The art of Yuan Yuan (born in 1973) integrates East and West, links the individual with the collective, and fuses the imagined with the real. Yuan Yuan's work has won widespread international recognition, and his paintings have been exhibited in Paris, Berlin, New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. While discussing his art in an interview, Yuan Yuan noted that

I am very interested in those corners that people overlook because they are too familiar with them or take them for granted. I start thinking about how I can present them in a new way on my canvas, so that they seem different to people … Because my paintings are so concrete, many people are under the mistaken impression that I get my inspiration from seeing a real place, but it's actually quite the opposite of that; I start off with an indistinct abstract image in my mind, which may consist of just a ray of light or a particular type of space, and then I take that as my starting point, adding something more concrete to it, such as lines, a ceiling, etc. … and through this process a realistic-looking scene gets teased out.