Ling Jian

Ling Jian, born in Shandong, China, in 1963, graduated with a BA from the Fine Arts Department of Tsinghua University Art College, Beijing, in 1986. Drawing on notions of female beauty and Chinese identity, his portraits are hyperreal and exaggerated. In recent years, fragmented bodies and surreal forms shift his work toward abstraction, reflecting traces of humanity amid technological alienation.