Fang Lijun (b.1963)
Fang Lijun was born in Handan, Hebei province in 1963, and graduated from the Printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1989. Soon after, Fang became a key member of the Yuanmingyuan artists' village in Beijing, a centre for experimental art in the early 1990s. Fang’s stylized paintings of disaffected Beijing youth became iconic symbols of the so-called Cynical Realist movement of the early to mid-1990s, and gained him international attention early in his artistic career. Since that time, his creative work has continued to evolve with a strong element of social critique. In 1993, Fang was one of the youngest artists to participate in the seminal international travelling exhibition ‘China’s New Art, Post-1989’.
Since that time, Fang Lijun has held upwards of 40 solo exhibitions in major art institutions both East and West, and his work has been featured at major international art platforms, including the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Biennial, as well as important gallery and museum shows in China and abroad, most recently in the major survey exhibition ‘Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His works have been collected by The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Centre de G. Pompidou (Paris, France), The National Gallery of Australia (Australia), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany), CP Foundation (Indonesia), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Shanghai Art Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum (China), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), to name a few, and are in a number of important private collections.
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