Overview

Space & Gallery Association (SGA) is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming WESTBUND 2022 featuring 6 Chinese contemporary artists: Liang Manqi, Luo Min, Ni Zhiqi, Zheng Wenxin, Zhou Li and Zhou Xiaohu. This year’s presentation will comprise of works in a variety of media, ranging from paintings to wall-bound mix media and exquisite ceramic sculptures.

We invite you to visit our gallery at booth #A207.

Artists Introduction

Liang Manqi (b. 1986 in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China) graduated from the de- partment of Art Education from the School of Public Art at the China Acade- my of Art in 2009 and received her Master’s Degree from the department of Painting at Chinesisch-Deutshe Kunstakademie (CDK) in China Academy of Art, in 2012. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Liang Manqi’s work has been exhibited in major art museums, including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing; chi K11 Museum of Art in Shanghai; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Shanghai; Arario Gallery in Jeju, Korea; Westbund Art and Design Fair in Shanghai; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture; and more. She was invited to numerous art project collaboration with leading brands and celebrities, including “Lady Dior As Seen By” exhibition; DS AUTOMOBILES Paris vehicle marque x Art collab; “Mickey: The True Original & Ever Curious” Exhibition WorldTour; Zhou Penchang’s “Lunar Phases” art exhibition, and more.

Luo Min (b.1968,Sichuan, China) graduated from the China Southwest Normal Uni- versity, and received MA from the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Art. Luo Min is a first-class national artist, a committee member of the China Oil Painting Society, and a professional painter at the Beijing Fine Art Academy. She has held exhibitions across Asia and Europe. Currently lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu, China.

Ni Zhiqi (b.1957, Shanghai, China) studied MFA at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium and won the first prize at the Karel Veslat Art Exhibition. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. Ni’s works have been widely collected and featured in exhibitions across Asia and Europe.

Zheng Wenxin (b. 1975) received BA from the department of art at Xiamen University in 1997 and obtained her MA at Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK, in 2001. She taught at Xiamen University from 1997 to 1999. She currently lives in Hangzhou and teaches at China Academy of Art. Zheng Wenxin par- ticipated in artist residencies at Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK, from 2001- 2003; and the PILOTENKUCHEN International Lepzig, Germany, in 2019.

Zhou Li (b. 1969, Hunan China) graduated from Oil Painting Department at Guang- zhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. She lived and worked in France from 1995 to 2003. Zhou was appointed Director of the Institute of Abstraction and Contemporary Arts at the Centre of Research on Artistic and Cultural Innovation and Development, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou in 2015. She has also been a guest professor in the Oil Painting Department, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts since 2013; the art director of Boxes Art Space of OCAT Shenzhen since 2015; the art director of Boxes Art Museum since 2017; the director of Studio no. 5 at the Oil Painting Department at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and an academic committee member of Pingshan Art Museum Shenzhen since 2019. Her works are in the public and private collections of museums, organizations and individuals worldwide.

Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960, Changzhou, China) is a pioneer of video animation in China. Zhou began using computers as an artistic tool in 1998. As one of China’s most well-known most prolific contemporary artists, he specializes in inducing confusion and bafflement, making viewers question the evidence of their senses and their assumptions about the so-called ‘facts’. He has since experimented with stop-frame video animation, video installation and computer-gaming software, whereby the interlayering of images between moving pictures and real objects has become his signature style. Working across performance, photography, installation, sculpture, video, and animation, Zhou’s practice reflects the documentation and misunderstanding of history in a digital age.

Zhou Xiaohu’s animation works have been exhibited at the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam in Netherland, and the 56th Locarno International Film Festival - Video Installation Show in Switzerland. He won the Experimental Video Gold Award in the 36th Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival; the CCAA Award (2002, 2006); and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2014).

Selected Works

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