Chris Gill (b.1970, UK), also known by his Chinese name “Li Yunfei”, has been working in China for 20 years. He opened his first studio in 1992 in the artists’ village of the Old Summer Palace, the center of all the emerging Chinese artists at that time. Since 1997 Chris Gill has been working in Shanghai where he has created paintings and mixed-media works, using different kinds of materials, including oil paint, collage, and photography. Over time Chris Gill has created a visual diary of the changing societies in China, documenting and interpreting the reform process in his own style. Chris Gill's work has a sense of magic realism, interweaving myth and reality.

Education: BA University of Newcastle u Tyne, Peoples' University of China

Solo Exhibitions:
2012   “Chris Gill: Works on Paper”, Stage BACK Gallery, Shanghai
2011   “The World Mind”, YARD Gallery, Shanghai
2010   “Multi local”, M50 Creative Space, Shanghai
2007   “City of Gold”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2006   “Be a better part of the collective consciousness”, YARD Gallery Shanghai
1997   “China Work”, Zhu qi zhan Art Museum, Shanghai
1995   “Works on Paper”, Beijing San Li Tun, with Red Gate gallery, Beijing  

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012-2013   “Essence of Random - The Secret 7 Document Show, 'Secret 7' artist group, Yang Shanghai Art Space, Shanghai
2011   “China Dream”, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2011   “Lost & Found”, Stage BACK Gallery, Shanghai
2010   “THE POINT OF ZERO -2010 Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Duo Lun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2010   “Weltschmerz”, Stage BACK Gallery, Shanghai
2009   “Intervention 3”, Wei Hai Road Studios, Shanghai
2009   “Stolen Treasures of Modern China”, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing and Shanghai

Recent talks and lectures
Institute for advanced studies, University of Western Australia
Fu Dan University Journalism School training for senior Chinese editors
Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club
Min Sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, hosted a talk with senior art world figures in China
Talks on Chinese contemporary art, for Shanghai Fine Art University, and Zhejiang
University Lecture on Chinese art and politics, Goldsmiths University art dept. UK
Cooperating Gallery: ShangART Gallery

Chris Gill's works have been published in Stolen Treasures from Modern China (2009), Thomas Fuesser, Short Cuts, Artists in China (Skira, 2012) and many other publications.

Website: http://www.drippingrooms.com/