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Michael Hart
President at AmCham China
Qigu JIANG
Professor at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoQigu Jiang was born in Shanghai in 1956. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Shanghai Normal University in 1983 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986. In addition to maintaining a full schedule of gallery showings in the United States and abroad, Mr. Jiang is also a Professor of Art in the Department of Painting and Drawing as well as the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he also serves as director of Research House for Asian Art.
Steven Lane
ArtistSteven Lane is a New York based American painter who has lived, worked and exhibited internationally in a wide spectrum of cultures, languages and political settings. Lane has experienced the reality of life in its most basic elements living in many rural and urban settings in China, Japan, Russia, Mexico and other countries. This backdrop has provided the unique visual language shown in his abstract paintings.
Lane is an abstract painter who creates works that are both thoroughly contemporary and uniquely distinguishable from those by other artists. Lane’s art focuses on paintings and
drawings with his primary materials being paint, canvas, his writings, and newspapers and magazines from the country he is in. Rendered in a variety of formats and dimensions this
exhibition reveals new methods within Lane’s creative practice, and integral to this, new forms of imagery.
Lane titles his art by date and location to distinguish one painting from another and for the title to work as a marker of time as it is reflected in each painting. In this sense the titles act as a metaphor and does not lead the painting to a literal singular meaning or interpretation.
Lane works with an improvised and direct approach to the totality of each painting in terms of its color, structure, and form, or conversely with the removal of these elements as the
visual language of the painting defines itself. His paintings are rules based in the tradition of painting where his usage of paint and disparate base materials creates exceptional and
unique paintings.
Hang XU
New Ink Painting ArtistXu Hang was born in Xiao County, Anhui province in 1985, he graduated from the School of Art of Anhui University in 1996, and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001.
He is currently a painter of the National Academy of Ethnic Painting, a researcher of the Research House for Asian Art in Chicago, a researcher of Wu Guanzhong Research Center of Tsinghua University, the dean of School of the Arts of Beijing University of Arts and Sciences, director of executive committee of the Art Development Special Fund of the Chinese Language and Culture Education Foundation, deputy director of Education Center of the Image Research Institute of the Minzu University of China, painter of the China Foundation FOA Cultural Heritage Conservation, special director of the China Hue Art Association, and a member of the China National Arts and Crafts Society. He was the artistic director of Beijing Cultural Development Foundation, the executive editor of Culture Monthly Magazine, the director of the editorial department of China Calligraphy and Painting, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Art Life Express.
Wei YANG
Secretary-general of the China Annual Art Critics AssemblyMember of Curatorial Committee of Tsinghua University Art Museum, Member of Curatorial Committee of Chinese Artists Association, Evaluation Expert of China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center
Shijie YAN
Founder and director of Red Brick Art Museum; Collector; Entrepreneur; Curator- Keynote Speech: Sustainability in Business & Art
- Art Dialogue - Break Boundaries: Art and Sustainability
Yan Shijie is the vice president of China Enterprise Culture Promotion Association（CECIA），the founder and director of Red Brick Art Museum, as well as a collector, an entrepreneur, and a curator. In 2019, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2007, he began planning a contemporary art museum. For many years, with the platform of Red Brick Art Museum, Yan Shijie has put forward and implemented the idea of the “ecological experience” of a museum. In the context of globalization, he has improved and systematized the museum’s collection based on the ideas that “to collect is to protect, and to share is to educate,” exploring contemporary art's present and future in a digital era. Red Brick Art Museum has been recognized as a key field in international cultural exchange and promotion between China and the West.
Since Red Brick Art Museum opened, Yan Shijie has led a young team in continuing to explore and produce high-quality international art exhibitions, including “Olafur Eliasson: The Unspeakable Openness of Things” in honor of the Icelandic-Danish artist; “High Tension: Eight Winners of the Marcel Duchamp Prize” introducing the Marcel Duchamp Prize to a Chinese audience; “Identification Zone: Chinese and Danish Furniture Design,” which initiated the first design-centered dialogue between Chinese classical furniture and Danish furniture masterpieces; the major international touring exhibition “Huang Yongping: Bâton-Serpent II” for the French-Chinese artist; and “Sarah Lucas” ，“2020+”，“ Xu Bing : Art Beyond the Kármán Line”.These exhibitions have been well-received in the art world.
Wen SONG
Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; Producer; DirectorIn the past 15 years, FIRST International Film Festival has been dedicated to revolutionizing the industry of arthouse film programming and curation. Since 2021, FIRST Fantastic Film Festival has been founded in Chengdu to focus on the boosting of genre films in parallel. FIRST bridges film, music, technology, digital art, and other diverse art forms to create urban cultures.
SONG is committed to exploring diverse expressions of narrative in the new era. As a film director, his feature debut THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL (2018) premiered at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival. It was selected at the International Crime and Punishment Film Festival and the Fajr International Film Festival, etc.
As a presenter, WRATH OF SILENCE (2017) premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and won awards at international film festivals such Golden Horse Awards. DAY IS GONE (2020) won Silver Bear Jury Prize - Berlinale Shorts at the 71st Berlinale. SI SHI SI GE SE SHI ZI (2022) will be shown soon. SONG also focused on the field of documentary, interviewees including MO Yan, JIA Ping’ao, LIU Zhenyun, etc.
SONG received his Master’s degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an industry mentor of Communication University of China.
Yunlan HE
Consultant of the Chinese Women Painters Association; Board of Governor of the Chinese Painting Society; Honorary President of the Beijing Female Artists AssociationHe Yunlan was born in 1936, and was graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Prints School in 1962.
She was served as expert committee member of the Art Education Committee of the Ministry of Education of China, director of the Children's Art Committee of the China Artists Association, expert of the China National Art Curriculum Standard Review Group, and the final judge of the National Performance of Primary and Secondary Schools of the Ministry of Education for years. For four consecutive years, she has served as the final jury member of the China Children's Environmental Protection Painting Competition hosted by the United Nations Environment Agency.
Qing LIANG
Ph.D. in Musicology; Professor of Musicology Department, Shanghai Conservatory of MusicFrom 1988 to 2005, she studied for undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in the Department of Musicology of Shanghai Conservatory of music, and has been teaching since 1995.
In 2013-14, Liang Qing visited the United States for academic exchange. She offered courses on the General History of Western music, Modern Music in the 20th Century, 21st Century New Music and Concepts, and String Music History, mainly involving modern music, religious music, Chinese and Western music relations, contemporary Chinese music and other research topics.
Paul Campbell
ArtistPaul Campbell’s work has been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum, the Rose Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, NM, the Qiantang Bay Art Museum, China, and the Lesley Heller Gallery in New York. For several years he has explored unusual methods of creating paintings. In his first major solo exhibition in New York in 1999 called “Remote Control” he showed paintings made with remote control cars. While his working style is unique the influence of the Abstract Expressionist and the Gutai movements come to mind. Campbell has received the prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and has participated several international art projects and residencies in India, Singapore, China, Europe and South America. Paul is the Director of the New York Contemporary Art Center and sits on the board of the Snug Harbor Arts Council, SI New York. Campbell’s maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and Cape Cod, Ma.
Zehui SHAO
Theatre DirectorInitiator of Beijing Fringe Festival, President of Beijing Youth Dramatists Association, Member of Chinese Dramatists Association, Director of Beijing Dramatists Association, and Teacher at the College of Humanities of Beijing Institute of Technology.
John Wright
ArtistMr. John Wright is an East Harlem-based neo-expressionist artist. Born in 1983, Wright was raised by his mother, an immigrant from the Philippines and his biracial father (black & white). He attended New York’s prestigious Laguardia High School for theatre but failed to finish college. Painting of all things, a hobby of Wright’s since he was eight, became his salvation. Today he is the co-owner of the boutique Askan on the Lower East Side, where he presents his talent as a painter on unique, limited run apparel. Of recent, Mr. John Wright has expanded beyond retail into the gallery world where he now curates his own work and that of his continually expanding tribe at the Blue Building Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
Mengdi XIE
Central Academy of Fine ArtsMengdi Xie, born in Beijing, after graduating from the Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University with a B.A. in Fashion and Textile design, she went to London collage of Fashion to learn fashion management and obtained a M.A. degree with distinction. At present, she teaches fashion design in the School of Design, China Central Academic of Fine Arts.
Before teaching in CAFA, she co-founded the fashion platform Street Stories in London. Later, she began to participate in more academic activities under the influence of her instructor, she has delivered academic speeches at the dmi: Academic Design Management Conference (ADMC) , International Fashion Design and Sustainable Development Forum many times. Her fashion works have been collected by China Silk Museum and exhibited in many countries. She is actively in academic activities, focusing on fashion culture and fashion design in the digital environment.