It was founded by Ma Desheng and Huang Rui and included Wang Keping (王克平), Qu Leilei, Ah Cheng, Ai Weiwei, and Li Shuang (artist) as the only female member.
[4] Around and after 1983, the group disbanded, partly due to their members going into exile under political pressure, especially the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign of 1983.
[5] The Stars Art Group was a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Taking personal experience and social issues as their subject matter, they pointedly diverged from state-sanctioned Socialist Realism.
[8] Because of her radical movement in art and politics, and her relationship with a French diplomat, Emmanuel Bellefroid, Li Shuang was arrested by the government and received a two-year sentence.