Mo Yi

Mo Yi (b. 1958, lives and works in a secluded town of Jiangxi Province) is widely recognized as one of the most important artists in Chinese Contemporary Photography since the 1980s. A professional football player turned artist, his work takes the city as inspiration, often with the artist intervening and appearing in the image – capturing the experience of rapid urban development and alienation during China’s Reform and Opening years. Mo Yi has held solo exhibitions domestically at the Lianzhou Photography Festival, and Three Shadows Photography Art Center, as well as internationally at ZenFoto Gallery (Tokyo) and Walsh Gallery (Chicago, USA). His works have been featured in group exhibitions on the history of photography in China, including the “40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography” (Three Shadow Photography Art Centre, 2017) and “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (International Center of Photography, New York, USA, 2004-2006), and have been collected by the Archive of Modern Conflict (London, United Kingdom), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, U.S.A), and the Walther Collection (USA).