Shen shaomin

Shen Shaomin was born in in Heilongjiang Province, China and initially was acclaimed for his woodblock prints, a technique he had learned outside the formal art academy system. During the s he went to Beijing and became part of the experimental avant-garde. In he became part of an artistic diaspora he left China and dispersed across the globe: Shen came to Australia where he lived and worked until returning to China in , motivated by the excitement of a growing contemporary art scene and by the availability of materials and labour for his transgressive and ambitious multimedia works.

He created a series of still and kinetic sculptures using bonemeal and animal bones sourced from slaughterhouses that question advances in science, biotechnology and genetic engineering. Shen Shaomin works across media and forms, from sculpture to painting, from video and installation to performance art.

Shen shaomin: Shen Shaomin was born in in

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