Artists

Shi Lifeng

Born 1968 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, Shi Lifeng studied at the the Hebei Normal University. Shi’s paintings display an evolution from the Socialist Realism of the 1980s to the starting points of Expressive Individualism in Chinese contemporary art.

Exploring the colonialist characteristics of society, Shi focus on the groping for and excavation of the world of individual inner feeling; his attitude toward life is also gradually evolved from a collective group consciousness into a self-centered creative conception of identity.  In one sense we can proceed from external signs and totems to decode his works, yet even more important is the process of aphorizing his inner psychological world, a process to which he alludes to interpersonal interactivity through the creation of multiple identical identities.