Xing Danwen is one of the most active Chinese artist in today's contemporary art scene, as well as one of few earliest artists using photography as an art form in the early 90s in China. She has widely exhibited in galleries, museums, biennale and trienniale around the world, including the International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou , Arles International Photo Festival 2003 in France, Yokohama Triennial 2001 in Japan, Sydney Biennale 2004, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific 2004, and Guangzhou Triennial 2002 and Millennium Art Museum in China. Her work is collected widely by museums and private collectors, Her artistic practice is both rich and varied, and her subjects are extensive, such as body, memories, sex, cultural status, globalization, consumption and desire - are all her concerns and personal interests. She projects her artistic approach and critical view onto the circumstances of the era she lives in. The issues of reality and fiction, fact and illusion often play an important role in her works. She was born in 1967 in Xiian, did her study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and her MFA at School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives and works in Beijing.