Sheng Qi is one of the artists that have made a large contribution to the development of contemporary Chinese art. He started his career in 1985, as one of the leading figures in the New Art Movement and their collective performance work "Concept 21." After 1985, he continued making performances, focusing on two themes that would stay with him the rest of his career: body and identity. As an investigator of the cultural meaning of the body, he places common cultural issues in an intimate context and uses his own body to express the boundaries of the physical and the cultural body.