Boers-Li Gallery is pleased to announce Ma Yanhong’s solo exhibition, “Artists’ Portraits”, opening Thursday, November 22, 2012. This would be her first solo exhibition in Beijing since 2007. Ma Yanhong graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2002 and became a central figure of N12, participating actively in all N12 exhibitions (N12 was initiated by twelve CAFA students in 2003 to do group projects and exhibitions together, and this group of artists has since become a symbolic representative of their generation of artists). Ma is known for her portraits of young women, scarcely clothed, staring out of the canvas directly at the viewer, putting both the subjects and the audience at risk of vulnerability.