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NAME: Maleonn
PROFILE: Maleonn, a.k.a Ma Liang, is one of the most influential modern artists in China today. He was born in 1972, Shanghai, China. After spending 11 years in art school, he went into the world of advertisement and became a director of commercial filming. During this period of his career, he has won golden award of the China International Advertising Festival twice. In 2004, Maleonn quit his job and returned to the field of art creation. He mainly works on photography works. Once his works had been published online, the responses from all over the world keep flooding in. Art medias like Visual, China Photography, Indigo Magazine, The Radio Magazine did interviews and reports of his work. He also has held numbers of solo exhibitions around the world. He won the Digital Award of IDDA and the 1st place & photography of the year of the 4th Spider awards for his unique visual presentation. In 2012, Maleonn started his public art project, the Studio Mobile. He put his photo studio into two mini vans, and travelled through China for 10 months, taking free portraits for 1,600 strangers in 35 cities. In 2014, Maleonn began to create his own puppet. He created the one-and-only life-size puppet system, and used those puppets for his first theatre work Papa’s Time Machine. The show had been selected as one of the top 10 projects of International Society for the Performing Arts in 2016.
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