Meng Luding 孟祿丁

Biography

(b. 1962, China)
Lives and works in Massachusetts and Beijing

Born in China’s Heibei Province in 1962, Meng Luding studied at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing where he later became a faculty member. In 1985, together with Zhang Qun, Meng created the painting titled A New Era: Revelation of Adam and Eve, which became the beginning of the influential ’85 New Wave movement. Following the events of 1989, Meng relocated to the United States, spending time in Seattle and Portland, where he found success exhibiting and lecturing.

At the forefront of the Abstract Art movement in China, Meng’s works are held in several museums in China and nowadays spends his time between the United States and Beijing. His abstract paintings demonstrate excellent technical mastery, at the same time are insightful and seek to reveal themselves to their viewer eliciting an emotional response.

Meng has actively exhibited around the world from China to Taiwan, the United States, Spain, Germany and Australia. He took part in the infamous 1989 “China/Avant-garde Exhibition” at Beijing’s National Art Museum, and has been included in the pivotal book A History of Contemporary Chinese Art 1985-1986, published in 1991 and co-written by historian and scholar Gao Minglu.