Dong Wensheng was born in Jiangsu Province in 1970 and is a graduate of the Jiangsu University of Techonlogy. His works are considered representative of conceptual photography, creating a mysterious world in his evocative images using muted colors and tones. A protégé of Zhou Xiaohu, Dong Wensheng names among his influences traditional Chinese art, porcelain and poetry, as well as physics, Nietzsche, and Robert Rauschenberg. His work echoes Freud’s observation that the uncanny is “nothing new or alien, but something which ... has become alienated from [the mind] only through the process of repression”. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. Dong Wensheng currently works and lives in Changzhou, China.
