WU Shanzhuan
Photography by Kitmin Lee(No Lin 2) (From Left to Right: Inga Svala THORSDOTTIR and WU Shanzhuan) WU Shanzhuan (b. 1960)

Wu Shanzhuan was born in Zhoushan, China in 1960. He graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, and from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1995. In 1985, Wu founded Red Humour, and in 1990, he established Red Humour International. He lives and works in Hamburg, Shanghai and Reykjavík.

In 1991, Wu began to work with the important Icelandic conceptual artist Inga Svala Thorsdottir. Since then, they have been working and exhibiting collaboratively.

Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan’s recent solo exhibitions include: The Printer, The Paper, The Layer, The Thing’s Right(s), The Little Fat Flesh, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2014); Artic Fox Arc – Temperature War – Large Collage, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); What A Form - : A Reportage, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (2013) and kuo xuan, Long March Space, Beijing (2011). Their recent group exhibitions include: Tales from The Taiping Era, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2014); Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2012) and Place · Time · Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom, Shanghai (2010).

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