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Jia Aili, Midday, 2021 — from a 2021 exhibition at Tank Shanghai of four epic paintings on life amid urban mess.

Jia Aili is a painter born in 1979 in Liaoning, China. After graduating from the oil painting department at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China, in 2004, he began to solidify a painting style w…