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{{Infobox artist
| name        = Ni Haifeng
| birth_name   = Ni Haifeng
| birth_date   = 1964
| birth_place = [[Zhoushan]], [[China]]
| nationality = Chinese
| field       = [[Installation art]], [[photography]], [[video]]
| training    = Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
| movement    = [[Modernism]]
| works       = ''Vive la Difference'' 2008<br>''Trojan Horse'' 2008<br>''Of the Departure and the Arrival'' 2005<br>''Unfinished Self-Portrait'' 2003 - Ongoing
}}
'''Ni Haifeng''' (born 1964) in [[Zhoushan]], [[China]], is an [[installation art]]ist. He currently lives and works in [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]].
==Biography==
Ni worked as a schoolteacher at the Zhoushan Normal School, but was removed for being "too weird".<ref name="Solomon">Solomon, Andrew (1993) "[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/magazine/their-irony-humor-and-art-can-save-china.html Their Irony, Humor (and Art) Can Save China]", ''[[The New York Times]]'', 19 December 1993, retrieved 2011-07-09{{page needed|date=July 2012}}</ref> He began painting onto parts of the landscape on the island where he lived in 1987, using chalk, paint, and dye to put marks on objects such as houses, stones, and trees.<ref name="Solomon" />
By 2008 he was splitting his time between [[Beijing]] and Amsterdam.<ref name="China">"[http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-10/29/content_16682634.htm Sino-Dutch Creativity]", ''[[China Daily]]'', 29 October 2008, retrieved 2011-07-09</ref>
In 2012 he exhibited in [[Manifesta#Manifesta 9.2C Limburg.2C Belgium.2C 2012|Manifesta 9]].
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~haifeng/index.htm Ni Haifeng's site]
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[[Category:1964 births]]
[[Category:Artists from Zhejiang]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Zhoushan]]
[[Category:Artists from Amsterdam]]
[[Category:Chinese emigrants to the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Chinese installation artists]]