Fang Lijun (b. 1963, Handan, Hebei) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts,  Printmaking Department  in 1989. In July of the same year, he resided in the Yuanmingyuan area, becoming a key advocate of the "Yuanmingyuan Artists' Village." In 1993, he established the Songzhuang studio, contributing to the formation of the  "Songzhuang Artists' Village." In 2014, he founded the "Archive of Contemporary Art of China," systematically organizing the development of Chinese contemporary art. Since 2004, Fang Lijun has been appointed as a guest professor and graduate mentor at more than twenty institutions, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University, and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.

Fang Lijun’s solo exhibitions have been held in major art institutions worldwide,  including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum,  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Japan Foundation, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Musée Ariana, et cetera. Domestic retrospectives have been mounted at the Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, United Art  Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, and He Art Museum, among other significant venues. Additionally, he has been consistently invited by mainstream international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Fang's works are permanently collected by  international museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Within China, his works are held by the National Art Museum of China, Contemporary Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Guangdong Museum of Art.

Furthermore, through his artistic career, Fang Lijun has published over 50 monographs, including Fang Lijun: Chronological Notes, Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue, Fang Lijun: Cliff in the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Forbidden Zone, Fang Lijun Prints, and Surviving Like a Stray Dog.  In 1993, his work Series Two No. 2 appeared on the cover of The New York Times.

Cai Jin was born in Tunxi, Anhui， China in 1965. In 1986, she graduated from the fine arts department, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China. In 1991, she graduated from the oil painting department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. She has been teaching at the Tianjin Fine Arts Institute, Tianjin, China since 1991. Cai Jin's art works is in fact the reflection of herself. The artworks of Cai Jin are just like the “water traces on the wall”. She tries to capture the weirdness, and shows no interest in the colorful attractive reality. She devotes herself to the loneliness subject that makes her excited but calls no attention of others.

Wang Mengsha was born in 1982 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and grown up in an artistic family. In 2006, she graduated from design department in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China, studying Animation. Wang then studied in Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, and University of Southampton, UK for advanced education. Currently she Works and lives in Beijing, China. In her practice of painting, she never considers the connection between herself and the ink painting in the past, nor did she think about the similarities and differences between them. In Wang Mengsha’s art, the mood of naïve and childlike coexist with the feeling of vigorous and free. She sees the world in the perspective of child, searching for the nature of mankind that is most valuable however almost fading away. 

Li Guanguan 
1982   Born in Shan Dong, China
2004  Graduated from Department of ink painting, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Now living and working in Beijing, China  
Solo Exhibition
2020  Chasing the Light: Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery，Beijing 
2017  Cut-in：Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Gallery，Beijing
2013  Guan Guan's Horse—Li Guanguan Solo Exhibition, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
2012  To Dream for Horse: Solo Exhibition, Village South Art Salon, Beijing 
Group Exhibition
2019  The Winter Movement，WF Central， Beijing       
Horses， but not Horses：Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibiton， Inner Mongolia， China       
The Lucky Pig is hogging the door，Beijing
2018  Metaphor: Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition of Seven Artists, Triumph Gallery, Beijing
All Things Grow, Fuyan Commune, Beijing
2017  The Unique Flower on Earth (II)，Sunyard Sincerenart，Hangzhou       
Xishuangbanna International Art Exhibition，Xishuangbanna Art Museum，Yunnan   
Four Phases of Ink, Manggha Museum, Krakow, PolandVision of Females, China National Museum of Women and Children, Beijing
2016  The Unique Flower on Earth, Sunyard Sincerenart, Hangzhou
Ink art fair in Hong Kong Art triumph art space Hong Kong convention and exhibition center
Ink now，See Well International Art Central, Fuzhou
Image·Artistic Conception in Painting-Contemporary Meticulous Painting
Academic Invitation Exhibition, NAMOC, Beijing
YUPPIE-Group Exhibition of China &Korea Artists, Common Art Center, Beijing 
New Tales of Ink, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Annual Review Exhibition of China Contemporary Ink Painting2015-2016,
Today Art Museum, Beijing
In The Light, Art Nanjing, Nanjing
2015  Ink Art Fair in Hong Kong Art, Triumph Art Space, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Hail to the Ocean-China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sanya, China Across the border in 2015-100: youth art exhibition, One art space
Return：Riverside Art Museum Opening Ceremony，Beijing
Nanjing international youth art biennale, Jinling gallerySee life art, today art museum
Anonymous, exhibition space of Beijing 798 SAN
making a, the first contemporary art Beijing has the top design center
2014  Hidden The Unfathomable, today art museum BeijingYouth Decide the Future, Youth Art 2014 Hong Kong tour in Beijing
The Line of Sight of People-China and South Korea, meeting different South Korea gyeonggi province art museum
2013  Art Taipei 2013, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
In My Heart: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink, Triumph
Art Space, BeijingArt Nova 100, Beijing
Art Beijing, Triumph Art Space, Beijing
Art Macao 2013, Triumph Art Space, Macao
Young Art Taipei, Triumph Art Space, Taipei
2012  The group exhibition of Ning, Ning Gallery, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phantom of the Opera, Hong Studio, Beijing
The group exhibition of Phoenix Luan Gongs, Tree Museum, Beijing
The group exhibition of Prophecy , Long Mai Gallery, Beijing
Art Beijing, O2 Art, Beijing
2011  Art Beijing, Hanmo Art gallery, Beijing
2009  The After 80’s Artists Group Exhibition, Live 3, Songzhuang, Beijing
2008  The group exhibition of Chinese Painting Gallery, BeijingThe first cutting-edge Meticulous Exhibition, Beijing

Li Xinjian was born in 1954  in Chongqing, China. He studied at both the Sichuan Academy of Fine Art and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Currently lives and works in Beijing. Looking back at Li Xinjian’s 40 years of output, one can observe that only he values his personal style and its exchange with the language of contemporary art, but also the inner cultural conscience and contemporary significance of his art. Li Xinjian constantly reiterates his position of “Cultural Nomadism” through his works, from the perspectives of history, culture, and visual archeology, with the help of the interpretation and recoding of different images, using his personal artistic expression to present expanded horizons to the viewer. Just as the material world shapes society and water shapes mountains, humanity glistens with the gift of the Buddhist holy land, giving inspiration, teaching humanity appreciation, the appreciation between gods, between people, between gods and people, that mysterious truth that need not be spoken. 

Li Xinjian's works are collected by many important institutions and foundations, such as Long Museum, Yuz Museum, Suzhou Art Museum, ChengduMOCA, New York Public Library, Changjiang Art & Culture Club.

Liang Ying was born in Beijing, China in 1961, studied in the Department of Chinese Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1982, and studied at the Art Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg in Germany from 1983 to 1993, and received an art scholarship from the Rotary Club of Hamburg and the North German State. In 1991 received a Master of Fine Arts.

As a pioneering female artist in Chinese contemporary art, Liang Ying was one of the earliest group of artists who studied in Germany in the 1980s. She is also one of the first established Chinese artists who forgo oil painting in order to focus on ink painting. Whether it is her early series “Diary Liang Ying”, which depicted modern women in urban settings, or her recent series “Immortals and Legends,” Liang Ying has always innovatively combined the compositional elements and contents of German Neo-Expressionism with the brushwork and subject matters of traditional Chinese Painting, transforming them into myriad phenomenal artworks.In these works, she merges concepts, narrative, and painterly expression in one entity. Like many Chinese artists in the 20th century, Liang Ying devotes herself to exploring the possibility of ink painting, hoping to prove to the world that ink painting is still a vital component of today’s contemporary art world.

Liu Fengzhi was born in 1964 in Harbin, China. He graduated from art department of Harbin Normal University in 1984, and died in 2017.

His works have been widely collected by collectors around the world. Whether it is landscape painting or portrait, Liu Fengzhi's works contain strong subjectivity and emotional features. With free and loose brushstrokes and lines, he pulls away the original volume of the object, especially with the help of lines that twists, turns, hovers, reciprocates, sways, and gathers, closely responding to the transient emotional changes. He further presents and delineates the subtle and unobservable mental process, in which, reaching a highly abstract state. Liu Fengzhi faces the real world with a heart full of passion and humanistic care. In the poetic dismantling and combination of the external world, it hints at his deep reflection on the living conditions of human beings.