Ma Liuming

Chinese artist born in 1969. Lives and works in Beijing (China). A graduate of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (China), Ma Liuming founded the Beijing East Village, a colony of artists developing experimental art forms. Although trained as a painter, Ma Liuming is best known for his performances under the guise of Fen Ma Liuming, a hybridization of male and female. In his art, he questions nudity in the Chinese public space and the social restrictions this poses. Poetic and committed, his nude performances led to his incarceration in the 1990s and government censorship. Internationally renowned, Ma Liuming is represented in the collections of the Tate Gallery (London, UK), the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) and the Walther Collection (Neu-Ulm, Germany).