Deux travailleurs chinois au baluchon (2020) Drawing by Gaël Gao

I was born on December 7, 1987 in Montpellier, in the south of France.  My mother's earliest memory of my love of the Arts concerns hundreds of sheets I used to draw on from the age of 2.  

Very influenced by the Asian references that my parents transmitted to us, Western art also has a preponderant place in my artistic and personal construction.    

My father, doctor in hydrogeology, and my mother, professor of French at the University of Chengdu, left China for France in the 1980s. The discovery of a new world with its joys and sorrows.  Coming from peasant backgrounds for my father and intellectuals for my mother, their will and their courage are fundamental values in the education of my younger sister and myself.    

Passing the entrance exam to the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon at the age of 17, I was very disappointed by the contemporary spirit that they tried to instill in me and which seemed to me meaningless  and I decided to leave this course which did not suit me to finally finalize studies of Design and Architecture.  

Since then, I have expressed my passion through my achievements which are meant to be the reflection of my intimate convictions but also the mirror of our current world.  

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1987
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists