The global sensation of art commercialization in recent years has pigeonholed Chinese contemporary art into one category. Yet much has changed since the 50s-90s and to standardize artworks of the past decade into the same post Cultural Revolutionary perspective is an equivocal generalization.

As artists are now fully immersed in a global platform where subject matter is liberalized and artistic experimentation is encouraged, the emphasis on the individual has overshadowed the collective mentality of the past.

The artist values his unique way of observing the world, and reinterprets it in a distinctive visual vocabulary. He draws inspirations from every corner of the globe, whilst simultaneously preserving a certain cultural heritage and nostalgia in his works, paying homage to the country that produced him. He scrutinizes his role as an artist, and struggles to convey the Chinese identity in a global context.

This brave new era is producing an age of experimentation and expansion. On the one hand, artists are redefining their position in the international art scene, and in correlation, through new content and means of expression, on the other hand helping reinterpret the Chinese identity in the global context.