HE CHENGYAO

He Chengyao (1964) lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Sichuan Art Academy in Chongqing in 1989 and has since exhibited widely in China, Japan, Korea, the UK, and Italy. He Chengyao is an artist who initially worked as an oil-painter but who now predominantly engages in performances, while also using photography. Much of He Chengyao’s work is informed by her troubled family background and the mental illness of her mother.