China Art + Design Now, 1978–2025
I don’t pretend that this list is anywhere near comprehensive. It’s just a good place to start your explorations into design and art in China and the Sinophone world.
Artist websites + Gallery pages
Ai Weiwei 艾未未 (look for him on X and Instagram, and watch his January 23, 2024 interview “Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship”)
_ao_ao_ing 老妖精
Bi Rongrong 毕蓉蓉
Bian Shaozhi 卞少之
Cai Guo-QIang 蔡国强
Cao Fei 曹斐
Chen Shaoxiong 陈劭雄
Chen Wenling 陈文令
Cheng Xinyi 程心怡
Cui Jie 崔洁
Cui Xiuwen 崔岫闻
Feng Mengbo 冯梦波
Gu Wenda 谷文达
Guan Yong Fei 关泳霏
Guan Xiao 关小
Han Bing 韩冰
Hong Fai 熊辉
Han Feng 韩枫
Hong Hao 洪浩
Huang Shih Chieh 黄世傑
Huang Yong Ping 黄永砯
Huang Yuxing 黄宇兴
Huang Zhiyang 黄致阳
Ji Yun-Fei 季云飞
Jiang Zhi 蒋志
Jin Aowen 金翱文
Jin Xi 金夕
Kongkee 江记
Lee Mingwei 李明维
Li Amiko 李文嘉
Li Huasheng 李华生
Li Jin李津
Li Ming 李明
Li Nu 李怒
Li Shan 李山
Li Shuang 李爽
Li Wei 李玮
Li Yong Xiang 李泳翔
Lin Tianmiao 林天苗
Lin Zhipeng (aka 223) 林志鹏
Liu Beili 刘北立
Liu Bolin 刘勃麟
Liu Chuang 刘窗
Liu Dao 六岛/Island6 Art Collective
Liu Jianhua 刘建华
Liu Xiaodong 刘小东
Lu Yang 陆扬
Ma Liuming 马六明, Fen-Ma Liuming 芬-马六明
Maleonn 马良
Nabuqi 娜布其
Peng Kanglong 彭康隆
Peng Zuqiang 彭祖强
Polit-Sheer-Form Office (Beijing Commune 北京公社)
Qiu Anxiong 邱黯雄
Qiu Xiaofei 仇晓飞
Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰
Sheng Qi 盛奇
Song Dong 宋东
Sui Jianguo 随建国
Sun Wai Kin, Tate Shot
Karen Tam 譚嘉文
Tong Wenmin 童文敏
Howie Tsui (Tsui Ho Yan 徐浩恩)
Wai Pong-yu 韦邦雨
Wang Dongling 王冬龄
Wang Gongxin 王功新
Wang Guangyi 王广义
Wang Keping 王克平
Wang Lingjie 王令傑 + Hao Jingfang 郝經芳
Wang Qingsong 王庆松
Wang Shang 王墒
Wang Tiande 王天德
Wang Xingwei 王兴伟
Wang Zhigang 王之纲
Wei Dong 魏東
Wei Ligang 魏立刚
Wu Tsang 曾吴
Xie Xiaoze 谢晓泽
Xing Danwen 邢丹文
Xing Yilu 邢艺露
Xiyadie 西亞蝶
Xu Bing 徐冰
Xu Weixin 徐唯辛
Yang Fudong 杨福东
Yang Yongliang 杨泳梁
Yao Lu 姚璐
Yi Lian 易连
Yin Xiuzhen 尹秀珍
Yu Hong 喻红
Yu Honglei 尉洪磊
Yu Ji 于吉
Yue Minjun 岳敏君
Zeng Han 曾翰
Zhang Hongtu 张宏图
Zhang Huan 张洹
Zhang Jianhua 张建华
Zhao Bandi 赵半狄
Zheng Bo 郑波
Zheng Chongbin 郑重宾
Zheng Guogu 郑国谷
Zheng Haozhong 郑皓中
Zheng Yongxuan 郑咏萱
Zhou Siwei 周思维
Architects + Landscape Architects
see CHINESE ARCHITECTS 建筑师 website (English & Chinese)
Atelier Scale 大小景观 Los Angeles
Atelier Vision Suzhou
Yung Ho Chang 张永和, Feichang jianzhu atelier 非常建筑 Beijing
Change Studio 乘迹景观 Chongqing
DLC Design Land Cooperative Shanghai
Digua Community 地瓜社区 Beijing
July Cooperative Company 七月合作社 Shanghai
L & A Design 奥雅股份 Hong Kong
Lin Yifeng 林逸峯, YIYU design Shanghai
Liu Jiakun 刘家琨, Jiakun Associates 家琨建筑设计事务所 Chengdu
Ma Qingyun/MADA s.p.a.m 马清运 Xi’an
Ma Yansong/MAD Architects 马岩松/MAD建筑事务所Beijing
PAO People’s Architecture Office 众建筑 Beijing
PENDA 槃达建筑 Beijing
SUP Atelier Beijing
Wang Shu 王澍, Amateur Architecture Hangzhou
Xu Tiantian 徐甜甜/DnA Beijing
Yu Kongjian 俞孔坚, Turenscape 土人设计 Shanghai
Z + T Studios 张唐景观 Shanghai
Zhu Pei 朱锫 and Wu Tong 吴桐, Studio Pei-Zhu 朱锫建筑事务所
Designers
Suzy Chan London (Macau)
Deng Qiyun, Graft + Graft research
Huang Qiang, Bike Scavengers
Huang Fuxuebing London
Lulu Li, Interactive Beijing, eco Air Bubble, and Twin Flowers (visit her website)
Maya Lin, What is Missing? 2009-present
Longhong Ziwei, Soft Mountains Design Studio 龙红紫娓/软山 Chengdu
LUO Studio 罗宁杰工作室
Picun Museum of Workers’ Culture and Art 打工文化艺术博物馆 Picun, Beijing
Tang Ting Shanghai
Wan Yufeng, fashion designs
Momo Wang, Third-Hand UpCycle Collection
Weng Xinyu & Tao Haiyue, YUUE Design
Xu Linghao, Linghao Design
Contemporary Art Galleries
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong
10 Chancery Lane Gallery Hong Kong
Alisan Fine Arts Hong Kong
Antenna Space Shanghai
Art Beatus Hong Kong, Vancouver BC
Art Labor 2.0 Shanghai
Art Scene Warehouse Shanghai
Beijing Commune Beijing
Chambers Fine Art Beijing
China Art Archives and Warehouse Beijing
Ethan Cohen Gallery Hong Kong
Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne, Beijing
Galleria Continua Beijing
Grotto Fine Art Hong Kong
Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong
Ink Studio Beijing
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery Hong Kong
Long March Space Beijing
M50 Creative Space Shanghai
m97 Art Space Shanghai
Opera Gallery international
Pace Gallery Beijing
Red Gate Gallery Beijing
Three on the Bund Shanghai
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Beijing
Videotage Hong Kong
Vitamin Creative Space Guangzhou, Beijing
Wan Fung Art Gallery Beijing
Wellside Gallery Shanghai
West Bund Art & Design Shanghai
Journals, Magazines, Blogs
The Amp (Asian American Arts Alliance), see Diana Seo Huyng Lee’s “On Witnessing Art, Death, and Palestine”
Lisa Claypool’s arts writing:
See my blog STARING AT THE CEILING for short essays on artworks of Michael Cherney, Guan Yong Fei, Jin Xi, Xing Yilu, Zhang Jingyu, Wu Yongguang, Gao Xiaohua, and Zheng Chongbin, as well as many other artists outside the Sinophone world (Monia Ben Hamouda, Erika Lopez, Kasie Campbell, Binh Danh, Sopheap Pich, Amy Lee Sanford, Vandy Rattana, Kerry James Marshall, Yinka Shonibare, Elizabeth Youngblood, Titus Kaphar, Joseph Derby of Wright, Susan Goethel, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Aboud Salman, Adrienne Dagg, Kim McCollum, Barnett Newman, Rajni Perera). Please visit the PUBLICATIONS page for articles and interviews with Xie Xiaoze, Feng Mengbo, Zheng Chongbin, Zhou Yi and Peter Krieder, Bovey Lee, _ao_ao_ing, and Yin Xiuzhen. Finally, check out ecoArt China for writing on Michael Cherney, Yao Lu, Wen Fang, Zhou Liang, Zheng Chongbin, and Bovey Lee.Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Jeremie Thircuir’s blog, see 2013 project by Liu Xiaodong, “In Between Israel and Palestine”
Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (for full access, search UA Library database)
NB: For a thoughful reflection on the Chinese diaspora, see Viet Thanh Ngyuen’s “Palestine is in Asia: Asian American Arguments for Solidarity,” The Nation (January 29, 2024)
Exhibition Archives
Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea)
Hong Kong: Art Basel Hong Kong
Shanghai Biennale (14th Biennale, Cosmos Cinema)
Image Archives: Library + Academic Institutions
Asian art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project IDEAS project (search collections)
Cities/Buildings Image Archive University of Washington, Meredith L. Clausen's archive of architectural images from all over the world, including Burma, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet.
Please visit the Museums + Gardens page for an extensive list of museums that host shows of contemporary Chinese art
Image Databases: Nonprofit Organizations + Other Fun Sites
1989 Tiananmen Protests Long Bow Group
Asia Art Archive Hong Kong
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions
Chinese Taipei Film Archive (CFTA) Taiwan (Chinese language site)
Freewaves Film, Media, and Video Art Festivals (features work of Cui Xiuwen, Chuang Wen-yo, Jiang Zhi, Liu Wei, Pan Hsin-Ping, Qiu Zhijie, Wang Jianwei, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhou Xiaohu, and others)
Pop! The First Male Pregnancy Lee Mingwei
Zuni Icosahedron (in Chinese & English) "an independent cultural collective... developing new frontiers for the cultural scene in Hong Kong and abroad"