Ye Hongxing’s new series of mixed media works of art is composed of brightly coloured sequins and glass beads, which create a mesmerizing blend of a myriad  different elements including fantastical figures, religious imagery and tropical flora and fauna.

Ye Hongxing states that her work is a commentary on the swift development of China’s social system. She represents iconographic figures and religious symbols with kitsch material, a startling juxtaposition and unsettling contrast between the sacred and the profane, the respected elite and the trashy commercial.

Ye Hongxing was born in 1972 in Guilin.

She graduated from the prestigious Central Fine Art Academy in Beijing in 1998. In 2004 she was selected by the curator of the Asian Art Museum in California and the director of Art Cologne as one of China’s top twenty rising artists. Ye Hongxing’s work has been  exhibited internationally at venues including China Art Museum, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing Museum of Contemporary Art,  the 7th Annual Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice; Art Taipei in Taiwan, Art Cologne and Miami Basel.