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Fang Lijun was born in 1963 in Hebei Province, China. He studied printmaking at the Central Institute of Fine Arts and has since graduation, garnered much recognition as one of the leading figures of the New Wave Art movement in China. Fang has held countless solo exhibitions worldwide in cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York, Singapore and Berlin. He also has an extensive group exhibition record, including the touring exhibition China Avant Garde which travelled to Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom in 1993, Visions of Happiness - Ten Asian Contemporary Artists at the Japan Foundation in Tokyo in 1995, China! at the Kunstmuseum, Bonn in Germany in 1996, The 48th Venice Biennale in Italy in 1999, The Collection of the Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai in 2000, Towards a New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting which travelled to all the major art museums across China in 2001, China, The Body Everywhere at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille, 2004 and New Work/New Acquisitions at the New York MOMA in 2005. Fang Lijun's works are in the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Shanghai Art Museum and the Singapore National Art Museum.