Hong Hao

Born in Beijing, China, in 1965, Hong Hao received his formal arts education from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he earned a degree in Printmaking in 1989. Working predominantly within the fields of graphic arts and photography, he is regarded internationally as one of China’s leading contemporary artists.

Employing the hypersaturation of global visual culture as a watermark for the rapid transformations of contemporary Chinese urbanity, Hao’s work marries trenchant sociological observation with a biting wit. Crafting murals of our consumption, Hao produces claustrophobic orchestrations of commonplace objects, individually scanned, stored, configured, and digitally enhanced before printing.

A chronicler of his time, his works frequently function as visual diaries of his own consumerism; and, as such, they relate our own inexorable collusion in an escalating materialism that is far easier to admonish than abandon. Ironic, humorous, and disquietingly beautiful, Hao’s work presents a chilling remonstration of self-conscious recklessness on an international scale.

Hong Hao’s works have been exhibited extensively in numerous solo and group exhibitions and collected by many of the world’s leading arts institutions including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Hong Kong; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and, The China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing.