Huang Rui (b. 1952, Beijing, China) lives and works in Beijing and Paris.

He was a founding member of the Chinese avant-garde art group The Stars, which was active around 1980. His early works were influenced by various Western trends such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism, creating series Courtyard and Space Structure. However, as his style developed, he became more experimental and began exploring different mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, and performance art.

Huang Rui’s major solo exhibitions include Red—The Lack of Coagulated Blood, GinkgoSpace, Shanghai (2024); The Absence of Peace, Embasy of the Republic of Poland, Beijing (2023); The Name of Absence, Long Museum, Shanghai (2023); Ways of Abstraction, UCCA, Beijing (2021); Animal Time: 1204–2009, Coudenberg Museum, Brussels (2009); Chinese History in Animal Time, Museo delle Mura, Rome (2008); Huang Rui: The Stars’ Times 1977–1984, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2007); Chai-Na/China, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival, Arles (2007); and Huang Rui Exhibition, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka (1990). Selected group exhibitions include Freedom of Art, The Stars, Beijing, 1979, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2024); Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); CHINA 8, various venues in Germany (2015); the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013); and Stars Art Exhibition, outside the then National Art Gallery, Beijing (1979).

Huang Rui’s works are in major collections worldwide, including Centre Pompidou in Paris, Cernuschi Museum in Paris, Guggenheim Museum in New York, M+ in Hong Kong, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Fukuoka, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, and Long Museum in Shanghai.