Founder of the Western China International Art Biennial

Born in 1970 in Chongqing, China, Zhang Xiaotao graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1996, founded the New Media Art Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2010, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a PhD in 2016, is a visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong, and now lives in Beijing.

Zhang Xiaotao is one of the representative figures of the new generation of new media art in China. His representative work “Quantum Adventures” won the Gold Award at the Libo International Animation Festival in China in 2018, and “Three Thousand Worlds – Mayfly” was selected for the Electronic Art Festival in Linz, Austria in 2019, and his works have been collected by important international and domestic art museums, foundations, art centers and collectors.

He has participated in: the 55th Venice Biennale, the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the 6th Moscow Biennale, the 2nd Prague Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Chengdu Biennale, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, the Shenzhen Biennale of Independent Animation, the Holland Animation Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Tokyo Animation Festival, and other exhibitions.

Since 1999, he has been teaching at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and is currently the director of the Experimental Art School of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Professor and Doctoral Advisor

Since the mid-1990s, he has devoted himself to the exploration of printmaking, installation, video art and other forms of artistic creation, and has widely devoted himself to the experimentation of the public domain of art and the direction of innovative disciplines.

Publications: Fine Arts, Art Observation, Contemporary Artists, Art View, Art World, Backup of New Art – Artists Born in the Seventies, New Wave, Sichuan Pictorial, Art and Culture Seasons, Chinese Prints, Chinese Contemporary Lithography, Humanities, Printmaking, and other magazines. Magazines and albums

Collections: Works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Art Museum, Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, and private collections at home and abroad.

Professor at the Sculpture Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Now lives in Chongqing.

Born in 1969 in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in 1994.

1999 Postgraduate study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with equivalent qualifications.

In 2004, she taught at the Villa Arson Academy of Fine Arts in Nice, France for half a year.

2014 Postgraduate studies at the Center for Literature and Museums, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, Master’s degree.

Visited the University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2017-2018.

Li Zhanyang has held and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad; his works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, Wuhan Museum of Art, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, White Rabbit Museum of Art in Australia, Rubell Art Museum in Miami, Porsche, and Ulli Hick, among others.

Born in 1989, graduated in 2017 from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts, as a Masterclass student. Studied at Hunter College Masters Program in New York and Tongji University, now lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Lechbinska in Zurich, Mijin Gallery in Shanghai, Ware-Space inChongqing and Remainder Space in Wuhan.

Li Tingwei uses multimedia, images and video installations to organize the focal points of contemporary life, reproducing contemporary person’s incessant pursuit of self-optimization through imaging, texts, web videos, sounds and graphic symbols, focusing on the self-consciousness altered by the consumer market and the digital media’s alienation of one’s spiritual feelings and behaviors. In her video works, Li Tingwei creates complex narratives that juxtapose real events with mysterious elements, unfolding many layers of semantics. The Seemingly absurd dramatization is a portrayal of reality that combines visual language, texture, and perceptual psychological methods.

Li Tingwei’s work combines interdisciplinary research, multimedia fusion, and deep reflection on contemporary life. Through complex narratives and non-linear accounts, she explores social issues and challenges established beliefs, while exploring the intersection of object and image.

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

Public Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The 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; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Zurich Kunst Halle, Sydney; White Rabbit Museum, Sydney; M+ Contemporary, Hong Kong; Yu Tak Yiu Art Museum, Shanghai; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

Awards: 2006 CCAA China Contemporary Art Award, 2007 Artron Art Young Artist of the Year, Lianzhou International Photography Festival Media Criticism Award, Asian Contemporary Art Award Nomination, Oriental Morning Post Artist of the Year Nomination, 2009 China Critics Association Young Artist of the Year Award, 2010 Transforming History Documentation Award. 2017 Singapore Signature Art Prize Nomination, 2018 National Fine Arts Golden Star Annual Award.

Born in 1986 in Gutian, Fujian, now lives and works in Chengdu.

He is an improviser who likes to choose “materials and environment” from life to make sculptures on the spot. His works have been collected by the White Rabbit Museum of Australia, Germany-China Cultural Exchange Foundation, Shanghai Putuo District Government, Shenzhen Metro, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum, China Sculpture Society Salon, CCACO and Harmony Way International Art Park, among others. His works have been collected by CCACO and Hedao International Art Park.

Selected group exhibitions

EMERGENT NATURES (Donglai Art, Chengdu, China)

Fictionalized Forbidden Zone-2024 Art Group Exhibition (Zui Art Museum, Guiyang, China)

Young or Not? –A Group Portrait of Art in its Prime (Guanghui Art Museum, Chengdu)

Born in 1943 in Linz, Austria, he lived in Australia in 1961, where he worked in different professions, first as an art college student (attending the Berwyn College of Advanced Art in Melbourne, then an accomplished graphic designer, and finally to a successful professional painter with his own original style of painting – the Wave Style.

In 1978, Alois Nimmervoll returned to his hometown of Linz, where he founded the art space Lijmeyerver and organized an annual exhibition, making it the center of his artistic work. Since his return to Linz, he has held most of his major solo exhibitions both at home and abroad. His works are in the collection of the world-famous Albertina Museum in Austria, as well as in many national and private collections and museums internationally.

Alois was a watercolor landscape impressionist painter in the early days of continuous exploration and sublimation into nature as the source of creativity, writing free and unrestrained, with strong colors, full of vitality of the abstract painters.

In 2004, Alois Nimmervoll was awarded the Austrian Order of Culture of Upper Austria, and in 2023, he was awarded the title of Honorary Lifetime Professor of Art by the President of Austria.

Ling Nimmervoll was born in 1965 in Chongqing, China. Born in 1965 in Chongqing, China, Lynn Limerford studied English at the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages from 1986 to 1989, and moved to Linz, Austria in 1989, where she began her artistic career with her husband, the painter Alios Nimmervoll, and was recognized by the Austrian government as a professional artist in 1994. From then on, she started her artistic career beside her husband, the painter Alios Nimmervoll. In 1994, she was assessed as a professional artist by the Austrian government, and successfully opened up her own new art world in Europe. Her works are in many national and private collections.

As a sculptor, Ling is highly appreciated by collectors for her rigorous thinking, perfect shapes and delicate sculptures. Her work is inspired by the shapes and symbolism of Chinese characters, from which she expresses her artistic vision. These distinctive sculptures in metal, ceramic and glass, with bold colors, are fresh, light and aesthetically pleasing, and surrounded by artistic color.