ABOUT THE ARTIST
Xu Hualing (b. 1975) was graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts. A core figure in contemporary gongbi figure painting. Her work takes the body, emotion, and identity as its territory — tight cropping, hazy light, layered silk color — rendering the contemporary urban woman. Her Fragrance and Outside the Window series established a new paradigm for gongbi: precise contours, muted color gradients — extending the expressive boundaries of gongbi figure painting — the inner life held just beneath the surface.
Art in the Heart of Perseverance Ⅱ:
A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Artists in China