Early Life
Zeng Fanzhi is a contemporary Chinese artist born in 1964 in Wuhan, China and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and he went to the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. There, he was largely influenced by Expressionism. Currently, Zeng is one of, if not the most popular artist of his era, in addition to being one of Asia's most financially successful artists. In May, 2008, he set a world auction record when one of his contemporary Chinese art pieces “Mask Series 1996 No. 6” was sold for $9.6 million in Hong Kong. Zeng has lived and worked in Beijing since 1993, and has been exhibited all over the globe in venues such as the Shanghai Art Museum, National Art Museum, Kunst Museum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bern, Santa Monica Art Centre, and Art Centre.
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