What Did the Lion Tell the Tiger? by John Yau

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吴俊勇    1978年生于福建莆田，现生活、工作于浙江杭州。他先后在2000年和2005年于中国美术学院获得学士与硕士学位。吴俊勇的创作形式多样，涉及动画剧场、绘画、即兴纹身以及网络等多种媒介。他的作品中烙印着特有的文字和图像游戏，挟夹着对寓言、传奇、神话、典故的二次重解。他以创造性的方式探讨了当下社会和政治生活中的荒诞性，并以图像来释放荒诞景观中的角力和困境。自2002以来，他的作品开始在国内外广泛展出，并被多个美术馆、机构及私人收藏，其最近的个展“异界之境”正在美国波士顿美术博物馆展出。

Junyong Wu grew up among folk and vernacular arts in the coastal province of Fujian, and went on to study printing and new media at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou for his bachelor and master degrees.

Wu mainly works in animation and painting on paper, but his artistic output extends far beyond the traditional media to gifs and emoticons as well as tattoo and graffiti on the body. He is known for his unique approach and aesthetics, combining the Chinese vernacular from his childhood with the Western classics from art school training. His works often feature the juxtaposition of eastern and western mythologies and humorous wordplay to expose the fragility and absurdity of modern life and to demonstrate a sensitivity and concern for social themes.

His works have been shown at galleries and museums around the world, including  Denver Art Museum, White Rabbit Gallery, Groninger Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Korea’s National Museum of Contemporary Art, Daegu Art Museum, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, and in major museum in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other leading Chinese cities. In 2023, he has a 10-month solo exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Wu now lives and works in Hangzhou, and teaches at the School of Painting, China Academy of Art.