Born in Chendu, Sichuan Province in 1959, Yang Qian studied at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute from 1982 - 1984. He then went on to read a Master's Degree of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. Yang Qian's work is a mélange of photography and painting. He adopts an attitude towards photography different from most Chinese artists. He purposefully creates a contradiction between painting and photography as reflections of contemporary life. The women in his works often appear in Karaoke halls, or bathrooms of a hotel room. Through conscious and subconscious ignoring and neglecting, identity, scene, and action become ambiguous and unclear.