Among the most celebrated contemporary Chinese artists working in film and photography, Yang Fudong emerged in the late 1990s as a leading voice exploring the cultural and psychological transformations of post-reform China. Born in Beijing in 1971 and educated at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, his cinematic works combine the visual elegance of classic Chinese cinema with contemporary concerns surrounding identity, memory, desire, and modernity. Best known for his black-and-white film installations, Yang creates dreamlike narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, drawing from literature, cinema, traditional Chinese aesthetics, and popular culture.
Yang has exhibited internationally at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. He has participated in multiple editions of the Venice Biennale and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in moving-image media today. Read more 
