[USA] FOTOFEST 2010 Biennial - March 12 to April 25, 2010

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The 13th bi-annual photography festival organized by FOTOFEST is taking place this year from March 12 to April 25.
Originally started by Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, FOTOFEST has taken a life of its own.

Of the many events going on, I'll encourage aspiring artists and professionals to participate in the 16-day portfolio review sessions from 12 March to April 1 (if you can afford it)

for more details, go to their website at http://fotofest.org

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The FotoFest 2010 International Fine Print Auction


Eighty-one leading contemporary international and U.S. artists are presenting work in FotoFest's Ninth International Biennial Fine Print Auction.

The Online Print Preview is now available.
As one of the main events of the FotoFest 2010 Biennial, the Auction provides rare access to high quality contemporary photography from Latin America, Asia, Europe, North America and Australia.

The Preview Exhibition for the Auction opens March 3, 2010 at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art Inc in the Rice University area of Houston. The preview exhibition is on view March 4 -20, 2010. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Auction Preview moves to the Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown March 22-23.

The Fine Print Auction Fundraiser is chaired by Austin James and Blakely Bering, Bering & James Inc., with the FotoFest Board of Directors.

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here's a list of artists from China.

Wang Chuan, China
Widely known as a contemporary Chinese artist, Wang Chuan has been the director of the Photography Department at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine arts (CAFA) in Beijing since 2003. Between 2007 and 2008, he participated in numerous exhibitions in China and abroad, including Spring Training, Pekin Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Retrospective Exhibition of New Beijing Gallery, New Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China; Collective Identity,Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, U.K.; My Favorite Moleskine, Beijing; Zoom on China, Brescia, Italy; Collective Identity: From Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art, University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong; View Beyond the Window: Contemporary Art from China, St. Philip’s Chambers, Birmingham, U.K.; and 567 Glory and Dream: Chinese Contemporary Art, Ferry International Art Centre, Beijing. Between 2004 and 2006, he showed in These/There: Images from Wang Chuan & Yao Lu (2004), Beijing; Chance Encounters (2005), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia; and Harvest II (2006), Chinese Photography Exposition, Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai. He has shown work at both Pingyao and Lianzhou International Photo Festivals in China as well as in Photography from China, 1934–2008 (2008) at the FotoFest 2008 Biennial. Wang Chuan was born in Beijing in 1967. In 1990 he graduated from the CAFA School of Design in Beijing with a B.A. He became interested in photography in the mid-1990s, and in 1998 he entered the joint master’s program in visual art of CAFA, Beijing, and the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. He graduated with an M.A. and began to teach in the CAFA Photography Department.

Wang Shilong, China
Wang Shilong was born in Henan Province, China, in 1930. He became known for his work on the Cultural Revolution in China (1965–1975). He spent half a century as a photojournalist for the military and for a local newspaper. He focused on the local agricultural themes of Henan, China’s prominent agricultural province. He published the albums Historical Footprint, The Elders South of the Yellow River, Character and Style, and Scenery. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Still the Time (2003), 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, and the 2003 Pingyao International Photo Festival, China. His works are collected by Centre National des Art Plastiques, Paris.

Weng Naiqiang, China
Weng Naiqiang was one of the most famous photographers of the Cultural Revolution in China (1965–1975) and one of the few photographers who was able to work in color at that time. His work, widely published during the Cultural Revolution, was recently “rediscovered” by the well-known 798 Photo Gallery in Beijing. He had a solo exhibition, Images of the Cultural Revolution, at the gallery in2006 and was featured in Photographs from China 1934–2008 (2008) at the FotoFest 2008 Biennial. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1936, moving to China in 1951. He was educated in Wu Zuo Ren’s studio in the painting department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and took lessons from Ai Zhongxin, Wei Qi Mei, Lin Gang, Zhan Jian Jun, and Li Ku Chan. He worked as an art director, a photojournalist, and a CAFA professor. He lives and works in Beijing.

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Wu Gaozhong, China
Wu Gaozhong is one of the leading contemporary artists in China today. His works have been exhibited in the solo exhibition Spectral Memory: Wu Gaozhong (2006), Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, and in numerous group shows, including Asian Attitude / European Attitude (2007), National Museum in Poznan, Poland; Photographs from China, 1934–2008 (2008) at the FotoFest2008 Biennial,Houston; the 2009 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami; andthe Sixth China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, in 2009, among others. His catalogues include Spectral Memory (Shanghai: Zendai Museum of Modern Art, 2008) and Photography from China, 1934–2008 (Houston: FotoFest 2008 Biennial). Wu Gaozhong was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. He now lives and works in Beijing.

Wu Jialin, China
One of China’s most acclaimed documentary photographers, Wu Jialin has been widely exhibited internationally and in China. In 2003 his series Chitchatting 1999 in Chengdu was selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson for the Les Choix d’Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition and catalogue. Wu Jialin has had numerous books published, including the Mountain Folks of Yunnan (1993), Surprises (2004), and Instants of the Mysterious Lands: Wu Jialin’s Album (Yunnan, China: Yunnan Fine Arts, 2005). He was born in 1942 in Zhaotong County, Yunnan Province, China. He began to teach himself photography in 1968, and in 1981 he joined the China Photography Association. Wu Jialin’s first exhibition outside Asia was presented by FotoFest at the FotoFest 1996 Biennial.

Xiao Zhuang, China
Xiao Zhuang was one of the few well-known women photographers of the Cultural Revolution in China (1965–1975). She was born in Zhejiang Province, China, in 1933. She started her photography career working for Lu Shui newspaper under the army in 1950. During 1952–1994 she worked for Xin Hua News Daily and Light and Photography magazine, and she became a chief editor at the Jiang Su Publishing Company. From 1966 on, working as a photojournalist for the Xin Hua News Daily, she took a series of photographs that kept track of the changes that were taking place in the capital city of Nanjing under the Cultural Revolution. Her photographs describe epic historical scenes that were part of the tumultuous history of that period. In 1996 she was awarded the “Honor Cup” by the Chinese Photographers Association. A monograph of her work was published by Zhonghua Publishing House, 2004.

Xing Danwen, China
An internationally known artist, Xing Danwen is one of the leading contemporary photographic artists in China today. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; First Yokohama Triennale, Japan; and 2004 Biennale of Sydney, among others. Her works have also been collected widely by museums and private collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art; International Center of Photography; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; JGS Foundation; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; The Progressive Collection; and Centre Pompidou, among others. In the late 1980s and 1990s, she was one of the pioneers in China doing experimental work with contemporary photography that explored the limits of the medium. She is known for using the camera and photo-based imagery to observe and challenge assumptions about Chinese society, humanity, female identity, and the generation of the 1960s.

Yao Lu, China
Yao Lu is one of China’s leading contemporary artists working with photography. He has been widely exhibited, including at the National Gallery in Prague in 2009; at the 2009 GETXOPHOTO International Photo Festival, Bilbao, Spain; in Chinese Gardens for Living (2009), Brussels Meeting Centre; at Paris Photo in 2008; in Concealment and Restructuring Yao Lu’s New Mountains and Waters (2008), 798 Gallery, Beijing; and in Photography from China, 1934–2008 (2008)at the FotoFest 2008 Biennial, Houston. In 2008 he won the prestigious BMW–Paris Photo Prize. His works form part of many collections including those of F2 Gallery, Beijing; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Quac Art Space, Beijing; and Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Yao Luo was born in Beijing in 1967 and started painting when he was a small boy because both of his parents were painters. In 1987 he worked toward a bachelor’s degree in printmaking. His major was woodcuts, which later gave him an interest in black and white imagery and finally took him into the world of photography. He lives and works in Beijing.

Zeng Han, China
A leading contemporary Chinese photographer, Zeng Han has exhibited nationally and internationally, with venues including the FotoFest 2008 Biennial, Houston; Paris International Biennial Photography Exhibition; Shanghai Art Museum, China; Guangzhou International Photo Biennial, Guangdong Art Museum, China; Chinese Triennial Art Exhibition, Nanjing Museum, China; Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China; and Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, among others. He was awarded the Best Curator Prize at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, and his work was published in Soul Stealer (Beijing: Timezone 8, 2008). His work is part of the collection of the Shanghai Art Museum, among other collections. Born in Guangdong, China, in 1974, he lives and works in Guangzhou.

Bai Yiluo, China
One of China’s most respected contemporary artists, Bai Yiluo is a self-taught photographer and mixed-media artist who is currently living and working in Beijing. His work has been shown widely in recent years, including at Marella Gallery in Beijing, Galerie Urs Meile in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The limbs of the housefly and traditional Chinese calligraphy are juxtaposed in Bai Yiluo’s photographs; taking advantage of people’s visual experience of all forms of calligraphy, the photographs disorient viewers as they shift between images of fly parts and calligraphy letters. Bai Yiluo was born in 1968 in Luoyang, Henan Province, China.

Li Lang, China
One of China’s best-known contemporary photographers working within the documentary genre, Li Lang was still in his twenties when he won the 1999 Mother Jones Medal of Excellence, the top award of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography. He has been exhibited internationally, including in Photography Now: China, Japan and Korea (2009), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Photography from China, 1934–2008 (2008), FotoFest 2008 Biennial, Houston; and 55 Days in Valencia: Chinese Art Meeting (2008), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain. His work is held in private and public collections worldwide. He lives and works in Guangzhou, China

Liu Lijie China
Liu Lijie is a young photographer who has become well known for her self-portraits depicting the relations between men and women in China today. After graduating with a university degree in finance, she started working in a bank. In 1997 she began studying photography on her own, and in 2004 she quit her job at the bank to earn a B.A. in photography from the Photographic Institute at the Beijing Film Academy. Her works have been exhibited at the Pingyao International Photo Festival, Siegen Gallery in Germany, Peer Gallery in New York, the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, the Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China’s Guangdong Province, and in Photography from China 1934–2008 (2008), FotoFest 2008 Biennial, Houston. Liu Lijie was born in Shenyang, China. She is interested in taking pictures that show relationships between people and their inner, psychological states of mind.