Qu Leilei (曲磊磊, born 1951)

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. (1996
Preface to ''A Visual Diary''
reproduced at redfern-gallery.com. Retrieved 19 March 2008. is a contemporary

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artist currently based in the UK. Qu grew up in China during the

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and spent some time forced in to hard labour as his parents were branded

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., p. 60 Later, he served as an art director at China Central Television. In 1979, as one of the founding members of the avant-garde "

Stars Group The Stars Art Group or simply "The Stars" (Xīngxīng 星星) was a Chinese avant-garde group of non-professional artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s (the exact interval usually given as 1979 to 1983). It was founded by Ma Desheng and Huang R ...

", together with, Wang Keping,

Ma De Sheng Ma Desheng, born 1952 in Beijing, is a Chinese artist and one of the founding members of the Stars Group. After being arrested for his role in arranging the group's first exhibition and repressions against "liberal thinkers", the artist relocated t ...

Mao Lizi Mao Lizi (; born 1950) is the pseudonym of Zhang Zhunli (张准立), a Chinese artist born in Shanghai. He was one of the founding members of China's pioneer contemporary art groups known as the Stars, of which Ai Weiwei and Wang Keping were also ...

Huang Rui Huang Rui (born 1952) is a Chinese artist known for his social and cultural criticism. Life and work Huang Rui was born in Beijing in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent at the age of 16 to Inner Mongolia where he worked as a f ...

, Li Shuang,

Ah Cheng Zhong Acheng (; born 1949), often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter. In 1979, together with He Dong, Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Qu Leilei and Ai Weiwei, Ah Cheng founded the Stars Group (Xin ...

and

Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly ...

,Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the UK. (16 June 2005
The Music of Ink: Chinese arts ancient and modern, Special event on Chinese Culture in British Museum
chinese-embassy.org.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2008.Asian Nouveau. (24 May 2005
New work by Qu Lei Lei at the Ashmolean
. asiannouveau.com. Retrieved 19 March 2008.Arts Council England. (2005

pearlawards.org.uk Retrieved 19 March 2008. Qu took part in the first exhibitions of contemporary art in China. After Qu left China, he relocated to London to practice his art, lecture and exhibit internationally. His paintings were exhibited at a solo display in the Ashmolean Museum at

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in 2005, the first time in the Ashmolean that a show was devoted singly to the work of a living artist. He has also had a solo exhibition at Beijings National Gallery and his works have been exhibited and collected worldwide and by museums including the British Museum and the V&A in London. His work at the British museum is now part of their permanent collection and this was marked with a symposium about himself and the Stars movement and his work. Also in 2005, he was one of three finalists for the Arts Council England "Pearl Award for Creative Excellence".

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