About the Author

ZHAO GANG was born in 1961 in Beijing as the son of Manchurian intellectuals. He left China in 1983 to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht and at Vassar College, where he was accepted in 1984 and graduated as part of the "class of 88". He received his Master of Fine Arts at Bard College. After living in New York for over two decades, he returned to Beijing in 2006. Among the exhibitions he has participated in are the Yokohama Triennale (2005), Performa, New York (2007) and "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018).