Hong Hao was born in 1965, in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China) in 1989. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing. As one of the important figures in the development of Chinese Contemporary art, Hong’s artistic exploration has always been closely related to the transformations. The artist’s creative works span photography, painting, installation and performance. Through reconstructing the world map and scanning the bottom of daily consumer goods since the early 1990s, Hong has made his unique response to various phenomena and problems against the backdrop of rapid material and capital accumulation in China. The scanned images are rearranged according to their forms and colors, which brings a new way of understanding objects and contemporary life. Delving into the idea of representation, Hong’s work impresses the viewers with the multiplicity of a deliberately undifferentiated, flattened, and superficial world.
His solo exhibitions were held at the Museum of Modern Art Bologna (Italy), Pace Gallery (Hong Kong and Beijing), Beijing Commune (Beijing), Arles International Photography Festival (France) and etc. His works have been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum(New York), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai), the Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing), and the Minsheng Museum of Art (Beijing), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), Queensland Art Gallery(Australia), National Museum of Modern Art (Seoul). His works have been collected in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the British Museum(UK), the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) , National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Queensland Art Gallery (Australia), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Museum of Art and other institutional collections. Hong Hao received the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in 2000 and 2006, and Martell Artists of the Year in 2013.
