1968  Born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

1993  Graduated from Oil Painting Department of CAFA

Currently lives and works in Beijing and Berlin

Many of Ji Dachun’s works have western postmodernism influence. On the one hand, his early works have the temperament of traditional literati paintings, leaving large amounts of white space, and the theme covers trees and rockeries commonly found in traditional landscape paintings. On the other hand, Ji Dachun, who is familiar with western art history, is full of grotesque images and various organs, showing strange appreciation of nature, showing surrealism and breaking the viewer’s preference for easy-to-understand, direct and beautiful paintings. For Ji Dachun, it may be easy to draw paintings cater to public’s expectations. However, he has subverted the restrictions of genre and weakened the external beauty of the artistic images he created. Because it does not conform to Ji Dachun’s own culture, nor does it depend on the conceptual standard preferred by western aesthetics. On the contrary, this seemingly isolated image belongs to a larger system. Ji Dachun refuses to talk to any specific reality but pursues the impermanence of nature and culture. Because of this, absurdity becomes a unique filter. Most of Ji Dachun’s recent paintings are abstract paintings that are more complicated and difficult to read.