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2022

Zhang Xiaogang

Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.

Major Donors

Featured Artists

Find out more about six of the artists represented in the Go Figure exhibition. Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, Yang Na, Yu Hong, Rong Rong and Zhang Xiaogang.

Yu Hong

Born 1966 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.

Hong Fu

My subject, he is a writer. He is a big name, very famous writer, Alex Miller, age 85.

About the exhibition

Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.

Adam Ferguson

The portrait I made is of a woman called Olha and she works for Ukrainian Railways.

Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture

Exhibited simultaneously at the two locations, Go Figure! is drawn from the Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world.

Art Handler's Award 2022

The Art Handlers' Award for 2022 went to Cordy in the Clouds, 2021 by Adam Haddrick.

Rong Rong

Born Li Zhirong 1968, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. Lives and works in Beijing.

Kate Beynon

Born in Hong Kong, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon builds from the cultural legacy of her familial ancestry and experience to envision hybrid personas, identities, worlds and mythologies.

Resilience

Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes

Fang Lijun

Born 1963, Handan, Hebei Province China. Lives and works in Beijing.

Statement from Mr Angus Trumble

Today, Mr Angus Trumble, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, expanded on his reasons for removing the photographic portrait of Indonesian President Joko Widodo from exhibition.

References

About the exhibition curator Claire Roberts, and writers Eugene Wang and Zhang Letian.