Chinese Women Artists on the Rise

From Beijing and Shanghai, to Wuhan, Chengdu and even Urumqi, from China to the United States and even Europe, from the real world to the metaverse, a group of young Chinese women artists are rising fast in the art world. These young artists have a different audience than their forebears. Recent years have seen an uptick in engagement with art within China, from collecting to gallery-going, building museums to launching art fairs. At the same time, international audiences’ appetite for Chinese contemporary art is growing — evidenced by a slew of current and upcoming Chinese contemporary art exhibitions and events around the world. And fortunately for them, a generation of boundary-busting, genre-bending, thought-provoking Chinese artists …