Feng Boyi - Early Life

Early Life

He was born in 1960 in Beijing, China, where he is still living today. During 1980 to 1984, he attended and graduated from Capital Normal University Department of History in Beijing in 1991. He then took an interest in art and learning at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Department in Art History. "Since the 1990's, Chinese contemporary art started to review, editing work and plans."

After his graduation in 1984, he was assigned to work as an editor of The Artists' Bulletin, which was part of the Chinese Artists' Association. He also began working with Ai Weiwei and chose to be the editor of The Black Book (1994) and The White Book (1995)', published by Ai Weiwei about contemporary art in China, and this publication was not only private, but illegal. It was kept secretive because it had Ai Weiwei's ideas and opinions about the government, which is why is was difficult to publish. These novels not only dealt with the topic of modern, contemporary art but also reflected the political ideas of Ai Weiwei.

Feng Boyi worked in Japan, where he played a large role in a couple exhibitions organized by the Fukuoka Art Museum, one of the exhibitions being the 4th Asian Art Show. Feng Boyi was also part of a contemporary art exhibition in the Saitama Modern Art Museum.