Yue Minjun was born in Heilongjiang Province. Studied in Fine Art Department of Hebei Normal University in 1985, joined "S Plastic Art Exhibition" in Hebei Provincial Exhibition Hall; "Summer Palace Painters Exhibition" in 1992, "China Oil Painting Exhibition-From Realism to Post-Realism" in Belgium, 1995; "China" in Germany and "Basel Art Fair" in Swiss, 1996; "5000+10 Chinese Art" in Spain, London, Berlin, 1998; "48th Venice Biennial" and "Fourteen Chinese Artists Exhibition" in France, 1999; "Red Ocean" Sponsored by China Modem Art Gallery in London, Britain, 2000.