A pioneer of new media and video installation in China, Hu Jieming was born in Shanghai in 1957. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Shanghai Light Industry College in 1984. His work since the late 1980s ha explored the passage of time, and the collisions between past and present in the contemporary world. Hu has exhibited widely within China, and globally, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MoMA PS1, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His work featured in the 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012. Hu Jieming lives and works in Shanghai; his work is informed by the history of that city, and its importance in his own life.

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