Wen Pulin

Wen Pulin, born 1957 in Shenyang, is a Chinese art critic, writer, independent producer and documentary filmmaker. Since the 1980s, he has documented the development of Chinese contemporary art in the form of the moving image, photography, interviews and texts. Wen also lived in Tibet for many years and made many documentaries about Tibetan culture. In 2005, he established the Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant- Garde Art at Cornell University, USA and, in 2007, the similarly-named archive at the University of California, San Diego. He lives and works in Beijing.