Yonghong Song - Artist Info

About Yonghong Song

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    Song Yonghong (b. 1966, Hubei) is an artist living and working in Beijing.

    Inspired by his elder brother Song Yongping, Song began to paint from an early age, and in 1984, enrolled into the Printmaking Department at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (ZAFA, now the China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou.

    In Shanxi, Song, one of the youngest artists of the '85 New Wave, collaborated with his brother on a performance piece sometimes translated as The Experience of Vision (Yige yingxiang de tiyan) in 1986. In 1988, before graduating from ZAFA, Song created his Campus Life series, an important milestone in his art development and which featured key elements of his later signature style—distorted human fig...

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