Lu Peng 吕澎

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Lu Peng is a noted Chinese contemporary artist and professor. Born in 1967 in Beijing, Lu lives and works there today.  Lu Peng should not be confused with Chinese critic and curator, Lv Peng.

Contents 1 Education & Development 2 Art 3 Exhibitions 4 Gallery Affiliations 5 Acquisitions & Auctions 6 External Sites

[edit] Education & Development

In 1991, Lu graduated from Beijing Teachers Training College (renamed Capital Normal University in 1990). In 2003, he received his PhD from the Chinese painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

[edit] Art

In the mid-nineties, between attaining his BA and his PhD, Lu gained international recognition as a founding member of the Three Travel Weary Loafers Group with Wei Dong and Liang Chang Sheng. Today Lu creates new work while serving as a professor in the Fine Arts Department at the Beijing College of Education. Lu's style is characterized by an intermingling of cultural symbols and iconography that contrasts traditional China with the modern world.^[1] Working in the traditional Chinese technique of ink and colour on paper, Lu's subject matter is everything but traditional, a chaotic and fascinating mix of the conventional, the communist and the consumer. Fragments of classical Chinese architecture and landscape are interrupted by skyscrapers. Deities from the past cavort with fashion goddesses of the present who sport the red arm band of officials or, on their backs, red flags from the Chinese opera.^[2]

[edit] Exhibitions

Lu has held ten solo exhibitions in the past fifteen years at venues across Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Boston, and New York. He has participated in countless group exhibitions, including Made In China at Opera Gallery, London, in 2007, and The New Generation at Goedhuis Gallery, New York, in 2004.^[3]

[edit] Gallery Affiliations

Lu is represented by 798 Avant Gallery in New York, Mulan Gallery in Singapore, Chinese Contemporary in Beijing, and Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.

[edit] Acquisitions & Auctions

Lu's work has been sold internationally at auction. 

For Lu Peng's auction record, click here.

[edit] External Sites

1. ↑ http://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/7299-fairyland
2. ↑ http://wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Lu_Peng
3. ↑ http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:WVw6Mh2i5tkJ:www.plumblossoms.com/Lu%2520Peng/Final%2520Texts/Biography/LP-cv.pdf+lv+peng+1967&hl=en&gl=us