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Ye Jian Qing (b. 1972) is a foremost example of an artist who has redefined what it means to be a contemporary Chinese artist; retaining the aesthetic and philosophical heritage of Chinese cultural influences while displaying an individualistic creative identity. Born in Zhejiang Province, China, Ye is a well established artist, having won acclaim from critics and collectors alike. Having obtained his Master Degree and PhD from the Beijing Central Academy of Art (CAFA), he is currently teaching at the Fresco Department in CAFA.

In a bold and valuable reversion to subtle yet...

Wucius Wong was born in 1936 in Guangdong Province, China, and moved to Hong Kong at a very young age. Originally, he wanted to pursue a literary career, but gradually shifted his interest in pursuit of an artist's career. Started as a self- taught artist and attracted to Western modernism, he later studied under the tutelage of Lui Shou-Kun in 1958, whose works entailed the exploration of traditional concepts via a modernist approach. He went to the United States to study Western art forms from 1961 to 1965. Upon his return, he worked as an Assistant Curator at the City Museum and Art...

Hailing from Shanghai, China, Zhang Jian-Jun (b.1955) is one of the most disciplined and gifted contemporary Asian artists of our time. Zhang graduated from Shanghai Drama Institute's Fine Arts Department in 1978 and is today an Adjunct Professor at the Fine Arts Department of New York University.

Zhang's art perforates the surface of East-West fusion and the idea of time, expressing his strikingly unique and profoundly perceptive musings. Exploring the essence of these topics, his art may not be instantaneously interpretable by many; however this is also the very quality that...

One of the most progressive and radical new artists to emerge in Asia, Budi Ubrux (b.1968) is less a visionary than an acerbic social reactionary. Prior to winning the Philip Morris Indonesian Art Award in 2000, Budi Ubrux was a billboard artist and painter in Switzerland.

His paintings are powerful satirical observations on social degeneration through the alarmingly haunting aesthetic of faceless figures mummified in newsprint. Inspired by the Indonesian government's transitional period from the "Orde Baru" (New Order) to the "Orde Reformasi" (Reformation Order) in 1999 and its...

Better known as a literary genius for his Nobel Prize winning novels, Gao Xingjian is the epitome of a well-rounded scholar. Built up a career diverse in both academic and artistic disciplines, Gao is a novelist, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist.

Gao's art are definitely not overshadowed by his revolutionary and wildly reputed literary works. Equal to his literary oeuvre, his paintings are works of art with a level of originality. Different from writing, ink and wash painting is for him another creative channel which he articulates his inner mindscape where words...

Most renowned for his cast paper murals developed in the 1970s, Cheung Yee (b. 1936) is widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary art movement in Hong Kong. His artistic innovativeness and contributions have also won him The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member class (MBE) in 1979 conferred by the Queen of England. Not only has he staged over 100 exhibitions world-wide, Cheung is also the only living artist in the history of Hong Kong to have been specially invited to hold 3 solo-exhibitions at the prestigious Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Cheung was professor of...

Better known as a literary genius for his Nobel Prize winning novels, Gao Xingjian is the epitome of a well-rounded scholar. Built up a career diverse in both academic and artistic disciplines, Gao is a novelist, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist.

Gao's art are definitely not overshadowed by his revolutionary and wildly reputed literary works. Equal to his literary oeuvre, his paintings are works of art with a level of originality. Different from writing, ink and wash painting is for him another creative channel which he articulates his inner mindscape where words...