Cui Xiuwen

Chinese artist (1967-2018). A graduate of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, Cui Xiuwen works mainly in photography and video. Founding a collective of women artists in 1998, she focuses on the place of the individual, and more specifically on the sexual exploitation of women in modern China. Following the Century Woman exhibition organized in the 1990s by Beijing's National Museum of Fine Arts, the artist gained international recognition. She was the first Chinese artist to be exhibited at the Tate Modern (London, UK), and is now part of the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA). Before her death in 2018, Cui Xiuwen was recognized by the entire art market, with awards such as the Annual Young Artist prize awarded by the Annual Convention of Chinese Art Critics, and exhibitions of her work at the Musée Maillol (Paris, France), the Boghossian Foundation (Brussels, Belgium), the Venice Biennale (Italy) and Art Basel (Hong Kong).