Born in 1961 in Dezhou city of Shandong Province, China, Shi Lei graduated from the Arts Department of Hebei Normal University in 1985, and began working at the Institute of Mural Painting and Sculptural Arts. In 1991, he completed his master degree studies at the Hubei Fine Arts Academy, and afterwards worked in Hubei Provincial Fine Arts Academy. In 1995, he worked as a researcher in the Fine Arts College of South China Normal University, and is now a professor in the same college. His exhi- bitions include: ¨First Annual National Oil Painting Exhibition〃 (Beijing, 1991); ¨Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition〃 (Hong Kong, 1994); ¨Asia International Fine Art Exhibition〃 ( Japan, 1999); ¨Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition〃 (Italy, 2000); ¨City Ecology - Contemporary Art Exhibi- tion〃 (Poland, 2002); ¨In Honor of '85 - Contempo- rary Art Exhibition〃 (Shanghai, 2005) and ¨Chinese Contemporary Art Annual Exhibition〃 (Beijing, 2006).