ZHONG CHENG

Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, Xiong Yu graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1999. He received his master's degree and taught at the art institute in 2002. He was the newest addition to the Sichuan School style of Chinese oil painting. In 2004, his artwork received a bronze medal at the "Teenage Heart Qi - Chinese New Painting Exhibition Award". In his work elements from the late 70s and 80s generation such as dreams, cartoon’s visual style, form and color, are realistically portrayed through creatures of virtual world to establishing his individual artistic language. Exhibitions include "Blue Forest ─Xiong Yu New Works" (2015, in Chengdu, China, Kuril Art Space); "Xiong Yu ─ Time Node" (2013, in Chengdu, China, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space); "2013 Curití Pakistan Biennale" (2013, Curitiba, Brazil); “Venice Biennale parallel exhibition - Never Rendered Sound " (2013, Venice, Italy).