Xiaoyu Cheng

Xiaoyu Cheng is a contemporary artist and critic with an international perspective and profound scholarly foundation. He first emerged as a pivotal figure in China's "85 New Wave Art Movement," known for works that intertwine rational painting with incisive socio-cultural commentary. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has consistently navigated between Chinese and Western contexts, producing a complex and unique body of work that resists easy categorization.

1979 - 1983: Department of Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
1983 - 1986: Department of Special Arts, Central Academy of Arts & Design (now Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University)
1990 - 1992: Visiting Scholar, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Kassel, Germany
1992: Visiting Scholar, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK
1992 - 1996: Department of Art History, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Kassel, Germany (Degree Candidate)

Nov 2025, the Art exhibition "Crossing Views" of GOCA-Space in Niagara-on-the-Lake.