Lu Peng is a noted Chinese contemporary artist and professor. Born in 1967 in Beijing, Lu lives and works there today. Lu Peng should not be confused with Chinese critic and curator, Lv Peng.

Lu Peng's works are a collection of personal experiences, memories and fantasies, a metaphor for the estrangement and intimacy of contemporary China. The technique is traditional Chinese, ink and colour on paper, while the subject matter is everything but traditional, a chaotic and fascinating mix of the traditional, the communist and the consumer. Fragments of classical Chinese architecture and landscape are interrupted by skyscrapers. Deities from the past cavort with fashion goddesses of the present who sport the red arm band of the members of the ubiquitous neighbourhood surveillance committees or, on their backs, red flags from the Chinese opera. (chinesecontemporary.com)

Education:
1987 Beijing Teachers Training College (now Capital Pedagogical University)
1991 Graduated BA, Arts & Humanities, Chinese Painting, Dept. of Fine Arts Teacher, Fine Arts Department, Beijing College of Education

1993-96 Formed the Three Travel Weary Loafers group with Wei Dong and Liang Chang Sheng

Selected Solo Exhitions:
2007 Fairyland, 798 Avant Gallery, New York, USA
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

2005 A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
A Fighting World of Female Beauty, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England

2004 Realm of Red, Qing Ping Gallery, Boston, USA

2003 Harmony / Unusual, International Art Palace. Beijing, China
Festival of Youth Art, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2nd Chinese Art Exhibition, Dalian, China

2002 Realm of Red, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Art of the Contemporary, Piltzer Gallery, Paris, France

2001 Beijing Buzz, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, England
Capital Night, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Past -Present, Art Center of Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Clues to the Future - Red Gate Gallery's 10th Anniversary, Beijing, China
On Track With the Century, The National Art Gallery of China (NAGC), Beijing, China
Legend of China, Yi Dian Gallery, Shanghai, China

2000 Between the Lines, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney. Australia

1999 Through the Wall, Chinese Contemporary, London, USA

1998 New Art from the PR of China, Lamont Gallery, Boston, USA

1997 The Edge, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, China
Floating, Exhibition of Small Works of Art, Ta Yuan Apt. Block, Beijing, China

1994 Exhibition of Small Works of Art, Mingzhu Gallery, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA

2006 Red Gate Gallery's 15th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
New Ink Painting, Zhu Qizhan Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
China International Art Gallery Expo, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
Oriental Imagination, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
Visual Contemporary, Millennium Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2005Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
Observing the Senses, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Portrait Paintings from Collage Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Frontline, Plum Blossoms, Hong Kong
New Generation, Goedhuis Gallery, New York, USA
Les Cent Fleurs, Villa Tamaris Center d'Art, France

2004 Paris Drouot Montaigne Arts Auction, France
Chinese Fine Art, International Art Palace, Beijing, China
Crowds and Voids 11 + 1, Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai, China

2003 Microcosmic and Delicate, National Musuem of Art, Beijing, China
2nd Chinese Art Exhibition, Xinghai International Exhibition Centre, Dalian, China
Harmony / Unusual, International Art Palace
Festival of Youth's Art, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China

2002 Autumn Group Show, Chinese Contemporary, London, England

2001 Past Present, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Chinese Mythology, Yidian Gallery, Shanghai, China

2000 Between the Lines, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Transparence, Opacite?, 14 Artistes Contemporains Chinois, ACAVA (Paris), Aoste, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, France

1998 Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London, England
5000 + 10, Chinese Contemporary (London), Bilbao, Spain
Between the Lines, Chinese Art Exhibition, Lee Gallery, Beijing, China

1997 Summer Exhibition, Chinese Contemporary, London, England
Life on the Fringe, Lee Gallery, Lido Park, Beijing, China

1995 Small Chinese Inks Exhibition, Soobin Gallery, Singapore
Life on the Edge, The Three Travel Weary Loafers 2, International Art Palace, Beijing, China

1994 Second Professional Artists Exhibition, Armagna Gallery, Beijing, China
The Three Travel Weary Loafers, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China

1992 Beijing 90s, Chinese History Museum, Beijing, China

1991 Young Artists, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Beijing Young Artists Ink Paintings, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Sources include:
www.chinesecontemporary.com
wikipedia.org