The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University in 1995, where he studied painting, Maleonn went on to become a director of short films, including television advertisements, known for their edgy creativity.
In 2004, Maleonn turned to photography-based art and mixed-media works as well as, more recently, installation works and painting. Combining his theater background with his earlier career as a director for commercials, he carefully plans the settings and customs for his photographs.
He is not interested in creating something contemporary but wants to give his personal ideas and remembrances a place to unfold. His series Nostalgia shows male youths in a kind of army uniform (designed by Maleonn himself) in front of a melancholic landscape, whose soft colors increase the somehow insecure and melancholic feeling that lives in his photographs. Sometimes alone or in groups, they represent the artist's childhood remembrances when as a boy, he wanted to be dressed the same way as the local scamps who were called “War Guys.” The images represent “the missing of those innocent days, the longing for the love and freedom which haven’t appeared yet, the misunderstanding of heroism, the once belief in many things that eventually disillusioned.
Maleonn’s work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum UK, at the Washington Art Fair, Diaporama Photo Festival in France, at the 7th San Francisco International Photographic Art Exposition and at the MOCA, NY and the Zendai MOMA in Shanghai.
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| My Circus Series - Dreams of a Clown, 2004 |
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Days on the Cotton Candy, 2005
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| Deja Vu N°. 2, 2005 |
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| Déjà Vu Nº. 11, 2005 |
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| Unforgivable Children Series: Answer, 2005 |
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Book of Taboo Nº. 1, 2006
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Book of Taboo Nº. 10, 2006
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Falling Birdman, 2006
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| Book of Taboo Nº. 2, 2006 |
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| Book of Taboo Nº. 4, 2006 |
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| Book of Taboo Nº. 5, 2006 |
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| Book of Taboo Nº. 13, 2006 |
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| Days of the Cotton Candy Nº. 2, 2006 |
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A Midsummer Nights Dream, 2007
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Postman Nº. 1, 2008
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| Amber N°. 8, 2008 |
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Amber Nº. 5, 2008
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Little Flagman Nº. 1, 2008
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| Postman Nº. 2, 2008 |
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| Postman Nº. 4, 2008 |
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| Postman Nº. 5, 2008 |
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| Last Tango in Shanghai Nº. 4, 2009 |
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| What is Love Nº. 4, 2009 |
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| What is Love Nº. 6, 2009 |
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| What is Love Nº. 8, 2009 |
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| What is Love Nº. 9, 2009 |
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Photo Studio Nº. 6, 2011
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| A guard general wearing a horsehead mask, 2017 |
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99000 Ksana of one Incense, 2019
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