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Ma Jianfeng was born in Zhejiang in 1983, graduated from the Department of Mural Painting at China Academy of Art in 2007. He received his Meisterschüler at the University of the Arts Berlin in 2012. Currently he lives and works in Beijing, China;

Ma Jianfeng is adept at creating artworks from scrap materials found in everyday life. By configuring them into shapes, dismantling, reassembling and displaying them, the artist disrupts the order of elements intrinsic to these found materials and images. Displaying his works as painting installations, he creates chaotic and theatrical spaces brimming with ambiguity and vitality.

His major solo exhibitions include: Ma Jianfeng: PORTRAIT, SNAP, Shanghai, CN (2023); Ma Jianfeng: In Time, Sandwich gallery, Bucharest, RO (2021); Ma Jianfeng: Irreconcilable, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2021); Ma Jianfeng: Treasure Island, GAO Gallery, London, UK (2019); The U-Cloister, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, CN (2018); MA, Ying Space, Beijing, CN(2016); Shanghai Lady, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN (2014); Wall, Don Gallery, Beijing, CN (2013). His major group exhibitions include: Meet You at the Corner, Dangxia Young Artist Award 2022, Dangxia Art Space, Beijing, CN(2022); Soul Hunters, Surplus Space, Wuhan, CN (2022); The Memory Palace, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, CN (2021); Plant Time, 69CAMPUS, Beijing, CN (2021); Let Painting Talk, Taikang Space, Beijing, CN (2021); Garage Sale, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, RO (2019); Ghost Island, I: project space, Beijing, CN (2019); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KOR (2018); The New Normal: China, Art and 2017, UCCA, Beijing, CN (2017); Never Arriving, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, CN (2014).