- Zhang Xiaogang (张晓刚), born in 1958 in China's Yunnan province. Type of art: Surrealism works, portraiture. Zhang is known for his surrealist paintings, with Picasso and Dali among his influences. His Bloodline series of paintings, including 'Big Family', feature stylized and monochrome portraits of Chinese people in stiff, formal poses, which recall portraits done in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Zeng Fanzhi (曾梵志), born in 1964 in Wuhan, holds the auction record for a contemporary Asian artist. Type of art: Figure painting, portraits. Zeng is among the most sought-after Chinese contemporary artists. He combines expressionist and realist styles in his work, which often deals with relationships between people. His series of Great Man paintings – featuring Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao among others – appear at first glance to be official portraits, but subvert the traditional representations with use of monochrome and expressive brush strokes.
- Yue Minjun (岳敏君), born 1962 in Heilongjiang. Type of art: Expressionist figurative paintings. Yue is a member of the Chinese 'cynical realist' movement. He is noted for depicting 'cloned doppelgängers', grotesquely contorted with maniacal grins, such as 2005's 'Backyard Garden'. The forced jollity of his anti-heroes echoes modern anxieties.
- Wang Guangyi (王广义), born 1957, in Heilongjiang. Type of art: Mixed-media, painting. Wang Guangyi is seen as an exponent of 'political pop'. His work, including 2005'2 'Porsche', combines the styles of propaganda posters with consumer logos. 'Stylistically merging the government enforced aesthetic of agitprop with the kitsch sensibility of American pop,
- Liu Xiaodong (刘小东), born 1963, Liaoning. Painter and photographer documented the controversial Three Gorges Dam project.
- Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡国强), born 1957. Performance artist who uses gunpowder to produce 'explosive events'.
- Yan Pei-Ming (严培明), born 1960, Shanghai. Best known for epic portraits of Mao Zedong and Bruce Lee.
- Chen Yifei (陈逸飞), born 1946 in Zhejing. Among the first to break into Western art market. Died in 2005.
- Fang Lijun (方力均), born 1963, Hebei. Painter of the 'cynical realism' school.
- Liu Ye (刘野), born 1964, veteran of the post-1989 avant-garde movement.
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