Zhao Liang (China) graduated from Luxun Fine Art Academy in 1992. He supported himself as a photographer while working on his early documentaries. Zhao’s 2009 documentary Petition: The Court of the Complainants which looks at the legal system in China premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was shot over 12 years and details the plight of Chinese citizens travelling to Beijing to file complaints with the centralgovernment about local officials. After its debut at Cannes, the film was banned in China. His 2011 film Together is about discrimination against people with HIV and AIDS in China and was commissioned by the Ministry of Health.
Cao Fei (China) mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Her works reflect on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in Chinese society today. She has participated in a number of international biennales including Shanghai Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Biennale of Sydney, Istanbul Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, and Venice Biennale. She has also exhibited Her works and projects were exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery, Tate Modern, London; New Museum, Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, New York; foundation Louis Vuitton, Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
She was recently the receipient for the 2016 Best Young Artist by the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA).
Working across sculpture, video, performance, and installation, Liu Chuang (b. 1978, China) is a keen interpreter of the social, economic, and environmental implications of globalization in contemporary China. Oriented by a critical and poetic sensibility, his practice engages manifold realities charting the systemic structures that underlie people’s everyday experience of modernity in a rapidly evolving society. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2020); Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019), and K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2018).