Chinese Contemporary Artists

Qiu Anxiong

Born in Sichuan in 1972, he graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1994 and the Kassel Academy of Art in 2003, and now lives and works in Shanghai.

As a representative of contemporary ink animation, his works use traditional Chinese painting to express his thoughts on contemporary society, history and culture, involving different media such as animation, painting, installation and video. His representative works include the animated film “New Classic of Mountains and Seas”, “Landscape of the Republic of China”, “Dream Shadow of Mountains and Rivers”, and the video installation “For the Memory of Forgetting”.

Public Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Aken Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Spencer Museum, University of Kansas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Kunst Halle, Zurich; White Rabbit Museum, Sydney; M+ Contemporary, Hong Kong; M+ Contemporary, Shanghai. Kunst Halle, Sydney; White Rabbit Museum, Sydney; M+ Contemporary, Hong Kong; Yu Teh-Yao Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

Featured Works

Viewing the Scenic Beauty of Tiantai: Outside Guoqing Temple

Qiu Anxiong, Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 240 cm, 2024

Mistake in Jiangnan (Still Frame)

Qiu Anxiong, Single-channel Video, Black and White, Sound, 138”, 2005

2005

Viewing the Scenic Beauty of Tiantai: Shiliang's Hidden Spring

Qiu Anxiong, Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 240 cm, 2024

Qiu Anxiong

As a representative of contemporary ink animation, his works use traditional Chinese painting to express his thoughts on contemporary society, history and culture, involving different media such as animation, painting, installation and video.
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