Yan Cong, was born in 1983 in Hubei, China, and now lives and works in Beijing. He is represented by Star Gallery in Beijing. Various forms and mediums are adopted by Yan Cong including comics, painting, collage and sewing.

Yan Cong often takes himself as the protagonist of his works and combines real life with fictional fantasy, weakening the sense of reality and restoring imaginations and meanings of graphic cartoons. Yan Cong is committed to strengthen the relationship between comics and contemporary art. He hopes to subvert the audiences’ understandings of comics through the combination of comics and fine art painting. "I just want them to know that comics can't be absent from the community of contemporary art, because I always think that comics are a part of contemporary art."