Yan Xing (Chongqing, 1986) lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009. His work has been shown around the world, e.g. at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. His works are in the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong; and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco, and others. In 2012 Yan Xing won the Chinese Contemporary Art Award for Best Young Artist; that year, he also received a nomination for the Future Generation Art Prize from the Pinchuk Art Centre. In June 2017, Kunsthalle Basel hosted Yan Xing: Dangerous Afternoon, his first major solo exhibition in Europe.