou University, School of Painting with a bachelor’s degree. Shi Pi’s art expressionism belongs to the category which Bergman advocated. Shi Pi’s artworks are filled with symbols and marks from our normal daily lives. Those symbols, marks and words are elements of this portrait of the times. Young artists and painters would never get rid of these symbols and words, they can only reorganize and put these elements in their unique worlds by drawing or painting through their own eyes. Though art of painters has no revolutionary concepts, warm stories are there for us whenever we take a glance at this era.

Born in Sichuan, China, 1985. Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Tang Mingwei considers marks from mechanical operation processes as a unique kind of emotion. It is the beauty of geometry. Artists tries to imitate them, restore them, sense of controlling lies within the subconsciousness somehow. The author wants to endow one kind of emotion, a rhythm by length-width ratio and color rendering to the simple mechanical bodies. This emotion sometimes specific, sometimes fuzzy, it would be wonderful if someone meets and feels the same type of indescribable mojo.

Born in Beijing, China, 1981. Graduated from Beijing Normal University, 2001. Graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, 2006. Currently performs art creation in Beijing and Singapore. This group of artworks has gone through a period of time and development, said the artist. From 2006, the author, who started his overseas study in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, always had the feeling of home-leaving. He began to recall his childhood memories and put them on the canvas since then. “I want to put the things and imaginations which I didn’t or cannot finish when I was a kid”, said the author. As simple the intention is, Wu Qiong walked on his path of “Cartoon” and “Childlike” research. Under the appearance of the children’s images, more attentions have been paid on adult thinking and judgment. During this process, the author tried to avoid pursuing cute cartoon effects aimlessly, and emphasize the connotation and excavability of the artworks, which implies the values and judgments of the author.

Born in Shandong Province, China, 1986. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, School of Painting with a bachelor’s degree. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, School of Painting with a master’s degree. For all the time, Xu Na devoted herself into creations which express relations between human and nature by wooden relief printing techniques and characteristics of black/white. For example, in the artwork Shang Shan Ruo Shui, spiritual concepts and specific vocabularies are expressed by her master skills in the large picture. Characteristics of painting determine limited materials and medias can be used, which would generate artworks those beyond visual experience and draw attentions from audiences. Xu Na uses specific patterns and vocabularies of wooden relief printing reasonably to complete her artworks.

Born in Jiangxi Province, China, 1984. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree, 2007. Figures of Xia Jianning’s painting are pictures of plants those under the microscope. Life is put in between the sky and the earth, gifted with freedom and grows as it wishes. He focused on shapes of lives, grow from the ground, flourishes to the sun. Clusters of plants combines together and forms as a new life, like Tao Te Ching says, one generates two, two generate three, and three generate the universe. The wonders and visions presented in Xia Jianning’s works are exactly the freedom and possibility life gained after humility and innocence.

Born in Guangdong Province, China, 1987. Graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Digital Media with a bachelor’s degree. Graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Photography with a master’s degree. Currently lives and works in Beijing.

Born in Fujian Province, China, 1982. Graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, School of Painting with a bachelor’s degree, 2006. Graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, School of Design with a master’s degree, 2013. Currently lives and works in Hubei. As the signature representatives, Zhang Hui’s print artworks maximized the possibilities of materials in terms of technical processing and reflected the rare, rich, varied and nuanced expressions. To a certain extent, he has promoted the creation of printmaking to a more exquisite and in-depth degree in terms of artistic language. To my understanding, Zhang Hui has made great contribution to printmaking. Furthermore, living reality around him has been noticed with his simple cultural observation. Persistently captures situations of young people who seem lost, anxious, and confused through the surfaces of lives, he reflects one particular kind of independent thinking and attitude.

Born in Fujian Province, China, 1981. Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a bachelor’s degree in 2002. Both rational and emotional elements are in Zhang Tingqun’s image world. One particular and extremely touching drawing language has been generated by subtlety combination of these elements. His artworks are mainly abstract paintings on paper and canvas, which are perfect to savor the emotions of simple, elegant, veiled and gentle. Lines are the critical elements in his artworks. His lines, are the lines which Chinese artists draw on the Chinese painting paper. In the concept of Chinese painting, lines are one kind of extractions and refining. Zhang Tingqun’s lines are the painting itself, the symbols exchanges information. It is quite challenging to say which of the lines are redundant, each straight line and curve has its unique role. Black and grey consist the main frame of the picture, Zhang Tingqun uses colors with frugality and serious consideration. Bright yellow and orange interluded in the deep-color tone, which make the entire picture vivid and alive.

Born in Hunan Province, China, 1989. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Communication with a bachelor’s degree in 2014. Started postgraduate program in Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, 2015. Contemporary industrial materials have been used in this series of artworks of Zhang Huiying, which express the poetic and pure concepts of ancient lives. Collision of contemporary steel studs and traditional Chinese Ink Painting promoted the classic expression of traditional Chinese art. By combinations of traditional drawing, contemporary design and Chinese ink painting, by using traditional Chinese cultural symbols and contemporary industrial elements as catalysts to express conflictions between modern urban improvements and cultural inheritance. The artwork evolves from regular visual expression modes and breaks through the barrier between time and space, two-dimension and three-dimension, created this Chinese ink artwork in a controllable design method, shows the ideological transboundary and find a harmony path for both design and art.

Born in Guizhou Province, China, 1980. Graduated from the Arts College of Guizhou Minzu University. Joined Guiyang Urban Component Contemporary Art Studio, 2011. Currently lives and works in Guizhou. Majority of Zhang Ruoyun’s artworks are describing vegetables and fruits, some are like specimen slices, some are like structural analysis, some are just like shapes. From these figures, they might have symbolic metaphors, even can be considered as emotion-related narration. In the contrasting overlapping of the color blocks, the images of these dehydrated vegetables and fruits specimens became even more lethargic and lifeless, just like their plain, cold names in the flat and straightforward descriptions, which made people aware of one kind of suppressed anxiety. And this kind of anxiety is often exacerbated by dense dots or skinny lines.

Born in Hebei in 1980 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a master’s degree. Zhang Wenbin’s works simulate a certain characteristic of human thinking in the form of water patterns: always fluctuating, changeful. Those who die like this, regardless of day and night.

There is a rich visual surface, you can see and feel its flow and change, but cannot grasp its specific image. You can’t finish it like a human portrait. You can only rely on imagination and understanding to make up for it. Unfathomable and yet slightly rational. It is through such works to break the boundary between material “water” and human “consciousness”.

Born in Luzhou, Sichuan in 1984 and graduated with a master’s degree from the Department of Chinese Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. In 2007, she graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree. Now she works and lives in Chongqing.

The artist Zhao Pingqu benefited from the extensive reading and research experience of philosophy, religion and feminism. She uses exquisite-cum-meticulous brushwork to express the philosophical thinking of movement and stillness, strength and serenity, life and death between the square inches (constrained space) of fan painting. Her fan paintings are full of “flowers of yin and yang” with great reversal effect, which symbolizes the modern urban women’s pursuit of free personality and the discourse on gender differences. Her animals, leaping above the fan, convey a mystical temperament of Gothic metaphysics, making the audience a split-second or instant philosopher.

Born in Fengshun, Guangdong Province, moved to Shenzhen in 1986, emigrated to Canada in 2001, returned to settle in Lijiang, Yunnan in 2005, founded Zheng Zesheng Art Studio, he now works and lives in both Lijiang and Guangzhou.

“Hakuna Matata” series is the main theme of artist Zheng Zesheng in recent years, which is inspired by the artist’s African prairie style. “Hakuna Matata” is an African proverb meaning “carefree with no worries, of dreams come true”. The work adopts the animals of the African prairie as the primary image, refined and deconstructed by the artist, with full and vivid colors, interesting composition and passionate pictures whilst depicting a panorama of the vitality of all things in heaven and Earth. The works artistically portray the beautiful and harmonious facet of the natural ecology.