Ai Xuan

Ai Xuan (Chinese艾 轩/艾 轩, Pinyin àì Xuan, born November 11, 1947 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province) is a Chinese painter. His favorite subjects are nomads and their children in the winter Tibetan landscape. Art critics expect him to the Chinese Neo - realism.

In 1967 he graduated from the preparatory school of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts. In 1969, he was forced to do farm work in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. From 1973, he could work as a painter in Chengdu. He won several awards. From 1984 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Beijing. In 1987 he came for an exchange year as a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. This year, he had become a solo exhibition in New York and learned many Western colleagues. Today Ai lives in Beijing and is a member of China Artists Association.

Ai Xuan is son of the famous poet Ai Qing and half-brother of the artist Ai Weiwei.

On the art market achieved record prices his paintings to 407,000 U.S. dollars; they are among the most expensive paintings by living artists.