Jiang Pengyi’s works include: All Back to Dust, Luminant, Unregistered City, The Private Goods Belonged to Somebody, and other series. The artist uses computer technology to reduce the photos of real urban landscapes, places them in run-down scenes of demolition areas around cities, creates a new visual effect, and awaken all emotions experienced by people in the process of rapid urbanization, gives a sense of broken, confusion and fear, while his works continue to explore the social identity issue of individuals under global landscape.
Read MoreJiang Pengyi was born in Yuanjiang City of Hunan Province in 1977, graduated from Beijing Arts and Crafts School in 1999. As a cutting-edge new media artist in China, he received the 2009 American Courtenay Foundation Award and 2010 SocieteGeneraleChinese Art Awards 2010 Jury Grand Prize. Now he works with photography, and his exhibitions include: Solo Exhibition in Paris - Beijing Art Gallery (2008), Immersion and Distance, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, The Butterfly Effect – Artistic Exchange Program in Shenzhen He Xiangning Art Museum (2010), and A Departure from Reality III: The Tender Truth in Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2010), etc.
