Salon as Assemblage

Cong Junfeng, born in Dalian, Liaoning Province in 1997. Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Department of Printmaking, Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019, and his Master of Fine Arts from the Department of Printmaking, Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2023. Currently lives and works in Beijing.

Gu Wenjing (b. 1999) is a young contemporary Chinese artist based in Bejing. She holds aPh.D. from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and earned her master's degree from theAcademy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Her practice spans painting, photography,and video media, through which she explores a binary expression of image and moving image by continuously generating memory-laden imagery, reflecting on the role of personal memory in history. Her accolades include the Excellence Award at the 8th Jinan International Photography Biennale and the Art Support Fund Honor for Outstanding Exhibition at the Lishui Photography Festival.

Guo Hongwei (1982, Sichuan) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004 andcurrently lives and works in Bejjing. He explores the multiple meanings of the act of "seeing" from the depiction of nature history objects, and the intertextual reference to vision and fantasy. By investigating different visual systems and switching between media such as watercolor and oil painting, the artist searches for paradigmatic differences in the order of painting.

Peijia He (b.1997, Hangzhou, Zhejiang) graduated with a bachelor's degree in New Media Art from Beijing Film Academy in 2019 and a master's degree in Oil Painting from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2023, currently pursuing a Doctoral degree at Central Academy of Fine Arts. She works and lives in Beijing. Her practice is grounded in an investigation of the ontology of images and the narratives that operate beneath them, unfolding through sustained experimentation with painting and moving image. She engages motifs charged with intimate personal memory and broader symbolic resonance, processing found images through painting, and positioning painting as both a critical method and a generative apparatus extending into moving image and image production, reflecting on the complex entanglements between images and personal as well as collective memory, emotion, and perceptual structures.

Yiming He, born in 1992, currently lives and works in Tianjin. He graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 and received his Master's degree from Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 2021. He participated in the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation residency program in Venice in 2017

Group Exhibitions include: Six Stories, Lens Gallery (2024); Above the Mountain, CHOWspace (2023); Come out & See, Universe Gallery (2022); Francesco Fabbri Prize, Pieve di Soligo (2021); Wunder Bar, Bardadino Venice (2021); Extra Ordinario 2, Vulcano Mestre (2021); Extra Ordinario, Vulcano Mestre (2020); Combat Prize, Livorno (2019); Out of the Studio, Padova (2018); Passion and Vision Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice, 2018); DOXA – Sounds from Society (Venice, 2017); Paolina Brugnatelli Foundation Group Exhibition (Venice, 2017)

Huang Juan, born in 1991 in Chongqing, China, received her M.F.A. from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2016.

Huang Juan works primarily with painting. Moving between abstraction, figuration, and psychological narrative, her works often draw on everyday images, bodily fragments, layered colors, and ordered compositions to explore emotion, violence, discipline, and illusion. Her paintings reveal how desire, pressure, and absurdly entangled realities act upon the body and leave their traces. Through semi-abstract diagrams and an intuitive, light pictorial language, Huang transforms personal perception into a sustained reflection on social structures and conditions of growth.

Mingda Huang, born in Manila in 1997, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA in 2023. His practice spans painting, installation, and various media of art. Most of his work reflects personal experiences, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including cartoons, fables, primitive architecture, living organisms, and short videos. His work explores the perception of color and structure as well as the essence of painting itself; when facing the canvas, he acts less as a creator and more as a humorous observer. Within a non-binary context, he is also interested in constructing complex narratives and creating diverse possibilities for both two-dimensional and spatial storytelling.

Qianyu Li (b.1995, Inner Mongolia) is currently doing a Phd at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts (New York, US) in 2020 and MFA from Slade School of Fine Art (London, UK) in 2022. Her art practice explores the connections and disconnections among things with the philosophic perspective of "three in one", reflecting on the differences in perceptions of reality and its different dimensions arising from personal living experience in diverse geographical and cultural environments. Her work is mainly presented as diptych painting/ installation, the two-part format expands beyond the single picture plane of traditional painting, disrupting the painting space and narrative space. There is an increasing significance in the relationship between the two independent parts and their physical relationship with the viewer, enhancing the wholistic and interactive experience of the artwork, providing an open space for imagination and multi-perspective discussion.

Liu Ourui, born in 1985 in Liaoning, China. Received his BA from Studio No.1, Oil Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2009. Lives and works in Beijing. His visual language is both absurd and authentic; beyond the storm-like clamor, it incorporates subtle, discordant notes that invite viewers to pause, hold their breath, savor the moment, and dance along with it. Intense energy and emotion intertwine and ebb and flow amidst dazzling colors, like a forest of thought brimming with boundless imagination and instinct. At the core of his work lie a vast art historical legacy, his personal growth, and a keen insight into painting. In his passionate creative process, these elements continually fuse, collide, and struggle to generate a force that drives him ever upward.

Lv Song (born in 1982) graduated with a master's degree in oil painting from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, in 2006. He returned to China the following year and currently lives and works in Beijing. Through abstract brushstrokes, hazy tones, and surreal compositions, Lv Song's works blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, prompting viewers to reflect on time, memory, and existence. His works often feature mistshrouded landscapes and atmospherically dense spaces, presenting a "sense of frozen motion" that seems to capture fleeting moments. Although they appear static, the bold brushstrokes and rich layering suggest the flow of time. The artist favors low-saturation gray tones, which, combined with subtle shifts in light and shadow, create a tranquil yet detached atmosphere. In terms of creating methods, Lv Song breaks through the boundaries of traditional easel painting. Through a combination of techniques such as scraping, rubbing, and splashing, he imbues the texture of his canvases with weathered marks resembling geological deposits—like the engravings of time—reminding us of the inevitability of forgetting and the fragility of matter.

Ma Lisheng was born in Tangshan, Hebei Province in 2000 and now works and lives in Hangzhou. Solo Exhibition includes: Living Here Is Like Living in Paradise, Group Work, Beijing, 2026. Group Exhibition: 口UTLETS: Affordable Art Supermarket Group Exhibition, Quan’er Space, Hangzhou, 2026; Shopkeepers and Customers, Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou, 2025.

Qi Le (b. 1991) was born in southern Gansu and currently resides and works between Shanghai and Sydney. She received her BA in Theatre, Film and Television Art Design from The Communication University of China in 2015, and her MA in Image and Symbolic Language from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. As a visual artist, Qi Le explores the subconscious through a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, stop-motion animation, and sculpture. Her work bridges contemporary perception with childhood mountain experiences, responding to themes of memory, intimacy, and dreams. Her paintings navigate a closed hallucinatory system; the brushstrokes are dynamic yet rhythmically restrained - a paradoxical testament to a sense of alienation from reality. In her uncanny landscapes, flora and flesh mirror each other, whispering the fragile essence of existence like drifting catkins. The wild white strawberries of the barren mountains serve as her countless, familiar avatars, carrying the weight of maternity, intimacy, and turbulence: they are the concrete manifestations of life’s yearning to sprawl.

Shan Yuhan, born in 1998 in Heilongjiang, China.

Solo Exhibitions include: The Skill of Balance, Tong Gallery+Projects (Bejing, 2026); MassMan and the Nameless, Tong Gallery+Projects (Bejing, 2024) , among others. Pandemic Diary - Shan Yuhan Solo Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Arts (Bejing, 2021)

Shi Wenxuan, born 1992 in Chenzhou, Hunan, graduated with a master's degree from StudioFive of the Mural Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2024. In 2017,he won the first prize at the Central Academy of Fine Arts undergraduate graduationexhibition. He currently works and lives in Bejing.

Solo Exhibition includes: The Fire Stealer in the Clouds, innerflow Gallery (Beljing, 2025);

Su Hang, born in Changsha in 1996, now lives and works in Beijing. He graduated from the Third Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) as an undergraduate, studied under the supervision of Liu Shangying for his graduate degree, with a research direction in contemporary painting concepts and expression, and graduated with a Master's Degree in 2022. His paintings take self-experience as the starting point of his creation, exploring personalized emotional expression and perceptual clues, and responding to and presenting the power relations and psychological state of the individual under the evolution of society through specific painting practices. He engages in a personalized response and exploration of power relations within modern society through the medium of painting, treating painting as an object to question personal and collective memory, power relations, and the dynamic relationship between the work and the artist

Su Yuming, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1994, graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a bachelor’s degree in 2017, and from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree in 2022. He graduated from the Graduate School of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2025 as a Doctor of Fine Arts, with research direction in Contemporary Painting Research. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and works and lives in Beijing and Paris

Sun Manon (b. 1996) was born in Paris, France. She settled in China with her family in 2012. She graduated from the Affiliated High School of the China Academy of Art in 2015, received her BFA from the Third Studio of the Mural Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019, and her MFA from the Third Studio of the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. She currently lives in Beijing and Paris.

She enjoys depicting children in her work, capturing seemingly trivial moments from daily life and amplifying the emotions radiating from her subjects through the act of painting. Her works are often completed flat on the ground, using a variety of media as her brushes, deliberately introducing a sense of discomfort—free yet uncontrolled—into her practice

Tian Shunyu grew up in Beijing, earned his bachelor’s degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London, and is currently a student at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. His work focuses on natural phenomena,scientific imagery, and painting, exploring the sensorial techniques unique to painting as he navigates the space between digital and hand-drawn art

Tong Kunniao, born in 1990 in Changsha, Hunan Province, received his BFA from Studio 3, Department of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. In 2016, he entered the graduate program and dropped out the same year. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He works across installation, performance, video, sculpture, and painting. He is adept at using "excess products" generated by the modern world—a perpetual waste-making factory—and "leftovers" found in resale shops, flea markets or on the streets. He concerns how the complex social structure has determined social status and eaten up individual identities. By decomposing ready-made objects and reassembling them in tandem or keeping them perfectly in balance, Tong aims to demonstrate the individual consciousness behind the objects as well as the multiplicity and fragility of the system. In an era when commodity fetishism and symbol consumption are prevalent and information is overloaded, Tong's work extends beyond formal boundaries of reconstruction and presents it in a quirky and seemingly absurd manner.

Wang Guangle was born in Fujian Province in 1976, he graduated with BA in oil painting at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His paintings have been extensively shown worldwide. Museums that have shown his art include Museum Boijmans Van in the Netherlands, Museion in Bozenin Italy, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation in Miami, White Rabbit Art Museum in Australia, Museum Ludwig in Germany, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Long Museum in Shanghai, the Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and so on. He was also shown at the Busan Biennale, Korean (2010) and California-pacific Triennial, Orange County, U.S. (2013). His solo shows have been held both at Beijing Commune and Pace Gallery in New Yorkand London

Wang Keying, born in 1990 in Zhuzhou, Hunan, China, currently works and lives in Beijing. Wang received a BFA in Experimental Art and an MFA in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Wang's practice focuses primarily on easel painting, employing tempera as the principal technique and expanding the possibilities of this medium within a contemporary context.

Jianghong Wu, born in 1996 in Heze, Shandong, currently works and lives in Beijing. She received her BFA in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019 and her MFA in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2025.

Born Shen Dake in 2002 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. He received his BFA in Architectural Design from the China Academy of Art and is currently pursuing an MFA in the Mural Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. His practice moves fluidly between digital painting, poetry, experimental music, and installation, often translating the subtle tensions of personal emotions and interpersonal relationships into self-fashioned poetic material forms.

Xu Hongxiang (b. 1984, Hunan Province, China) works and lives in Beijing. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2011.

Yan Jingzhou, born in Handan, Hebei, China in 1995. He received his BA in Painting from the Department of Oil Painting, School of Arts and Design, Hebei Normal University in 2018, and his MA in Oil Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2022. He is currently a PhD candidate at CAFA. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Yan Jingzhou’s work moves along the blurred boundary between reality and unreality. He constructs a personal “third space” through Buster—a method that disassembles and reassembles fragments of daily experience, then overlays them with a coat of black humor.

Zhang Zhongge (b. 1986, Liaocheng, Shandong) currently lives and works in Beijing and Shandong.

Solo Exhibitions include: Practice contact, CLC Gallery Venture (Beijing, 2025); Double happiness, CLC Gallery Venture (Beijing, 2023); Zhang Zhongge work exhibition (Beijing, 2019)