Chen Longbin was born in Taiwan in 1964. He received a BFA from Tung-Hai University in Taiwan and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he currently resides. Recognized for his transformation of discarded books and paper into sculptures and art objects his approaches the book object as an aesthetic object and attempts to combine ideas and concepts from the East with those from the West.

Rutherford Chang was born in 1979 in Houston, Texas and graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University, Connecticut in 2002. Distinguished for his systematic and minimal artistic practice, his art plays with the rearrangement of cultural products, exploring notions of language and information, and its distribution throughout media.

Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. In 1981 he received his BA in Printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and earned his MFA in 1987. He moved to the US in 1990 and returned to Beijing in 2007 to serve in his current position as the Vice President of CAFA in Beijing.

Out or Diao Dui is an informal Beijing artist collective composed of the artists Chen Xinpeng, Dong Jing, Liang Shuo, Shao Kang, Wang Guangle, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Zhaohong. The group activities embrace an attitude of self-directed recreation and leisure, which includes but is not limited the field of visual art.

Tsang Kinwah was born in Guangzhou in 1976 and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. In 2000 he graduated with honors in Fine Arts from the Chinese University in Hong Kong and in 2003 received an MA in Book Arts from the Camberwell College of Arts at the London Institute. His art installations and paintings are typically text-based and are distinctively informed by a keen sense of design.