With a successful singing career behind her, Ai switched her creative focus to painting in the late 1990s and became a student of Zhang Xiaogang in 2000. Ai's paintings draw their inspiration from her years of touring around the world and visiting various leading museums - her experiences act as a new source of creativity. Since her first solo exhibition at Beijing's Today Art Museum in 2008, Ai has had a number of shows in China and New York. ...