Mao in New York

"Mao in New York" is a provocative painting that reflects the experimental and confronting spirit of China's post-1989 art scene. As part of the China's New Art, Post-1989 exhibition, it exemplifies a Pop art-influenced approach combined with figurative imagery to critique political propaganda and global cultural exchanges. Created during a period when Chinese artists engaged in avant-garde practices and exhibited internationally, the painting captures the complex interplay between identity, politics, and consumerism, resonating with the exhibition's themes and traveling across major art capitals from 1993 to 1997.