Artist: Shaobin Yang (Chinese Artist) Title: Sleepless night Medium: oil on canvas (Framed) Dimensions: 60 x 80cm Signed Lower Right Yang Shaobin was born in 1963 in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the Polytechnic University in Hebei, China in 1991. In the early 1990s he moved to Beijing to join an avant- garde art group. Shaobin tries to elicit discomfort and pain from his viewers to create a sense of social consciousness and political commentary in his works. His use of the color red symbolizes human vitality, capitalist greed, as well as the iconography of the Cultural Revolution. Yang's work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions such as Blue Room, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013); Blue Room, UCCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Beijing, China (2010); First Steps-Last Words,Museu de Arts de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2009) and The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2007). His recent group exhibitions include Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Phoenix Mountain Art Park, Nanjing, China (2016); RE-PORTRAIT:A FIGURE RESEARCH - Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China (2016); HARMONY - International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China 2016); The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015); Yang currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
