a pioneering contemporary artist in China, has dedicated his career to pushing the boundaries of both art and culture. He was among the first mainland painters to settle in Tibet to teach art after the end of the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, he travelled to Japan to study the Mingei folk art movement, and in the early 1990s moved to Africa where he lived and worked collaboratively with African folk artists for several years. Upon his return to China in mid 1990s, he shifted his focus to the revival of rural culture and folk architecture in Jiangnan canal villages, and this became a decade-long commitment. As an artist, HU never ceases to expand the scope of his creative and cultural investigations. He is known for his monumental paintings and installations that reflect on contemporary challenges for art posed by new technologies, global ecology, ideological cold war, and the disintegration of historical cultures.
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