During her time as post-doctoral researcher with Tate Research Centre: Asia in 2013–14, Dr Monica Merlin conducted a series of interviews with Chinese women artists. Building on her extensive background in Chinese art history, Monica’s current research focuses on contemporary Chinese art and visual culture, with a special interest in the practice of women artists in mainland China, and gender as a method for art history. We are proud to publish a number of these interviews here, and will be adding further interviews over the coming weeks.
Women Artists in Contemporary China
Xiang Jing 向京
Xiang Jing (born 1968) works primarily with fibreglass sculpture to express her investigation of the ‘internality’ of human nature. Her ...
Yu Hong 喻红
Graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988, Yu Hong (born 1966) is one of the most representative ...
Cai Jin 蔡锦
Cai Jin (born 1965) works with oil paint in vibrant colours. Her most celebrated work is the Banana Plant series ...
Chen Qiulin 陈秋林
Chen Qiulin (born 1975) works primarily with the moving image but also performance, photography and installation. Interested in reality for ...
Fang Lu 方璐
Working in moving image, Fang Lu (born 1981) is inspired by popular culture and daily life experience. Her work reveals ...
Gao Ling 高灵
Gao Ling (born 1980) has an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing installation, photography and performance. Within her works Gao challenges the relationship ...
Han Yajuan 韩娅娟
As part of the post-1978 generation, Han Yajuan (born 1980) is concerned with China’s socio-cultural transformations and new materialistic trends ...
He Chengyao 何成瑶
Through a combination of performance, video and photography, He Chengyao (born 1964) explores gender, mental illness and the body as ...
Hu Xiaoyuan 胡晓媛
Hu Xiaoyuan (born 1977) employs a variety of media within her works, including video, performance and installations. She uses mixed ...
Lin Jingjing 林菁菁
Lin Jingjing (born 1970) employs varied media including video, photography and performance to explore notions of social and personal identity ...
Lin Tianmiao 林天苗
In the early 1990s Lin Tianmiao (born 1961) returned to Beijing after several years in New York, and established herself ...
Tao Aimin 陶艾民
Tao Aimin (born 1974) works across media often combining installation with oil painting and video. Tao has worked on several ...
Xiao Lu 肖鲁
Xiao Lu (born 1962) works with performance, installation and video. She gained fame by shooting her own installation, Dialogue, at ...
Xing Danwen 邢丹文
Xing Danwen (born 1967) is best known for her photographic work documenting the underground cultural and artistic activities in mid-to-late ...
Yin Xiuzhen 尹秀珍
Yin Xiuzhen (born 1963) works primarily in installation, but also painting and other media. As one of the most established ...