[1] Chen Shaoxing worked across mediums including paint, photography, and collage, though he has become increasingly focused on the combination of ink, video, and installation.
[1] Chen belongs to a generation of Chinese artists who grew up during a period of significant political, socio-economic and cultural change in China, when information and images were routinely suppressed and restricted, and when distinctions between fact and fiction were blurred.
Carefully selected and sparingly released at a time when all media were under Party control, these pictures became iconic—saturated with political meanings as well as personal memories.
Ink History explores the relationship between personal and collective memory within the context of China’s historical trajectory.
Chen Shaoxing's work is currently on at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of Tales of Our Time, an exhibition that features newly commissioned artworks from Greater China.