Chen Fei, born in 1972 in Guangdong, China, is a contemporary artist whose work exposes the tensions between globalization, consumerism, and social inequality in China’s new market economy. He studied at the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou and received a master’s degree in art, specializing in oil painting, in 1988.
In the early years of his career, Chen Fei left his native Pearl River Delta—an epicenter of China’s economic reform and industrialization—and settled in Beijing. His art reflects the profound transformations that Chinese society has undergone due to rapid economic growth and the rise of a consumer-oriented culture.
His paintings often depict grotesque, fleshy humanoid figures disintegrating under the burden of their own greed and materialism, exposing the excesses and inequalities of contemporary China.
With his confrontational and expressive style, Chen Fei remains an influential voice in Chinese contemporary art, critically examining the tensions of a changing society.
