Explore Artists in China
Find Contemporary, Modern, and Emerging Artists in China
Hu Zi
Hu Zi is a Chinese artist whose practice spans painting and mixed media, often exploring themes of urban landscapes and the human condition within modern society. His work typically features bold compositions and a distinctive style that blurs reality with subjective interpretation.
Guo Haiqiang
Guo Haiqiang is a Chinese artist known for his figurative paintings that often depict scenes of everyday life and personal narratives. His work captures subtle emotional nuances and social observations, characterized by a distinctive realistic style with an underlying sense of quiet contemplation.
Chang Ling
Chang Ling is a Chinese artist known for her evocative landscape paintings, often rendered with a contemporary ink wash technique. Her work explores the relationship between nature, memory, and traditional Chinese aesthetics, creating serene yet powerful compositions that reflect on contemplation and introspection.
CAO Zaifei
CAO Zaifei is a Chinese artist known for his vibrant, abstract paintings that explore color, light, and texture. His work often features dynamic compositions and layered brushstrokes, creating energetic visual experiences that evoke emotional states and a sense of movement.
Yu Ji
Yu Ji is a Chinese artist known for her evocative sculptures and installations that explore the human body, materiality, and the ephemeral. Her work often utilizes unconventional materials, blurring the boundaries between organic forms and industrial elements, creating a delicate tension between strength and fragility.
Youyu Ni
Youyu Ni is a Chinese artist known for his conceptually driven, often humorous, installations and mixed media works. His practice frequently employs everyday objects and references to both traditional Chinese culture and global consumerism, creating witty interventions that comment on contemporary society and value systems.
Xu Zhen (MadeIn)
Xu Zhen (b. 1977) is a provocative Chinese artist and founder of MadeIn Company, known for his multidisciplinary, often satirical, works. His practice critiques globalized culture, consumerism, and the art market through conceptual installations, photography, and performances that often mimic or subvert cultural artifacts and artistic gestures.
Yun-Fei Ji
Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963) is a Chinese artist celebrated for his contemporary ink wash paintings. Employing traditional techniques on handmade rice paper, he renders haunting narratives that explore themes of displacement, environmental degradation, and the human impact of large-scale development projects in China.
Evelyn Taocheng Wang
Evelyn Taocheng Wang (b. 1981, China) is a Rotterdam-based artist exploring identity, cultural exchange, and memory through painting, drawing, and performance. Her works merge Eastern and Western art historical traditions, often incorporating autobiographical elements and paradoxical narratives.
Luc Ming Yan
Yan's paintings, with their layered textures and abstract forms, explore the materiality of paint and the act of creation.