Ma Zhongren and Zuoxiao Zuzhou

Both artists were part of the collective of ten artists known as Beijing East Village was formed in the early 1990s and comprised Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zu Zhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin, Duan Yingmei and Zhu Ming. The group became known for performance art and photography and this photograph by Lü Nan comes from a 20-minute live performance which took place in 1995 of To Add One Metre to an Unknown Mountain.

Shu Yang

Shu Yang is an artist. Did an interesting project while on residency in Manchester, asking people in the street to photograph him wearing a Union Jack apron. He then photographed them too and exhibited the pair of photos alongside each other. 

Also Art Director of DaDao Live Art Festival, Planner, Lightning Factory, Beijing and Planner, Art Magazine art i, Beijing

Liang Wei

Artist based in Beijing. 

Makes video and drawings

Represented by interesting gallery in Athens, Greece 

http://www.bernier-eliades.gr/

Yang Tao

Tao is an established and successful Sculptor in Beijing. Makes stylised human forms with huge bellies. Is working on a commission for hundreds of these figures that subverts the idea of the Terracotta army. His vast studio is covered with these creatures ...  

Colin Chinnery

Artist, Curator, Writer

Colin used to work at the British Council in Beijing. Left there to set up the Ullens space www.ucca.org.cn  Now moved on to be freelance - various international curating projects as well as continuing his own art practice. 

Meng Jinn

Did his MA at Chelsea. Interesting photographs of domestic spaces with views of political architecture from the window. 

Cheng Guang Feng

Sound Sculptor. His studio is that of a 'mad scientist'! Glass test tubes and other paraphernalia crowd the surfaces. He fills these with green liquid and suspends them from various metal stands and frames. Feng wires this up to speakers and you can hear the installations ... 

Dong Bingfeng

Artist. Dong Bingfeng made a BEAUTIFUL triptych video of the people at work in a coastal fishing village. One of the men, one of the women, and one of both sexes working. 

Independent Curator, recent of Labyrinth I and Labyrinth II

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48a3b2c301009q0r.html

Curator at Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing

www.ucca.org.cn

Yin

Xu Shuxian (or Sue)

Sue is a video artist. See http://xslattice.spaces.live.com

Sue has also been working as a Project Manager at Vitamin Space. www.vitamincreativespace.com

Xiao Xiong

Fang Lu

Lu did her BA and MA in the US. Now living partly in San Francisco and partly in Guangzhou/Beijing. Works under the name of Deer Fang. 

www.deerfang.org

Deer Fang is a video performance artist. Fang's recent work creates ways of narrating by selecting, combining and expanding text from novels, news and the Internet. She embeds social situations within the production of video and creates events to investigate participatorial performance and social behaviour. 

John Philip

Hu Xiang Qian

Wang Jing

Finishing off her MA, Jing is also a curator at OCAT, (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal) in Shenzhen. www.ocat.com.cn

Huang Xiaopeng

Matt Lewis

Tania Grillo

Tania did the Visual Language of Performance MA at Wimbledon School of Art. She's Brazilian and now back in Rio. Interested in crossovers twix theatre, performance, live art, art

Silvia Leal de Oliveira

Silvia is an arts practitioner living in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in cross-cultural identity, multidisciplinary & socio-political arts, within and beyond the gallery space.  Also works as an arts educator to children and provides translation/ interpretation for the Arts industry between English and Portuguese. Brought up in London, attended Wimbledon School of Art and did her BA at Saint Martins. Prior to coming to Brazil was the curator of 3Dreid Gallery in London.

Edouard Fraipont

http://diversao.uol.com.br/album/edouard_fraipont_album.jhtm

http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4592&Itemid=182

Edouard Fraipont, a visual arts practitioner and photographer from São Paulo who works with self portraiture and iconography. Recent research explores evocations of the supernatural in landscapes and transfiguring the body to create distorted photographic testimonies.