Hao Shiming, born in 1977, Heze, China. He lives and works in Wuhan and Beijing.
Hao Shiming's art revives an ancestral Chinese art and technique: calligraphy. A member of the "New Ink" movement, Hao Shiming emphasizes the use of traditional materials to create new forms of painting, combining calligraphy and traditional techniques with Western painting methods.
Using the same tools - ink, linen leaf and paper - Hao Shiming transforms the texts and letters of the Chinese alphabet into a sequence of lines and movement. In this way, calligraphy is freed from its role to exist solely for its form, for what it is aesthetically.
The artist is influenced by Chinese philosophy and takes a keen interest in Buddhism, which provides a framework for his work. In his practice, calligraphy becomes a means of putting down one's mind and creating an object that invites meditation, which explains why some of his works are created on stones that receive the rhythm of the artist's line.
His artworks have been exhibited and collected by the National Art Museum of China, Hubei Museum of Art, Shandong Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, and Shanghai Art Museum.