Wu Qiong

Wu Qiong’s post-Pop paintings, prints, and sculptures focus on the carefree, dreamlike quality of a happy childhood. Growing up in Beijing under China’s one-child policy in the 1980s, Wu remembers being showered with love and attention from his father, a traditional landscape painter, and his mother, a fashion designer. His works are populated by cartoonish characters with round, upturned faces, often enjoying beautiful natural settings—walking among cherry blossoms, sleeping on puffy llamas, and entertaining tigers in a bamboo forest. Wu earned degrees in oil painting from Beijing Normal University in 2001 and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Asia and abroad, including at the Singapore Art Museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing.