Biography:

Mao Xuhui (b. 1956, Chongqing) is an artist who currently lives in Kunming and teaches at the Yunnan Academy of Art and Design.

Mao graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Yunnan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and became the art director of a film company in Kunming.

Mao, along with Zhang Xiaogang, Hou Wenyi, Zhang Long, Pan Dehai and others, organized one of the first self-funded exhibitions in China, titled the ‘New Concrete Image' (Shanghai, 1985). This exhibition was later shown in Nanjing, Kunming and Chongqing, with the inclusion of additional works by young artists from the southwestern region. In 1986, Mao introduced the works of artists from the southwestern region at the ‘Large-Scale Slide Exhibition of ’85 New Wave Art’ at the 1986 Zhuhai Conference, and with Pan Dehai, Zhang Xiaogang and Ye Yongqing, formed the Southwestern Art Research Group. Works by Mao, Pan, Zhang, and Ye were shown at the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ in Beijing (National Art Museum of China, 1989).

Mao continues to work as an artist and exhibits widely.