Super Light, 2005
Yan Lei is an artist who lives and works in Beijing and Hong Kong. He works in painting, video, photography, and installation, belonging to a generation of artists who use art to negotiate authority.
Yan Lei was born 1965 in Lanfang, China and graduated from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, in 1991. He works in painting, video, photography, and installation, belonging to a generation of artists who use art to negotiate authority. He takes images from Chinese and Western popular culture and manipulates them, often digitally, to challenge the power structures of the art system. Yan lives and works in Beijing and Hong Kong.