Chinese Bible - Drawing No. 24, 2010
Yang Zhichao has cut, pierced, burned, and stabbed his body, had appendages attached, used his blood to draw with and endured life as a beggar for several days – it is a litany of self-imposed suffering for art.
-Michael Young, for Asian Art Newspaper
Yang Zhichao was born in Gansu Province in China and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Yang is a renowned Chinese performance artist. Considered one of the most extreme performance artists in China, and perhaps globally, he uses his body as a tool to draw on social issues linking the individual with the world.