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Zhang Xiaogang
Featured Artists
Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Featured Artists
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Find out more about six of the artists represented in the Go Figure exhibition. Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, Yang Na, Yu Hong, Rong Rong and Zhang Xiaogang.
Yu Hong
Featured Artists
Born 1966 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
Hong Fu
Vox pops
My subject, he is a writer. He is a big name, very famous writer, Alex Miller, age 85.
About the exhibition
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Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.
Adam Ferguson
Vox pops
The portrait I made is of a woman called Olha and she works for Ukrainian Railways.
Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture
12 July 2012
Previous media releases
Exhibited simultaneously at the two locations, Go Figure! is drawn from the Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world.
Art Handler's Award 2022
Jess & Jacob
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The Art Handlers' Award for 2022 went to Cordy in the Clouds, 2021 by Adam Haddrick.
Rong Rong
Featured Artists
Born Li Zhirong 1968, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Kate Beynon
Artists and Collectives
Born in Hong Kong, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon builds from the cultural legacy of her familial ancestry and experience to envision hybrid personas, identities, worlds and mythologies.
Resilience
Indigenous leadership
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Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes
Fang Lijun
Featured Artists
Born 1963, Handan, Hebei Province China. Lives and works in Beijing.
Statement from Mr Angus Trumble
30 April 2015
Archived media releases 2015
Today, Mr Angus Trumble, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, expanded on his reasons for removing the photographic portrait of Indonesian President Joko Widodo from exhibition.
References
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About the exhibition curator Claire Roberts, and writers Eugene Wang and Zhang Letian.
Chinese Art
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A short overview of modern Chinese art from 1949 to the present.
Juan Ford
More about In the flesh artists
Juan Ford received a Master of Art, by research, from RMIT University in 2001. His many commissions include the National Gallery of Victoria’s interactive work You, me and the flock for Melbourne Now 2013/2014 and a project for Hotel de Immigrantes, a project in Manifesta 9, the European Biennale in 2012.